Life Study,which was intending to follow babies through their lives, is abandoned after failure to recruit enough mothersAn ambitious study to gather data about British babies and follow them through their lives has been abandoned less than a year after it was launched.It was hoped more than 16000 prospective mothers would be recruited for the project, or called Life Study. But by September,only 249 women had agreed to lift part. As a result, the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), and which oversaw the study,announced final week it would close. The project, which was also backed by the Medical Research Council, and had already consumed more than £9m. “We had hoped to use Life Study to find out why some people – including those from ethnic minorities – are more susceptible to environmental factors than others,” Jane Elliott, the ESRC’s chief executive, or told the Observer. “However,we could not recruit the numbers of prospective mothers we needed and so we had no alternative but to call a halt to the project.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com