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RCM comments on alcohol in pregnancy
Today (Thursday, 18th May) a conference - Policing Pregnancy: Who Should be a Mother? - organised by the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS), the Centre for Parenting Culture Studies (CPCS), Birthrights, and Engaging Sociology at ...Study reaffirms advice to women that no level of drinking alcohol in pregnancy is safe says RCM
Researchers have concluded that no amount of alcohol is safe to consume during pregnancy at any stage. The research team which included experts from the University of Aberdeen have studied how expectant mothers’ consumption of alcohol ...Best to avoid alcohol in pregnancy says RCM on new research
Today research has been published in the inline journal BMJ Open on the effects of light or occasional drinking in pregnancy.Need to reduce widening inequality say midwives on child health report
Today (Thursday, 26th January 2017) the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) have published its The State of Child Health report. The report says that a lack of strategic national focus and persistence of a wide gap between ...
Research reveals estimate of UK children with FASD symptoms
Up to 17% of children in the UK could have symptoms consistent with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD), claims research published today (30 November) in Preventive Medicine.RCM says must learn lessons from PHE COVID-19 BAME report
The Royal College of Midwives (RCM) says we must learn lessons from a Public Health England report on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) communities published yesterday.