Home Birth: It’s not even an option in some parts of the UK - Up to 76 per cent of pregnant women in some regions of the UK are not even being given the option of a home birth, and a similar proportion is not off...

Struck off for home birth - Just under a year ago, our GP struck us off. The reasons given were the usual ones about the breakdown of patient doctor relationship. ...

Children who avoid modern medicine are healthier - Children who eschew many of the staples of modern medicine, such as vaccines and antibiotics, are less likely to develop atopic allergies, according t...

Giving birth: why home could be best - Expectant women who can t decide between a home delivery and a hospital birth will be helped by a study that has reviewed the practices at seven mater...

Something in the water - How close are we to compulsory fluoridation in Britain? In July 1997, a regional UK health authority was given High Court permission to launch a judi...

Scans linked to baby deaths - Routine ultrasound screening of pregnant women does nothing to reduce the number of perinatal deaths, or improve pregnancy management or outcome, acco...

Safe and sound - Everywhere in the world, whenever a pregnant woman mentions home birth in front of her doctor, the most common reaction is, "It is a return to the pas...

Water birth jump right in for a safer delivery - Doctors' long held view that birth in water was dangerous for the baby has taken a knock in a new British study. ...