Worm wipeout

Controlling diet can help children get rid of intestinal worms

Mothers' sins

Working magic

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LABOURING UNDER A BAN

CHILD MARTYR

Socio-political riddle

IRAQ

This won't hurt

Children hide pain merely to avoid an injection, a study reveals

Diseased children

Cleanly this means trouble!

Hormone-rich shampoos make some girls enter puberty early

Not immune to myths

Imperfect picture

Families finance addiction at the cost of child health

Toxic flights

Better shape up

Bottlers agree to take off colas from schools

Cottonfields back home

What India can do to strengthen community-based foster care for children in need of nurturing

Lack of awareness involving village-level child protection committees, non-availability of frontline workers dedicated to child protection …

Centre sends team to assess malnutrition deaths in Odisha

Ninteen infants have died due to malnutrition and related diseases in Jajpur district in the last six months

Venting the spleen

A new drug will reduce the agony and the costs of treating thalassaemia, a hereditary blood disorder

Empowering the Disabled

Organisations strive to show that the world of a spastic child is no different than the one we all live in

Pudgy babies have the edge

Recent studies indicate that the greater the weight of babies at birth, the less prone they are to heart disease during their riotous adult years

On a dangerous diet?

Mothers in Japan have been warned to cut down on breast-feeding their babies as breast milk has suddenly become harmful for infants

Quite disturbing: Pakistan nutrition survey

The Nutrition Section of Pakistan's Planning Commission, working in collaboration with the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund,…

Alcohol ads: Teens targeted?

A recent study in the US reports that magazines popular with teenagers such as Rolling Stone and People tend to carry more alcohol advertisements.…

World Day Against Child Labour 2020: Vulnerable children worse off due to COVID-19

The nationwide lockdown to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has left child labourers with no source of income, no …