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Women who have postnatal depression and women who have suffered a miscarriage, stillbirth or the death of a baby will get more support from the NHS, Health Secretary Andrew Lansley has pledged today. The government has also pledged to improve materni...
Posted: 16/05/2012> Read More
Commenting on Secretary of State for Health, Andrew Lansley’s announcement on maternity services and postnatal depression today, Cathy Warwick, chief executive of the Royal College of Midwives (RCM), said: “This is very good news for women and midwiv...
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Emotional distress and a long wait for results are the most common reasons why parents choose not to have a post-mortem following a stillbirth finds a new study published today in BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology.
In th...
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Presents the main findings from a study of 314 pairs of twins that aimed to determined levels of testosterone in male infants. Reports that the researchers, from the University of Montreal, found that testosterone levels in infancy are governed by th...
Posted: 15/05/2012> Read More
Suggests that IVF clinics in the UK are compromising patient safety by using unnecessary procedures, administering high doses of powerful drugs and employing risky interventions, with couples spending thousands of pounds in an effort to conceive. Rep...
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Summarises a report of an American study (1) by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), which found that in the last thirty days 21.8% of pregnant white women aged 15-44 years smoked cigarettes, compared with 14.2% of ...
Posted: 14/05/2012> Read More
Describes the work of 'Saying Goodbye', an organisation to help families cope with the pain of miscarriage and stillbirth, and to find closure through the acknowledgement of the loss of their children. Explains that the organisation was founded by Z...
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Reports that a government scheme to distribute £100 vouchers for parenting classes through Boots the chemists, is to be piloted in three areas of England. Parents will be able to use the vouchers to purchase classes from independent organisations, su...
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Reacting to the report in the BMJ study that adds to the evidence on clot risks of non-oral contraceptives, in a joint statement, the sexual health charities Brook and FPA said:
"Women of all ages using the contraceptive patch or vaginal ring shou...
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A quarter of women say they did not have a midwife with them in labour or when they needed them according to a new survey from the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) and Bounty.
The survey of over 1600 women who had recently had a baby also showed th...
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