Alcohol use during pregnancy is “prevalent and socially pervasive” in the UK and Ireland, health experts have warned after carrying out a large scale study. Women across all socio-demographic groups
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There is a link between newer contraceptive pills and a higher risk of serious blood clots, according to a new study. Nottingham University researchers, who describe the results published in
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Women in the UK are more than twice as likely to die in pregnancy and childbirth as those in Poland, Austria or Belarus, according to a charity. Save the Children’s
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A new test for Down’s syndrome has been described as a “major turning point in antenatal screening” that would also be far cheaper than the current NHS screening programme. All
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Edinburgh has become the first city in the world to offer the family nurse partnership programme to all eligible women after First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced that the service is
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The UK has become the first country in the world to legalise the creation of IVF babies using DNA from three people. The first baby conceived after mitochondrial donation techniques
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Women trying to conceive and those in the first three months of pregnancy are advised not to drink any alcohol at all under new updated advice from the Royal College
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Suggestions that Britain will allow “genetic modification” by permitting the creation of IVF babies with DNA from three different people, have been dismissed by the Public Health Minister. Mitochondrial donation
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Nearly a quarter of girls leaving care become teenage mothers – around three times the national average, according to a new report by a leading think-tank. The 22 per cent
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Women at risk of mental health problems should receive more support at every stage of pregnancy, healthcare professionals are to be told. Doctors, nurses, health visitors and midwives will be
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