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DocsApp launches night-time child specialist online consultation
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 26 (ANI): Adding to the high-quality healthcare services it offers, DocsApp, a chat based healthcare platform that connects patients to specialist doctors in less than 30 minutes, has launched yet another noteworthy service targeted towards infants, children, and adol
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Rural Indian women register dramatic gains in nutrition, food security
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Jaipur (Rajasthan) [India], June 28 (ANI-Businesswire India): New research and project results from the Rajasthan Nutrition Project show dramatic improvement in the food security, nutrition, and health practices of women, girls and infants. In just two years time, the percentage of female he
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Premature infants at great risk of sudden infant death syndrome: Study
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], June 27 (ANI): According to a new study, premature infants still have a greater risk compared to full-term babies of dying of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) and other sleep-related infant deaths.
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Micronutrients deficiency most pervasive health condition among infants
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 2 (ANI): According to experts, micronutrients deficiencies are a major risk factor of illness in infants. Every day, over 6,000 children die in India under the age of five and more than half of these deaths are caused by micronutrient malnutrition-primarily due to lac
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Soon, a treatment for aggressive brain cancer in kids
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Apr 12 (ANI): A team of researchers has discovered a promising target to treat atypical teratoid/rhabdoid tumour (AT/RT), a highly aggressive and therapy resistant brain tumour that mostly occurs in infants.
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Soon, a blood test to detect shaken baby syndrome
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Apr 11 (ANI): A team of scientists has come up with a new medical test that may help identify infants who may have had bleeding of the brain as a result of abusive head trauma, sometimes referred to as shaken baby syndrome.
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Telangana CM says govt. will stand by Anganwadi workers
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Telangana (Hyderabad) [India], Feb. 28 (ANI): Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao has assured that the government would stand by Anganwadi workers who are working relentlessly for the protection of pregnant women, lactating mothers and infants.
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Beware! Rice may be potential 'arsenic carrier' for kids
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 19. (ANI): What if we told you that rice has the potential of carrying arsenic and is more than hazardous to feed it to infants!
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Young children can choke to death on whole grapes, doctors warn
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
London[UK], Dec. 21(ANI):Grapes, the third most common cause of food related choking after hot dogs and sweets, account for over half the episodes of fatal choking among infants. But public awareness of this potential hazard is not widespread, doctors write in the Archives of Disease in Chil
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Zika virus can cause glaucoma in infants: Study
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Dec. 7 (ANI): A team of researchers has found that Zika virus during gestation can cause glaucoma-- permanent damage to the optic nerve and blindness-- in infants.
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Find out! Is your toddler allergic to peanuts?
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C [USA], Nov. 12 (ANI): Infants might be allergic to peanuts which make parents perplexed about when and how to introduce peanut-containing foods to them. A recent study that offers guidance on this topic will definitely help out parents without going "nuts."
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Graphics on cigarette pack can avert death rates
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Nov. 6 (ANI): A study says that using prominent, graphic picture on cigarette packs warning against smoking could avert more than 652,000 deaths, up to 92,000 low birth weight infants, up to 145,000 preterm births, and about 1,000 cases of sudden infant deaths in the U
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