A letter in the current issue of the BMJ (4 September, p 473) calls for the withdrawal of an American study criticised

There’s going to be a baby boom next month, according to many newspapers – the Daily Mail, the Daily Express, the Daily Telegraph.

The Royal College of Midwives has taken a pot at the use of flawed evidence used to discourage women from giving birth at home.
 

Last month’s least likely claim appeared in The Times (9 July, below).

A formal complaint has been made to The Lancet’s Ombudsman over a paper on the risks of Caesareans that was the subject of a critical analysis by Straight Statistics.

Getting a decimal point in the wrong place “makes no difference”, according to a Conservative Party spokesman, after a document issued by the party multiplied the number of teenag

“Don’t have a Caesarean unless you must” said the headlines on stories about a new study from the World Health Organisation, published in The Lancet.

Whitehall is better armed with data on children who no longer exist than on those that can expect to live for the next 80 years.

More than 90 per cent of women are denied choice in where they give birth, charges the National Childbirth Trust in a new report.