Dietary guidelines for India 2024
The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) recently revised the dietary guidelines for Indians to provide healthier diet and lifestyle recommendations, ensuring dietary and nutritional requirements
The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) recently revised the dietary guidelines for Indians to provide healthier diet and lifestyle recommendations, ensuring dietary and nutritional requirements
A student who fell ill at the school undergoes treatment at a Ranchi hospital. Picture by Prashant Mitra Ranchi, Nov. 13: At least five boys have died after consuming milk and snacks in a government-run residential school in Jharkhand, the tragedy unfolding on the eve of children
To check recurring cases of polio in the country, health ministry is going to introduce an Injectible Polio Vaccine (IPV) in nine districts of UP and Bihar from where maximum cases have been reported. The ministry will introduce IPV in the two vulnerable states alongside the ongoing countrywide oral immunisation programme to eradicate the disease.
After failing to end recurring cases of polio in the country, 80 per cent of which have occurred in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh so far, the Centre has now decided to introduce injectable polio vaccine (IPV).
There is an intense interest in the effects of breastfeeding on the health of an offspring and in understanding the mechanisms behind these effects. It is widely known that breastfeeding is the most nutritious way to feed an infant, but it is less known that the benefits that a child and mother receive from breastfeeding continue throughout life, even after breastfeeding has stopped.
Children continue to die of malnutrition in Madhya Pradesh despite the strict instructions of the Bhopal high court to contain malnutrition deaths in some of the most backward districts of the state. This was found by a fact-finding team by a group of NGOs in Satna and Sheopur districts which conducted a study for a week in October.
MPA Pir Amjad Hussain Jilani has said that people are not getting their children vaccinated against tuberculosis due to unawareness about the disease, and stressed the need for holding seminars, workshops and conventions in the rural areas to make people health-conscious.
There seems to be more forces backing the virulent polio virus in Uttar Pradesh. Or else why would children suffer from the crippling disease despite being
Cancer is the second leading cause of death among U.S. children with few known risk factors. There is increasing interest in the role of air pollutants, including benzene and 1,3-butadiene, in the etiology of childhood cancers.
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Connor Sternberg had his first surgery before he breathed his first breath. Doctors worked to close a small hole at the base of his spine through which his spinal cord protruded, a severe form of a birth