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Get pregnant, get paid: Russia's bizarre offer to students amid low birth rate

Russia is planning to tackle its "catastrophic" low birth rate, which is currently at a 25-year low, by providing monetary incentives for women students to deliver healthy babies. According to Russia’s Federal State Statistics Service, or Rosstat, only 599,600 children were born in 2024 -- marking a 2.7 per cent fall in comparison to 2023. Last year also saw a …

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6 months, 3 weeks ago

Britain’s birth rate halves as wealthy countries face ‘low fertility future’

The Telegraph

Britain’s birth rate has fallen to a record low as a growing number of women shun parenthood. The UK’s birth rate is currently 1.53 children per woman, which the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development classes as well below the 2.1 needed to maintain a country’s population at its current level. Over the past decade the UK’s birth rate has …

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7 months, 2 weeks ago

Thyroid dysfunction during pregnancy: Risks and strategies for management by experts

Hindustan Times

The thyroid is the most important gland in our body as it secrete hormones T3+T4 which regulate metabolism, growth, stress levels and response to injury. An underactive thyroid gland can lead to adverse outcomes in pregnancy like miscarriage, preterm birth, low birth weight of baby developmental delays and lower IQ of baby.” She added, “An overactive gland can lead to …

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1 year, 1 month ago

World Diabetes Day | Know your risk; know your response

The Hindu

Vanathi, a 39-year-old single mom, who works as a maid in three homes has been diagnosed with diabetes. The Asian ethnic group has the world’s highest number of persons with diabetes, and rising tremendously due to risk factors like low birth weight, nutrition transition, genetics, urbanisation, and social determinants of health like poverty and environmental factors. Sedentary lifestyle Lack of …

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1 year, 2 months ago

Experts Talk About Air Pollution: How It Affects Pregnancy, And Its Long-Term Health Effects on Children

News 18

Certain parts of India such as Delhi and Mumbai are grappling with severe pollution issues and the current air quality in these cities is an absolute matter of concern. Dr Ruchi Bhandari, Senior Consultant, Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Max Smart Super Speciality Hospital, Saket, says, “Air pollution can cause serious health and environment hazards to pregnant women and unborn babies with …

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1 year, 2 months ago

Elon Musk’s Feud With Grimes Is a Warning

Slate

Elon Musk is the father of at least 10 children. Musk has been called “the tech world’s highest-profile pronatalist, albeit unofficially” by Insider, and it’s clear that at least some of his views line up with the movement’s. The pronatalists, or natalists, as some call themselves, believe that low birth rates—especially low birth rates among the “high-achieving” and “really smart”—is …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Bengaluru’s second human milk bank to start at Gosha Hospital from next week

The Hindu

July 12, 2023 11:23 pm | Updated 11:23 pm IST - Bengaluru Soon, preterm and low-birth-weight babies at the State-run Hajee Sir Ismail Sait Gosha Hospital can get supportive breast milk free of cost. The hospital’s in-house human milk bank is all set to start functioning from next week. Rotary funding With funding of ₹24 lakh from Rotary Clubs of …

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1 year, 6 months ago

China would 'get old before it gets rich', say demographers as marriages slump to record low

India Today

Continuing a steady decline over the past decade, marriages in China dropped to the lowest in 2022, local news outlet Yicai reported on Sunday. According to the data published on the website of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, only 6.83 million couples completed their marriage registrations last year, which was down about 8,00,000 from the previous year. Meanwhile, demographers have …

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2 years, 1 month ago

Rising air pollution can affect unborn babies, pregnant women: Experts

Live Mint

Delhi-NCR's air quality marginally improved to 'poor' category on Thursday. Health experts are of the view that the rising air pollution can negatively affect pregnancy, possibly leading to preterm birth, a low birth weight, stillbirth, or congenital abnormalities. WHO has also cautioned vulnerable groups like pregnant women, older adults above 60 years, and children under 5 years about the risks …

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2 years, 9 months ago

Social programs weak in many states with tough abortion laws

Associated Press

States with some of the nation’s strictest abortion laws are also some of the hardest places to have and raise a healthy child, especially for the poor, according to an analysis of federal data by The Associated Press. And I’m going to love a child in the womb, at 5 years old, at 10, at 15,” said Louisiana state Sen. …

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2 years, 9 months ago

Marriages in China hit a 36-year low fuelling concerns over declining birth rate

Firstpost

Falling marriage rates are seen in both rural areas and big cities, because the costs of marriage and child-rearing are rising in both underdeveloped and developed areas, says expert Beijing: The number of marriages in China last year dropped to a 36-year low, accentuating the world’s second largest economy’s demographic crisis as experts say this will add to the declining …

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2 years, 11 months ago

China’s birth rate drops to record low

Al Jazeera

Latest data comes as government implores people to have more childnen after decades of doing the opposite. Mainland China’s birth rate dropped to a record low of 7.52 per 1,000 people in 2021, National Bureau of Statistics data showed on Monday, accelerating a downward trend that led Beijing last year to begin allowing couples to have up to three children. …

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3 years, 1 month ago

Anaemia and malnutrition: A vicious cycle leading to child growth failure

India Today

India has a history of neglect in breaking the intergenerational cycle of malnutrition. In India, every third child is under-weight or stunted and 19.3 per cent children are wasted, according to 2019-21 National Family Health Survey-5 data. However, malnutrition trends across states/UTs are alarming, with thirteen states showing a rise in stunting in children under five - the highest being …

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3 years, 8 months ago

EXPLAINER: The law and science behind the CDC’s eviction ban

Associated Press

When the U.S. government enacted a ban on evictions, it did so through an unlikely agency: the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Larry Gostin, a public health law expert at Georgetown University, said he believes the CDC has the legal authority to stop evictions, but acknowledges: “This is definitely a stretch because the Public Health Service Act doesn’t specifically …

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4 years, 2 months ago

Over 1 Lakh Infants Died Due to Air Pollution in India in 2019, Global Study Reveals

News 18

The first-ever comprehensive analysis of air pollution’s global impact on newborns finds that outdoor and household particulate matter pollution contributed to the deaths of more than 1,16,000 Indian infants in their first month of life in 2019, a new global study on Wednesday. Long-term exposure to outdoor and household air pollution contributed to over 1.67 million annual deaths from stroke, …

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5 years ago

Japan’s birth rate hits another record low in 2019

CNN

CNN — Japan’s demographic crisis is getting worse, as the fast-graying nation experienced its biggest natural population decline and a record-low birth rate this year, government statistics show. In 2018, the country’s total fertility rate fell to its lowest since records began. This record low puts South Korea near the bottom of lowest fertility rates in the world – even …

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