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Poverty impacts babies before they are even born, new study finds

Unborn babies with poorer mothers are smaller than their richer counterparts as early as midway through pregnancy, a study has found, opening them up to a lifetime of ill health. It is the first time size differences have been found at such an early ...

13 Apr 2022 at 17:25

Scotland

‘Poor quality and inconsistent’ baby death reviews need to be improved – study

Improvements are needed in examinations of baby deaths in Scotland, a review examining rises has found. The Scottish Government commissioned Healthcare Improvement Scotland to hold the review after a higher than expected number of deaths in March ...

27 Feb 2024 at 17:57

Five babies die as whooping cough cases soar

Five babies in England have died after being diagnosed with whooping cough, health officials have said amid a rapid rise in cases. More than 2,700 whooping cough cases have been reported across England so far in 2024 – more than three times the ...

09 May 2024 at 13:09

Baby born weighing just 1lb ‘doing brilliantly’ as he celebrates first birthday

A baby born three months early and weighing barely over a pound has celebrated his first birthday. Rohan Morris, from Ammanford in Wales, weighed just 1lb 8oz – around 860g – when he was born on January 22 last year. He had not been due until ...

09 Feb 2024 at 18:06

More babies could die from whooping cough, expert warns

More babies will die from whooping cough unless vaccination rates go up to slow the spread of the infection, a leading expert has warned. Professor Sir Andrew Pollard, consultant paediatrician and chairman of the Joint Committee on ...

10 May 2024 at 14:39

Scotland

Ministers accused of ‘tepid and evasive’ response to neonatal deaths

Scottish ministers’ response to rising neonatal deaths has been “tepid and evasive”, the leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats has said. In his third letter to public health minister Jenni Minto on the issue, Alex Cole-Hamilton ...

27 Jul 2024 at 00:01

Health

Baby who caught mother’s oral herpes in womb born three months early blind in one eye and looking ‘burnt all over’

A mother whose baby contracted her oral herpes in the womb has described her terror after he was born 12 weeks early, looking “burnt all over” and blind in one eye. Brooke Hale, 28, from Bristol, said she feared for her son’s ...

27 Nov 2024 at 12:02

Ireland

Expansion of newborn screening scheme ‘frustratingly slow’, official says

The Health Minister was unable to provide a date for when additional rare diseases will be added to a newborn screening programme, after an advocate expressed “disappointment” with the rate of progress. Minister Jennifer ...

27 Aug 2025 at 15:57

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