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Nigeria's immunisation coverage low, 6.2m children missing vaccination
Nigeria’s immunisation coverage remains low, with at least 6.2 million children missing all their vaccines in the past five years. Overall, Nigeria is still far from achieving the 95 per cent vaccine ...
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Georgia’s ‘Godmother of Literacy’ on a mission to boost pediatric health through books
Dr. Terri McFadden says it’s never too early to encourage children to read. She wants parents to not only read to their children, but to also sing and talk to them as well.
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Strategies needed to cut ‘unacceptably high’ maternal deaths of Indigenous women
This is part three of a three-part Healio Exclusive series on maternal and cardiovascular outcomes among Indigenous women ...
New toolkit empowers health care providers with evidence-based strategies for childhood obesity prevention and treatment
Greaux Healthy—a public service initiative powered by Pennington Biomedical Research Center, in partnership with the State of Louisiana—has released the Childhood Obesity Prevention, Evaluation and ...
Five things parents should know—and do—to keep kids' hearts healthy
Keeping kids healthy can be a big job. From the day their children are born, parents ferry them to and from medical offices, ...
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PBBM admin steadily makes strides toward ‘child labor-free PH’ vision
The Marcos Jr. administration remains steadfast in prioritizing the elimination of child labor in the country,” Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Secretary Bienvenido Laguesma has said. “Under ...
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Louisiana medical organizations criticize state’s ban on vaccine promotion
The Louisiana State Medical Society and eight other medical organizations are calling for an end to the politicization of ...