Cabinet approves National Policy for Children

Health experts say it has many shortcomings

Diarrhoea in children under 5 more prevalent in rural India: NFHS-5

Bihar reported the highest prevalence of the disease  

Leading to pollution

Children in 48 African countries at high risk of climate change impacts, says UNICEF report

International climate finance does not prioritise children, says UNICEF

Simply Put: Age of inequality

Health in news on May 16

ANGOLA

Best milk

What makes a kid more intelligent than his peers? Mother's milk might hold the answer

Straight jabs

Vaccines are causing autism in UK, say some doctors

Pregnancy and longevity

No child's play

Chemical backlash

War veterans in the US call for a post-mortem on the effects of Agent Orange

New remedy

Researchers have come up with a new medication for diarrhoea

Cancer in the air

Even low levels of benzene can cause lymphomas cancer in children

Health of developing nations

Fighting AIDS

Three is company!

A fertility treatment spawns babies with the DNA of three parents, instead of two

The hole truth of cigarettes

Role reversal

Anti-HIV drugs can mutate the genes of an embryo

Pen-happy Pierre speaks a chat with French scientist Jean Pirre Petit

Guns are too large

Double trouble

DISEASE DETAILS

India has world’s highest number of children with severe acute malnutrition: UNICEF

One out of every five deaths in children under five globally is due to severe wasting

Children: victims of war and poverty