News

March 2011

23 WEEK BABIES: THE PRICE OF LIFE Many will have seen the BBC2 documentary on Wednesday 9 March. After the programme I was contacted by Adam Wishart who made the documentary as I had questioned ... read more...

Move to London

As from 24 September 2010, the EPICure Study Office will no longer be based at the University of Nottingham, but will move to the Institute of Women's Health, UCL, London, with Professor Marlow. read more...

Neurodevelopmental disability at 11 years - results published

A paper discussing neurodevelopmental disability at 11 years has been published in the journal Pediatrics and is available online. Click here ... read more...

Education paper published

A report discussing academic attainment and special educational needs based on the assessments of the 11 year olds has been published in the Archives of Disease in Childhood - Fetal and Neonatal ... read more...

First Report Published from the 11 year Assessments

12 March 2009 Press release from the University of Nottingham Extremely premature babies are at high risk of learning difficulties in middle childhood A major study charting the development of ... read more...

Newspaper Articles

12 March 2009 The Independent The Telegraph Children and Young People Now read more...

EPICure child in local news

One of the EPICure children has been featured on her local television network. See link (it follows the advert!) ... read more...

EPICure 2 - 2 year questionnaires

All the children born in 2006 who were recruited to the EPICure 2 Study are being sent an EPICure teddy bear, birthday card and folder around the time of their second birthday. The folder ... read more...

July 2008

Professor Neil Marlow, one of the Principal Investigators of the EPICure Study, is leaving his post as Professor of Neonatal Medicine at the University of Nottingham and the Queens Medical Centre, ... read more...

Sue

June 2008

Dr Sue Thomas who is one of the paediatricians who has assessed EPICure children in the north of England, was ordained as a deacon at Ripon Cathedral on 29 June 2008. read more...

May 2008

This week MPs will have a free vote on amendments that would reduce the upper limit for abortions from 24 weeks to 22 or even 20 weeks. The Medical Research Council (MRC) has published a news ... read more...

November 2006

The Nuffield Council on Bioethics published a report - Critical care decisions in fetal and neonatal medicine: ethical issues. Read report read more...

BBC coverage

PANORAMA: The Miracle baby grows up Sept 2004 Transcript of the program televised on Sept 22 2004 Professor Marlow's Interview read more...