Pregnancy loss is the most common complication of pregnancy.

The treatment trial saw participants go from allergic reactions such as immediate vomiting, swelling of the throat, blisters on tongue and stomach pain to being able to safely ingest up to four peanuts.

Two members of the board of governors of a groundbreaking perinatal research centre quit following a decision by Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) not to award it funding.

An ‘utter lack of transparency’ around the funding process was behind the decision of two board members of a perinatal research clinic to quit. It was the only one of seven centres whose bids for funding failed, writes Catherine Shanahan

A €5m integrated paediatric academic unit, the first of its kind in Ireland, was officially opened yesterday at Cork University Maternity Hospital and will seek to produce world-best healthcare for children, guests at the unveiling heard.

Cork-based researchers have been awarded €570,000 towards developing a brain monitoring system designed to help detect the severity of brain damage in babies injured at birth.

Here are all the latest headlines this lunchtime.

Brain cooling, a treatment that reduces the rate of disability in newborns, could potentially improve outcomes for more babies.

An Irish researcher in Cork University Maternity Hospital is leading investigations to discover a treatment for two common pregnancy complications which are becoming more prevalent in Ireland.

A UCC study of more than 1,000 newborns found almost half (46%) were deficient in vitamin D, rising to 62% in wintertime.

A new biobank at University College Cork will play a leading role in improving future health outcomes for mothers and babies.

A study that found one in six mums-to-be are deficient in the sunshine vitamin could bolster the case for introducing pregnancy-specific guidelines for vitamin D.

Academics and students have united to criticise University College Cork for naming a new research building after Nobel laureate James Watson, who has been roundly condemned for his racist and sexist views.

The man responsible for the development of “brain cooling”, the first technique to reduce brain injury in newborns deprived of oxygen at birth, is among a range of international speakers who will address a conference on newborn brain monitoring that gets under way in Cork today.

Expectant mums cannot wait to hold their bundle of joy but for many, the highly-anticipated moment can be painful, messy, and far from smooth sailing.

Ground-breaking work on pre-eclampsia, a life-threatening complication of late pregnancy, has earned experts at the Irish Centre for Fetal and Neonatal Translational Research (Infant), based at UCC and Cork University Maternity Hospital, an award from the American Heart Association.

Pregnant women whose babies are failing to grow at a normal rate in the womb may be given Viagra, as scientists believe the erectile dysfunction drug could accelerate foetal growth.

A lunchtime lecture series featuring some of the country’s top female IT brains will take place in Cork in the hope it will encourage more women into technology, science, and engineering.

A Cork research centre working on developing a test to predict which mums-to-be are predisposed to giving birth prematurely has attracted investment from a major American multinational.

The arts and sciences might not often merge in universities, but a medical consultant has combined them in a unique way for an exhibition at UCC’s school of medicine.

A test to identify women likely to give birth more than three weeks before their due date is being worked on by Cork-based researchers.

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