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Meet Saybie, the world’s smallest baby: Tiny girl who survived after being born at just 23 weeks weighing no more than an APPLE finally goes home after five months in the NICU Saybie was born in San Diego, California, in December 2018 at just 23 weeks and three days At birth she weighed 8.6 ounces, […]
Vaping raises risk of heart attack or stroke due to chemicals found in flavoring liquid Stanford University scientists tested the flavored ‘e-liquids’ used in the devices They found they damage the cells which line blood vessels, which could lead to cardiovascular disease Vaping may raise the risk of suffering a heart attack or stroke because […]
Mother reveals how her baby went from having ‘the worst eczema a doctor had ever seen’ to blemish free thanks to a £12.50 cream Nicki Hume’s son Cameron suffered from dry, itchy skin since birth By the time he turned three months old, oozing red patches covered his body Balm from a skincare range helped […]
DR MAX THE MIND DOCTOR: Stamp out the curse of care home cruelty The memory of it still makes me shudder. Some years back, I witnessed unimaginable cruelty towards some of the most vulnerable in our society, by the people who were supposed to be caring for them. When I was a student, I spent […]
Women are more likely to die if they have a cardiac arrest in public ‘because people fear performing CPR on them could be seen as sexual assault’ A cardiac arrest occurs when the heart suddenly stops pumping blood Some 68% of women cardiac arrest patients received CPR from a bystander In comparison, the figure was […]
Nurses call for prostitution to be decriminalised to protect sex workers as a matter of ‘fundamental human rights’ The Royal College of Nursing said it will lobby British governments for change There are more than 70,000 prostitutes working in the UK, most of them women Legal protection could help them push back against dangerous customers […]
The adorable pet cat called Kolo who keeps wandering into his local A&E unit and cheering up patients The tabby has been wandering into Southmead Hospital in Bristol for over a year He naps everywhere and greets people from the reception desk countertop One mother was grateful the cat kept her ADHD son occupied during […]
The postcode lottery of mental health care in England: Vulnerable patients in some parts of the country get HALF the NHS funding of those in better-resourced areas Report from charity Mind showed massive disparity in mental health patient care Looked at 42 NHS regions in England and found some spending double of others Findings come […]
The prostate cancer conundrum: Should you opt for surgery — and risk nasty side-effects? Or just watch and wait? Here, five patients explain the very different paths they chose 47,000 men are diagnosed with prostate cancer every single year in the UK It’s now the country’s biggest killer – claiming more lives than breast cancer […]
Miracle twins given a 10% chance of survival celebrate their first birthday after risky laser surgery while they were still in the womb Mother Sherrie Foulger, 32, had surgery at 21 weeks pregnant to save her babies Roma and Reeve Armstrong had twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome It causes twins to get an uneven blood supply, which […]