Cabinet approves National Policy for Children

Health experts say it has many shortcomings

E-waste toxins in mum’s milk

Urban people more at risk

Congenital defects

US court indicts vaccines with mercury for autism

India launches action plan to reduce deaths among newborns

Plan aims to deal with preventable deaths in babies under a month old

Capital punishment

No breather in sight

Research reinforces theory that air pollution and smoking perpetrate asthma

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Rural people can now get anganwadis on demand

Climate change

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One in every two children in Kolkata suffers from air pollution, set to rise this year with AQI worsening

Rate of asthma within Kolkata teenagers highest among Indian major cities, first generation asthmatic children soaring

Toys may not be all that harmless

The missing public

Hunt on for toxins in toys

Committee set to test toxicity in toys in India

Focus on nutrition of children with HIV: child rights commission

National AIDS Control Programme urged to move beyond medicine-centric approach

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Pesticides in US farmworkers' children

National Family Health Survey out

The Gates accounts

What bleeds Bellary

How illegal iron ore mining has bled Karnataka’s Bellary district

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Toxic dump in Karachi talk of the town

Pakistan's toxic waste case takes new turn

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