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How rip-off holiday firms DOUBLE prices during half-term (Daily Mail)
Families have always known that a trip away costs more during the school holidays than in term time. Restricted by school dates, parents are effectively held to ransom by the travel industry. But now research has shown exactly how much of a premium they pay (read full article)
Source: Yahoo! News 17/05/08 02:29:43
City worker claimed she earned half as much as colleagues at Korean bank - because she wasn't Korean (Daily Mail)
A city worker is demanding £400,000 compensation from a bank because she says she was victimised for not being Korean. Christine Jones claims she was treated like a second-class citizen while working at Woori Investment and Securities International - the UK arm of Korea's second largest investment bank (read full article)
Source: Yahoo! News 16/05/08 16:15:13
YOU ARE HERE: (Aidsmap)
Clinical studies have found that various antiretroviral drug regimens taken during pregnancy in combination with the type of delivery, plus avoidance of breastfeeding can reduce mother-to-child transmission. Different strategies are recommended depending on the status of the mother's HIV infection. (read full article)
Source: Yahoo! News 16/05/08 13:49:03
Flexible working expert Sarah Jackson on the new working rules (Daily Mirror)
The prime Minister gave 4.5 million parents something to smile about yesterday by announcing changes in the flexible working rules. (read full article)
Source: Yahoo! News 16/05/08 09:11:15
Can money buy you love? Why Kate Spicer wants to adopt at 38 (Evening Standard)
While working on a story in Rio, my local guide is walking me back to my hotel. One of the perks of being a 38-year-old freelance journalist is that I get the interesting foreign stories that the mums in my career peer group must turn down. (read full article)
Source: Yahoo! News 15/05/08 17:40:01
Fostering: This year, we must search further than ever for the next generation of carers, says Robert Tapsfield (Independent)
This year is the 60th anniversary of the 1948 Children Act, a landmark in the history of foster care. The law strengthened the role of local authorities in looking after vulnerable children, and removed once and for all the idea of fostering as a charitable act of "rescuing" children from poverty. (read full article)
Source: Yahoo! News 15/05/08 11:21:51
Baby-bottle chemicals 'could make children obese for life', say scientists (Daily Mail)
Chemicals found in baby bottles and other everyday products could be condemning children to a lifetime of obesity, experts have warned. Three studies suggest that exposure early in life to 'gender-bending' chemicals widely used in plastics, non-stick pans and water pipes can lead to fatness in adulthood (read full article)
Source: Yahoo! News 15/05/08 08:31:08
Baby-bottle chemicals 'could make children obese for life', say scientists (Evening Standard)
Chemicals found in baby bottles and other everyday products could be condemning children to a lifetime of obesity, experts have warned. (read full article)
Source: Yahoo! News 14/05/08 21:27:20
More dads staying home to be ‘Mr Mam’ (icWales)
Ten years ago they were as rare as hen’s teeth. Today, go to any local playgroup across Wales and you’ll find at least one stay-at-home dad, playing happily with his kids before heading off to do the shopping and a spot of housework. Sarah Manners looks at what’s going on behind this social revolution (read full article)
Source: Yahoo! News 14/05/08 07:34:10
UK & World News: Tories slam 'Shameless' parenting (icNewcastle - Sunday Sun)
"Shameless"-style parenting is becoming the norm in many parts of Britain, Conservatives will warn. (read full article)
Source: Yahoo! News 14/05/08 02:04:19
Generation 'born to shameless parents' who take lessons from layabout TV character Frank Gallagher (Daily Mail)
Parents are taking a feckless, layabout TV character as a role model for raising their children, Conservatives will warn today. Too many mothers and fathers do not know what good parenting is and follow the example of Frank Gallagher, the father in Channel 4's dark comedy Shameless, Chris Grayling will say (read full article)
Source: Yahoo! News 14/05/08 02:00:17
Tories target Shameless parents who take lessons from layabout TV character Frank Gallagher (Daily Mail)
Parents are taking a feckless, layabout TV character as a role model for raising their children, Conservatives will warn today. Too many mothers and fathers do not know what good parenting is and follow the example of Frank Gallagher, the father in Channel 4's dark comedy Shameless, Chris Grayling will say (read full article)
Source: Yahoo! News 14/05/08 02:00:17
