Child Health

BHUBANESWAR: Even after three decades of its launch, the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) in Orissa is yet to achieve half of its nutritional objective. As per the latest report, the nutritional status of only 47.33 per cent children under ICDS are detected as normal as on December 31, 2009.

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JAYA JUMRANI, Nikhila Gill As long as the poor remain malnourished, the malnourished will remain poor. Calorie deficits lower worker productivity, which in turn affects national output by as much as 4%. The government enacted the Food Security Act to alleviate hunger in India, a country with more hungry people than sub-Saharan Africa.

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As the government struggles to incorporate nutritional aspects in the proposed right to food legislation, the industry has come forward in support of right to nutrition and offered to engage with the government as partner, the way it got its act together in the 1990s to produce iodine fortified salt. “Given the magnitude of the malnutrition challenge, it is imperative to drive coordinated actio

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The state government will not be able to go ahead with its proposal to relax silence zone regulations imposed around educational institutions, anti-noise campaigners said.

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The Union Health Ministry on Wednesday ruled out any defect in the measles vaccine, administration of which resulted in the death of four children at Mohanlalganj near Lucknow on Saturday. The Government attributed the casualties to systemic failure.

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Some Drugs May Never Reach Where They Are Tested: Study

New York: A law intended to speed up development of new drugs for US kids has ended up financing clinical trials in poor countries, where the medicines might never become available.

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Some Drugs May Never Reach Where They Are Tested: Study

New York: A law intended to speed up development of new drugs for US kids has ended up financing clinical trials in poor countries, where the medicines might never become available.

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Teena Thacker

The team from the Union Health Ministry probing the death of four infants during a routine immunisation drive in Mohanlalganj near Lucknow on Saturday has sent samples of the measles vaccine from the stock to the Central Drug Laboratory Kolkata for further investigations.

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Aarti Dhar

NEW DELHI: The Centre has sent a two-member team to Lucknow to probe the deaths of four infants after they were administered anti-measles vaccination at an immunisation camp in the Mohanlal Ganj area.

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