The environmental impact of nine pesticides, commonly used in grape cultivation, may have been significantly underestimated, suggesting current pesticide risk assessment criteria need updating.

A clinical trial has shown that a new chemotherapy for Hodgkin’s lymphoma has fewer harmful effects on patients’ later fertility than the previous treatment / Publication in “The Lancet Oncology”

A third of women who died during or in the year after pregnancy were known to Children’s Social Care – higher than previously reported, new research reveals. The authors say urgent changes are needed to prioritise and improve mothers’ care.