A recent study of the health costs for premature births recommends more research in this area would save money, as reported by the BBC.
“Premature births cost the UK an extra £939m a year, say researchers at the Oxford Centre for Health Economics.
“Their study calculated what the costs would be for all the preterm babies born in 2006 over the first 18 years of their life.”
Read BBC article: Public cost of premature babies.
Also, there have been some interesting (and no doubt controversial) observations and recommendations made about childhood in the UK in the new millenium. I’d like to see more for the “rules making it easier for parents to stay at home to rear their children” point.
Read BBC article: Selfish adults ‘damage childhood’.
Fingers are a bit slow this morning after a beautiful snowy ride to work. I’m hoping my office warms up before my snowy lunchtime run.
