Northeastern states of India are different from the rest of the country in terms of ethnicity, culture and geography which pose certain advantages and challenges unique...
In its reaction to Budget 2020, the Indian Medical Association has said that it was very unfortunate that investment in Health had been stagnating around 1...
Here is a quick lowdown on West Bengal’s performance on vital health parameters and how the state’s healthcare has been able to perform well on some...
The government of India aims to achieve 90 per cent vaccination coverage among children below the age of two years and so in a bid to...
According to the National Nutrition Strategy of 2017, the country aims to reduce malnutrition among children by focusing on multiple factors like breastfeeding, dietary diversification, deworming...
Malnutrition can cause irreversible damage to children’s brain development and their physical growth, leading to a diminished capacity to learn, poorer performance in school, greater susceptibility...
The study was based on the data which followed 10,000 teens over a 10 year period. Every two years, study subjects are interviewed, given a set...
Over the course of 10 years, not much has changed in Jharkhand, when it comes to its battle Malnutrition. But the state showed a downward trend...
When Emissions of the major pollutants like particulate matter (PM), sulfur oxides, among others, were reduced by 73 per cent between 1990 and 2015 in the...
Air pollution may contribute to the development of asthma in children, low birth weight and pre-term birth, and neurological or cognitive disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease
The ‘Poshan On Wheels’ initiative will help provide free nutritious meals to the vulnerable group – from children, lactating mothers to pregnant women in Chandigarh
Be it child mortality, malnutrition, anaemia among women and children or diarrhoea, Telangana outdid the overall country’s performance in tackling these health issues
