Premature babies don't need blood - Premature babies are at great risk of suffering brain injury, so they are routinely given transfusions as a preventative. But new research has discove...

Cox-2 inhibitors - The COX (cyclooxygenase)-2 inhibitors, also known as ‘selective non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs’ (NSAIDs), have long been touted as being safer...

The importance of marine fatty acids - A link between low dietary consumption of marine oils and pre-eclampsia (and thus low birth weight babies) has been inferred by comparing the relativ...

Lung disease - Q my dad has just been diagnosed with silicosis as a result of working in tunnels for 10-15 years. - He experiences shortness of breath, lack of energy and sleeplessness. His lungs recently filled with nearly two litres of fluid that had to be drained...

Let there not be light - Each year, thousands of premature babies in intensive care nurseries lose their sight to retinopathy of prematurity (ROP), an eye disease which damage...

Cholesterol drug no better than placebo-specialist - Pravastatin, the cholesterol lowering drug, is no better than placebo, a leading heart specialist has concluded. For every case of heart attack the d...

Low-iron mums: bigger babies - Perhaps Mother Nature got it right after all. It seems pregnant women are supposed to become anemic in order to give birth to large, healthy babies. ....

Doctors figure out when the healthiest babies conceived - Women who wait between 18 and 23 months before conceiving again after giving birth are most likely to have a healthy baby.