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Monday 15 March
Cervical cancer
- Mirror (14/03/10) Reading this could save your life
Cervical screening
- Yorkshire Star (14/03/10) 15,000 young women are overdue cervical screening
Cervical screening errors
- Daily Mail (14/03/10) Mother left infertile by NHS smear test error awarded more than £500,000
- Virgin Media/PA (13/03/10) Woman wins smear 'errors' payout
Cervical screening – home testing
- Belfast Telegraph (15/03/10) Don’t go online for smear tests, young women are warned
- Daily Mail (15/03/10) Warning against DIY smear tests which prevent women getting NHS treatment
- Google/PA (15/03/10) Warning over new DIY smear tests
- ITN (15/03/10) Diy smear test kit warning
- Metro (15/03/10) £115 DIY test for cervical cancer
- Mirror (15/03/10) DIY cervical cancer test launched today
- Nursing in Practice (15/03/10) Women warned over DIY smear tests
- Scotsman (15/03/10) Warning over online DIY cervical cancer tests
- Virgin Media (15/03/10) Warning over new DIY smear tests
Childbirth
- BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour (15/03/10) Listener feedback on the risks of giving birth
Contraceptive pill
- News of the world (14/03/10) Is the pill making you ill? (Peter Bowen-Simpkins quoted/RCOG mentioned)
- Marie Claire (12/03/10) Taking the Pill 'could help women live longer'
- NHS Choices (12/03/10) The Pill 'does not raise death risk'
- OnMedica (12/03/10) Use of contraceptive pill may lead to longer life
Flu in pregnancy
- Daily Express (15/03/10) Flu danger for unborn children
Gum disease and preterm birth
- BBC Online (14/03/10) Gum disease 'linked to early births'
- Mail on Sunday (14/03/10) Pregnant women with gum disease are more likely to have premature babies
HPV vaccination programme
- BBC Online (14/03/10) Cancer vaccine programme resumes on Isle of Man
Infant care - developmental dysplasia of the hip
- BBC Online (15/03/10) 'Too many' baby hip cases ignored
International (Norway) – contraception
- Medical News Today (13/03/10) Free Hormonal Contraception Halved Termination Rate
International (Australia) – cord blood banking
- Australian (13/03/10) Banking on a breakthrough: cord blood
International (US) – maternal mortality
- CNN (12/03/10) Doubling of maternal deaths in U.S. 'scandalous,' rights group says
- Guardian (12/03/10) Amnesty report condemns US death rates of women in childbirth
International (US) – maternal obesity
- Daily Mail (15/03/10) The super-sized 43st mother who is determined to become the world's fattest woman
International (Africa) – medical education and training
- University World News (14/03/10) Medical e-learning network launched
International – Millennium Development Goals
- Medical News Today (15/03/10) More Focus On Reaching MDGs Needed, Development Officials Say
International (US) - neonatal sling carriers
- Medical News Today (15/03/10) Suffocation Danger To Young Babies In Sling Carriers: US Consumers Warned
International (Ireland) - symphysiotomy
- Irish Independent (15/03/10) Register of childbirth procedure
International (US) - vaginal birth after caesarean section (VBAC)
- Medical News Today (15/03/10) VBAC Reasonably Safe, Should Be More Widely Available, NIH Panel Finds
International (Malaysia) – women’s health myths
- The Star (12/03/10) Out of the mouths
IVF treatment – acupuncture use
- Independent (14/03/10) Chinese medicine no help to get pregnant: British experts
- Private Healthcare UK (14/02/10) Fertility treatment ‘not improved by acupuncture’
IVF treatment - egg profiling
- Daily Mail (15/03/10) Fury as IVF clinic 'raffles' off human egg - and lets the winner choose what race she wants
- Mirror (15/03/10) IVF doctors to raffle off human egg
- Mirror (15/03/10) IVF clinic raffles human egg
- Metro (15/03/10) Human egg to be raffled in IVF promotion in London
- Telegraph (15/03/10) A raffle for a human egg? It's hardly conceivable
- Google/AFP (14/03/10) British fertility clinic raffling human egg
- Sunday Telegraph (14/03/10) Fertility clinic to raffle human egg in London to promote IVF service
- Sunday Times (14/03/10) IVF doctors to raffle human egg
- Sydney Morning Herald (14/03/10) Fertility clinic raffles donor egg
IVF treatment – single embryo transfer
- Telegraph (13/03/10) IVF clinics told to clamp down on test tube multiple births
Maternity services
- Daily Mail (13/03/10) Alarm as NHS allows sales reps and photographers access to mothers just hours after giving birth
NHS Maternity services – government policy
- Belfast Telegraph (15/03/10) Gordon Brown goes online to court the female vote
- Daily Mail (15/03/10) Gordon Brown makes birthright pledge to expectant mums... and dads
- Guardian (15/03/10) Fathers to get the chance to spend first night in hospital with new baby
- Independent (15/03/10) Brown bids for women's vote with promise of legal right to home births
- Mirror (15/03/10) NHS maternity overhaul will off all women choice of home birth
- Telegraph (15/03/10) Gordon Brown woos female votes on Mothering Sunday
Neonatal services
- BBC Online (13/03/10) Twins' parents travel between Kent and Surrey hospitals
- Telegraph (13/03/10) Baby twins put in hospitals 50 miles apart
Parenthood
- Daily Mail (14/03/10) Having children is good for you: But stop at two... any more could be fatal!
