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 ...

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 ...

Objective To evaluate the efficacy of antioxidant supplementation in preventing kwashiorkor in a population of Malawian children at high risk of developing kwashiorkor. Design Prospective, double ...

With Gift Aid, your generous donation of £10 would be worth £12.50 at no extra cost to you. Yes, I want to Gift Aid any donations made to NAM now, in the future and in the past four years I am a UK ...

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 ...

Using both human fecal surveys and mouse models, Smith et al. have begun to elucidate the contribution of the gut microbiota and diet to kwashiorkor (see Figure 1 for a schematic representation of ...