Infanticide trials reexamined in Britain
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LONDON -- On Nov. 9, Margaret Smith, who was sentenced to life in prison in 2002 for smothering her 4-month-old son, was acquitted at a retrial. She was one of several British mothers who lost one or more children in infancy and were convicted of murder.
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An independent inquiry is set to recommend sweeping changes to the way sudden infant deaths are investigated.
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Clinical trials are under way in the UK to test how effectively it combats the increasingly drug-resistant malaria parasite. The drug is a synthetic, simpler version of a traditional
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One murder case has attracted special attention amid a debate over the safety of antidepressant use in children and teenagers.
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Research on mothers taking an anti-epilepsy drug in Manchester and Liverpool suggests it may lead to their children having low IQs.
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Over 4,000 children under 14 have attempted to take their own lives in the past year, claim new figures
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Two high-profile murders of young women which took place more than 30 years ago have been linked by DNA evidence. Scotland Yard are hoping that the link could lead to the solving of the murders of a Playboy bunny and a schoolgirl.
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Harold Shipman, the family doctor who became Britain's worst-ever serial killer, is thought to have killed about 250 patients over a 27-year period rather than the 215 murders previously attributed to him, an inquiry said.
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Comment is free: George Monbiot: In Britain, too, corporate muscle and government weakness means mothers are gulled into swapping the breast for the tin.
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A blood test on expectant mothers may predict a baby&#39;s risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), suggests a new research. According to The New Scientist, researches at the University of Cambridge have found
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It is hard to think of a case in which a murderer should become a medical doctor. Murder and medical practice are simply incompatible.
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One in three abused babies who return to their families is harmed again, say experts.
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There were 175 sudden infant deaths in England and Wales last year, down from 192 in 2002.
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A second juror expresses doubts over the decision to jail a childminder for violently shaking a baby to death.
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LONDON  - Rates of Haemophilus influenzae  type B (Hib) infection in the UK have increased in recent  years, despite the fact that England and Wales have been  routinely vaccinating infants against the disease since 1992,  researchers report in the British Medical Journal.
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LONDON: Babies of teenage mothers and infants who have a low birth weight have a higher risk of committing suicide later in life than other children, Swedish scientists said yesterday.
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A report raises concerns about a study on cot deaths used as evidence in several high profile murder appeals.