The UNICEF has stressed the need for coordination among policy-makers, academics and programme managers for reducing malnutrition among children. The Acting Chief, Child Development and Nutrition

report: A report on Reproductive Health in Policy and Practice has noted signs of shift in orientation of public sector programme in promoting family planning and lowering of fertility. The

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Malaysia is importing chicken to dispel worries of a supply shortage as consumers, frightened by a viral epidemic linked to pigs that has killed 91 people, continue to shun pork.Health officials on

More than 500 people have fallen prey to the jaundice epidemic which has hit the southeast Rajasthan area of Khanpur. Three deaths have been reported so far from Khanpur town, where a team of

Fully 92.7 percent of nearly 100,000 tuberculosis patients in the western Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region have recovered thanks to a World Bank financed anti-tuberculosis program introduced in

Amputations of limbs affected by ganggrene due to diminished blood supply either with or without diabetes can now be completely avoided, thanks to a new surgical technique devised by Dr Tejinder

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The most senior defector from the Soviet germ-warfare program, Kanatjan Alibekov says in a new book that Soviet officials concluded that China suffered a serious accident at one of its secret plants

Contaminated drinking water has left at least three persons dead and over 500 suffering from jaundice in Khanpur vilalge, Jhalwat district, during the last month. The disease is confined to Khanpur