Pregnancy has become ever more “policed”, with a litany of rules for parents-to-be on how to behave, a parenting conference is due to hear. Researchers at the two-day seminar at Kent University will present fresh analysis of the decision to advise pregnant women to avoid any alcohol. There have…

New York City apartment buildings are often a menagerie of types, including old-timers who remember precisely who lived in each apartment 25 years ago, midlifers preoccupied with their families, and residents so new that they still find the clanging radiators and groaning midcentury elevators charming. But one outgrowth of…

Oh dear…it appears that men are getting a little sensitive about being ‘overworked and underappreciated’ for not being recognised enough for all of the hard work their doing in the domestic realm. A recent article from The Age suggests that male partners and husbands are feeling angry because they…

It looks like congratulations are in order for Sofia Coppola and her partner Thomas Mars! The 39-year-old famed director was spotted going for a stroll with her newborn baby in SoHo, New York City on June 16. The last time we saw Sofia and Thomas, the Academy Award-nominee was…

Citing high death rates among pregnant women during the recent H1N1 flu pandemic, researchers spelled out what they believe is an urgent need to perform clinical testing in that group, according an article in the New England Journal of Medicine. The researchers called pregnant women “therapeutic orphans” because of…

Studies have shown fathers who are active in their children’s upbringing can significantly benefit their children’s early development, academic achievement and well being. Now, a new study by University of South Florida researchers suggests that a father’s involvement before his child is born may play an important role in…

Japan is one of my most favourite places to travel. After this morning, I feel a little more in love with the country upon reading an article about the increase in pregnancies among ‘older’ women. When I first started reading, I expected that the article would turn into a…

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Way back when, during the final decades of the last century, if a woman had a hard time conceiving, she saved her dollars by the tens of thousands and passed them over to a clinic specializing in assisted reproductive technology. She might then shoot herself with stimulants and have…

Not long ago, Julia Fischer of the German Primate Center in Gottingen was amused to witness two of her distinguished male colleagues preening about a topic very different from the standard academic peacock points – papers published, grants secured, competitors made to look foolish. “One of them said proudly,…