Letters: The same old Tory game (Independent)
Sir: Johann Hari gets it right so often it is scary ("Cameron a progressive? I don't think so", 12 May). David Cameron's focus on social justice is the same Conservative prescription as always, based on two types of poor. (read full article)
Source: Yahoo! News 14/05/08 00:14:34
Department Of Health Launches Campaign To Address Inequalities In Breastfeeding - National Breastfeeding Awareness ... (Medical News Today)
This National Breastfeeding Awareness Week (NBAW) the Department of Health is encouraging young mothers from low-income backgrounds to access support that will help them to breastfeed for longer. Breastfeeding is a major public health issue in today's society with significant inequalities in infant feeding practices. (read full article)
Source: Yahoo! News 13/05/08 09:09:22
Charity's warning on breastfeeding (Channel 4)
Premature and ill babies are missing out because their mothers are not given the support they need to breastfeed, a charity warned. (read full article)
Source: Yahoo! News 13/05/08 01:44:07
Breastfeeding 'can cut RA risk' (Channel 4)
Women can cut their chance of rheumatoid arthritis in half by breastfeeding their children for more than a year, research suggested. Experts found that breastfeeding offered women protection against the disease, reducing their risk by as much as 54%. (read full article)
Source: Yahoo! News 13/05/08 01:43:47
Breastfeeding 'may cut arthritis' (BBC News)
Breastfeeding can help women cut their chance of developing rheumatoid arthritis by half, research suggests. (read full article)
Source: Yahoo! News 13/05/08 00:34:20
Moebius syndrome: The boy who will never smile (Independent)
Choosing a name for our second child was hard but we finally settled on the name Isaac, which we especially liked because it means "he laughs" in Hebrew, and every parent wants their child to be a smiley, happy person. Ironic that choice was to be – for Isaac will never smile, blink or even frown. (read full article)
Source: Yahoo! News 13/05/08 00:17:53
New DVD To Help Midwives Support Mums With Breastfeeding, UK (Medical News Today)
To mark the start of National Breastfeeding Awareness Week (11-17th May 2008), Best Beginnings, the UK child health charity and the Department of Health, NHS Health Scotland, Welsh Assembley Government and the Health promotion agencies in Northern Ireland are today launching a new breastfeeding DVD at the Royal College of Midwives Annual Conference. (read full article)
Source: Yahoo! News 12/05/08 10:08:31
Poverty 'linked to gender pay gap' (Channel 4)
Child poverty is linked to the gender pay gap and lack of job opportunities for women, according to previously unpublished statistics. (read full article)
Source: Yahoo! News 12/05/08 01:28:37
Nottingham tackles Asbo culture with early action (Independent)
It has been called the gun crime capital of the UK and has languished at the bottom of the education league tables, but now Nottingham is transforming its fortunes with a groundbreaking early intervention project to tackle Asbo culture. (read full article)
Source: Yahoo! News 12/05/08 00:16:04
Survey: Brown hits all-time low (Guardian Unlimited)
PM has suffered a devastating collapse in public standing, according to a new survey (read full article)
Source: Yahoo! News 11/05/08 00:42:51
Ethiopia: It costs $5 for a tea, $17 to save a child's life (Independent)
Jilaye Muluken's first son died of rabies at the age of seven; her second died after a fever at the age of two; her third was stillborn. The pain of losing her children so young, to disease so preventable, is not uncommon here in the village of Woreb, northern Ethiopia. (read full article)
Source: Yahoo! News 11/05/08 00:20:01
Call for vaccine opt-out penalty (BBC News)
Tough sanctions are being proposed for parents who refuse routine vaccinations, such as MMR. (read full article)
Source: Yahoo! News 11/05/08 00:19:05
Tough line call on UK vaccination (BBC News)
Children who have not received all their vaccinations should not be allowed to start school, a Labour MP suggests. (read full article)
Source: Yahoo! News 11/05/08 00:19:05
No jabs, no school, MP urges (BBC News)
Children who have not received all their vaccinations should not be allowed to start school, a Labour MP suggests. (read full article)
Source: Yahoo! News 11/05/08 00:19:05
Brown hits all-time low in shock new survey (Guardian Unlimited)
Gordon Brown has suffered a devastating collapse in his public standing, according to a new survey published in The Observer today (read full article)
Source: Yahoo! News 11/05/08 00:17:50
Little friend of a lifetime: The heartbreaking friendship between two tiny girls with cancer (Daily Mail)
