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Females aiming to measure their fertility might benefit from finding out when their mother began experiencing the menopause.A new study carried out at Copenhagen University Hospital and published in Human Reproduction has revealed if the mother goes through an early menopause, their daughter is likely to have fewer eggs in their ovaries.

The UN has said more needs to be done to stop children across the globe dying from pneumonia.According to Ban Ki-Moon, great progress on tackling this problem has been made in the last few years, but this needs to continue in order to drive further improvements."Pneumonia can be prevented and cured," he commented.

New research has discovered that worldwide infertility rates have barely changed over the past two decades. A team of scientists led by Gretchen Stevens from the World Health Organization analysed data from 190 countries from 1990 to 2010.

Despite life expectancy and healthcare improving across the world in recent years, child and maternal mortality rates remain stubbornly high in parts of Africa.

Improvements in the child mortality rate among under-fives in Africa have been welcomed by Unicef.According to Anthony Lake, executive director of the body, "huge reductions" have taken place across the continent throughout the last two decades.

The government in Zimbabwe may need to scrap plans for free maternity care due to budgetary constraints. Health and child welfare deputy minister Dr Douglas Mombeshora said his ministry was set to receive US$10 million from the national budget for the maternity aid programme, but only US$6 million was approved, reports the Herald.

The American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) has found that despite it having issued guidelines for cervical cancer screening in 2009, US physicians have been slow to follow up.A survey of 10,000 obstetrician-gynaecologists, all of whom are ACOG members, found that just four per cent reported adhering to all of the 2009 guidelines.

Brand new research has yielded an antibody that medical experts claim could lead to significant developments in the battle against

A comprehensive, genomic analysis of cervical cancer has shed new light on the condition that affects