Today’s Daily Mail rediscovers  an entertaining myth it first promulgated in 2006 – that mothers who work spend just 19 minutes a day with their children.

To paraphrase Oscar Wilde, I never travel without my copy of the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.

The annual survey that showed a fifth of British primary school children participating in circus skills is no more.
 

Fish and the oils it contains are supposed to be good for mothers-to-be and their children.
 

Attention-deficit hyperactivity disporder (ADHD) is a genetic disease, say today’s headlines. Is it?
 

Sharon Shoesmith, Haringey’s former Director of Children’s Services last week gave evidence before the parliamentary Education Committee.