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World Diabetes Day (14 November): Caring for children and adolescents with diabetes The theme of this year’s World Diabetes Day (14 November) is ‘diabetes in children and adolescents...
An innovative way to create awareness on diabetes among school kids is to lace it cleverly with entertainment and make it a fun affair so that the message can get ingrained in the psyche of ...
The International Diabetes Federation (IDF)’s World Diabetes Day campaign focuses this year on ‘children and adolescents with diabetes’. Diabetes has a unique impact on the lives of adoles...
"Diabetes is a deadly disease, and each year, almost 4 million people die from diabetes-related causes. Children, particularly in countries where there is limited access to diabetes care an...
24th October, 2008 October 24, 2008 marks World Polio Day . While the world lauds the success of two decades of committed global eradication programs, that have significantly cut the ...
Mother Support: Going For The Gold 2008 1-7 August 2008 World Breastfeeding Week (WBW) is celebrated in more than 120 countries from 1- 7 August every year. With its extensive re...
24th October, 2007 World Polio Day falls on 24th October . This is a day of reckoning of the scourge called Polio, of all the bitter memories it has left in its wake, and the many ...
The phenomenon of high school students and college youth indulging in mindless violence was until a few years ago restricted to the Western world, where parental care is thought to be su...
In the capitalist pockets of urban India , there certainly seems to be no dearth of money. What then can be a better way, for present-day parents to spend their ‘well- acquired’ and ‘not...
Many adults do not seek medical attention for a persistent throat infection in their children. This is fraught with danger, especially if the fever takes a turn for the worse. It is surmise...
Not so long ago there was a theory doing the rounds that the macabre Virginia Tech killings were carried out by an autistic individual. This theory was not well received and was quickly disc...
Moses Maimonides the physician to the Islamic King Saladin in 1150AD said about Asthma – ''I have no magic cure to report, all I have in mind is a rational conduct of life.'' ...
“Child abuse casts a shadow the length of a lifetime.” - Herbert Ward Child Abuse-The Bitter Truth Little Sana was home alone, happy in her imaginative world of fairies an...
Malaria is a disease that is preventable and curable, yet every 30 seconds a child dies due to the disease. Truly, malaria has posed one of the biggest challenges to healthcare experts and s...
The earliest reports of iodine deficiency emerged from China, almost 5000 years ago. Nature came to the rescue in the form of sea weeds and many of those who ate sea weeds actually weeded ou...
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