カテゴリー: Children’s health
Doctors deplore decision and point to country’s high neonatal mortality rate as bank, which opened in June, forced to close without taking a single depositWhen he heard a hospital in Karachi was setting up a milk bank for babies, the news was a “huge r…
Epidemiologists say wave in north, particularly among children, may be partly caused by ‘immunity debt’Chinese health authorities have provided the requested data on an increase in respiratory illnesses and reported clusters of pneumonia in children, a…
One in three children in Delhi is already asthmatic, with many more at risk of organ damage from breathing noxious air. A crowded waiting room at one children’s hospital tells the storyIt is the third time in a week that Pankaj Ram, a construction work…
Inquest finds death of Duangphet Phromthep, 17, could not have been foreseen or preventedThe captain of the Thai football team who were trapped in a cave for several days in 2018 took his own life while at school in the UK, a coroner has ruled.Duangphe…
Indian campaigners join global delegation representing one billion children affected by climate crisis• Cop27 live – latest news updates“Nobody else will jump into the fire to save a child besides a mother,” says Bhavreen Kandhari, the co-founder of Wa…
Disregard for manufacturing standards could ruin the country’s reputation as the ‘developing world’s pharmacy’ and risk wider problems globallyIndia’s reputation as the “pharmacy of the developing world”, built assiduously by the country’s pharmaceutic…
Hong Kong research suggests less time outdoors and more doing ‘near work’ accelerates short-sightednessCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageSpending more time indoors and on screens because of Covid restrictions may be linked to …
The perceived wisdom has been that children do not suffer severely from the virus. Yet they are now in Brazil, Indonesia and IndiaEmergency physician and leading epidemiologist in Brazil, Dr Fatima Marinho, is seeing symptoms of Covid-19 in children th…
Parents whose only hope was finding foreign sponsorship or a clinical trial are now looking for homegrown breakthroughsFor three years, Vidya tried to find the cause of her son’s recurrent fevers and low cognitive development. When she found out, she w…