As I have found through researching a book on normal birth, countless mothers testify that birth without drugs results in less pain overall. And as a woman who has given birth three times without any pain relief, I can only agree. Er, no love. You have personal experience of the amount of pain a drug free birth

Health - Reports on progress towards the 2010 PSA targets to increase overall life expectancy at birth and reduce inequalities in life expectancy, from a baseline of 1995-97. Associated indicators on all age all cause mortality also reported on.

Interesting post on giving birth here. My mate tells me my recent posts have been cr-p so here's another one in the same line: Sadly, I can’t claim any first hand experience of giving birth and like any issue I’m shut out of, it’s of interest to your humble blogger. My only experience of such matters has been to be present at a few of these momentous occasions and in each ca...

This month marks the 150th anniversary of the former Labour Leader George Lansbury. Most of the events will take place in Lansbury's old stomping ground of East London CELEBRATING 150 YEARS SINCE THE BIRTH OF LABOUR LEADER GEORGE LANSBURY - BRINGS POLITICAL GIANTS OUT IN FORCE   A celebration of 150 years since the birth George Lansbury MP, Leader of the Labour Party between 1931 and 193...

Live birth abortion? Senator Obama voted three times against a Bill which would have outlawed the evil of ‘live birth abortion’. It is a termination process which involves the birth of a live baby, the issuing of a birth certificate, the purposeful abandoning of the baby to a slow and tortuous death, and the callous issuing of a death certificate. Is this not infanticide? By law, if an...

The economic crisis should be treated as "the difficult birth-pangs of a new global order", with new rules introduced on trade, Gordon Brown says. Birth pangs…where have we heard that before? What we're seeing here, in a sense, is the...

This article argues that there is a negative correllation between pensions and birth rates. The higher the level of pensions, the lower the birth rate. The lower the pensions, the higher the birth rate. This has been taken to be true when comparing developed countries with developing ones. Where the vast majority of the population do not have access to a pensions system, it is natural for them to ...

Ed Miliband has registered the birth of his new baby boy - and finally got around to putting his name on his oldest son's birth certificate at the same time.

From Free Life, Issue 25, May 1996 ISSN: 0260 5112 After Social Democracy: Politics, Capitalism and the Common Life John Gray Demos, 9 Bridewell Place, London, EC4V 6AP, 1996, 62pp, £5.95 (pbk) ISBN 1 898309 52 3I reached the middle of this pamphlet hoping it was a cry for help. Perhaps John Gray had not become a lefty, but was

David Lucas, commenting on a posting at my place sparked by the fact that a relative of mine by marriage is celebrating her hundredth birthday today, pours cold water on the likelihood of serious life extension much beyond a hundred: I believe increased life expectancy is due to decreased rates of death, initially in childhood, later on in mid-life and now in tackling old-age diseases. There is re...