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Teens risk brain damage
A study by the University of Wisconsin in the US has warned that teenagers who don’t get enough sleep risk more than just mood swings. They discovered that sleep-deprived adolescent mice didn...Miscarriage mothers treated alongside newborns
Research indicates that half of women who suffer from miscarriages are enduring unnecessary stress by being treated alongside mothers with newborn babies on NHS wards. Mumsnet conducted the poll, whic...Polluted air raises premature birth risk
Researchers from the University of California claim that air pollution leaves women who live in cities at a 30% higher risk of giving birth prematurely. Their study, which looked at 100,000 births, fo...Thousands suffer silently from postnatal depression
A report by the charity 4Children, says that every year 35,000 new mothers in England and Wales struggle with symptoms of postnatal depression (PND) and don’t get the professional help that they...Dyslexia ‘doesn’t exist’
According to Stanford University scientists, dyslexia is just a label. MRI scans showed little difference between those diagnosed as dyslexics, and those who simply had a low IQ. Dyslexia is defined a...Early bedtime prevents childhood obesity
According to an Australian study, going to bed early helps children to avoid obesity because they are able to exercise the next day. Teenagers who go to bed early are one and a half times less likely ...1/10 toddlers hasn’t had their MMR
Official figures show that only 89.1% of toddlers have had their MMR vaccination, which protects them against measles, mumps and rubella. The figures are the highest in recent years, but are still not...Boy, 9, saved by pioneering kidney transplant
Nabeel Nanuck has become the first child in Britain to have a pioneering treatment that has allowed him to have a kidney transplant from his mother- even though her organ wasn’t a match. He had ...Obese teens can sleep off diabetes risk
US researchers have found that sleeping for eight and a half hours a night could reduce the risk of Type 2 diabetes in teens. A study of 62 teenagers in the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia f...One in five pupils learns nothing from high school onwards
According to the head of Britain’s leading private schools’ group, one in five children “learns nothing” throughout secondary education, leaving us behind our international riv...
