Four districts of the state, including Karnal, Yamunanagar, Panchcula and Ambala, have an alarming situation on malnutrition. On an average, 37.4 per cent children are underweight, 42.8 per cent children
95% kids anaemic in Karnal: Study
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NHRC notice to Haryana on child malnutrition
The National Human Rights Commission on Tuesday took suo motu cognisance of media reports of severe malnutrition among children in Haryana’s Karnal, Yamuna Nagar, Panchkula and Ambala districts. It issued
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Study blames anaemia in maternal, perinatal deaths
NAGPUR: A study in Nagpur has revealed that anaemia is a big factor in the high Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR) as well as perinatal mortality rate (death of foetus after seven months of pregnancy or seven
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Teacher helps 200 girls fight anaemia
BOTAD: It has been a battle against anaemia that has been fought with handfuls of pulses. It took a couple of year for Dilip Bhalgamiya, principal of Taluka Kanya Shala (Girls School) in Botad, to reverse
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Sickle cell anaemia cases almost double in 2 years
The number of people suffering from sickle cell anaemia has risen from 19 in 2012-13 to 32 in 2013-14, even as ten carriers of the disorder were found in Nashik city, the district health office has reported.
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Study confirms threat from chem units
Armed With Health Dept Report, Ganganagar Locals Start Campaign Against Illegal Factories
Kolkata: A TOI report on the health hazards faced by the people of Ganganagar Katakhal area owing to mushrooming
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Four more Thar newborns die from drought-related causes
UMERKOT: Unrelenting drought-like conditions and delay in rains in Thar have caused deaths of four more newborn babies over the past 24 hours, raising the death toll of children to 57 during 45 days in
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Paan masala causes anaemia
Paan masala is emerging as a new cause for anaemia.
Researchers at clinical hemato-oncology department of King George’s Medical University in Lucknow have found that paan masala consumption leads to
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11% kids suffer from iron deficiency in city
The Lions Club Bhubaneswar in association with the Lion Minati Cancer Foundation and the Red Cross Society organised a health camp at the Goura Charan Vidyapitha at Chhatabara on Friday. The camp was inaugurated
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Hidden hunger’ affects 2 billion despite better access to food
Though hunger has been reduced substantially, poor-quality food perpetuates a ‘vicious cycle of poverty and malnutrition’. More than 2 billion people are malnourished because they do not receive enough
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Vitamin D deficiency hits 90% schoolgirls
The AIIMS study finds children from low-income group suffer from micronutrients deficiencies
More than 90 per cent of schoolgirls from all income groups are suffering from Vitamin D deficiency as low
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95% kids anaemic in Karnal: Study
Four districts of the state, including Karnal, Yamunanagar, Panchcula and Ambala, have an alarming situation on malnutrition. On an average, 37.4 per cent children are underweight, 42.8 per cent children
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30% adolescent girls in Jalna suffer from anaemia: Report
A survey carried out in Jalna district has revealed that acute anaemia is crippling girl students, especially those aged between 14 and 16 years. The study, initiated by gynaecologist Aarti Mantri in association
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State records steady slide in maternal mortality
At a time when holes are being punched in the state's development story over its human development indicators, a study on the maternal mortality rate (MMR) in Gujarat may come as a major respite. Data
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Feast and famine
MAHARASHTRA, 2010. In a village 130km (80 miles) from Mumbai, the head of a nursery is weighing a child. Four years old, she is just 10kg (22lb), two-thirds of what she should be. More than half the nursery’s
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Indians living longer, but unhealthy, ailing
People across India are living longer but spending more time in ill health due to conditions like depressive disorder, iron-deficiency anaemia and low back pain, a major global study has revealed.
According
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K'taka reports highest number of maternal deaths in South India
Doctors blame lack of human resource in rural areas, anaemia and late referrals
Mother and Child.
Karnataka continues to report the highest number of deaths of expectant mothers in South India, though
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Maternal iron supplementation: one size does not fit all
Anaemia is the most common nutritional deficiency worldwide. The prevalence of anaemia in non-pregnant and pregnant African women (47.5% versus 57.1%) and Southeast Asian women (45.7% versus 48.2%)
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PGI survey finds 63% children below 5 years anaemic in state
Only 27 per cent children between the ages of six months to five years are healthy in Haryana. The rest of them are anaemic and 9 per cent severely anaemic (SA).
This was revealed in the PGI Chandigarh
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Hypertension, respiratory issues among major health problems in India: Study
Twenty-one per cent of those labeled to have hypertension were aged under 40, indicating that a large number of young people suffer from hypertension.
One of the largest and first-of-its kind studies
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