Key Role Grandmothers Play In Mother And Child Nutrition And Health Highlighted By Research

Grandmothers and other senior female family members should play a key role in nutrition and health programmes for children and women in non-Western societies. However, they are often overlooked by health organisations that don’t understand the importance of their role or see them as an obstacle to promoting good nutrition and health practices…

Investigators Honored For Studies Of Obesity And Rare Genetic Disorder

Patricia Dickson, MD, and Jennifer Yee, MD, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center (LA BioMed) researchers, will be honored on Thursday as recipients of the first UCLA Clinical and Translational Science Institute’s (CTSI) Award for Translational Research in Maternal, Child, and Adolescent Health…

Increase In Financing For Women's And Children's Health Indicated By G8 Report

A G8 report released in Paris indicating an increase in financing for women’s and children’s health was welcomed by the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (PMNCH). In 2010, the G8 launched the Muskoka Initiative for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health, with an initial commitment of US$5 billion by 2015…

Increase In Financing For Women's And Children's Health Indicated By G8 Report

A G8 report released in Paris indicating an increase in financing for women’s and children’s health was welcomed by the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (PMNCH). In 2010, the G8 launched the Muskoka Initiative for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health, with an initial commitment of US$5 billion by 2015…

Educational Gender Gap Closing; Findings Offer New Path For Accelerating Progress In Child Health

Women are advancing further in school than at any time in recent history, a trend that is having a tremendous impact on child mortality, according to new research from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington. Between 1970 and 2009, mortality in children under age 5 dropped from 16 million to 7…

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