50,000 children could die in months in S.Sudan: UNICEF
Conflict in South Sudan has triggered a serious risk of famine that will kill up to 50,000 children within months if immediate action is not taken, the UN warned on Friday.
Apr 11, 2014
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Conflict in South Sudan has triggered a serious risk of famine that will kill up to 50,000 children within months if immediate action is not taken, the UN warned on Friday.
Apr 11, 2014
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Almost 75 per cent of older adults involved in a recent Massey University study were at risk of malnourishment, or were malnourished, when they were admitted to hospital.
Apr 23, 2018
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Almost every country in the world now faces a serious nutrition-related challenge, according to a new report co-authored by a City expert.
Nov 7, 2017
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Millions of children are exposed to extreme hunger each year, but children who experience malnutrition are more likely to have poorer health and developmental delays that persist into old age, according to previous research ...
Oct 11, 2022
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For parents around the world, premixed infant cereals—also known as complementary foods—can be a vital source of the solid food needed for healthy child growth after six months of age, when infants outgrow the nutrients ...
Dec 27, 2016
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A comparison of treatments for malnutrition enteropathy, caused by severe acute malnutrition (SAM), has found evidence supporting the use of treatments to enhance the healing of mucosal membranes and reduce inflammation in ...
Apr 17, 2024
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Globally, health advances present most people with a devastating irony: avoid premature death but live longer and sicker.
Dec 13, 2012
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More than half of older adults who visit emergency departments are either malnourished or at risk for malnutrition, but not because of lack of access to health care, critical illness or dementia. Despite clear signs of malnutrition ...
Aug 13, 2014
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For hospitalized inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) patients, malnutrition contributes to readmission, mortality, length of stay (LOS), and health care costs, according to a study published online Jan. 13 in Alimentary Pharmacology ...
Feb 1, 2023
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Nearly 2.2 million Yemeni children are acutely malnourished, victims of the near-collapse of the health care system during two years of escalating conflict, UN children's fund UNICEF said on Tuesday.
Dec 13, 2016
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