- Telegraph (13/03/10) Having two children is best for your health
Pregnancy and driving
- Messenger (13/03/10) Pregnant women urged to wear seat belts properly (RCOG mentioned)
Sexual assault
- BBC Online (15/03/10) Rape victims should be offered 'specialist advisers'
- Independent (15/03/10) Britain's rape laws to be rewritten
- Times (15/03/10) All rape victims ‘should have specialist advice’, says Stern review
Teenage pregnancy
- BBC Online (14/03/10) Teenage mothers 'forced out' of education - report
- ITN (14/03/10) Pregnant teens 'forced out of education'
- Scotsman (14/03/10) Pregnant teens 'forced from school' – Barnardo's
- Sky News (14/03/10) Pregnant Teenagers 'Forced Out' Of School
Women’s health – cosmetic surgery
- Daily Mail (13/03/10) I grew my own breast implants...from the fat on my tummy
Women’s health – skin cancer
- BBC Online (15/03/10) A mother's inspirational skin cancer battle
Friday 12 March
Antidepressant use in pregnancy
- Times (12/03/10) Pregnant women warned over Prozac risk to foetus
Breastfeeding
- Daily Mail (12/03/10) Should a mother breastfeed a child of six? A new book tells the stories of women who did just that
- Telegraph (12/03/10) The Kitchen Thinker: breast-feeding
Climate change and maternal / child health
- Guardian (12/03/10) Our goal – education and a better life (RCOG/ Professor Sir Sabaratnam Arulkumaran mentioned)
Contraceptive pill
- BBC Online (12/03/10) Women on pill 'may live longer'
- Belfast Telegraph (12/03/10) Women who took Pill live longer
- Daily Express (12/03/10) The pill cuts risk of serious illness
- Daily Mail (12/03/10) Is the Pill saving lives? Women who use it 'cut their chances of dying of cancer and heart disease'
- Evening Standard (12/03/10) The Pill helps women live longer
- Herald (12/03/10) Women on the Pill ‘live longer’
- Independent (12/03/10) The pill is given health all-clear
- In the News (12/03/10) Pill users reassured they are not at higher risk of death than non pill-users
- Irish Independent (12/03/10) Pill promises 'long, healthy life' for women
- ITN (12/03/10) Women on the pill less likely to die says study
- Nursing in Practice (12/03/10) Women who take Pill "live longer"
- Reuters (12/03/10) Birth control pill poses no added health risk
- Scotsman (12/03/10) The Pill 'cuts cancer risk and prolongs life'
- Sky News (12/03/10) Women Taking Pill 'Live Longer Than Others'
- STV (12/03/10) Women taking Pill live longer
- Telegraph (12/03/10) Taking the Pill 'could help women live longer'
- Times (12/03/10) Women who use the Pill can expect to live longer, Royal College of GPs finds
- Virgin Media/PA (12/03/10) Women who took Pill 'live longer'
Cord blood collection
- BioNews (12/03/10) UK's HTA voices concerns about unlawful cord blood collection (RCOG mentioned)
Flu in pregnancy
- Medical News Today (12/03/10) Mother's Flu During Pregnancy May Increase Baby's Risk Of Schizophrenia
Gestational diabetes
- Marie Claire (11/03/10) Eating for two could harm your baby
- Reuters (11/03/10) Big first trimester weight gain ups diabetes risk
HPV self-testing kits
- BBC Online (12/03/10) Home cervical cancer testing kit boosts diagnosis
International (Canada) – fertility treatment
- CBC News (11/03/10) Quebec to fund in vitro fertility treatments
- Gazette (11/03/10) Quebec to provide free fertility treatments
International (India) – maternal health
- Independent (11/03/10) Express delivery in India’s Madhya Pradesh
International (US) – maternal mortality
- Medical News Today (11/03/10) U.S. Maternal Mortality Rate Increases Over Last Decade
International (US) – population trends
- Daily Mail (11/03/10) America nears 'tipping point' where babies born to minority parents outnumber whites for first time
- Telegraph (11/03/10) US reaches 'tipping point' as minority births set to outnumber white births
