I’ve found metaphors that mirror my own journey, phrases that feel like home and poetry that speaks directly to the soul

From late September, 9,000 babies and vulnerable infants in the UK will have a long-lasting injection.

An NHS programme designed to improve safety in maternity care and help prevent brain injuries during childbirth is set to be rolled out in England. The government said that the Avoiding Brain Injurie...

From Johnny Depp in Somerset Life to Barack Obama in Dogs Today, Bernard Bale’s litany of starry interviews offers a rare insight into the engine room of celebrity journalism, and is every bit as intr...

Hello Friends 👋In this episode, I had the pleasure of speaking with Dr Ilana Levene, who is now a Neonatology subspeciality trainee at Oxford, England. Il;ana has done some fantastic work on exploring...

To Be Mindful (Type A+) Consider the unthreatening men of blood donation, bobbing ‘round community centres and sports halls on any given Tuesday.

When the platypus was first captured, killed, skinned and the pelt sent to a zoologist in London, George Shaw in 1799, he thought he was being scammed. He tried to find the stitches that had been used to cobble together the specimen. Being unable to do so, he then concluded that it was probably real, and was unique. It was what we would now consider an evolutionary innovation, it had features of previous organisms, such as laying eggs, and several new features, being venomous and producing milk to feed their young, once they have hatched.

I have written frequently about my concerns with "NDI" as an important measure of neonatal outcomes, indeed, it seems to be often thought of as if it were the only important measure. It has very often been included as part of a composite outcome measure "death or NDI". So why am I disturbed about the use of NDI as a primary outcome measure? NDI is itself already a composite measurement, including some indicator of delayed development (most commonly one of the various iterations of the Bayley Scales of Infant Development), some severity of motor disorder expected to be permanent, i.e.

The long read: Doctors are pushing the limits of science and human biology to save more extremely premature babies than ever before. But when so few survive, are we putting them through needless suffe...