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Healthy timing, spacing between pregnancies crucial for women's health: MoS Patel
Adequately spaced pregnancies can significantly improve maternal and child health outcomes, Union M…
PTI
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India's population reaches 144 crore, to double in 77 years: UNFPA report
India's population is estimated to have reached 144 crore, with 24 per cent in the 0-14 age bracket…
PTI
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Even slightly cleaner air can improve lung function in children and young adults, reduce risk of premature death
If you have reduced lung function as an adult, you run a greater risk of chronic lung diseases like…
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Climate change could cause millions of children to be born prematurely, suffer lifelong complications
Extreme temperatures also had other effects, distinguished by which end of the spectrum took its to…
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Paris Hilton says she wore a prosthetic baby bump while a surrogate carried her child
Paris Hilton said she tried a fake stomach while awaiting the arrival of one of her kids to see wha…
Eve Crosbie
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One couple packed up an RV and drove 1,300 miles to give birth in Virginia to escape the high Black maternal mortality rate in Texas
As the maternal mortality crisis continues to worsen in the US, some Black women are crossing state…
Brianna Holt
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Child deaths from COVID double in Florida as cases among children climb across the country
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Florida chapter said most of these deaths were aligned wit…
Francis Agustin
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A new documentary shows how dire the maternal mortality crisis is. Everyone needs to watch it.
The "Born Free: Birth in America" documentary was released 15 years after Ricki Lake's "The Busines…
Jennifer Barton
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Four in five expecting mothers in India deprived of government’s maternity benefits scheme
Merely 12% women received all three installments under the scheme — with Himachal Pradesh and …
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Parents often report being less happy than child-free people, but kids aren't the problem. A lack of childcare and family leave is.
Having kids doesn't make parents less happy. Peggy O'Donnell Heffington's "Without Children," expla…
Peggy O’Donnell Heffington
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New moms are dying at alarming rates in the US, but the hidden crisis is that many of these deaths are suicides
Suicide and overdose deaths are the top cause of death in the first year postpartum in some states,…
Anna Medaris Miller
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Kashmir gets 500-bed pediatric hospital
In 2012, GB Pant hospital, the lone pediatric health facility in Kashmir recorded 358 neonatal deat…
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Toxic air killed highest number of children in India in 2016: WHO report
The report also mentioned that poverty is correlated with high exposure to environmental hea…
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Indian minister is happy that they reduced mother and child mortality but CAG reports say something else
These claims come two months after Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) raised doubts that…
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'It's tragic': Extreme heat could erase progress on child malnutrition in West Africa, scientists warn
"What is striking, and perhaps the most important takeaway, is that these heat effects are permanen…
Catherine Boudreau
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India makes it to top 100 countries in Social Progress Index
Within the group of “Low Social Progress” countries, which includes 24 Sub-Saharan African countrie…
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A UN report predicts millions of unintended pregnancies due to healthcare restrictions during lockdown
For every six months of lockdown, women in developing countries will experience 7 million unintende…
Anna Medaris Miller
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Black babies are 3 times more likely to die when cared for by white doctors. Their mortality rate plunges with Black doctors.
A study reviewing 1.8 million hospital births found that Black infants were three times more likely…
Anna Medaris Miller
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India accounts for one-third of the world's missing females, says a UN report
India accounts for 45.8 million of the world's 142.6 million "missing females" over the past 50 …
PTI
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Bill Gates Predicts We're Going To Drastically Reduce Child Mortality - Here's How
The letter points to several strategies that will continue to reduce child mortality, such as the i…