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While The World Improves Its Record, Here's Why India Has World’s Most Stillborn Babies

Her pale, yellow eyes stood out against her dusky skin, and the grief was visible on the face of the young woman from a tribe of traditional honey gatherers living on the e...

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Breast-Feeding Is Good For Mothers, Not Just Babies, Studies Suggest

Breast milk may provide the ideal nourishment for an infant, but two recent studies are putting a different spin on the bottle-versus-breast debate, suggesting it is mother...

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How Mobile Phones Are Enabling Quality Maternal And Child Healthcare

In 1996, Aparna Hegde was a resident doctor at Sion Hospital, one of Mumbai?s largest public health facilities, when a woman who had just delivered a baby was rushed into e...

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Health

12% Pregnant Women In West Bengal Diabetic: Study

KOLKATA: It is believed to be one of the least known and rarely detected routes through which diabetes has been spreading in the country. Gestational diabetes — a for...

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Health

Expert group meets to draft guidelines for maternal health, antenatal care interventions

A 3-days Expert Group meeting for drafting Technical and Operational guidelines for various maternal health interventions like Calcium supplementation, Gestational Diabetes...

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Newly pregnant? Here are 5 tips for a healthy pregnancy

After one comes across the news of a positive pregnancy, all one can feel is happiness and excitement. Pregnancy is certainly the most beautiful period of a woman’s l...

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