Pregnancy and child

Bullying may have worse long-term effects than child abuse

Pregnancy and child

"Bullied children are five times more at risk of anxiety than those maltreated," reports the Daily Mail. A study looking at both UK and US children found an association between childhood bullying and anxiety, depression and self-harm in adulthood…

Published date 21 August 2017

Swine flu drugs for the pregnant

Pregnancy and child

Research has shown that antiviral medicine like tamiflu should be given to pregnant women as soon as they contract the swine flu virus...

Published date 21 August 2017

Warning over 'souvenir' baby scans

Pregnancy and child

“Parents-to-be should weigh the possible risks of going for non-essential scans purely to get keepsake pictures of their unborn babies,” BBC News reported. It said

Published date 21 August 2017

Stress behind grey hairs say newspapers

Pregnancy and child

“When the going gets tough, the tufts get greying,” according to The Sun, which was among many newspapers that today reported that stress causes hair to go grey by damaging people’s DNA. The...

Published date 21 August 2017

Can music help premature infants sleep and feed?

Pregnancy and child

“Playing music to premature babies ‘helps them sleep and improves their breathing’,” is the headline in the Daily Mail about research into the effects of ‘music therapy’ on premature babies. While positive effects were found, it is still unclear…

Published date 21 August 2017

Mosquitoes 'getting around bed nets'

Pregnancy and child

The Daily Telegraph reported today that “insecticide-treated bed nets, whose use is being widely promoted in Africa to combat malaria, may be linked to local resurgence of the disease”. The newspaper said that a...

Published date 21 August 2017

Biological clock studied

Pregnancy and child

Several newspapers have reported that women will lose around 90% of their eggs by the age of 30. The Daily Telegraph says that by the age of 40 their reservoir of potential eggs will have further shrunk to “almost nothing”. These findings come from...

Published date 21 August 2017