14 July 2011 Peer recommendations are credible because they are unrewarded and unpaid. fb a o/Flickr Mamas know best: women with children trust peer endorsements over marketing By Angela R. Dobele, RMIT University Research shows mothers prefer advice from their peers about health-care providers and medication. Such referrals are more trusted than practitioners or the paid marketing messages about health-care products…
18 April 2012 Depressed mothers more likely to disrupt infants' sleep Penn State Mothers with high depressive symptoms are more likely to worry excessively about their babies at night than mothers with…
19 March 2012 Feeding infants on demand linked with higher IQ scores University of Essex Infants who are fed on demand perform better on IQ tests that infants who are fed on a schedule, new research has shown…
4 August 2011 HIV-positive mothers need more information about treatment La Trobe University A paper exploring HIV-positive women’s accounts of their use and non-use of treatments for the prevention of mother-to-child…
4 August 2011 Obesity prevention can start at birth University of Sydney Early and regular home visits to first-time mothers that encourage breastfeeding and “tummy time” during their child’s first…
11 July 2011 Pregnant women face more than double risk of stroke Loyola University Pregnant women are 2.4 times more likely to suffer a stroke than women who are not pregnant, research from a US university…
