Category: Featured
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Premature Birth: Survival and Health Concerns
A preterm, premature or preemie baby is one who is a baby born too early, or about three weeks before the due date. While normal pregnancies last a period of about 40 weeks, preterm birth occurs at 37 weeks or earlier. We understand that preterm births are one of the most challenging experiences for a…
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7 Frequent Men’s Health Issues To Be Aware Of!
A man can care for his beloved family, his favourite car, or a gadget without hesitation and amongst all this, his health takes a backseat. What do you think? On this Men’s Day, you can change that by putting your own health first and becoming aware of health issues that can improve your well-being. Some…
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Premature Birth: Causes, Signs & Preventive Tips
Premature labour or preterm labour means spontaneous labour onset after the gestation of viability (24-28 weeks, in India) and before the completion of 37 weeks of the labour cycle. According to the WHO estimate, 15 million babies are born prematurely every year. That is more than 1 in 10 babies. Furthermore, approximately 1 million children…
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Foods That Promote Pneumonia Recovery
The fight against the leading infectious cause of death for both adults and children has never been more urgent. In 2019, pneumonia alone killed 2.5 million individuals, including 672,000 children. Millions more people are at risk of being infected with pneumonia and dying as a result of the combined effects of the Coronavirus pandemic, global…
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Stuttering: A Fluent Article On Speech Disfluency
Human communication is complex. It includes a variety of speech, gestures and expressions and we are not always smooth while expressing ourselves. We fumble, stutter, lisp, splutter and jabber. These mistakes, called disfluencies, are of various kinds and are more common among young children who are learning to speak. They have difficulty speaking as their…