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Scanning cancer, up close & personal: A revolution is underway in cancer diagnosisA gene-based test called next-generation sequencing can identify precise mutations, which can then be treated with targeted therapies. Sinc...- India makes gains in child, maternal health but nutrition challenges persist: SBI reportIndia's latest health survey reveals significant improvements in maternal care and child vaccination rates. Stunting among children has see...
- BJP’s incompetence exposed by women, children health data, claims KhargeCongress leader Mallikarjun Kharge has criticized the BJP government. He claims NFHS-6 data reveals the government's incompetence in health...
- Is India winning the wrong battle on infant mortality?India's infant mortality rate has significantly dropped to 24 deaths per 1,000 live births in 2024. This progress is largely due to a surge...
- NITI Aayog to lay out roadmap for deepening of corporate bond marketIn its Annual Report 2023-24, the Aayog said corporate bond markets are an efficient cost minimization process for long-term funding and co...
- Global Hunger Index exaggerates measure of hunger, has multiple problems, say Health Ministry sourcesIn the Global Hunger Index, 2022, India ranked 107 out of 121 countries, much behind its South Asia neighbours, with the child wasting rate...
- View: GHI a misleading hunger index, may not be applicable to IndiaGHI remains a misleading hunger index as its methodology ignores genetic factors for which norms on stunting and wasting may not be applica...
- Way sample collected might be inflating anaemia figuresIn a paper based on the CNNS survey published in June 2021 in the medical journal, The Lancet, the authors had stated that “datasets, inclu...
- Dole Asia Holdings launches $2-million Sunshine for All FundThe $2 million annual fund will support global strategic partnerships and innovation in sustainability, food access and reduction of food w...
- National survey to estimate poverty with new metricsA major exercise has started to help estimate poverty levels, years after the poverty line idea was dumped.
- New firm creation higher in services sector than manufacturing, agriculture: SurveyThe survey said that there is a need to invest in ramping up India's statistical infrastructure. The survey also observed that India has ta...
- Third year in a row, horticulture output beats grain productionBesides, horticulture production also showed continuous increase unlike foodgrain output which reported a decline in 2014-15 as compared to...
- Key to continued economic prosperity: Three ways India can improve child nutritionIndia has the know-how and financial capacity to ensure that every child not only survives, but thrives.
- India has third-highest number of obese people: StudyAccording to the study, a total of 56 per 1000 children die before their 5th birthday, and 47.9 percent of children under the age of five a...
- No nutrition survey in India in last 10 years; Bangladesh performs betterData from the Rapid Survey on Children carried out by Unicef and the women and child development ministry in 2013 is yet to be made availab...
- Latest NFHS data likely to be released later this yearThe survey gives details of health statistics in the country and is the only source for malnutrition data (extent of those stunted and unde...
- India tops malnutrition chart in south AsiaAccording to UNICEF, every year 1 million children under five die due to malnutrition related causes in India.
- North and west regions show lowest consumption of malted food drinksTraditional milk consuming regions north and west show the lowest consumption of malted food drinks (MFDs) as compared to the east and sout...
- How India can boost its GDP by ensuring food for allThe World Bank estimates that India loses 2-3% of GDP primarily because of poor nutrition, leading to lower productivity and loss of econom...
- 'Rich spend less on healthy food'India's rising consumption level is edging the country into a nutritional black hole.
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