By Nick Triggle BBC News health reporter Doctors and the government are in talks over how to fund the jabChildren’s lives will be put at risk because a vaccine for a potentially lethal disease is not being introduced this summer, campaigners have said. Doctors and ministers have not agreed how to fund the [...]
Some cancer sufferers prefer it to chemotherapyChildren suffering from brain tumours are being given Thalidomide, the morning sickness drug that caused birth defects in 10,000 babies 50 years ago. Doctors say they have only given it to children under strict controls, and if all conventional treatments fail. Thalidomide was withdrawn in 1961 after [...]
Cystic fibrosis causes respiratory problemsThe overwhelming majority of parents whose children have cystic fibrosis want gene therapy trials to go ahead, bypassing normal research guidelines. Great Ormond Street Hospital scientists hope to test gene therapy on children. But, in a Journal of Medical Ethics paper, they suggest ethical worries about testing on children [...]
“Too many” babies are still being born by caesarean sectionThe number of women having Caesarean sections has not fallen, despite experts calling for rate to be cut. Figures for 2004/05 show one in four women still deliver by Caesarean – the rate has doubled in two decades. The Royal College of Midwives warns [...]
Okay here’s another one I’m stuck on! I know that a braxton is a tightening of whatever, however I don’t notice tightenings any more, My bump goes solid and stays that wayfor most of the evening, and the only tightenings I feel is a build up of presure low down as if baby is trying [...]
Embryos may be placed in a vulnerable positionIVF may increase the risk of a potentially dangerous complication of pregnancy, Norwegian research suggests. Placenta praevia is a condition in which the placenta covers part or all of the cervix, blocking a baby’s passage into the birth canal. Researchers calculated the risk rose from about [...]
Sorry its early, but something has just cropped up that I need to deal with…. Well, the entries are in and the winner drawn so who is it? Well, to prolong the agony a bit, the question was What is the full name of the colour of Ellas T-shirt, and how much does [...]
Pyjamas found at the scene are clues to finding the motherA newborn girl whose body was found in a Warwickshire river had suffered several injuries including a fractured skull and collarbone, police have said. The baby’s body was found in Aston Cantlow near Stratford-upon-Avon on 11 May by a family walking along a [...]
Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome (HLHS) My daughter Krystall was diagnosed with Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome (HLHS) at my 20 week scan. Hypoplastic left heart syndrome is a complex and life limiting Congenital Heart Defect. Meaning the child is born with the condition. The left side of the heart, valves, arteries, etc do not grow correctly [...]
If any of your LOs got a rash with the MMR jab, can you tell me how long it lasts? Ellie started with a rash last night – it is on her belly and chest and her cheeks and forehead – I assume it is the measles rash, it does disappear under pressure so I’m [...]