“Autumn babies were three times as likely to have an allergy to milk and eggs as summer babies,” according to The Daily Telegraph. Researchers believe the variation is due to the foetus’s exposure to pollen at a critical time in pregnancy...
The hormone leptin, that is known to be involved in letting us know when we have had enough to eat, has also been identified as being involved in regulating the
"Yoga could help asthma sufferers, research finds," reports The Independent. A major review of existing data found there is "moderate-quality evidence" that yoga improves both symptoms and reported quality of life in people with asthma…
Those of us concerned that we may not be looking as young as we used to have received an early Christmas present according to various news outlets. The Mail Online tells us that...
The Daily Mail has today reported that scientists have identified “a mutant gene that almost trebles the chances of a child being hyperactive”. The newspaper says that the discovery paves the...
News article about a case-control study looking at women with pulmonary embolism more common in obese women and those who had multiple births
News article about mammogram versus magnetic resonance imaging in ductal carcinoma in situ breast cancer screening
"Antibiotics linked to eczema risk in children," The Daily Telegraph reports, saying that giving babies the drugs increases their chance of developing the condition by 40%. However, concerned parents should not be put off...
Behind the headlines article on news coverage of reseach on early nutrition and brain development in babies.