Mothers should breast-feed their babies for at least the first year as

Painful influenza shots may soon become a thing of the past

Not aids, but the fear of the disease is giving Pakistan its worst nightmares. Recently, five-year old Saira was denied admission by a school

• The prestigious Sasakawa-dha Disaster Prevention Award for 1997 by the United Nations has been awarded to Anand Swarup Arya, an internationally renowned earthquake expert. • The

according to the United Nations Children's Fund ( unicef) annual report, malnutrition kills more children in the world than any infectious disease, war or natural disaster. Malnutrition kills

Harmful toys that have been withdrawn from European countries are still being sold in Canada

The widely reported case of Matthew Eapen s death has highlighted the ignorance regarding the shaken baby syndrome