Children under five must spend less time sitting in front of screens, or restrained in prams and seats, get better quality sleep and spend more time playing if they are to grow up healthy, according to new guidelines issued by the World Health Organisation (WHO). In the digital era, which keeps kids busy with smartphones …
2.9 million Indian kids missed out on the first dose of their measles vaccinations in the last eight years, according to the United Nations. A report by the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reveals that more than twenty million children worldwide missed out on the all-important first dose of the measles vaccine in the past eight …
Asthma inhalers are a boon for lung patients, but they are damaging the environment according to UK researchers. The most commonly used asthma inhalers emit, per five doses, the same amount of greenhouse gases as a nine-mile journey by car. This has prompted the UK’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) to encourage …
At the age of 28, Madhuri had three daughters and no son. With a dream to have a son and to fulfil her family’s demands, she became pregnant again. But this time she couldn’t take any chance and illegally undertook a sex determination test. As soon as she was told that it is a girl, …
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Measles is a preventable disease – so why have cases almost quadrupled in a year? The first three months of 2019 witnessed dramatic increases in rates of the disease in every region of the world, compared to the same period last year, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). 170 countries reported 112,163 cases of …
Pollution from traffic is driving an asthma crisis in India’s children, a new study suggests. Exposure to traffic-related air pollution (TRAP) contributes to 350,000 new cases of childhood asthma in India every year, estimates a research paper published today in The Lancet. This is the second highest burden of new TRAP-related cancer cases in the …
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A five-month-old baby has become the youngest Indian to receive a liver transplant. Ariana Dey is doing well after a ten-hour-long operation, which took eighteen hours to prepare for. It was like a second birth for the baby who got a new life after her mother donated Ariana part of her liver at the Max …
Elections begin this week, and it is worth appraising India’s diversity: not only evident in its cultural landscape but also in the distribution of wealth and wellness. Even as 22 percent of its population lives below the poverty line, India is home to 84 of the world’s billionaires according to Forbes 2016. India is the …
The findings of a report researching the health of Indian students have raised a number of concerns about the health of India’s children. The research screened 176,240 schoolchildren aged two to seventeen across twenty Indian cities. Those screened were assessed on numerous health parameters and it was discovered that a significant proportion of India’s students …
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Worldwide, two billion people lack access to basic sanitation services at health facilities – leaving them vulnerable to the health risks that can arise because of unhygienic conditions. This is according to a new report by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organisation (WHO). The report’s findings reveal how a quarter …
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