Updating Evidence on the Relationship Between Child Wasting and Stunting
For decades, wasting and stunting have been approached as separate conditions, largely disconnected in advocacy, programming, policy and financing. This ...
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Child Wasting and Stunting: Time to Overcome the Separation
Creating an Enabling Environment for Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative: Two Country Case Study of Malawi and the Kyrgyz Republic Published by: ...
Strengthening the Continuum of Care for Wasting Management through Coordination and Collaboration: Findings from Facilitated Learning in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
The U.S. Agency for International Development Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance and the USAID Mission in the Democratic Republic of the ...
Muscle wasting severity linked to type, size and location of tumor in mice — ScienceDaily
About 80% of people with cancer suffer from significant muscle wasting, or loss of muscle tissue, and 30% of these ...
Targeting enzyme could alleviate muscle wasting for cancer patients — ScienceDaily
Targeting a specific enzyme in the muscle could help cancer patients preserve muscle mass and potentially prolong their survival, according ...
How Can Nutrition Research Better Reflect the Relationship Between Wasting and Stunting in Children? Learnings from the Wasting and Stunting Project | The Journal of Nutrition
ABSTRACT Childhood wasting and stunting affect large numbers of children globally. Both are important risk factors for illness and death ...
Researchers develop messenger RNA therapy for ovarian cancer, muscle wasting — ScienceDaily
Researchers at Oregon State University and Oregon Health & Science University have developed a promising, first-of-its-kind messenger RNA therapy for ...
Child alert: Severe wasting | UNICEF
In southern Madagascar, UNICEF provided life-saving treatment to more than 60,000 severely wasted children in 2021 – four times the ...
Severe malnutrition or wasting, ‘excruciatingly painful’ threat to child survival |
Severe Wasting: An overlooked child survival emergency, details that around one in five deaths among children under age five, can ...
As Senegal’s Fish Stocks Collapse, Women Are More Vulnerable Than Ever
On the coast of Senegal, fish stocks have fallen by 80 percent in the past year alone. The women fish ...
