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. …
Vaccination importance highlighted KARACHI, April 8 (APP) - Eradication of small pox and the marked decrease in cases of diphtheria, whooping cough, and polio are testimony to the role vaccines have played in preventing life-threatening illnesses. This was stated by Secretary-General Pakistan Pediatric Association Dr. M.A. Arif, at a forum …
Tetanus, diphtheria still prevalent among children Alpha Arzu Most of six fatal childhood diseases have noticeable prevalence despite much-hyped national vaccination campaigns for more than two decades with government leaders claiming near-total coverage. The lone state-run Infectious Diseases Hospital in Dhaka still receives a large number of children with tetanus, …
Peak incidence of rotavirus gastroenteritis is seen in infants between 6 and 24 months of age. The researchers therefore aimed to assess the 2-year efficacy and safety of an oral live attenuated human rotavirus vaccine for prevention of severe gastroenteritis in infants.
HOPE AND FUTILITY:March 16, 2008. Padyatris rest at a school in Farah, after a 28 kilometer trek from Agra. The marchers are aged between 11 and 82 THERE IS a face of our democracy that you only see when you follow a 60-year-old woman marching 800 kilometres on swollen knees. …
Think about this next time you upgrade your PC: toxic metals from old electronic goods are finding their way into school grounds in China. Seventy per cent of the world's discarded phones and computers are exported to China. Most are processed in family-run workshops, where the circuit boards are ripped …
Eating the food provided at the balwadi has left 11 children ill and three of them in the hospital. The balwadi, in Posiyampatti village in Thennilai panchayat in Karur district, has 25 children on its rolls but on Thursday only 11 of them had turned up when it opened for …
Being beaten up at home could be making Indian women and children frail and undernourished. In an interesting research, a team of social scientists from Harvard School of Public Health has for the first time found a strong association between domestic violence and chronic malnutrition among Indian women and children. …
Over 2.1 million children below 15 years are living with HIV globally, most of them infected before their birth, during delivery or while being breastfed. While around 4.2 lakh children were newly infected in 2007, an estimated 2.9 lakh children under 15 years died from AIDS the same year. Young …
: Surveys reveal that malnutrition and underweight childbirths are increasing in rural areas chiefly due to underage marriage of girls, a Healthcare and Nutrition Ministry spokesman said. He said Healthcare and Nutrition Minister Nimal Siripala de Silva revealed these findings recently and according to the findings most rural women get …
Firms that renovate or repair housing, childcare facilities or schools will have to follow new rules to protect children from exposure to lead. The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is publishing stricter regulations for builders, plumbers, painters and electricians working on buildings constructed before 1978. Under the rules, workers must …
When parents think about their children's exposure to environmental risks, they might think of lead, pesticides or grass pollens. In fact, the greatest environmental exposure for most children is television. They spend more time watching television than in any other wakeful activity, and it affects their health and well-being in …
A tv advert for Nutella has been withdrawn in the uk after the country's advertising watchdog ruled that it exaggerated the hazelnut spread's nutritional value. The commercial showed several mothers giving their children Nutella on toast with a voiceover saying it could be part of a balanced breakfast. The voiceover …
Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit expressed confidence that polio would soon be eliminated from the Capital. She said this at the launch of another phase of special intensified pulse polio immunisation programme (PPIP) today in the Capital. She also administered polio drops to children. The Chief Minister exhorted parents to administer …
GPCC President Francisco Sardinha has expressed his reservations over the budget proposal to extend Mid-Day Meal scheme to secondary school students and the hike on excise duty on liquor consumed by the common man. While welcoming the government's budget as a "good' one in keeping with the trend set by …
I am an ardent admirer of our union minister for Woman and Child Development. She has a mind of her own and I have seen men cringe in their seats when she gets going in her speeches. I refer to the current raging debate involving policy makers at the highest …
It seems the state Government has made a total mess of the Central funds meant for children under the Supplementary Nutrition Programme (SNP). According to the latest CAG report, the SNP has been nothing but a story of not just diversion of funds and materials, but also of shortfall of …
This study attempts to analyse the effects of some selected demographic and socio-economic predictor variables on the likelihood of immunisation of a child for six vaccine-preventable diseases covered under the Universal Immunisation Programme. It focuses on immunisation coverage (a) at the all India level, (b) in rural and urban areas, …
The pivot around which the improvement of maternal health revolved was the Indian woman doctor and her growing presence from the 1900s was to be seen at hospitals and welfare centres in the Bombay presidency, promoting knowledge of more hygienic birthing methods and safe infant care. These women physicians, graduates …
Villagers of Kandwala, a sleepy village near Fazilka, have reason to seek sealing of the food meant for the mid-day meal in their primary school, as the stock has allegedly taken its toll with the death of two women and four of their kids hospitalised after they consumed the wheat …
Realising a shortage of doctors will continue to be a major hurdle to run neonatal care units in the state, the experts, who have developed the units in the districts to lower the newborn mortality rate, are now planning to train nursing staff to meet the crisis. Dr A Singh, …