Five-year-old Hannah couldn't face the agony of cancer treatment and losing her hair - until Molly, a fellow patient, gave her the will to fight (read full article)
Source: Yahoo! News 10/05/08 21:15:58
Teenage sex prosecution move has split opinion (The Herald)
It is intended as a common-sense move to save young teenagers who have consensual sex from being prosecuted. (read full article)
Source: Yahoo! News 10/05/08 02:35:30
Polly Toynbee: Women's right to abortion is a private matter (Guardian Unlimited)
Polly Toynbee: MPs must hold firm in the face of a mendacious, emotive and unscientific campaign to cut the time limit from 24 to 20 weeks (read full article)
Source: Yahoo! News 09/05/08 09:14:35
Cannes: The decline of the world’s leading film festival (Independent)
Flash back to Cannes 1996. The party for Danny Boyle's Trainspotting provides an excuse for hedonism on a scale excessive even by festival standards. In one hall, Leftfield are playing to a celebrity audience including Leonardo DiCaprio, Mick Jagger and Damon Albarn. (read full article)
Source: Yahoo! News 09/05/08 00:20:29
Save the independent midwife (Times Online)
I am a mother of three who managed, after a protracted fight with the NHS, to have a wonderful, inspiring, uplifting birth with a private independent midwife at home. I am not a nutter. (read full article)
Source: Yahoo! News 08/05/08 10:48:33
UK & World News: Stillbirth numbers unchanged (icNewcastle - Sunday Sun)
The number of stillbirths is still not declining, with obesity, social deprivation and a mother's age possibly contributing to the lack of progress, a report has said. (read full article)
Source: Yahoo! News 08/05/08 02:38:37
200 Million Children Don't Get Basic Healthcare, Report (Medical News Today)
A new report from leading world charity Save the Children shows that more than 200 million children under 5 don't have access to life saving healthcare such as pre-natal care, skilled help at birth, immunisations, and treatment for pneumonia and diarrhea. This is the first time such a report has shown the number of children worldwide that are missing out on basic health services. (read full article)
Source: Yahoo! News 07/05/08 18:08:53
Treatment 'slashes baby HIV risk' (BBC News)
Treatment can reduce the risk of mother-to-baby HIV transmission to almost zero, research finds. (read full article)
Source: Yahoo! News 07/05/08 01:00:40
Britain is 'becoming the abortion capital of the world' claims Tory MP (Evening Standard)
Britain is close to becoming "the abortion capital of the world" and it was time the UK adopted a more moderate approach to the issue, a Tory MP has said. (read full article)
Source: Yahoo! News 06/05/08 14:57:59
Most babies 'can avoid HIV' (Channel 4)
Almost all babies born to HIV mothers can be free from the disease if appropriate steps are taken, research suggests. The biggest study to date into rates of transmission between mothers and babies found 99% of babies were born uninfected if recommended interventions were followed during pregnancy. (read full article)
Source: Yahoo! News 06/05/08 14:23:11
MPs demand abortion limit is slashed back to 20 weeks in bid to save 2,500 babies every year (Evening Standard)
MPs will today begin a fight to cut the number of abortions by limiting a woman's right to have a termination for 'social reasons'. They claim that up to 2,500 lives a year would be saved if the upper limit for social abortions was reduced from the current-24 weeks to 20. (read full article)
Source: Yahoo! News 06/05/08 01:58:05
New abortion campaign to cut limit to 20 weeks: Fight to save 2,500 babies every year (Evening Standard)
MPs will today begin a fight to cut the number of abortions by limiting a woman's right to have a termination for 'social reasons'. They claim that up to 2,500 lives a year would be saved if the upper limit for social abortions was reduced from the current-24 weeks to 20. (read full article)
Source: Yahoo! News 06/05/08 00:43:25
20 cool things to do with the kids (Times Online)
Fed up with face-painting and trips to the park? Our correspondent finds new ways to hang out and have fun (read full article)
Source: Yahoo! News 03/05/08 21:20:03
At the cutting edge (Guardian Unlimited)
Life & style: We meet some of those whose lives were saved by the pioneering practitioners of the operating table (read full article)
Source: Yahoo! News 03/05/08 01:02:35
Pregnant staff at Bloomberg claim sexual prejudice (Independent)
At least 58 female employees at the financial news service Bloomberg are filing claims against the company after it was alleged they were sexually discriminated against after becoming pregnant. (read full article)
Source: Yahoo! News 03/05/08 00:13:25
Small firms lead in flexible working (Infomatics)
