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Miracle UK Baby Born with Heart Outside of Body
It’s a very rare condition called ectopia cordis. When doctors first saw the scan they warned Naomi Findlay and Dean Wilkins, a couple from Bullwell Nottinghampshire, that their baby had almost no...
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Right Place and Time! Doctor Delivers Baby at Gas Station
Dr. Javier Soto, an OB-GYN, was on his way to Rockledge Regional Medical Center to deliver a baby when he stopped for a gas fill-up at the Speedway in Merritt Island because his vehicle fuel light was...
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Family Fights to Save Sons with Fatal Genetic Disease
Gary and Jennie Landsman had never heard of Canavan disease until their son Benny and his infant brother Josh were diagnosed with it. Now this New York couple is fighting against the clock to raise...
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Successful Birth from Decades-Old Frozen Embryo
For Tina and Benjamin Gibson of Eastern Tennessee, the birth of their daughter Emily on November 25th was a miracle long in the making. When the couple married seven years ago they understood that they...
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Northern England Offers New Moms Cash To Breastfeed Longer
Because physicians and health organizations worldwide have long encouraged breastfeeding as the best way to give balanced nutrition and provide infants with critical antibodies, it’s worrisome that...
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Landmark Double Hand Transplant for 8-Year-Old
The surgery and 18-month follow up of the first successful double-hand transplant has been reported in The Lancet Child and Adolescent Health journal. The surgery took place in July 2015 at Children’s...
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Road Warriors Aged 5 And 2 Go For A Joyride
Two young brothers, ages five and two, thought they knew how to drive and put their skills – learned from playing video games and watching their mom – to the ultimate test. They also knew that their...
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Scientists Reverse Brain Damage in Drowned Toddler
Using oxygen therapy, scientists accomplished what is thought to be a first: reversing brain damage in a toddler who drowned in a swimming pool. The accident happened in February 2016 when two-year-old...
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Miraculous Pre-Birth Surgery for Baby with Heart Defect
When baby Sebastian was born – pink and screaming – at Toronto’s Mount Sinai Hospital in May, his mother says that it was “the most amazing sound that I ever heard.” Kristine Barry had been prepped to...
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Abandoned Baby Twins Mistaken for Puppies
A passer-by mistakenly thought she had spotted abandoned puppies. But the woman and the group she was with took a closer look and realized that what they had stumbled across was even stranger: tiny...
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Fighting Inherited Disease with Embryo Gene Repair
A research team led by Oregon Health and Science University says that embryos can help fix themselves if scientists aid the process early enough. Their discovery is lab research only for now, and...
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Autism Research Could Help Alleviate Symptoms
Two classic symptoms of human autism are hyperactivity and deficit in social ability. Researchers from Stanford University believe that these key features reflect an imbalance of signals from...
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Chinese Woman Tries to Mail Baby to Orphanage
A baby girl is in stable condition at a hospital in Fuzhou, China, after her 24-year-old mother attempted to mail her – wrapped in plastic bags – to an orphanage. As the investigation into the incident...
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Study: Vitamin B3 Supplements Can Prevent Miscarriages
In a landmark new study, Australian researchers learned that many miscarriages and some birth defects are caused by lack of the molecule NAD, but simply taking vitamin B3 supplements can significantly...
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Baby Born in Halifax Grocery Store
The family of a baby who was born in a Halifax grocery store has been gifted by the Atlantic Superstore with a years’ worth of diapers for their newborn son Ezra. Not only was the birth location...
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Is There Increased Miscarriage Risk from Antibiotics in Early Pregnancy?
According to a new study published Monday in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, many classes of common antibiotics were associated with increased risk of miscarriage when used in early...
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Ontario’s Newborn Heart Defect Screening Can Save Lives
In a move expected to help hundreds of families each year, Ontario will screen babies for heart issues within hours of their birth. Some US states already have this screening procedure in place, but...
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Study Warns Against Amber Teething Necklaces
In 2010, Health Canada warned consumers about the dangers associated with amber teething necklaces, saying that all types of necklaces with strings, ribbons, chains and beads should never be placed on...
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Study: Pregnancy After Breast Cancer Is Safe
At the 2017 annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASOC) women heard some reassuring news about the long-term results of a breast cancer study. That comforting news? It appears to...
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Breast Feeding Can Reduce Chronic C-Section Pain
Current guidelines by the World Health Organization say that infants should be exclusively breast fed for the first six months of life in order to achieve “optimal growth, development and health.” In a...
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What Is Dry Drowning? What to Look For
Dry drowning – also known as secondary drowning – can occur when a person is on land. It’s the result of ingesting water that is left in the lungs and causes an edema, or swelling. When the air...
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Over 35? Pregnancy Complications to Watch For
The trend toward older parenthood continues, with recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) indicating that for the first time in three decades 2016 birth rates among women...
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Dropped from a Burning Grenfell Tower, Baby Caught and Saved
Like a scene from a Hollywood horror movie, stunned onlookers watched as Grenfell Tower in London was engulfed in flames. Helpless crowds below watched as faces appeared in windows along the higher...
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Marathon Surgery for Baby with Brain Growing Outside of Her Skull
A five-month-old girl named Ebrar, the child of a Syrian refugee who settled in Winnipeg, underwent a nine hour surgery at Children’s Hospital on Tuesday. Ebrar was born with a rare birth defect called...
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In-Flight Surprise! Woman Gives Birth on Spirit Airlines
Christina Penton was unconcerned about flying while heavily pregnant. She had already carried two babies to full term, so although she was 36 weeks pregnant when she boarded Spirit Airlines flight 972...
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Can Robots Surpass Humans in Helping Kids With Autism?
The development of robot-enhanced therapy for children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) is taking a step forward thanks to research from the University of Portsmouth and the DREAM project. DREAM is...
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The Fight to Save Baby Charlie Gard
On Tuesday, Chris Gard and Connie Yates were spending time with their son Charlie before his life support is turned off. Image via Facebook The British infant is suffering from a rare genetic disease...
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Woman on Life Support Gives Birth to Twins
With an emergency caesarean section, doctors successfully delivered healthy twins – a boy and a girl – to a brain-dead mother who had been kept alive for 123 days on life support. The 21-year-old...
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Warning Goes Viral: Toddler Trampoline Danger
In a powerful Facebook post that has gone viral, a mother of two warns about what can happen when a toddler plays on a trampoline. Sadly, Kait Ellen knows about that danger because of what happened to...
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Deadly Kiss: Baby Dies from Virus
On Tuesday a newborn baby girl lost her fight after catching a common virus shortly after being born earlier this month. Baby Mariana was born on July 1st and her joyful parents were married on July...
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