International (Alaska) – sexually transmitted infections
- Medical News Today (12/03/10) Gonorrhea Cases Rise Sharply In Alaska
International (US) – women’s health care
- Medical News Today (12/03/10) The American College Of Obstetricians And Gynecologists Supports Women's Access To Universal Health Care
International development – maternal mortality
- Herald (11/03/10) Comment: Reality of avoidable maternal mortality is so hard to bear
Maternity services
- Times (12/03/10) Hospitals criticised for allowing sales reps access to new mothers
- Times (12/03/10) ‘It should be a protected space’
Pregnancy – diet and fetal development
- Independent (11/03/10) Boy-crazy and pregnant
Scotland – antenatal care
- Scotsman (12/03/10) Doctors: We’re being cut out by empire-building midwives
- Herald (11/03/10) GPs attack new scheme to make midwives first point of contact
Thalidomide – effects on fetal development
- BBC Online (11/03/10) Thalidomide effect mystery solved
Vaginal birth after caesarean (VBAC)
- Medical News Today (12/03/10) Weighing Parents' Preferences And Risk Factors When Choosing Vaginal Birth After Cesarean (VBAC) Or Plan A Repeat Cesarean
- dbtechno (12/03/10) Many Pregnant Women Being Denied vaginal birth after caesarean
Women’s health – alcohol consumption and obesity
- Daily Express (12/03/10) Drink threat to obese
- Google News / Press Association (12/03/10) Obese drinkers face liver dangers
- Mirror (12/03/10) Obese face drink threat
- Scotsman (12/03/10) Wine doubles risk to obese women’s livers
- Virgin Media/PA (12/03/10) Obese drinkers face liver dangers
Women’s health – childhood sexual abuse
- Guardian (12/03/10) Blog: Why do women identify themselves as victims of childhood sexual abuse?
Women’s health – complementary therapies
- Candis (11/03/10) Complementary therapy can improve family health
Women’s health – cosmetic surgery
- Telegraph (12/03/10) Welsh women have most plastic surgery
Women’s health – memory
- Daily Mail (12/03/10) Don't forget chaps, girls have the best memories
- Telegraph (12/03/10) Middle-aged women have better memories than men
Thursday 11 March
Abortion
- BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat (10/03/10) Men 'want more say' over abortion
Birth story
- Metro (10/03/10) Identical twin sisters have babies after sterilisation
Cord blood collection
- Midwives (10/03/10) Concerns over unlawful cord blood collection
Down’s Syndrome
- Daily Mail (11/03/10) Is it MY fault one of my twins has Down's? A 39-year-old mother reveals why she regrets having IVF
Embryonic development
- Medical News Today (10/03/10) Research Identifies New Mechanism Regulating Embryonic Development
Hospital visits and checks
International (Canada) – hormonal contraception
- CTV (10/03/10) Video: Yasmin / Yaz birth control users launch lawsuit
International (Australia) – sterilisation
- Daily Mail (11/03/10) Parents win permission to sterilise their profoundly disabled 11-year-old daughter
IVF treatment
- Daily Mail (11/03/10) Twins at 54 for the mother who didn't think eight was enough
Maternal mortality – Minute for Mothers event
- Marie Claire (10/03/10) One-minute silence for mothers across the world
Maternity services
- Telegraph (10/03/10) Comment: We would all benefit from five-star labour wards
Ovarian removal
- Medical News Today (10/03/10) Questioning The Benefits Of Elective Removal Of Ovaries During Hysterectomy: Evidence Suggests Procedure May Do More Harm Than Good
Pregnancy – mood and stress factors
- Daily Mail (11/03/10) Why pregnant film fans should stick to happy movies
Sexual health – low sexual desire
- Medical News Today (10/03/10) Risk-Free Treatment For Low Female Sexual Desire
Sexual health – sexual activity and age
- Guardian (10/03/10) What's your sexual life expectancy?
