Could your baby’s skincare routine have lifelong benefits?

Health Report - Full program podcast

Lots of people develop a daily skincare routine for anti-ageing purposes, but what if there are benefits from starting even earlier — at just nine weeks old?

Also, a discussion in the United States about SSRI antidepressants in pregnancy has caused lots of anxiety. We talk through the risks versus the benefits.

And a common drug used to treat everything from nerves to heart conditions could show promise in stopping the spread of triple negative breast cancer.

References

• Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee (PBAC) Meeting Outcomes - July 2025
• Allostatic Load and Racial and Rural Disparities in Breast Cancer Survival | Oncology | JAMA Network Open | JAMA Network
• Structured vs Self-Guided Multidomain Lifestyle Interventions for Global Cognitive Function
• Emollients to Prevent Pediatric Eczema: A Randomized Clinical Trial
• Paternal Depression as a Risk Factor for Neurodevelopmental Disorders in Offspring: Implications for Maternal Depression and Its Treatment During Pregnancy
• Association Between Serotonergic Antidepressant Use During Pregnancy and Autism Spectrum Disorder in Children
• Hox-C12 coordinates β2-adrenoceptor coupling to a cAMP/calcium feedforward loop to drive invasion in triple-negative breast cancer
• Australian Physiotherapy Association

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