What Doctors Don't Tell YouDr Warner uses a vitamin formula, which has been formulated based upon the findings of Dr Turkel and such notable nutritional biochemists as Jeff Bland. It contains vitamin C, l-glutamine (to help ...
Most of us who have delayed childbearing live with the spectre of Down's Syndrome and many congenital deformities automatically increasing with our advancing age, particularly for first birth. In ...
Another flaw in the triple test for pregnant women seems to have been uncovered - it doesn't work too well on Asian women. The test is designed to detect Down's syndrome in the unborn fetus, and comprises ultrasound, serum screening and...
There is nothing worse than a child born with Down's syndrome. Or so medicine teaches us. ... ...
A reader's 27-month old son is suffering from some learning difficulties, following a serious iron deficiency in his earlier months. What can she do to help him? The first step is to throw all negative comments from doctors out the window, says one...
Two leading London consultant obstetricians deplored the use of chorion villus sampling the new, earlier screening test for Down's syndrome on older women of no increased genetic risk. ... ...
Despite medicine's attempts to protect mothers from having Down's babies, the incidence of the condition is going up. It could either be because the tests usually amniocentesis or alpha fetoprote ...
New data gleaned from a 12 year inquiry into the practices at two "centres of excellence" in the UK showed that children with Down's syndrome were given a lower priority for treatment, and that th ...
To reassure women that their babies are healthy, medicine has come up with a battery of tests that look for fetal abnormalities. Some, like amniocentesis, are invasive tests that carry risks for the baby.
