Nickelodeon characters endorsing junk food

Screen time and ADHD: Looking for the connection

Growing evidence shows that mobile phone use can lead to developmental problems by the time they reach school age

70,000 children born during Ebola outbreak in Liberia at risk of exclusion if not registered, warns UNICEF

UN body supporting drive to register the children

Unsung babies

Exposure to ddt increases the risk of child mortality

End of innocence

Children exposed to DDT attain early puberty

Tender ones at risk

Children face increasing threat from garden pesticides

Killing pollution

The Menace Within

Project to review the impact of indoor air pollution

Now a papaya-clay filter

The hybrid clay filter could be the cost-effective answer to water purification

On a weak limb

GAMBIA

Stop kidding

Europe sidelines children's well-being at a mega health meet

The ideal gap

A two-and-a-half-year gap is ideal between births for the health of the babies

Sucking in toxics

Presence of pollutants such as PCBs in mothers' milk and blood restrains children's growth

News Snippets

A headmaster and his students save a forest

Childhood cancers

Chemical banned

Independence Day 2020: Learning under the shadows of COVID-19

Why education is all the more important in disastrous times

Poison on the plate

Study links toxins in food products to cancer and other diseases in children

The perils of PVC

Choking link

Ultrafine pollution particles can penetrate very deep into the lungs

Housewarning

Pesticide exposure can lead to leukaemia in children

Shaky foundations

Children in US consume excess amounts of micronutrients

Researchers blame marketing gimmick, say too much fortification of food harmful