Over the past two decades, India has achieved impressive gains in reducing maternal deaths. India’s maternal mortality rate (maternal deaths/100,000 live births) has decreased from 407...
According to Dr Sushma Malik of BYL Nair Hospital, COVID-19 infection is not congenital and so even if the mother is infected with coronavirus, the baby...
The study measured the impact of routine deworming medicine during antenatal care on subsequent neonatal mortality and low birth weight for births between 1998 and 2018...
According to experts, care and nutrition received by the mother and her child during the first 1,000 days (from conception to the second birthday of the...
Every year on April 11, India observes National Safe Motherhood Day, to raise awareness about adequate access to care during pregnancy, childbirth and postnatal services
Government of Odisha has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and the Regional Medical Research Centre (RMRC) to...
Researchers from University College Dublin, Ireland found that children of mothers who ate a higher quality diet, low in inflammation-associated foods, during pregnancy had a lower...
According to President Ram Nath Kovind, Under 5 Child Mortality Rate has also reduced to 36 for the first time, which is less than the world...
According to the United Nations, even after five years of the launch of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), many key indicators related to food and nutrition...
In this new study, researchers have for the first time discovered that a specific type of immune cells - called regulatory T cells - expand in...
Ladakh Lt Governor R K Mathur directed the health department to achieve 100 percent child vaccination and find ways to promote hygiene amongst children
Researchers found that an estimated 3.49 lakh pregnancy losses per year in south Asia were associated with exposure to PM2.5 concentrations that exceeded India’s air quality...