The UK's small and medium-sized businesses are embracing flexible working practices for parents in ever increasing numbers, according to new research. (read full article)
Source: Yahoo! News 02/05/08 12:01:39
Small firms lead in flexible working (vnunet.com)
Guy Dixon, vnunet.com , Friday 2 May 2008 at 11:19:00 But parents fear negative impact of upcoming government plans The UK's small and medium-sized businesses are embracing flexible working practices for parents in ever increasing numbers, according to new research.... > Read the full article (read full article)
Source: Yahoo! News 02/05/08 11:40:33
Aspirin may cut risk of common breast cancer type (Guardian Unlimited)
Cancer Research UK say it is 'too soon' to recommend using the drug on regular basis (read full article)
Source: Yahoo! News 01/05/08 00:29:52
'How I found out my husband is gay and why I begged him to stay' (Daily Mail)
To the outside world, Anne and Philip Davis seemed like any other middle-aged, middle-class couple. Home was a detached four-bedroom property in Kent (they'd downsized from a 'country pile' when their son, now 29, left home) and each had a successful career. But this picture of an almost idyllic Home Counties life belied a shameful secret - Philip, 61, confessed he was bisexual (read full article)
Source: Yahoo! News 30/04/08 23:19:21
The 10 most complained about ads of 2007 (BBC News)
The "Get unhooked" advert aimed at getting people to quit smoking was the most complained about advert last year. (read full article)
Source: Yahoo! News 30/04/08 02:44:51
www.kentonline.co.uk - your gateway to Kent (The Kent Messenger)
When it comes to leaving your infant with a professional nanny, some mothers could be forgiven for being a little nervous. (read full article)
Source: Yahoo! News 29/04/08 11:05:41
Breaking cancer news to the young (BBC News)
A new book is designed to help explain the impact of a mother's breast cancer diagnosis to her children. (read full article)
Source: Yahoo! News 28/04/08 12:17:45
'Early intervention' city starts (BBC News)
Nottingham is to be launched as the UK's first "early intervention" city to stop children drifting into crime. (read full article)
Source: Yahoo! News 28/04/08 06:06:54
UK & World News: PM backs poverty initiative (icNewcastle - Sunday Sun)
Intervening at an early stage in youngsters' lives is vital in helping children achieve their full potential, the Prime Minister is to tell a conference. (read full article)
Source: Yahoo! News 28/04/08 03:38:38
Pupils shun Jamie Oliver's healthy diet for junk food runs (Times Online)
Students are operating a black-market trade in food banned in schools, including burgers and chocolate, in a backlash against healthier canteen menus such as those espoused by the celebrity chef Jamie Oliver. (read full article)
Source: Yahoo! News 27/04/08 22:33:59
The posters that celebrate cool, multi-tasking breasts (Independent)
Breastfeeding is cool as well as healthy, according to the message behind an exhibition that opens in London this week. (read full article)
Source: Yahoo! News 27/04/08 00:32:19
'I could have slit my own throat but I didn't have the guts to do it' (Guardian Unlimited)
Life & style: Michelin-starred chef John Burton-Race is back in his old kitchen and trying to put his demons behind him (read full article)
Source: Yahoo! News 27/04/08 00:17:35
Birth of a revolution (Guardian Unlimited)
Life & style: The home birth rate is currently low, but campaigners are fighting to give women more choice (read full article)
Source: Yahoo! News 25/04/08 02:17:35
Birth of a revolution (Guardian Unlimited)
The home birth rate is currently low, but campaigners are fighting to give women more choice. Joanna Moorhead reports (read full article)
Source: Yahoo! News 25/04/08 00:30:06
John Hoyland: Blood on the canvas, by a modern master (Independent)
"I borrow anything from anything," says the artist John Hoyland. "I'll borrow from other people's work, nature, flowers – anything." In his latest exhibition, Greetings of Love, Hoyland borrows from a more unlikely source, perhaps: a photograph of blood-spatter on the floor of a hospital in Lebanon, accompanied by a piece, about the 33-day conflict in Lebanon and northern Israel in 2006, by ... (read full article)
Source: Yahoo! News 25/04/08 00:29:55
Midwives Concerned At New Diet And Baby Gender Research, UK (Medical News Today)
Louise Silverton, Deputy General Secretary of The Royal College of Midwives, said: "We do empathise with mothers who may want a baby of a particular sex. However, having a good diet before conception and during pregnancy can lay the foundations for a healthier life for the unborn child, and the mother. (read full article)
Source: Yahoo! News 24/04/08 11:11:31
