BACKGROUND: Malnutrition continues to be a primary cause of ill-health and morbidity in children. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: Thus the aim of the present study was designed to assess the nutritional status of school children of Ghaziabad aged 3-16 years. MATERIAL AND METHODS: A cross-sectional study was carried out amongst 558 school children aged 3-16 years in Ghaziabad city. Anthropometric variables age, height, weight and body mass index were recorded. Based on these parameters prevalence of underweight and stunting was calculated in comparison with NCHS standards RESULTS: showed that out of total 558 children, 292(52.3%) were underweight (180 boys and 112 girls) and 59(10.5%) were stunted (39 boys and 20 girls). CONCLUSION: There is specific need to look into the nutritional requirements of children by the Government sector in conjuction with education department.

In India, the issue of surrogacy has brought the entire field of assisted reproductive techniques under close scrutiny and debate. It has caused controversies as the state has interfered the process of surrogacy to make it ethically acceptable. Indian government acknowledged the Surrogacy (Regulation) Act, 2021, to protect women's reproductive rights. The Act aims to ban commercial surrogacy and promote altruistic surrogacy without any payment except for the surrogate mother's medical expenses and her insurance coverage. This Act is the object of the first analysis of this article; and second, it investigates how the Act affects prospective childless couples, willing single parents, and members of the LGBTQ community. Employing the interview method and neo‐institutional methodology, this article concludes that the Act made the surrogacy more complex as, in actuality, altruistic surrogacy is a myth because it would be difficult for intended couples to find a willing surrogate mother who will intend to give birth to a child at no cost. This will pave the way for under the table transaction. The Act made it illegal for foreign couples as well as intended Indian couples who already have a child and restricts the chances for the LGBTQ community and single parents.

The concept of 'psychogenic vertigo' also known otherwise as 'psychiatric dizziness' has always been considered as an unclear disorder that makes it both difficult to understand as well as to treat. Consequently in a number of cases it has been difficult to distinguish it from vertigo caused solely due to organic causes, to understand its phenomenology and thus plan an adequate intervention. The present case study reports a case of psychogenic vertigo where the aim was to have a multidimensional assessment of psychological and neuropsychological factors of the case. The neuropsychological test findings indicated difficulty in switching attention and set-shifting along with deficit in planning. Difficulty in both recall as well as in recognition was also noted, which suggested a problem with the encoding and consolidation process itself. Psychological test findings indicated features of introversion, difficulty in reality testing under stressful situations, somatic preoccupation, negative self-worth. Deficits in planning indicated dysexecution which also suggested the possibility of making the patient vulnerable to adverse life events which was evident in findings suggestive of adjustment problem and difficulty in maintaining close emotional ties. Test findings further indicated anxiety arising out of (conflicts between achievement versus inadequacy, succorance versus aggression; the defenses which were in use were rationalization, projection, distortion, and acting out.

Perhaps one of the best advantages that Mental Health Professionals get to enjoy is that they are considered as healers, whose primary aim is to alleviate emotional suffering; whether be it through medication or through psychotherapy or through both.

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