18 July 2018

NMC puts patients and families at the heart of its work

The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) has today set out how it plans to implement and build on the recommendations...

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16 July 2018

Chief Medical Officer appointed for clinical trials of world’s first therapy targeting both PMDD and menstrual migraine

A small Swedish pharmaceutical company has taken another step towards being the first company in the world to launch a...

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13 July 2018

Worrisome vitamin D deficiencies in pregnant women

One in three pregnant women in Norway has a vitamin D deficiency at the end of her pregnancy, a major...

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11 July 2018

New standards launched to boost midwifery unit presence in Europe

Researchers at City, University of London have launched new midwifery standards in partnership with the Midwifery Unit Network (MUNet) to...

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9 July 2018

Only 7 percent of social egg freezers have returned for fertility treatment at Europe’s largest fertility centre

Despite a dramatic uptake in the numbers of women electing to freeze their eggs as insurance against an anticipated age-related...

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6 July 2018

More than 8 million babies born from IVF since the world’s first in 1978

Forty years after the birth of Louise Brown, the world's first test-tube baby, an international committee monitoring progress in assisted...

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4 July 2018

Pelvic floor problems and incontinence: autoprosthesis significantly improves quality-of-life

Due to their anatomical difference and also the particular stresses associated with pregnancy and childbirth, incontinence and pelvic floor problems...

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2 July 2018

New study reveals time and day women are most likely to give birth

A new study has found that the time and day that women give birth can vary significantly depending on how...

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