Nearly 50 students fall ill after consuming iron tablets

Last Updated: Monday, September 16, 2013, 13:45

Nearly 50 students of a primary school in Ading village were taken ill after being given iron tablets under a newly-launched government scheme to combat anaemia.

Over 100 more fall ill in Haryana after consuming iron pills

Last Updated: Thursday, July 25, 2013, 23:59

Over 100 more children were taken ill in two districts of Haryana after they consumed iron and folic acid tablets being provided at government schools under a national scheme to combat anaemia.

Sourav Ganguly fulfils wish of 10-year-old boy

Last Updated: Saturday, June 30, 2012, 19:12

Former India skipper Sourav Ganguly on Saturday spent time with a 10-year-old boy from Dhanbad who is suffering from aplastic anaemia, a disorder in which the bone marrow fails to make enough blood cells.

Anaemia control programme in Haryana schools

Last Updated: Wednesday, June 27, 2012, 15:05

Under the programme, students -- both girls and boys -- of class VI to XII will be given Iron Folic Acid (IFA) tablets.

Andhra nutrition policy to prevent low birth weight infants

Last Updated: Wednesday, June 6, 2012, 13:07

The Women Development and Child Welfare Department in the state is working on a `Nutrition Policy` to address the issue.

Aus, India to jointly develop new strains of bananas

Last Updated: Friday, March 9, 2012, 15:11

Australia`s Queensland University of Technology has inked an agreement with India`s Department of Biotechnology for developing new strains of bananas that will help counter iron-deficiency anaemia in India.

Govt evolves programme to tackle anaemia

Last Updated: Friday, December 23, 2011, 16:52

To tackle the problem of anaemia, government will launch a programme under which the supplements will be provided to nearly 12 crore adolescents.

School students to be screened for sickle cell anaemia

Last Updated: Wednesday, April 6, 2011, 15:20

Chhattisgarh Wednesday said it would screen school students and their mothers for sickle cell anaemia in a bid to check the increasing incidence of the disease in the state.

Hospital says can`t treat boy suffering from aplastic anaemia

Last Updated: Friday, November 12, 2010, 16:07

Doctors at a government hospital have expressed inability to treat a 14-year-old Kanpur boy suffering from aplastic anaemia, whose parents had approached court seeking permission to sell off their kidneys to fund his treatment.