Crunch metals cure diarrhoea

India's population might be stabilising, not exploding

Has this changed India's ‘population explosion’ narrative forever?

Measles outbreak in Mumbai: 164 cases reported since September

Measles is a highly contagious viral infection associated with high mortality in children under 2 years 

The role of bias in how women are treated during childbirth: a Kenyan case study

Around 810 women die every day from preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth

Infant death linked to child-rearing habits

The Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) is more frequent among children in the West than in Asia. Researchers say a difference in child-care …

Unchecked emissions may double child mortality due to heat in Africa

Study estimates 38,000 child deaths due to climate warming could occur every year by 2049

Coma after death

Child victims of a frayed medical service and a government programme gone wrong raise a mute question

Ecotourism can backfire if mismanaged

Do it when crops don't

WHO launches special programme to prevent infant deaths

The First Embrace campaign will focus on saving more than 50,000 newborns and prevent complications in neonatal care in the Western Pacific region

Health in news on June 7

Here's a round-up of today's news and debate on health

Odisha minister endorses CRY-VCRO campaign on child health, malnutrition

The six-month-long campaign reached out to children and mothers of 131 villages of five tribal districts in Odisha

The beauty & beast of malnutrition

Institutional deliveries on the rise across most states, shows NFHS-5 report

Kerala tops the charts, north-eastern states need to buck up, says survey 

World falls short of its goal to reduce child mortality

India accounts for the highest under-five deaths in the world, says the latest UN data

Science and Technology - Briefs

Consumed by hunger

NFHS-5: Child mortality drops, prevalence of malnutrition remains high

Despite the decline, India’s infant mortality rate worst among developing countries 

Paramedics show the way

How hundreds of villages in Bangladesh have overcome child and maternal mortality 10 years before the MDG deadline

Stagnant numbers

Modi will be among 5 worst world leaders amid COVID-19 pandemic; here’s why

COVID-19 is notoriously hard to control, and political leaders are only part of the calculus when it comes to pandemic management. But some …

What mapping Kenya’s child deaths for 50 years revealed – and why it matters

Kenya performed well above average, with a rate of 46 deaths per 1,000 live births compared to an average of 76 across sub-Saharan Africa region

Burden of child brides: Bihar, Rajasthan lead states in marrying off girls early  

Southern states such as Tamil Nadu and Telangana are not doing any better, finds National Health Profile 2018

A rapid jaundice detector can effectively reduce neonatal deaths in Africa

This device wil be useful in rural areas of Africa and South Asia where expensive laboratory equipment needed for jaundice test is unavailable

The declining infant mortality rate indicates that our growth rate will decline further

Amulya Ratna Nanda, registrar-general and census commissioner of India, feels the country has made some progress in bringing down its growth rate