It's a boy! The science of gender selection (Independent)
So it all comes down to the banana. The yellow fruit with the phallic shape – appropriate in this context – is the best dietary aid for intending mothers wanting a boy, according to research published yesterday. (read full article)
Source: Yahoo! News 24/04/08 00:18:42
Stem-cell treatment could reverse multiple sclerosis effects ‘within 15 years’ (Daily Mail)
The effects of multiple sclerosis could be reversed with stem-cell treatment within 15 years, a leading expert on the disease said today. Professor Charles ffrench-Constant, the director of a groundbreaking MS research centre in Edinburgh, said the treatment could be used to help patients suffering from the condition that weakens their body’s central nervous system (read full article)
Source: Yahoo! News 23/04/08 15:41:11
Study: 'You are what your mother eats' (ITN via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)
A study has linked what a woman eats around the time she conceives to the sex of her baby. (read full article)
Source: Yahoo! News 23/04/08 14:25:27
Baby's Gender Linked To Mother's Diet At Conception (Medical News Today)
New research from the UK suggests that a baby's sex is linked to his or her mother's diet around the time of conception and the finding may explain why fewer boys are born nowadays in the industrialized world, including the UK and the US. (read full article)
Source: Yahoo! News 23/04/08 12:11:31
Kira Cochrane on how women are discriminated at work because they are pregnant (Guardian Unlimited)
Since 1975, it has been illegal to ask a woman about her plans for children or childcare in a job interview. Yet when Alan Sugar grilled a mother about her childcare plans on TV, there was barely a squeak of protest. And now everybody's at it. Kira Cochrane reports (read full article)
Source: Yahoo! News 23/04/08 09:51:13
Study: 'You are what your mum eats' (ITV.com)
A study has linked what a woman eats around the time she conceives to the sex of her baby. Researchers claim to have uncovered the first direct evidence that food intake is linked to a baby's gender. (read full article)
Source: Yahoo! News 23/04/08 09:31:07
How the EU has wiped England and the English Channel off the map to create a 'United Europe' (Daily Mail)
The Tories have issued a St George's Day rallying cry against plans by Brussels to 'wipe England off the map' and create a United Europe. A revised European map used to allocate funding splits England into three and lumps those parts together with chunks of other countries to create 'transnational regions' (read full article)
Source: Yahoo! News 23/04/08 01:34:21
What's Madonna got to do with it? (Nature)
The interests of vulnerable children in institutional care are not well served by the latest bout of dodgy statistical reasoning, says Philip Ball. (read full article)
Source: Yahoo! News 22/04/08 16:02:56
Rescuers find helium balloons belonging to missing Brazilian priest floating in the sea (Daily Mail)
A Roman Catholic priest today remained missing in seas off Brazil after trying to break a record for flying with helium balloons. Adelir Antonio de Carli is thought to have been blown 30 miles offshore after lifting off on Sunday afternoon. Today rescuers reached a cluster of brightly coloured party balloons floating in the ocean off Brazil's coast but did not find the priest (read full article)
Source: Yahoo! News 22/04/08 14:02:08
Firm can market thalidomide in EU (Channel 4)
Thalidomide has been rehabilitated in Europe after drug regulators granted an American company a licence to market it. The European Commission ruled that the notorious drug, linked to appalling birth defects five decades ago, should be officially recognised as a treatment for blood cancer. (read full article)
Source: Yahoo! News 21/04/08 19:38:01
Last Word (Journal of Community Nursing)
The Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition has called for more support to help mothers prolong breastfeeding. Although 76 per cent of women start to breast feed their child, by six weeks the rates have fallen to 50 per cent and by six months only one in four are still breastfeeding. (read full article)
Source: Yahoo! News 21/04/08 12:51:29
Watchdog warns of 'race cold war' between ethnic groups due to failed immigration policy (Evening Standard)
The head of the race relations watchdog warned yesterday that the Government's "lack of control" over immigration risks inflaming tension. (read full article)
Source: Yahoo! News 21/04/08 08:43:46
Iain Duncan Smith: You Ask The Questions (Independent)
Do you wish you hadn't taken up the leadership when you did? (read full article)
Source: Yahoo! News 21/04/08 00:23:46
Policy Exchange: ‘£55 childcare for all mothers’ (Times Online)
