Health News

Hudson Cromwell, from Hanford, California, suffered a stroke when he was just 7 years old. The now-12-year-old was diagnosed because his mother, Kerry, who's a nurse, pushed doctors for a diagnosis after numerous CAT and MRI scans uncovered nothing was wrong with him. Pictured: Hudson (left) after surgery to relieve brain swelling due to the stroke in October 2012, Hudson (top right) with his parents, two brothers and sister in December 2017, and (bottom right) Hudson playing with birds in 2014.

Proponents of electro muscle stimulation workouts say they could revolutionize the fitness community by packing hours of results into a simple 20- to 30-minute workout. Celebrities who have tried the trend include models Ashley Graham (left), Elsa Hosk (top right) and Alessandra Ambrosio (bottom right) as well as Olympic gold medalist Usain Bolt (center).

Firms have to pay a levy of 18p a litre if drinks contain more than 5g of sugar per 100ml, or 24p a litre if more than 8g. The money will go to the Treasury and be put into school sports across the UK. The Government and health campaigners hope the higher prices will put people off buying the most sugar-laden drinks. MailOnline has today broken down what the sugar tax means to consumers - calculating roughly how much prices will go up.

Known only as Kaltoumi, she was given three months to live as the mass (pictured before surgery, left) restricted her eating and slowly suffocated her as it grew over five years. But she was saved after surgeons aboard the Africa Mercy - a hospital ship providing care to third world countries - docked in Cameroon to perform surgery. Kaltoumi - who can finally smile and eat properly (right) for the first time in five years - said after the surgery: 'It feels like a heaviness has been lifted from me.'

A traditional Chinese therapy method has been spruiked to help stimulate the flow of your body's energy, but now some experts say it could cure problem skin. If you suffer from severe acne, cupping, could help your pimple woes. The treatment involves a therapist putting special cups on your skin for a few minutes to create a suction (right).

Shannen Doherty, 46, went into remission in April 2017 after a two-year battle with breast cancer. In cases like Doherty's there is a six percent chance that the cancer will recur. On Instagram Tuesday she revealed a follow-up test found an elevated level of a tumor marker. As a result of the test Doherty said doctors will be monitoring her more closely. She is pictured left at an event in 2016, right during a doctor's appointment with her mom, and inset in the Instagram post where she announced the update.

Claudia Mitchell, 37, lost her arm at the shoulder in a motorcycle accident in 2004. After more than a decade of research trials a team at Cleveland Clinic developed a customized bionic prosthetic that can feel for her. Mitchell is pictured on the beach (left), while on active duty as a US Marine (top right) and holding playing cards in her prosthetic hands (bottom right).

Public Health England has once again called for parents to be aware of the contagious infection and to look out for signs of scarlet fever. Data released today by the Government agency shows there were 1,624 cases of scarlet fever recorded in the week ending April 1. The South East region of England was hit the hardest during the seven days - with 348 cases of the potentially fatal bug recorded. Some 277 cases of scarlet fever were noted in the North West and 191 in Yorkshire and the Humber, the statistics also reveal.

Holly Barrington's face around the eyes and nose swelled up (left) - despite wearing UV protection sunglasses during a trip to Tenerife last month. Doctors on the Spanish island told her the severe reaction was likely down to 'sun poisoning' - a term used for an aggressive case of sunburn. Miss Barrington (right and inset), a 20-year-old student at Salford University, assumed she had gone blind on the holiday with her father Simon, 47. She said: 'I looked horrendous, I couldn't even open my eyes because my face had blew up - I was so lucky I could fly home in the end.'

Jasmine Manuel (left), 22, who has Osteogenesis Imperfecta Type 3, can often be seen doing push-ups and crunches (pictured top and bottom right exercising) around Kennesaw State University, where she is a student. Ms Manuel, who makes music under the pseudonym 'Mini Producer', is even behind a social-media campaign, known as Rollout Fitness, that promotes fitness for disabled people.

