More access to breastfeeding support could save 820,000 young lives annually, says UNICEF
Aug 02, 2024, at 03:35 pm
The heads of the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organization (WHO) have called for greater access to breastfeeding support to both reduce health inequity and ensure mothers and babies can survive and thrive.
Jammu and Kashmir: Cervical cancer screening camp held at Tangmarg
Feb 21, 2022, at 05:14 am
Srinagar: A Cervical cancer screening camp was held at Tangmarg.
Despite progress in childbirth safety, one woman or baby dies every 11 seconds
Sep 20, 2019, at 09:14 am
New York: Childbirth survival rates are now a “staggering success” compared with the year 2000, but one pregnant woman - or her child - still dies every 11 seconds from largely preventable causes, UN health experts said on Thursday.
Diet drinks may be associated with strokes among post-menopausal women: Study
Feb 16, 2019, at 06:44 pm
New York, Feb 16 (IBNS): Among post-menopausal women, drinking multiple diet drinks daily was associated with an increase in the risk of having a stroke caused by a blocked artery, especially small arteries, according to research published in Stroke, a journal of the American Heart Association.
Sep 29, 2018, at 07:24 am
New York, Sept 29 (IBNS): States across the world should act now to decriminalise abortion and make every effort to ensure women and girls have the right to make their own decisions about pregnancy, said a group of United Nations human rights experts on Friday, in a statement marking International Safe Abortion Day.
Parliamentarians from WHO South-East Asia Region commit to health of women, children and adolescents
Jul 30, 2018, at 05:52 pm
New Delhi, July 30 (IBNS): Over 30 parliamentarians from countries in WHO South-East Asia Region have committed to health and wellbeing of women, children and adolescents, to further reduce preventable diseases and deaths among them.