At least 133 schoolchildren have taken ill in Sirsa and Fatehabad districts of Haryana after consuming iron and folic acid tablets.

ALLAHABAD: When it comes to scripting success stories in terms of vaccinating children, Allahabad district tops the chart among all other 23 districts of the state with a record of administering ov

For the fourth consecutive day today, schoolchildren were rushed to hospitals with complaints of nausea and vomiting after they were given iron and folic acid (IFA) tablets supplied by the Health D

The census shows that Kerala has a literacy rate of 94 per cent. The child population in Kerala has shown a declining trend.

Draft identifies it as a major health problem in State

The draft nutrition policy being finalised by the State government identifies anaemia as a major health problem in the State, especially among women and children. More women and children have anaemia in 2005-06 than in 1999-99, the draft compares figures from the National Family Health Surveys held those years.

India on Tuesday unveiled its first breakthrough vaccine for severe rotavirus diarrhoea, which kills more than 1 lakh children under five in the country every year.

Over 1,00,000 children, below the age of 11 months, die of diarrhoea annually in India which is the second leading killer of young children globally, after pneumonia.

Hyderabad: With only five per cent of injections used for immunisation and the remaining 95 per cent for therapeutic use, children are often subjected to unnecessary injections, say paediatricians

The National Green Tribunal (NGT) today sought response from the Centre and states of Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh on a plea which claimed that burning of agricultural residue in these states

The East Delhi Municipal Corporation has launched ‘Suposhan’ , a programme to detect and correct iron deficiency, ‘anaemia’, among children studying in schools under its jurisdiction.