The number of children being admitted to hospital in England with a severe allergic reaction has risen every year for the past five years. NHS figures show 1,746 children were treated for anaphylactic shock in 2018-19, up from 1,015 in 2013-14. The parents of Natasha Ednan-Laperouse, who died in 2016 after eating a baguette containing […]
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Media playback is unsupported on your device For Hannah Dalton, pregnancy meant not being able to drink fluids for eight months without throwing up, going into hospital 27 times for intravenous drips and living off ice lollies and anti-sickness medication. Hannah, 30, from Thundersley, Essex, had hyperemesis gravidarum (HG), the severe morning sickness the Duchess […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A mind-altering medication related to the club drug Special K won U.S. approval Tuesday for patients with hard-to-treat depression, the first in a series of long-overlooked substances being reconsidered for severe forms of mental illness. The nasal spray from Johnson & Johnson is a chemical cousin of ketamine, which has been used […]
The family of a woman with a severe disability filed a lawsuit this week against a Florida health care center after she was raped and impregnated early last year while in the care of the facility. The victim is a 23-year-old “non-verbal” and “immobile” woman with “profound mental retardation,” according to the lawsuit, which was filed […]
Five-year-old Oscar’s life has regularly hung in the balance because of severe asthma. On his second birthday, he was so ill he did not respond to any medicines, leaving his parents fearing the worst. “I will never forget how his tiny chest rose up and down in desperate movements, trying to fill his lungs with […]
Bethenny Frankel shared scary news with fans on Monday night: She recently experienced a severe allergic reaction, which required her to be hospitalized. "I have a rare fish allergy," she wrote on Twitter. Frankel, 48, says she had soup on Sunday, felt itchy, "and was unconscious for 15 minutes." She was taken to the ER […]
A private school in North Carolina has reportedly been hit by the state’s worst chickenpox outbreak in over two decades. Buncombe County’s health department suggested that parents claiming religious exemptions to the state’s vaccination requirements have contributed to the outbreak at the Asheville Waldorf School, CNN reports. As of Friday, officials documented at least 36 […]
Primary pupils in England’s poorest areas are four times more likely to be severely obese than in the wealthiest, according to the latest figures. Overall, the proportion of severely obese Year 6 pupils has risen from 3.6% in 2009-10 to 4.2% in 2017-18. Obese children are more likely to be bullied, stigmatised and have low […]
It's tempting to push down and ignore any negative thoughts. For some, that leads to feelings of guilt about having those thoughts in the first place, a sentiment that model Gisele Bündchen talked candidly about in a new interview with People. In it, Bündchen detailed why she chose to open up about her mental health […]