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A Tel Aviv University researcher has linked natural birth with post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Natural Births A Major Cause Of Pos...

Our chromosomes have protective sheaths and caps at their ends. These caps are known as telomeres and protect the ends of the chromosomes. A...

The vital importance of speaking up and saying how you feel to your health and wellbeing is demonstrated in a post by this young woman, Fion...

"Elizabeth Gould overturned one of the central tenets of neuroscience. Now she’s building on her discovery to show that poverty and ...

Cognition in pregnancy and motherhood: prospective cohort study -- Christensen et al. 196 (2): 126 -- The British Journal of Psychiatry Ba...

"Early adverse experience can disrupt the body's metabolic systems," says Shonkoff. "One of the cornerstones of biology i...

A delightful video normalising extended breastfeeding. Nutrition and health are hot topics at the moment. This video is a great message for ...

What a blessing that this young mother and her baby revived and survived. Mother, baby revived after 'dying' in labor - Heart heal...

"The long-running Nurses’ Health Study shows that as much as 80 percent of heart disease , 70 percent of strokes, and 90 percent of dia...

Fascinating! Provides insight into why good communication skills are important with childbearing women and ensuring true, informed choice. A...

Researchers have discovered a genetic variation that may contribute to how empathetic a human is, and how that person reacts to stress. In t...

Music 'nurtures' premature babies Music may help block pain Hospitals that play music to premature babies help them grow and thri...

More evidence of the need to keep mothers and newborn babies together and ensure skin to skin uninterrupted time at birth. Maternity service...

Bioethics for clinicians: 12. Ethical dilemmas that arise in the care of pregnant women: rethinking "maternal?fetal conflicts" T...

A new study from Sweden published in the journal Acta Paediatrica [Acta Paediatr. 2009 Jun 1 ePub ahead of print] found at http://www.ncbi.n...

If you stroll along the bookshelves of any book store, you will find hundreds of books telling you how to be successful in many, diverse fie...

Women rallied across Australia today in support of 1-2-1 midwifery care in the wake of the close of submissions to the National Maternity Se...