Female Infants

Delhi's sex ratio at birth has increased from 920 females per thousand males in 2019 to 933 in 2020, and the infant mortality rate declined from 24.19 to 20.37 percent during the same period, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said citing a city go

A footprint of an extinct species of straight-tusked elephants that were wiped out in the last ice age has been discovered in Spain.

A senior police official said the woman, in contrast to the general narrative on female infanticide, has revealed that she killed her son because she wanted a girl child.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has asked state officials to prepare an action plan to reduce the infant, child and maternal mortality rate in the state. He also stressed on taking steps to check female foeticide.

Female infants have larger volumes of grey matter around the temporal-parietal junction of the brain than males at the time of birth, a new study has found.

The dead body of a ten-day-old female infant was found in a gunny bag at a village near Thalawady in the Tamil Nadu's Erode district, police said today.

India plans to register all pregnancies to help curb widespread female feticide and reduce its high infant death rate.

In India, female infants are more likely than male infants to die of easily treatable conditions, according to a recent report.

Among the low birth weight infants including those born prematurely, females apparently are better able to "catch up" in size with their normal birthweight peers by age 20 according to researchers. A similar burst of growth in young adolescents does not seem to occur as often among boys born prematurely.

Delhi's sex ratio at birth has increased from 920 females per thousand males in 2019 to 933 in 2020, and the infant mortality rate declined from 24.19 to 20.37 percent during the same period, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said citing a city go

A footprint of an extinct species of straight-tusked elephants that were wiped out in the last ice age has been discovered in Spain.

A senior police official said the woman, in contrast to the general narrative on female infanticide, has revealed that she killed her son because she wanted a girl child.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has asked state officials to prepare an action plan to reduce the infant, child and maternal mortality rate in the state. He also stressed on taking steps to check female foeticide.

Female infants have larger volumes of grey matter around the temporal-parietal junction of the brain than males at the time of birth, a new study has found.

The dead body of a ten-day-old female infant was found in a gunny bag at a village near Thalawady in the Tamil Nadu's Erode district, police said today.

India plans to register all pregnancies to help curb widespread female feticide and reduce its high infant death rate.

In India, female infants are more likely than male infants to die of easily treatable conditions, according to a recent report.

Among the low birth weight infants including those born prematurely, females apparently are better able to "catch up" in size with their normal birthweight peers by age 20 according to researchers. A similar burst of growth in young adolescents does not seem to occur as often among boys born prematurely.