7 January 2013

More help needed to improve smoking cessation services for pregnant women with mental disorders

[caption id="" align="alignright" width="400" caption="© Igor Korionov – Fotolia.com"][/caption]Pregnant women with mental health disorders are facing too many barriers to...

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7 January 2013

Big rise in the number of women seeking cosmetic genital surgery

A leading London gynaecologist has reported seeing a significant rise over the last three years in the numbers of women...

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7 January 2013

Better quality of life in breast cancer patients is associated with healthier lifestyle choices

[caption id="" align="alignright" width="350" caption="© Fotolia.com – Forgiss"][/caption]One of the abstracts at the European Organisation for Research and Treatment of...

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7 January 2013

Comedian Rufus Hound helps raise awareness of Congenital Cytomegalovirus (CMV) affecting newborn babies

Rufus Hound delighted supporters of a charity campaigning to raise awareness of a little-known condition, Congenital Cytomegalovirus (CMV), when he...

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7 January 2013

Pregnant women urged to take vitamin B12

[caption id="" align="alignright" width="400" caption="© tan4ikk – Fotolia.com"][/caption]Pioneers of vitamin D and B12 sub-lingual spray supplementation have welcomed research which...

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7 January 2013

Study shows young women with breast cancer have more reproductive concerns and all should be offered fertility preservation counselling

New data presented at the recent European Organisation for Treatment and Research in Cancer (EORTC) 3rd International Quality of Life...

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7 January 2013

Non-infected babies born to HIV mothers have reduced immunity to measles

Non-infected babies born to HIV-positive mothers should be vaccinated early against measles, to avoid them acquiring the virus or passing...

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7 January 2013

Best-available science will allow just five percent relative reduction in high-income countries’ preterm birth rates by 2015

[caption id="" align="alignright" width="400" caption="© GreggCerenzio – Fotolia.com"][/caption]New research, published in The Lancet ahead of World Prematurity Day, has found...

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