“Women hoping to have a baby through fertility treatment can from today use an online calculator to show them how likely they are to succeed,” reported The Guardian.
Humans have a six-hour window “to erase memories of fear” BBC News has reported. The news service says that reliving a harrowing memory can trigger a brief period when the mental associations of a memory can be changed from...
“Alternative remedies can be dangerous for children and can even prove fatal,” the BBC reported. The story is based on a study that looked at adverse events associated with the use of complementary and alternative medicine...
Children born by caesarean section are more likely to have allergies, such as asthma, because they pick up less “natural immunity” from their mother, The Daily Telegraph reported.
“First-born children of older parents are more likely to be autistic,” warned The Daily Telegraph. It reported on a study that examined the medical records of 240,000
“Having children could slow down the progression of multiple sclerosis (MS),” The Independent reported. It said researchers have found that, compared to women with
Breast milk is better for babies than formula because it “kick starts their immune system”, The Daily Telegraph reported. This news story is from a small laboratory study...
‘Babies delivered by caesarean section at higher risk of asthma and allergies’, the Daily Mail reports. This rather bold claim is based on a tiny, genetic study. A link between caesareans...
"Obscure virus may be cause of unexplained infertility," The Independent reports. Italian researchers found copies of the HHV-6A virus – a type of herpes virus – in the womb lining of 43% of women with…