Malnutrition is an imbalance between the growth and breakdown of body tissues and nutrient stores, resulting in loss of muscle and organ mass, diminished physical and mental functioning, and impaired ...

Malnutrition affects babies much earlier than thought, and more nutritional support is needed for mothers-to-be and their newborns to prevent disease, impaired cognition and death, according to new ...

The death of Russian influencer Zhanna D'Art who promoted raw foods on social media was allegedly due to starvation. D'Art, full name Zhanna Samsonova, regularly posted to Instagram about her ...

People 85 and up are disproportionately affected by malnutrition that can lead to death, a new study finds. The report showed that malnutrition in people over 65 fell between 1999 and 2006, plateaued ...

Primary care clinicians are not screening older adults for malnutrition, largely due to an overreliance on outdated diagnostic measures like body mass index (BMI), according to a new study presented ...

CAIRO (AP) — Thirteen children died of malnutrition-related causes last month in a camp for displaced people in the Darfur region of Sudan, where civil war has created the world’s worst humanitarian ...

Why Gaza’s young are especially vulnerable. By Pablo Robles, Stephanie Nolen and Aaron Boxerman When children are deprived of sufficient food, a cascade of health failures can quickly follow. Critical ...

GENEVA, March 26 (Reuters) - Programmes to help prevent malnourishment in children in Yemen, Afghanistan and Syria could be suspended within months if urgent funding is not found, the U.N.'s World ...

As President Trump suspends a large share of foreign aid, the winner of my annual win-a-trip contest is reflecting on her reporting with me in Africa. The winner, Trisha Mukherjee, has written guest ...

The month-old Staten Island newborn who died of malnutrition didn’t have any food in his stomach — nor did he have a name — as his parents rushed him to get emergency medical care, police sources said ...

Malnutrition affects babies much earlier than thought, and more nutritional support is needed for mothers-to-be and their newborns to prevent disease, impaired cognition and death, according to new ...