Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
A Pretoria High Court judge has said in a ruling that hiv -infected pregnant women under the care of the state are entitled to a low-cost drug, Nevirapine, which reduces a newborn's risk of contracting the virus. About 70,000 children are infected annually due to mother-to-child transmission. The decision has …
An endocrine disrupter is a synthetic chemical which, when absorbed by the body, interferes with normal hormone function. This undermines intelligence, decreases resistance to disease and impairs reproduction. These chemicals include polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), dioxins, pesticides and phthalates which cause a range of problems
living within two kilometres of a landfill site increases a woman's risk of having a baby with a birth defect by up to seven per cent, recent research conducted in the uk shows. The link though is not conclusive, say researchers at Imperial College, London, and add that more research …
the human foetus does have a memory. This recently reported discovery could lead to new tests to identify and find solutions to health problems in the central nervous system of the foetus. Jan Nijhuis, professor at the department of obstetrics and gynaecology at the University Hospital in Masstricht, the Netherlands, …
the recent decision of the Supreme Court to include Net En, an injectable hormonal contraceptive, in the family programme has led to controversy. According to medical experts, the contraceptives should not be given to women having hypertension, diabetes, liver problems or to lactating mothers and pregnant women. The side effects, …
why are mosquitoes and other winged creatures partial to pregnant women? While scientists always suspected that it is something to do with one's skin or more specifically its secretions
Contrary to popular perception, a baby's taste preference starts in the womb, and not with breast milk. A study conducted by Julie Mennella of the Monell Chemical Senses Centre, Philadelphia, USA, found that women who drank carrot juice while pregnant or lactating, cultivated a taste for carrots to their offspring. …
complications may arise during pregnancy when a foetus has red blood cells that carry proteins inherited from the father, but the mother's red blood cells lack these proteins. Because of this mismatch between mother and foetus, antibodies produced by the mother's immune cells can destroy the foetus' red blood cells, …
in may 1977, the 30th World Health Assembly adopted a resolution in which it decided that by the year 2000, all citizens of the world would attain a level of health that will permit them to lead a socially and economically productive life. This came to be known as "health …
WITH his newborn in his arms, 30-year-old Pooranmal stands helplessly outside Jaipur's J K Loan Hospital. The doctors have refused to operate upon his son. "There is no hope. They say my child is not going to live for long,' he says. The child was born on February 25, 2000, …
India is fast becoming the land of superlatives. For all the wrong reasons, of course. Be it August 15, 1999 (UN prediction), or May 11, 2000 (government of India estimates), the nation has reached the inevitable mark. At the time of Independence, the country's population was as low as 350 …
THE mythical clock has struck. A billion and ticking at the rate of 29 per minute, 1790 per hour... The rise in human numbers is accompanied by a host of problems. Knowledge of the carrying capacity of India's lands is extremely limited. There is no worthwhile study covering even the …
Can a doll that wails and cries like a baby discourage teenage girls from getting pregnant? A recent study from the US shows that this may not be the case. Such dolls are intended to help teach responsibility to young adult women. The new idea is the
Malnutrition at the stage of pregnancy can lead to the birth of children who are more prone to diabetes when they grow up, says a recent study. According to group of Chinese and British scientists in Beijing, who were studying the onset of diabetes in developing countries, found this interesting …
Giving birth may ruin one's figure and take up all free time, but having children may also boost memory power, claims a new study. Craig H Kinsley of the University of Richmond, Virginia, USA, and his team, who conducted a study on rodents, report that female rats who had given …
An analysis of over a million births in Sweden from 1987 to 1995 suggests that baby girls more likely to make their mothers sick during pregnancy. Johan Askling's group from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden found that severe nausea and vomiting during a woman's first trimester of pregnancy is …
a significant step towards halting the ageing process has just been achieved at least for women. Jonathan L Tilly of Vincent Center for Reproductive Biology at Massachusetts General Hospital (mgh), Boston, usa , and his team report that they have engineered mice whose ovaries grow viable eggs and secrete oestrogen …
Anaemia is a major health concern among women, especially pregnant ones, of developing countries like India. A serious iron deficiency can damage the health of unborn babies and their mothers. However, administering anti-malarial drugs during pregnancy has been shown to reduce the incidence of anaemia among expectant women by nearly …
