Early breastfeeding practices in India: Backwardness cuts through social spectrum

Children born in Goa (75.4 per cent) had the highest rate of early breastfeeding in the country, followed by Sikkim (69.7 per cent) and Odisha (68.…

Here are the top 10 things we should do to improve our mental health

As an individual and a part of a healthy society, we need to adopt these methods to prevent mental illnesses from affecting us

Diseases, lack of continuum of care perpetuating malnutrition among children: experts

Major gaps identifed by experts, include improper screening methods to identify malnourished children and treatment failures

Children’s right to nutrition: how we can do better

While there has been an improvement in the overall health of children, the annual rate of progression is disappointingly slow

This week from the world of science and environment

NGOs demanding a ban on oil drilling in Virunga National Park to the new NFHS revealing that many of India's women and children are stillanaemic&…

India still has a high rate of malnutrition, reveals new National Health Survey

West Bengal has more wasted children than a decade ago

Have some clothes to shed

If governments and multilateral organisations censor critical data on development, imagine how banal is our measurement of progress and growth

'Like MDGs, India may fail to achieve SDG targets on malnutrition'

National Health Profile 2015: Suicides on a rise, cancer cases may grow by 15 per cent in five years

India’s public spending on health is among the lowest in South East Asia and BRIC countries

India struggles to keep its children healthy, say experts

Lack of credible data and co-ordinated action slow country’s efforts to contain malnutrition

India can dramatically reduce stunting in children, says World Bank report

Just 1 per cent of children in the country receive adequate food, healthcare and environmental health that are required for normal growth

Number of children vaccinated last year is unimpressive

Despite an intensified immunisation scheme, children in the country are not fully immunised

Unicef ranks India poorly in child mortality

Bhutan, Nepal and Bangladesh fare better

World Population Day: call to end India's target-based approach to family planning

Two-child norm is endangering women's lives and skewing sex-ratio, say activists