Several home pregnancy tests recalled after false negative results reported Family planning clinic alerts regulator to product’s deficiencies, leading to market sweep exposing more faulty devices
Drug scandals and the media – the unresolved case of Primodos Primodos: The Secret Drug Scandal, airs on Sky this week. Will this media intervention repeat history by helping campaigners get compensation?
Pregnant women without legal status ‘too afraid to seek NHS care’ Growing number of women who fear being reported to Home Office or being hit with high bills are avoiding NHS, charities say
Pregnancy test’s alleged link to birth defects to be reviewed by UK regulator Watchdog to examine new files found by campaigners while Primodos maker Bayer denies it caused abnormalities
The Rules Do Not Apply by Ariel Levy review – a memoir of wanting too much The New Yorker writer had a life that balanced domesticity with intellectual and sexual adventure. Then it fell apart
‘All my friends had some nightmare experience trying to get pregnant. My story took the cake’ At five months pregnant, Ariel Levy lost her baby. After four more years of IVF, had she left motherhood too late?
Pregnancy sickness can kill – why are doctors so uninformed about it? The agony of hyperemesis gravidarum can drive expectant mothers to terminate. That’s because the support they desperately need is still lacking
Test all pregnant women for smoking, say NHS chiefs The plan, which is supported by the Royal College of Midwives, is part of a wider drive to discourage cigarettes at hospitals
It costs £83 to treat postnatal depression. So why must so many women suffer? A report shows only 7% of women with pregnancy-related mental health problems get the specialist care they need. We need a more holistic approach
The app that aims to tackle the chronic NHS midwife shortage Ask the Midwife provides fully qualified advice on pregnancy and baby health, and taps into a trend for women to consult apps during pregnancy