All mothers should be entitled to a weekly payment of £55 to help to cover childcare costs, even if they do not go out to work, a think-tank close to David Cameron has recommended. (read full article)
Source: Yahoo! News 21/04/08 00:03:39
Watchdog warns of 'race cold war' between ethnic groups due to failed immigration policy (Daily Mail)
The head of the race relations watchdog warned yesterday that the Government's 'lack of control' over immigration risks inflaming tension. Trevor Phillips said young mothers were worried about classrooms in which teachers struggled to cope with children with 'too many languages' between them, while commuters faced public transport so packed that travelling to work is a daily 'hell' (read full article)
Source: Yahoo! News 20/04/08 18:34:21
Race watchdog warns of 'cold war' between ethnic groups due to failed immigration policy (Daily Mail)
The head of the race relations watchdog warned yesterday that the Government's 'lack of control' over immigration risks inflaming tension. Trevor Phillips said young mothers were worried about classrooms in which teachers struggled to cope with children with 'too many languages' between them, while commuters faced public transport so packed that travelling to work is a daily 'hell' (read full article)
Source: Yahoo! News 20/04/08 18:34:21
Doula qualification at college (Hampshire Chronicle)
A NEW qualification has been born at a Hampshire college for parental birthing partners known as doulas.' Eastleigh College now offers the first officially recognised national qualification for a doula who provides both physical and mental support to couples during childbirth. (read full article)
Source: Yahoo! News 20/04/08 02:38:37
Our 10 modern evils (Sunday Herald)
Drugs, crime, lack of respect, greed and inequality ... thousands of people cited these as social ills which blight Britain today. But not much has changed in the past 100 years. (read full article)
Source: Yahoo! News 19/04/08 21:34:04
Town where Madeleine McCann disappeared tries to forget (Guardian Unlimited)
Twelve months after the disappearance of Madeleine McCann few have emerged unscathed (read full article)
Source: Yahoo! News 19/04/08 11:57:30
Town where Madeleine McCann disappeared tries to forget (Guardian Unlimited)
Twelve months after the disappearance of Madeleine McCann few have emerged unscathed (read full article)
Source: Yahoo! News 19/04/08 00:20:11
Gordon Brown flies home to a hard landing over 10p tax rate (Times Online)
A defiant Gordon Brown will fly back to Britain today determined to face down a gathering storm of protest over his abolition of the 10p tax rate. (read full article)
Source: Yahoo! News 18/04/08 21:57:25
Riot fears absent ahead of Ikea sale (BBC News)
A slew of security measures are in place to avoid a painful scrum as the furniture store cuts prices to mark its 21st birthday in the UK. (read full article)
Source: Yahoo! News 18/04/08 19:15:20
Friday, 18 april 2008 (icWales)
No secrecy from the Arts Council of Wales (read full article)
Source: Yahoo! News 18/04/08 07:03:06
Mumsnet: Alan Johnson's Mumsnet.com webchat (The Labour Party)
Alan Johnson came to Mumsnet for a webchat on April 16th - this is an edited transcript of the session. (read full article)
Source: Yahoo! News 17/04/08 11:52:23
(AFX UK Focus) 2008-04-16 19:30 GMT: To fight e-cards, Hallmark launches recordable greeting card (Interactive Investor)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - AP Video (read full article)
Source: Yahoo! News 16/04/08 20:02:17
A top obstetrician on why men should NEVER be at the birth of their child (Daily Mail)
What father would dare boycott the labour ward? Yet here, in an article that will infuriate many, a doctor who has delivered thousands of babies himself says men should stay away (read full article)
Source: Yahoo! News 16/04/08 00:04:31
Inside the polygamist 'underage sex cult': Pictures show the grief of mothers who had their children taken away (Daily Mail)
Sobbing mothers from the polygamist sect at the centre of child abuse allegations said today that their children had now been taken away from them. Most of the 416 children rescued after a raid on April 3 were taken away from their mothers yesterday. Out of 139 mothers who left the secretive Texas ranch after the raid, only those with children aged four or younger have been allowed to stay with ... (read full article)
Source: Yahoo! News 15/04/08 15:49:32
Stopping Maternity Services From 'shutting Out' The Father (Medical News Today)
Today a 12-point action plan was published aimed at stopping maternity services throughout the United Kingdom from disadvantaging children from birth by shutting out their dads. (read full article)
