Health/Science

LOS ANGELES — They might relish becoming parents, but they can also be unprepared for the infant in their lives. They’re sleep-deprived, confused and irritable. They’re the fathers. Discussions of the connection between mental health […] […]

Pregnant mothers have had appointments for induced births delayed at Wellington Hospital, which is struggling with an “exceptional” number of babies. Some mothers booked in to have births induced have been put off, delivery suites […] […]

A YOUNG mother died after a doctors failed to spot a 15cm-long toilet brush handle embedded in her buttock, a judicial investigation into her death was told overnight. Cindy Corton, 35, was left with the […] […]

A CREAM used to treat warts is showing early promise as a means to combat recurrent outbreaks of skin cancer. The cream contains the potent allergen diphencyprone (DPCP), and a trial is underway using it […] […]

By Sandrea I am rather peeved (furious) at the moment with the so-called do-gooders on our planet. The abortion debate going on around the world is making me furious. I do believe that the fundamental […] […]

Younger sexual maturation, slow brain development and complex social networks are creating a “powder keg” likely to cause an explosion of unsafe sex, drugs and crime, warns the Government’s chief science adviser. Sir Peter Gluckman […] […]

AUTHORITIES will review the death of an elderly man after waiting four hours for care in a Queensland hospital’s emergency department. The 87-year-old died on a stretcher at the Nambour hospital on Mother’s Day, four […] […]

TALIAN prosecutors suspect chefs in the southern city of Naples are baking pizzas in ovens lit with wood from coffins dug up from the local cemetery. “Pizza, one of the few symbols of Naples that […] […]

A GROUP of more than 100 diabetes experts has called for laws banning all forms of advertising of “unhealthy foods” that targets children. The specialists, brought to together by the Royal College of Physicians of […] […]

A woman who became the first person to be banned from drinking alcohol in a public place anywhere in England and Wales was back in court today, after police spotted her sitting on a town […] […]