Vaginal Birth After Caesarean (VBAC)
- ABC News (11/03/10) Natural birth safe after Caesarean
- TV NZ (11/03/10) Normal birth safe after Caesareans
- New York Times (10/03/10) Panel Urges New Look at Caesarean Guidelines
- Reuters (10/03/10) Vaginal birth after caesarean underused: panel
Women’s health – weight management
- Telegraph (11/03/10) Eight out of 10 women would have surgery to loose weight rather than go through diet and exercise
Women’s health – moderate alcohol consumption
- Medical News Today (10/03/10) Women Who Drink Moderately Appear To Gain Less Weight Than Non-Drinkers
Wednesday 10 March
Birth stories
- Daily Mail (10/03/10) Irritable Baby Syndrome? Doctors mistook mother’s pregnancy for IBS...until THREE HOURS before she gave birth
- Sun (09/03/10) ‘Docs thought baby was gout’
Breast cancer screening – research
- Reuters (09/03/10) Experiment seeks blood test for breast cancer
Chemical exposure in pregnancy – Bisphenol A
- Medical News Today (09/03/10) Researchers Find Exposure To BPA May Cause Permanent Fertility Defects
Contraceptive provision
- Belfast Telegraph (10/03/10) Pill refused 'on religious grounds'
- Daily Express (10/03/10) Chemist refused me the pill because it is against her religion
- Metro (10/03/10) Woman denied of the Pill ‘because of religion’
- BBC Online (09/03/10) Lloyds pharmacy probe over pill refusal in Sheffield
- Daily Mail (9/03/10) Pharmacist refuses to give mother, 38, contraceptive pills for period pain 'because of her religion'
- Independent (09/03/10) Pharmacist refused to issue pill on religious grounds
Cord blood collection
- Google News / Press Association (09/03/10) Warning over umbilical cord blood
- Nursing Times (09/03/10) Maternity units warning over ‘illegal’ umbilical cord collection
- BootsWebMD (09/03/10) Warning issued over unlawful cord blood collection
Diet in pregnancy
- NHS Choices (09/03/10) Diet in pregnancy and baby gender
Fetal abnormalities – hydrocephalus
- Medical News Today (10/03/10) What Is Hydrocephalus? What Causes Hydrocephalus?
International (Haiti and Chile) – maternal health in crisis conditions
- China.org (09/03/10) Haitian and Chilean women endure tents
International (US) – abortion
- New York Times (09/03/10) Laws, Lies and the Abortion Debate
International (US) – sexually transmitted infections
- Reuters (09/03/10) US herpes rates remain high: CDC
International (US) – VBAC
- Medical News Today (10/03/10) New York Times Examines Factors Affecting VBAC Rates As NIH Conference Begins
IVF treatment
IVF treatment – acupuncture
- BBC Online (10/03/10) ‘No evidence’ acupuncture boosts chances of IVF baby
- Daily Express (10/03/10) Acupuncture a waste of time for couples trying for a baby
- Daily Mail (10/03/10) Acupuncture ‘provides no help with IVF’ say fertility doctors
- Google News / Press Association (10/03/10) Acupuncture ‘useless’ for fertility
- Medical News Today (10/03/10) British Fertility Society Issues New Guidelines On The Use Of Acupuncture And Chinese Herbal Medicine In Fertility Treatment, UK
- Mirror (10/03/10) Acu therapy is pointless
- Scotsman (10/03/10) Alternative medicine ‘does not help women have babies’
- Telegraph (10/03/10) Acupuncture ‘does not aid fertility treatment’
- Yahoo/ ITN (10/03/10) Complementary treatments 'do not boost fertility'
- Herald (09/03/10) Acupuncture ‘won’t help fertility treatment couples to conceive’
Malaria in pregnancy – vaccine research
- Medical News Today (10/03/10) Malaria In Pregnant Women : A First Step Towards A New Vaccine
Maternity services
- The Sentinel (09/03/10) Official launch for £40m unit (RCOG/ Professor Sir Sabaratnam Arulkumaran mentioned)
Orthopoedic implants and pregnancy
- Medical News Today (10/03/10) Elevated Levels Of Cobalt And Chromium Found In Offspring Of Moms With Metal-on-Metal Hip Implants
RCOG news
- Medical News Today (09/03/10) The Royal Pharmaceutical Society appoints new Chief Executive
- MediLexicon (09/03/10) The Royal Pharmaceutical Society Appoints New Chief Executive
Scotland – Family Nurse Partnership
- Scotsman (10/03/10) Young mothers to get extra support from family nurses
Sexual health - sexual activity and age
