Child death reforms welcomed
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Medical experts have welcomed proposed changes to the way investigations into sudden infant deaths are handled. An independent inquiry has produced a report which proposes a major re-think of the way such cases are scrutinised.
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The government is looking into calls to lift a ban on creating embryos from dying children to aid key research.
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The new chairman of a health trust criticised over clostridium difficile deaths says care is improving.
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Health chiefs are considering a new jab to protect babies against bacterial meningitis, septicaemia and pneumonia.
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An independent inquiry recommends sweeping changes to investigations into sudden infant deaths.
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The government has unveiled standards for the healthcare of children and adolescents.
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Numbers don't lie &#151; or do they? When it comes to public health, figures are seldom straightforward. Last week, UNICEF announced what it described as a "major public health success": child deaths dropped to a record low of 9.7 million worldwide in 2005.
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Ministers say that children have been placed at the centre of long-awaited reforms to family law.
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Public health reforms to be piloted in deprived areas in a bid to tackle high levels of poor health.
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The government is set to unveil standards for the healthcare of children and adolescents on Wednesday.
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Chancellor Gordon Brown speaks of how his baby daughter's death shaped his views on improving chances for children.
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Undernutrition causes more than a third  of child deaths worldwide, but simple programs like promoting  breastfeeding and providing supplements could keep some of  those children alive, experts said on Thursday.
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AS THE grim images of parents weeping inconsolably over their children&#39;s graves were beamed into drawing-rooms the world over, few eyes would have been dry or hearts un-enraged at the fiends who target children.
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The parents of two children who died in Corfu call for more measures to protect holidaymakers from carbon monoxide poisoning.
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Measures to support the survivors of abuse in children's homes are set out by the Scottish Government.
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For the first time since record keeping began in 1960, the number of deaths of young children around the world has fallen below 10 million a year, Unicef reported.
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The death of a 14-year-old boy in January led to an overhaul of FloridaÂs juvenile justice system.