Christine Lockton (left), 63, from Croydon, underwent a procedure that saw surgeons sitting at opposite ends of a robotic console, known as the da Vinci Xi (pictured right), while they performed the operation. The device allows doctors to see high-definition images (pictured inset) of patients' anatomies via an internal camera tube.

Reiko Quinlan (right), six, from Toronto, suffers from Osteogeneses Imperfecta Type Three, which causes him to endure agonising broken bones when he simply hugs his siblings or even just smiles at his mother (Jessica Quinlan, pictured left with her son). Referred to as Brittle Bone Disease, the condition has left Reiko, who had five fractures during birth (pictured inset as a newborn) and 80 in the first year of his life, the size of a toddler and unable to walk.

Carolyn Radford, 35, Dr Karen Morton, 63, and Jacqueline Lockie, 47, (pictured left to right) claim to be able to thrive on minimal sleep. Experts believe sleeping for less than three to four hours a night may cause long-term damage. Obstetrician Dr Karen, revealed she trained herself to need less sleep in order to meet the requirements of her job. Jacqueline believes reducing her sleep after child birth has given her more time to be productive. NHS guidelines say most people need six to nine hours of sleep a night to function and stay healthy.

Casey Saunders, 27, and her partner Eugene Goree welcomed daughters Maya and Laia on December 3. The girls are the second set of twins for the optometric technician who has 10-year-old twin boys, Hayden and Cameron. The chances of having two sets of identical twins are about one in 70,000. On top of the already tiny odds, the baby girls had a condition that only occurs with about one percent of twin pregnancies and can cause fatal complications in the womb. The whole family is pictured after coming home from the hospital (left), two sets of twins are pictured together (top right) and family is pictured during the pregnancy (bottom right).

Jax, Jesse-James and Joey Williams (Jax is pictured on the left in the left image), from Cardiff, were one-in-a-100 million when they were born as identical triplets (pictured bottom right: the triplets shortly after birth). But Jax was starved of oxygen due to a deadly infection - and left unable to walk next to his four-year-old triplet brothers. Now, his devoted brothers love to push his pram, bring him his toys and even give him a helping push in the swings at the park. Their family's ultimate dream is to one day run around together with brave Jax who suffers quadriplegic cerebral palsy. (the triplets are pictured top right with mother Annabelle and father James)

Toy company GIANTmicrobes is selling stuffed animals based on sexually transmitted diseases such as chlamydia, gonorrhea and HPV for STD Awareness Month in April. While they would make a great gag gift for anyone who wants to be able to say: 'I gave my girlfriend herpes,' experts say the toys are not likely to be very helpful in an educational setting. Three of the toys are pictured above (top) with a microscopic photo of the actual microbe (bottom).

The patient, whose name is unknown, had the scans taken at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh over a period of 18 months. They showed how her humerus, or 'funny bone', and her ulnar bone, in her forearm, were gradually fading into thin air. Doctors then diagnosed the woman with Gorham-Stout disease, sometimes referred to as 'vanishing bone disease'. (pictured are her X-rays, left at her first visit, centre after 12 months, and right after 18 months)

Chloe Hampton (left), 21, from west London, who started enduring hours of abdominal pain and nausea two years ago, was unable to keep her food down, leaving her weak and in and out of hospital searching for an explanation. After years of suffering daily symptoms, Ms Hampton was eventually diagnosed with gastroparesis, which causes nerves in the stomach to stop working properly. With no cure and doctors warning she would have a feeding tube fitted if she lost any more weight, Ms Hampton (pictured right at her lightest) spent years living on a cocktail of drugs, eating just nutritional shakes, eggs and yoghurt.

Super-strength doses of vitamin B1 could cure the shakes, scientists claim. The 'remarkable' treatment worked on two patients in their 70s - and stopped their tremors from playing havoc on their lives. Stunning video footage showed how thiamine, or vitamin B1, changed the lives of the two patients, who were plagued by the shakes. The life-changing injections – which provide 100 times more vitamin B than recommended - gave one man (pictured before, top left, and after, bottom left) the ability to drink a cup of tea again. (pictured top right, the woman before treatment, and bottom right, after)

Lily Baker (right), 95, from Middlesborough, was convinced the Queen's daughter had asked her to knit some clothing and sent a set of mufflers addressed to Anne (left) and her husband Sir Tim Laurence, and her daughter, Zara Tindall. The 95-year-old, helped by her family, sent the handmade knitted items to Buckingham Palace and last week she received a note (inset) thanking her for sending the knitted goods.