- Bloomberg (10/03/10) Health ends at 70 for most people as health declines, study says
- Daily Mail (10/03/10) How keeping fit could hold the key to enjoying your love life into your eighties
- Independent (10/03/10) Four in 10 men over 75 say they are still having sex (but only two in 10 women)
- In the News (10/03/10) Men more likely to be sexually active in middle and old age
- Medical News Today (10/03/10) Better Health: More Frequent And Better Quality Sex In Later Life
- Mirror (10/03/10) Stay fit if you want to enjoy a great sex life
- Sun (10/03/10) Now it’s romp until you drop
- Times (10/03/10) Healthy people can enjoy sex into their 60s, say Chicago studies
- Calgary herald (09/03/10) Older men more interested in sex than older women: study
- CNN (09/03/10) Healthier men want more sex for more years
Tuesday 9 March
Birth story – misdiagnosis of pregnancy
- Telegraph (09/03/10) Woman gives birth three hours after finding she was pregnant
Contraceptive provision – professional duty
- Telegraph (09/03/10) Pharmacist refuses to issue pill because of her religion
Cord blood collection
- BBC Online (09/03/10) Risks ‘taken’ in illegal cord blood collections
- Telegraph (09/03/10) Warnings over unlawful and risky cord blood collections
- Yahoo/ Press Association (09/03/10) Warning over umbilical cord blood
- Yorkshire Evening Post (09/03/10) Legal warning over umbilical cord blood collection
Endometriosis
- Guardian (09/03/10) Letter: Endometriosis week
Genetic screening
- Medical News Today (09/03/10) Is Prenatal Screening For Rare Diseases Like Spinal Muscular Atrophy Too Costly?
International (Afghanistan) – maternal mortality
- AOP News (08/03/10) High Maternal Death Rate Overshadows
International Women's Day in Afghanistan
International (Cameroon) – breast ironing
- Medical News Today (09/03/10) Washington Post Opinion Piece Draws Attention To Breast Ironing In Cameroon
International (China) – maternal health care
- China Daily (09/03/10) Free hospital delivery improves rural women's lives
International – equality and women’s health
- Medical News Today (08/03/10) Equal Rights And Opportunities For Women And Girls Essential For Better Health
- Sify News (08/03/10) Asia ‘missing’ 96 million women: UN
International – female health workers
- Guardian (09/03/10) Gallery: Supporting female health workers
International – maternal/child health and community support groups
- Medical News Today (09/03/10) Women's Group Support Can Improve Birth Outcomes
International – mother-to-child HIV transmission
- Medical News Today (09/03/10) Global Fund Releases Latest Impact Data, Projections For Improving Global Health In Next Decade
International (US) – maternal death
- MSNBC (08/03/10) Childbirth deaths in U.S. rare but too frequent
International – women’s health and violence against women
- Irish Times (09/03/10) Combating violence across borders tops agenda
Maternity services
- Guardian (09/03/10) Letter: Maternity service and NHS cash crisis
Pregnancy and alcohol consumption
- CBC News (05/03/10) Mixing medical advice, alcohol and pregnancy
Pregnancy – diet and fetal development
- Times (09/03/10) ‘Eating for two’ may harm baby
- Medical News Today (08/03/10) Pregnant Women Falling Short On Nutrition
- Telegraph (08/03/10) Eating breakfast and fatty diet during early pregnancy increases chances of having a boy
RCOG news
- Chemist & Druggist (09/03/10) Society names Helen Gordon as Chief Executive
Republic of Ireland – abortion
- Irish Independent (08/03/10) Call to relax abortion laws after poll result
- Irish Times (08/03/10) Call for relaxation of abortion laws
Sexually transmitted infections – Chlamydia
- Times (09/03/10) Dr Mark Q&A: Chlamydia
Water birth
- OK (08/03/10) Should you consider a water birth?
Women’s health – advances in healthcare
- Mirror (08/03/10) How advances in healthcare saved these five women
Women’s health – alcohol consumption
- Medical News Today (09/03/10) Light To Moderate Drinking Linked To Less Weight Gain In Middle Aged Women
- BBC Online (08/03/10) Women who drink wine ‘less likely to gain weight’
- Reuters (08/03/10) Wine may help women keep weight in check