At least seven children have been killed while 185 others hospitalised due to the recent outbreak of measles in a village near Keenjhar Lake, Thatta.

Around 90 per cent children and labourers working in brick factories in Bhaktapur district are found suffering from skin disease and respiratory related problems, said doctors.

In January 2012, PM Manmohan Singh declared half of India’s children were malnourished and that was a national shame.

Two VDCs of the district have been recently declared fully vaccinated.

During the monsoon season, threat of malaria and other vector–borne diseases looms large over the tea gardens in Assam that often cause death of many people including children.

With the City facing an unusually sizzling summer, it has brought in its wake a spurt in the cases of chicken pox, especially among children.

As a thick smog hung over Beijing last year, Stephanie Giambruno and her husband decided it was time for her and their two girls to return to the U.S.

Seven out of 10 children in the 2-to-10-year age group have below-median growth parameters (growth measured here as height and weight) and as many as 45 per cent of these children are nutritionally

Research has revealed that diesel fumes could cause children to develop autism and schizophrenia +6

Most of the undernourished children were not exclusively breastfed, less breast fed or were initiated supplementary nutrition at a much later period.Delhi's appalling state of malnutrition is a mat