Article: Health Update: Dads' baby blues

Article: Health Update: Pre-holiday illness
The Independent - London;  April 5, 1994 ;     283 words ... ... to fall ill the week before they go away, research by GPs indicates. In a study of 2,284 subjects, reported in the British Journal of General Practice, the GPs found that those going abroad reported new illnesses twice as often in the week before travel ...

Article: Health Update: Family therapy
The Independent - London;  May 24, 1994 ;     263 words ... ... not insist that they join in family life, according to specialists. Research from the United States, reported in the British Journal of Psychiatry, shows that behaviour therapy for such families can help schizophrenics, by reducing the critical comments ...

Article: Health Update: Tampon advice
The Independent - London;  September 13, 1994 ;     294 words ... ... acid supplements before and during pregnancy, say doctors at Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital. They argue in the British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology that Department of Health guidelines recommending a daily folic acid supplement of 0.4mg ...

Article: HEALTH UPDATE.(Features)
Sunday Mirror (London, England);  March 22, 1998 ;     547 words ... ... influence children,"" said psychologist Dr Andrew Hill, whose report on Mothers, Daughters and Dieting is published in the British Journal of Clinical Psychology. "This is particularly necessary at a time when levels of obesity and weight control are increasing ...

Article: Health Update: Breastfeeding aid
The Independent - London;  March 22, 1994 ;     285 words ... ... lactiferous ducts that "tether" the nipple, causing it to point inwards. A study of the device on 30 women with inverted nipples, published in the British Journal of Plastic Surgery, found that it corrected the condition in all cases.

Article: Health Update: Expert attacks water births
The Independent - London;  August 16, 1994 ;     283 words ... ... newborn infant, argues Professor James Walker, of St James's University Hospital, Leeds. Water births, he says in the British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, are not "natural": primitive tribes do not practise the technique and neither do any ...

Article: Health Update: Breaks may not reduce Pill risk
The Independent - London;  May 17, 1994 ;     316 words ... ... per cent increased risk for each year of use, regardless of whether or not they came off it for a spell. The report, published in the British Journal of Cancer, showed that the total length of use mattered more than the pattern of use.