In 1933, a British Paeditrican, Cicely Williams, working in the then Gold Coast (now Ghana), described a syndrome in children usually between the ages of six months and four years, who had been ...

Child health experts have decried the increased cases of nutrition related infections and diseases among under-five children due to the economic hardship in the country. The paediatricians said the ...

Billing for a severe protein deficiency called kwashiorkor is a new area receiving immense scrutiny from HHS’ Office of the Inspector General this year. Kwashiorkor is a form of severe protein ...

Mercy Medical Center in Des Moines, Iowa, is the second hospital this week to be found with erroneous bills for Medicare coverage of a rare malnutrition condition. According to a report from the HHS ...

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The deadly kwashiorkor disease that was so much associated with the Biafra war has made a return to peacetime Nigeria. It was not a pretty sight seeing malnourished children with distended stomachs, ...

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