Behind the Headlines
Pregnancy/child
15 May 2012
“Overweight mothers-to-be could be condemning their unborn children to decades of ill health,” the Daily Mail reported.
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14 May 2012
“Women using a vaginal ring or skin patch for contraception are at around double the risk of a blood clot compared to those taking the Pill,” says the Daily Mail.
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21 Mar 2012
Scotland’s premature birth rate has fallen by 10% since the public smoking ban came into force in 2006, BBC News reported today.
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20 Mar 2012
“Babies born just a few weeks early have a higher risk of poor health,” The Guardian reported today. According to the newspaper, new research has found that being born just a few weeks early can raise their risk of conditions such as asthma.
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15 Dec 2011
Chronic fatigue syndrome could affect one in 100 pupils, BBC News reported. The Daily Telegraph said that this means the condition could be 10 times more common than previously thought.
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10 Aug 2011
BBC News has reported “a call for more maternity doctors” by a group of six UK obstetricians who said that most maternal deaths are now caused by treatable medical conditions. In a British Medical Journal...
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10 Aug 2011
“A video technique that may significantly boost a woman’s odds of having a baby could soon be available,” according to the Daily Mail. The news is based on research in mice that investigated...
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05 Aug 2011
“Fertility experts are hailing a mouse study in which working sperm cells were created from embryonic stem cells in mice as ‘hugely exciting’,” reports the BBC. Other news sources have suggested that these results...
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03 Aug 2011
“Bear bile could help prevent arrhythmia in heart attack sufferers,” reported the Daily Mail. This headline is based on a laboratory study investigating the effects of bile acid on the electrical signals of...
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02 Aug 2011
“Seven in 10 babies fed too much salt,” read the Daily Express headline. The newspaper’s report said that “giving babies cow’s milk is a risk because it contains nearly four times as much salt as...
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