Morning sickness - The nausea and vomiting of pregnancy (NVP) - ‘morning sickness’ - is common in early pregnancy. Thought to affect 70-85 per cent of pregnant women (Co...

Morning sickness - What to do instead - * Try ginger (Zingiber officinale). Of 30 pregnant women with NVP, 70.4 per cent said they felt better when taking 250 mg of powdered ginger (Eur J Ob...

Our Drinking Water: It’s so toxic that it can cause birth defects - Our drinking water has become so toxic that pregnant women who drink it could give birth to a child with serious defects. A new study has discovered...

Antidepressant: Drug may cause birth defects - Women who take the antidepressant paroxetine (Paxil in the USA, and Seroxat in the UK) while they are pregnant could be putting their unborn baby at r...

Sperm treatments cause birth defects - Abnormalities in sperm which prevent men from making their wives pregnant may also be causing defects in the fetus, researchers are suggesting. ...

Pregnant women: - Another group being given dangerous drugs - The very young and pregnant women are two groups who should almost never be prescribed general pharmaceuticals. Trials have never been carried out to...

Pregnant women prescribed dangerous drugs - Women who are very young or pregnant are two population groups who should almost never be prescribed general pharmaceuticals. This is because trials h...

Vitamins: They can make you healthier (and grass may be green in a double-blind placebo study) - The understanding of nutrition plays a tiny part in a doctor’s education – in fact, it’s around one day out of a five-year programme – and so any stud...