NFHS-5: Child mortality drops, prevalence of malnutrition remains high
Despite the decline, India’s infant mortality rate worst among developing countries
UK may ban junk food ads, should India follow?
Since India lacks regulatory framework for promotion of foods items containing high fat, salt and sugar, experts feel a similar step could prove …
Gopichand’s healthy choice
Gopichand is a national hero because he is the only Indian sportsperson who has publicly shunned endorsing soft drinks
India takes steps towards nutrient profiling of packaged foods
Initial survey on labels suggests that packaged food is not fit to be marketed to children
Paramedics show the way
How hundreds of villages in Bangladesh have overcome child and maternal mortality 10 years before the MDG deadline
Why three toddlers were forced to seek SC ban on firecrackers
Citing fundamental right to life, parents make their children as litigants in a first-of-its-kind PIL against the use of firecrackers during festivals
As told to Parliament (February 10, 2023): Smriti Irani says her ministry ‘unaware’ of CSE report on malnutrition deaths
The report by Centre for Science & Environment and DTE shows over 1.7 million Indians die every year due to poor diet
Fruit scare
Encephalitis is not only threatening lives in Bihar, but also the livelihood of litchi farmers as unconfirmed reports link the disease to the fruit
Climate-resilient water, sanitation & hygiene policies need of hour to meet global agenda of 2030
The 10 African countries most water-insecure & climate-impacted need immediate attention
India’s hunger crisis worse than Bangladesh, Nepal
Around 15 per cent of India’s population is undernourished and 38.7 per cent of children suffer from stunted growth
Banking on mothers
A bank in Udaipur collects mothers’ milk; experts to chalk out plan to include it in national policy
Poisons we live with
Book>> What’s gotten into us? Staying healthy in a toxic world • by Mckay Jenkins, Random House • US $26
‘Over 22 million in Ethiopia facing severe food crisis’
Back-to-back droughts causing food emergency, children at high risk of death from malnutrition, says non-profit
What does Union Budget 2021-22 mean for students, farmers, migrants, health workers? Not much
What was expected in a time of crisis were bold decisions. But finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman decided to play it safe
Dumping nuclear burden
Australia's move to return to aborigines land located on former nuclear test site draws flak
Hunger strikes forest’s exiles
Once called lords of the jungle, Baiga groups in Madhya Pradesh are starving on the margins of Kanha National Park. Shriya Mohan chronicles their …
Rahima Moosa: South Africa’s only mother and child hospital is falling apart — a veteran doctor reflects on why
The country’s health ombudsman recently published a shocking investigation into Rahima Moosa Mother and Child Hospital
India tops global charts for childhood diabetes and deaths: Study
Almost 40% increase in cases to 2019 from 1990 globally; largest increase in cases recorded in children aged 10 to 14 years
Under-five child mortality drops 53 per cent from 1990 to 2015: report
Despite progress, a large number of children are still dying due to preventable causes. Sub-Saharan Africa and southern Asia are the regions …
Has COVID-19 taken the wind out of the sails of India’s school feeding programme
Though the government issued guidelines to states to provide food to all eligible children in March 2020, implementation has been lax
Breastfeeding in times of COVID-19: Will newborns miss out on vital nutrition
Reduction in prevalence of breastfeeding could occur due to limitations in provision and use of health services amid COVID-19 pandemic &…
Through the thick air
This Diwali, PM 10 and PM 2.5 reached eight times the safe limit. Its not the first time and it won't be the last. Burning of crop stubble, road …
Extinctions, an epic reality
The gripping non-fiction shows how reality is actually more dramatic than the imagination
The thalidomide story explained
How a drug prescribed for nausea in pregnant women led to severe limb defects in their babies
Sure cure: how to tackle India's undernutrition crisis in 10 steps
The finance ministry and the planning department can play an overarching role by ensuring health programmes get sufficient resources