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How Much Exercise Do Children Need?
YOU’RE a parent and you want to do your best to be sure your children are healthy. So you worry about physical activity. How much exercise is enough? Will being active p...
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6 Food Mistakes Parents Make
HARRIET WOROBEY, a childhood nutrition instructor, knows firsthand that children can be picky eaters, but even she was surprised by a preschooler last year who ate a mostly ch...
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Increasing maternal BMI raises fetal, infant death risk
Increasing maternal body mass index shows a moderate to strong dose-response relationship with increasing risks of fetal death, stillbirth, neonatal death, perinatal death, an...
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World Health Day 2014: Prevention and control
World Health Day is observed each year on April 7. The theme chosen for this year is Vector-borne diseases. Vectors are organisms that transmit pathogens and parasites from on...
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Doctor appeals to husbands to interest in nutrition of pregnant wives
Dr. Francis Zotor, Acting Dean of School of Public Health, University of Health and Allied Sciences (UHAS), Thursday advised men to show interest in the nutrition of their pre...
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To Lower Maternal Deaths, India Urged to Reconsider Role of Midwives
In this village 30 miles south of Kolkata, three generations of women have depended on Saira Bewa to deliver their babies. On a languid July afternoon, Ms. Saira, 61, squatted...
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Hospitals Safer Than Homes for Births
A new analysis suggests that giving birth in a hospital is considerably safer than having a baby at home or in a birthing center. Researchers analyzed data collected by the Ce...
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At long last, WHO certifies Bangladesh polio-free
Through a robust national immunization programme, Bangladesh mostly rid itself of the crippling disease in 2003. But the country reported a final case of poliomyelitis in Marc...
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Political Apathy, Unplanned Urbanisation Make Vector-Borne Diseases Hard To Control in India
Only 60 per cent of the total plan outlay for vector-borne diseases spent between 2007 to2013; lack of co-ordination between ministries and state agencies a major hurdle in im...
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Reproductive rights and wrongs: How discrimination blights maternity care
Last week, Brazil becomes the first country to pay compensation to the family of a woman who died in childbirth as a result of negligence and discriminatory practices in mater...
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