The country’s inability to achieve all the tenets of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) by the established deadline has prompted various City-based volunteer organisations to compile recommenda

Continuing its battle to eradicate polio from the district, volunteers of the UNICEF Social Mobilization Network along with the health department are making efforts to cover a total of 128 families

The doctors at a private hospital recently diagnosed a 23-day-old child with life-threatening ‘blue baby syndrome’ caused by consumption of contaminated water.

They found that the baby, from Dhamori Khurd village in Gautam Budh Nagar district of Uttar Pradesh, was being fed packagedformula milk mixed in water from the borewell, which had high nitrate content, as clean drinking water was not available.

INDORE: Under National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), the state going to conduct health screening of kids up to the age of 18 years from July 1.

India has higher rates of malnourished children than in sub-Saharan Africa

One of the most significant critiques of the Indian economic growth model is that it has failed to encourage social development in its wake. It is well known that the country has higher rates of malnourished children than in sub-Saharan Africa. Malnutrition remains an enormously pervasive across the States.

Warning that the greatest risk of nitrate poisoning occurs in infants who are fed well and consume boring water contaminated with nitrates, doctors in the city have advised physicians to include qu

The State government has decided to provide iron and folic acid tablets to schools children to prevent them from developing anaemia and thalassemia, Minister for Health and Family Welfare U T Khade

Government is contemplating to establish separate directorates for the implementation of the flagship Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) in the twin divisions of Kashmir and Jammu.

Two more children died of measles on Wednesday raising total number of deaths to 151 in the province during the last six months.

Three more children died of measles in Lahore on Tuesday, taking the overall death toll in Punjab to 157.