Singapore is seeing increased malnutrition among older adults, which increases the risk of falls and cognitive decline. Factors include ageing, chronic illnesses, social isolation, and poor diets, but ...

India's economic progress is overshadowed by a persistent malnutrition crisis, marked by high rates of stunting, wasting, and anaemia, especially among marginalized communities. Despite calorie ...

SINGAPORE: Several hospitals in Singapore have been seeing more cases of older adults at risk of malnutrition in the past two years, due to factors like multiple chronic illnesses and appetite changes ...

At Bangladesh Shishu Hospital in Agargaon, Dhaka, hundreds of anxious parents wait outside doctors’ chambers with their children. Among them is Halima Begum, cradling her six-month-old baby. “My child ...

I’m a global health reporter. When health workers screen small children for signs of malnutrition, they often collect a simple measurement with a tape measure. A typical 2-year-old has an upper arm ...

In the Al-Rantisi hospital in Gaza City, nine-year-old Maryam Dawas is wasting away. WARNING: This shows people suffering from malnutrition which you may find distressing Her malnutrition is so severe ...

Afghanistan is seeing its sharpest-ever surge of child malnutrition, the World Food Programme said Monday, adding it needed $539 million to help the country’s most vulnerable families. Almost 10 ...

The moment Merry Fitzpatrick realized that Gaza’s malnutrition crisis had progressed to a newer and deadlier phase was when surgeons at the few hospitals still operational on the Strip reported that ...

The boy made no sounds, recalls Dr. Ibrahim Alashi. Not a cry. Not even a whimper. Severe starvation had robbed him of even that, he says. "When I first saw him, I was shocked. His body was extremely ...

At least 652 children have died from malnutrition in the Nigerian state of Katsina in the first six months of 2025, according to Doctors Without Borders. The charity, known by its French initials MSF, ...