A study in Malawi shows how the participation of local community leaders in policy development can change men’s attitudes to maternal and child health for the better.
How will the downgrade of Zika’s emergency status affect women like this 23-year-old Vietnamese woman and her baby born with microcephaly?
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Overweight women have a higher risk of delivering biologically older babies who are are more susceptible to age-related conditions such as heart disease and type 2 diabetes in later life.
Dyspraxia is a neurodevelopmental disorder, meaning it affects brain function and unfolds as the person grows.
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Most of us learn to tie our shoelaces, dress ourselves and eat with cutlery with relative ease. But for children with dyspraxia, these tasks are incredibly difficult to master.
Current high rates of childhood obesity are the product of a perfect early-life storm.
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Trachoma easily spreads from one child to another through infected eye and nose secretions. A person may have up to 40 episodes of reinfection during childhood.
Parents’ role as medical decision-makers is sometimes questioned when they don’t choose the recommended treatment for their child.
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It is ethical for doctors to accept a treatment option parents want – providing it is good enough – rather than insisting on what they believe is the best possible treatment for the child.
One in ten cancer patients can expect to face fertility issues after their treatment.
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One in ten cancer patients will face fertility issues after treatment, but less than 50% are given options to preserve fertility. And those who are offered options can face significant cost barriers.
Two-thirds of children have already received antibiotics by the time they are one year old.
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Ghana’s school feeding programme has reached millions of children in the past 11 years. It does important work, but needs more support to grow and become sustainable.
Paediatrician at the Royal Childrens Hospital and Associate Professor and Clinician Scientist, University of Melbourne and MCRI, Murdoch Children's Research Institute