Tag Archives: babies
Why scarlet fever is making a comeback
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/health-fitness/body/scarlet-fever-victorian-diseases-returning-uk/ Antibiotics halted its spread last century, but now the disease is back with a vengeance. Lois Rogers looks at what’s causing the spike When Sarah Allen took her sickly, feverish toddler to the doctor, his red rash, high temperature and strangely coated tongue were dismissed as a virus that happened to coincide with a […]
Doctors errors help jail parents
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/doctors-errors-help-jail-eds-parents-3f8zrdnwc Parents who have been jailed, or had their children taken away, might be the innocent victims of doctors failing to diagnose a little-known medical condition that causes joints to dislocate easily and abnormal bleeding and bruising. A lawyer who successfully campaigned for the release of mothers wrongly imprisoned for murdering their babies, including the […]
The women left unable to sit down for years after; having a baby
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-4125720/The-woman-unable-sit-YEARS-giving-birth.html For years after the birth of her daughter in 2003, Debra Shaw regarded the prospect of any sort of treat — a foreign holiday, a trip to the cinema, or a meal in a restaurant — with total dismay. For she couldn’t sit down because of agonising pain radiating from her coccyx, the bony […]
Can BILL GATES find a cure for the Zika virus?
The world’s richest man has founded a £14.5 million programme to tackle the problem through special mosquitos Recently two UK tourists in Florida were reported to have contracted Zika But help is on the way… researchers have found a new approach to the jab Bill Gates reveals his plans in an exclusive interview with Good […]
Cell breakthrough to bring two-dad babies
The Sunday Times 22 February 2015 SCIENTISTS have shown for the first time that it is possible to make human egg and sperm cells using skin from two adults of the same sex. The breakthrough raises the prospect of the first fully “manufactured” baby made in a laboratory dish from the skin cells of two […]
Brains of new dads rewired to play mummy
The Sunday Times 21 December 2014 Abu Amin, with wife Henriette and baby Noa, says fatherhood can have a double-edged effect (Akira Suemori) MODERN man can mother a child as well as any woman, new research suggests. The first project to study brain activity in new fathers shows that men develop extra mental connections just […]
Parents want end to ban on testing of newborns for fatal diseases
The Sunday Times 27 April 2014 HEALTH officials will be urged this week to lift a ban on the testing of newborn babies for fatal diseases. A report to be presented to the National Screening Committee (NSC) on Wednesday says parents should be told about children’s disabilities as soon as possible to allow the babies […]
Weedkiller linked to birth defects
The Sunday Times Published: 29 April 2012 Lois Rogers A GROUP of British women whose children were born with the same birth defect believe it may be linked to a banned weedkiller which is the subject of a multi-million dollar lawsuit in America championed by Erin Brockovich. At least nine babies born to mothers living within a […]