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Ben Carter, a trainee paediatrician (ST3 level), tells us why he joined paediatrics...

Since the post-war period, socioeconomic inequalities in children’s weight have reversed in the UK – with disadvantaged children originally being more likely to be thinner than more advantaged children, but now typically being more likely to be overweight or obese, according to an observational stud...

Official statistics have been published on the number women who have been fully, partially or not at all breastfed at 6 to 8 weeks after birth.

To celebrate Explore Your Archive 2017, we've teamed up with Archivists at the Royal College of Physicians and the Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology in a blog about our collections. Find out about our favourite records, strangest finds and what we’ve been up to this week.