Ketamine control plan condemned as potential disaster for world’s rural poor
Repeated Chinese attempts to tighten controls on drug described as ‘David and Goliath struggle’ between poor and rich countries
Shopping vouchers ‘most effective’ way to help pregnant women stop smoking
One-fifth kicked the habit before giving birth when receiving financial incentives in a Cambridge university study, more than twice the rate using traditional services
Scientists urge action on obesity in women to cut risks to babies
Children of obese mothers may be more likely to develop heart disease, have a stroke or develop type 2 diabetes, according to major European study
Abstain from alcohol in early pregnancy, says updated advice
Guidance on drinking during pregnancy revised from two units once or twice a week to no alcohol at all in first trimester
Ask Molly Ringwald: I lost my baby and my pregnant friend may use the name we both like. Do I say anything?
‘Would it have been OK for both of you to use the same name had you both become pregnant?’
UK urged to permit IVF procedure to prevent fatal genetic diseases
Top world scientists call on government to approve law allowing ‘three-person embryos’ which would remove faulty mitochondrial DNA
A&E helped us through a miscarriage. Then we got a feedback text
At our darkest hour an NHS text asked my wife to rate her A&E experience. It’s hard to describe how crass and inappropriate this is
Pay pregnant smokers to quit, and soon it will be vouchers for burglars to behave
Cash incentives may affect behaviour, but what about the moral implications of being rewarded for misbehaving?
Pregnant smokers quit habit if paid, says report
Study of women offered £400 of vouchers to stop smoking results in higher success rate compared with those given standard NHS anti-smoking advice
Crisis pregnancy centres, Brian Souter, and the anti-abortion pound
Jo Tacon: The Stagecoach boss’s donation raises more questions about anti-abortion propaganda in centres designed to offer impartial advice