Don’t expect much from What to Expect When You’re Expecting

By Meredith McIntyre, Monash University and Alexis Shub, University of Melbourne

What to Expect When You’re Expecting is basically a 1980s frat film, complete with busty girls in bikinis, golf buggies crashing into swimming pools, and vomit and fart jokes – all window dressed with…

17 August 2011

Nova_hokie — The foreskin is the most sensitive part of the penis. Flickr/NoVa Hokie

‘Unethical and harmful’: the case against circumcising baby boys

By Ryan McAllister, Georgetown University and John W. Travis, RMIT University

For centuries, children have been subjected to cultural and medicalised practices that were ultimately proven harmful and a violation of basic bodily integrity. Such practices have included foot binding…

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21 May 2012

Increased complications for delayed childbearing

Monash University

Delaying childbearing puts women at higher risk of serious illness and complications during birth, a new study has found…

12 August 2011

Pain drugs reduce severity of postpartum breast cancers

University of Colorado Cancer Center

Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs including ibuprofen have been found to reduce the severity of postpartum breast cancers…

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Don’t expect much from What to Expect When You’re Expecting

‘Unethical and harmful’: the case against circumcising baby boys

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Increased complications for delayed childbearing

Pain drugs reduce severity of postpartum breast cancers

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Bruce Baer Arnold

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