IN THE late 1980s David Barker, a British doctor, suggested that what a woman eats when she is pregnant shapes her child's physiology for life. He called the idea fetal programming. Such programming ...

Marasmus is a condition of chronic malnutrition or an inadequate nutritional diet occurring especially in children where there is significant wasting of fats, muscles and tissues of the body. Marasmus ...

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 ...

Kwashiorkor, also called edematous malnutrition, is a condition caused by malnutrition or famine in which an individual is extremely thin but has a swollen abdomen and swollen feet and ankles.

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 ...