The number of children who died before their fifth birthday has reached a historic low, dropping to 4.9 million in 2022, according to this latest estimates released by the United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
The UN has launched a four-year study to examine the damage to the Earth's environment and identifying ways to contain them. Some 1,500 scientists will undertake the study Millennium Ecosystem
Wet dry cleaning could soon become a safer alternative to clean clothes
Presence of pollutants such as PCBs in mothers milk and blood restrains children s growth
An inherited evolutionary change in the current human population is leading the women to have their first child at an early age. A team of British, Australian and American scientists have shown the
Kids asthma linked to cat allergens
Even low levels of benzene can cause lymphomas cancer in children
Researchers at the National University of Singapore have developed a genetically prepared vaccine against asthma. The vaccine has been prepared by introducing a gene from dust mites, a common cause
Exposure to <font class='UCASE'>ddt</font> increases the risk of child mortality
<font class='Question'> Why did you go to Lebanon?</font> <br> Survival was a struggle. My husband earned a pittance as a vegetable vendor and we had to take care of our two boys and three girls. The children were then 19, 17, 15, 14 and 4, respectively. They needed food, clothes, books and shoes. It became really tough when my third child, Kajendani, attained age in 2000 and she had to walk more than a mile, alone, to collect water for cooking, washing or bathing.<br>
Researchers develop artificial human eggs that will enable infertile women to have children with their genetic features