Source: Yahoo! News 14/04/08 22:11:42
Infant Feeding And The Development Of Obesity (Medical News Today)
On Wednesday, April 9, 2008, a symposium at the American Society for Nutrition's annual meeting at Experimental Biology was held in which noted scientists discussed new infant feeding studies that used methodology such as randomized clinical trials (involving breastfeeding promotion) as well as sibling pairs analysis. (read full article)
Source: Yahoo! News 14/04/08 10:12:32
Think-Tank Urges Action To Give Newborns Better Start - Fathers Still 'Shut Out' From Birth Of Their Children, Report ... (Medical News Today)
A leading fatherhood think-tank launches a 12 point action plan over claims that maternity services across the UK are disadvantaging children from birth by 'shutting out' their fathers. The Fatherhood Institute report claims there is a mass of evidence proving the profound extra benefits to child and parents of the father's active and positive involvement from birth. (read full article)
Source: Yahoo! News 14/04/08 10:11:32
THE SUN (Anorak)
The FBI is America’s Federal Bureau of Investigation. Madeleine McCann is British child who went missing in Portugal. Says the McCanns’ spokesman Clarence Mitchell: “We believe Portuguese police have been found wanting. We are asking the British Government to call for such an inquiry. (read full article)
Source: Yahoo! News 14/04/08 06:13:27
Fathers are 'shut out of birth' (BBC News)
Maternity services are disadvantaging children from birth by "shutting out" fathers, a think tank warns. (read full article)
Source: Yahoo! News 14/04/08 01:00:54
Louise Carpenter meets author Jacqueline Walker (Guardian Unlimited)
When Jacqueline Walker was 11, she saw her mother die after years of poverty, racism and mental illness. But behind her struggle was a tragic story about one woman's battle with the social services and how they treated her 'problem family' (read full article)
Source: Yahoo! News 13/04/08 00:21:09
What can Scotland do to improve its health for future generations? (Sunday Herald)
summit on health inequalities will take place tomorrow in Edinburgh, hosted by the Scottish government and attended by senior health officials from the UK, Europe, Canada, the US, Estonia and Finland. (read full article)
Source: Yahoo! News 12/04/08 22:34:04
Exploring Infant Feeding And The Development Of Obesity (Medical News Today)
A symposium at the American Society for Nutrition's annual meeting at Experimental Biology was held in which noted scientists discussed new infant feeding studies that used methodology such as randomized clinical trials (involving breastfeeding promotion) as well as sibling pairs analysis. (read full article)
Source: Yahoo! News 11/04/08 13:13:26
UK move worsens maternal habits (BBC News)
Immigrants are more likely to smoke or drink in pregnancy the longer they have lived in the UK, researchers find. (read full article)
Source: Yahoo! News 11/04/08 10:31:00
How migrant mothers pick up bad health habits from native Britons (Evening Standard)
Women migrants tend to pick up unhealthy habits from native Britons, according to a study published today. (read full article)
Source: Yahoo! News 11/04/08 01:43:56
Women Who Move To The UK Pick Up Poor Maternal Behaviors (Medical News Today)
A study published online at bmj.comreports that the maternal health behaviors of women worsen afterimmigrating to the UK. Ethnic minority women who stay in the UK forlonger durations are more likely to smoke during pregnancy and give upbreastfeeding early. (read full article)
Source: Yahoo! News 11/04/08 01:11:31
Mothers detained in immigration centre hold 'naked' protest (Independent)
A group of mothers held in the Yarl's Wood immigration centre have staged protests over the extended detention of children. They argue that locking up minors is cruel and say being kept in close confinement has caused outbreaks of viruses. (read full article)
Source: Yahoo! News 11/04/08 00:29:27
The skin cell repair kit for heart attacks (Daily Mail)
Tiny pieces of skin could hold the key to healing the damage done by heart attacks. Scientists are trying to turn ordinary skin cells into ones with the chameleon-like powers of embryonic stem cells (read full article)
Source: Yahoo! News 10/04/08 08:07:01
Baby research centre for capital (BBC News)
A research centre aiming to tackle problems associated with obesity in pregnancy is to open. (read full article)
Source: Yahoo! News 10/04/08 02:22:08
Greenstock attacks lack of planning for war aftermath (Independent)
Two of the pivotal figures in the invasion of Iraq have launched outspoken attacks on the "woeful" lack of planning for the aftermath of the war. (read full article)
Source: Yahoo! News 10/04/08 00:11:11
