Making vaccination truly compulsory is well intentioned but ill conceived
Making mandatory vaccination truly compulsory may result in more harm than good, and drive hesitant parents to become anti-vaccination, warn Daniel Salmon, Raina MacIntyre and Saad Omer.
The United States, Australia, and approximately half of European...
High-fat maternal diet changes newborn heart ‘tastebuds’
Baby rats whose mothers were fed a high-fat diet had larger than normal hearts with fewer taste receptors for bitter flavours, according to new UNSW research.
The study, led by the UNSW Head of Pharmacology...
Australia beating UK in baby food battle
Aussie children are getting a better start than their UK cousins, with Australian first research finding that the majority of baby and toddler foods sold at our supermarkets are of a high nutritional quality.
Senior...
Health information causing new mums anxiety
Pregnancy and motherhood are both wonderful and worrisome times – could public health campaigns and social stereotypes be contributing to anxiety for mothers? Researchers from Monash University have identified links between perinatal anxiety and...
Food allergy study needs parents of young children
University of Southern Queensland (USQ) researchers are inviting parents of children under two years of age to participate in a study on food allergies.
Vice-Chancellor and President Professor Jan Thomas said USQ was currently...
Does baby snore like dad?
Babies who snore are widely under diagnosed according to Australian researchers investigating less costly and more effective methods of identifying sleep apnea hypopnea syndrome (SAHS) in infants.
A joint study conducted by electrical engineering researchers...
Recall on Chemmart and Pharmacy Choice Children’s Ibuprofen and Paracetamol – risk of plastic...
Consumers and health professionals are advised that Symbion, in consultation with the TGA, is recalling six batches of ibuprofen and paracetamol products after it was identified that the bottle grooves that secure the lids...
Baby blues: spotting mothers at risk
Jane Davidson realised she had a problem when the ocean started to look like the welcoming embrace of death.
“Every day I used to walk along the beach front where I live and I thought:...
Crushing end for dangerous toys
The Andrews Labor Government is putting Victorian traders on notice to keep banned or unsafe toys off their shelves, or risk hefty fines of up to $1.1 million.
Minister for Consumer Affairs, Jane Garrett, recently...
Getting to the point of parents’ fears
University of Queensland researchers are hoping to get to the pointy end of parents’ fears about childhood vaccinations by conducting an Australia-wide survey.
A team from UQ’s Parenting and Family Support Centre is asking parents...
