Reduction of childhood stunting is difficult to achieve by interventions that focus only on improving nutrition during infancy. Comprehensive interventions that extend through the continuum of care from pregnancy to infancy are needed. Mobile phones are now successfully being used…
International Lead Poisoning Prevention Week was celebrated by members of Lata Medical Research Foundation, Nagpur, from 21st to 27th October 2018. The International Lead Poisoning Prevention Week of action took place, with a particular focus on eliminating lead paint. With this regards, drawing…
Dr. Archana Patel, Program Director and CFO, LMRF was invited as a speaker at the at the 8th National Infant and Young Child Feeding and Human Milk Banking Conference 2018 of the Indian Academy of Pediatrics (IAP) Karnataka. Her topic…
The 17th FERCAP International Conference & 5th Ferci National Conference was held from 20th to 22nd November 2017, at Delhi, India. This workshop was attended by Dr.Seema Parwekar, DAGA Memorial Womens Hospital & Ms.smita Puppalwar, from Lata Medical Research Foundation,…
Prevention of diarrhea has presented indomitable challenges. A preventive strategy that has received significant interest is zinc supplementation. Existing literature including quantitative meta-analyses and systematic reviews tend to show that zinc supplementation is beneficial however evidence to the contrary is…
A third of the hospital admissions in developing countries are due to diarrhea related diseases, with 17% mortality mostly due to dehydration, prolongation of acute diarrhea and its complications Objectives: To identify baseline risk factors for prolonged diarrheal duration and…
