It's Breastfeeding Awareness Week in Britain, as if we should need reminding that breast is best for baby. The statistics suggest we do. At birth, 69 per cent of babies born in the UK are being breastfed, but this drops to just 55 per cent after one...
Another puzzling aspect of pre-eclampsia is the role of the father. Pre-eclampsia is more common in first pregnancies. One study showed that as long as the woman stays with the same partner, rates ...
Q:When did research first point out the dangers of x-rays during pregnancy and links with leukemia? ...
Coffee drinking can damage your baby even before you get pregnant, according to a Canadian study (JAMA, 22-29 December 1993). ...
New findings support the belief that ultrasound has the capacity to damage unborn babies (BMJ, 17 July 1993). ...
Taking folic acid (one of the B vitamins) can protect you from producing a baby with spina bifida. ...
Doctors aren't great at reading drug information sheets, and their patients aren't much better either. That's why pregnant women are prescribed drugs that are wholly inappropriate for their condition, and that's why they take them, too.
Researchers
Angiotensin II-receptor blockers are called ‘safe’ drugs - safer than ACE inhibitors. Notably, they don’t cause persistent coughing, a very common side-effect of the ACE drugs
Pregnant women who use standard shampoo could be harming their unborn babies. Scientists have found that the chemical MIT (methylisothiazolinone), found in many popular shampoo brands, can affect the development of nerve cells. The researchers, from...
Regular cervical examinations of pregnant women is useless in detecting a premature birth, despite recommendations from US and French health experts that they can help. ...
What Doctors Don't Tell You