Don Wright (center) of Cincinnati, Ohio founded the Suicide Project after his son, Justin (left, right), took his own life last year at age 28. Wright and his former company hacked one of psychiatry's biggest problems, and now he is asking doctors, marketers, survivors and tech experts to come together to rethink the signs he missed in his own son.

Three cancer survivors announced yesterday that they will sue University Hospitals in Cleveland, where a cryogenic tank failure destroyed the eggs they had delayed their chemotherapy to freeze. Famed women's rights attorney Gloria Allred (*left) has taken up the cause of Rachel Mehl (top right), Sarah Deer (not pictured) and Danelle Yerkey (bottom right), who were among the 950 women who were informed last month that their last hopes for biological children had been dashed by the tank failure.

Kitty Witaschek was born with Down's syndrome, three heart defects, a stomach defect and an endocrine disorder in Boston, Massachusetts, on September 3. She's celebrating her seven-month birthday on Tuesday. Kitty's mother Bonnie, 36, calls her 'magic girl', and has documented the baby's journey on Instagram. Kitty is pictured left after her heart surgery at five weeks old, right with her mother Bonnie and inset on an ultrasound.

Emma Harbage (pictured), from Lichfield, Staffordshire, suffers from phenylketonuria - which means her liver is unable to break down phenylalanine. The crucial amino acid - a building block of protein - exists in meat, cheese and even aspartame, a controversial artificial sweetener commonly used in soft drinks. It is toxic to the brain of sufferers - meaning they have to adopt low-protein diets and avoid aspartame to prevent permanent brain damage or, in rare cases, death. Miss Harbage, 23, relies on an amino-acid supplement to combat the rare condition, which strikes roughly one in 10,000 people, according to NHS figures.

Konnie Rowe (left), of Burnham on Sea, Somerset, booked a check-up at Specsavers (pictured inset with her optician Rama Venkat) in October 2015 after experiencing headaches and struggling to watch TV. The 22-year-old expected to be told she needed stronger lenses - but her optician found a lump above her right eye and advised her to speak to her GP. Her doctor was concerned and booked her in for an emergency MRI scan, which discovered a cystic lesion - tumour - on her brain. Surgery (pictured right) removed the mass but Miss Rowe has been left partially sighted in her right eye and experiences numbness on the left side of her face.

Nine-month-old Muhammad Hammad (pictured left and right), from Khuzdar in Pakistan, suffers from hydrocephalus, which causes a build-up of fluid inside sufferers' skulls. Muhammad's head, which measures 25 inches in circumference, has left the infant immobile and unable to eat or sleep properly.

'My eyesight has been bad since I was eight. By my 30s I couldn't see my own face in the mirror without lenses or glasses. Then I heard about Professor Dan Reinstein at London Vision Clinic. He specialises in complex cases that other clinics won’t consider. Could he treat me?' writes Isabel Oakeshott (pictured).

When making a salad at home, it's easy to think that whatever you put into it, it's a healthy option. But one dietitian has recently shown that the calories in salads can vary in huge amounts. Taking to her Instagram page, Paula Norris (inset) explained how something that looks the same - or at least very similar - can in fact vary by as many as 460 calories (left and right).

Like any working mother, Victoria Black (left) and Maryanne O'Connor (right) struggled to find time to exercise after having children. As they juggled their busy work and family life, the two Sydney women lived off an unhealthy diet of convenience food. But determined to get on top of their weight once and for all, the pair turned to intermittent fasting - a diet where you 'fast' for two days and on the remaining five, you eat normally. And within months, the duo shed their post-baby weight after fasting their way to their dream dress sizes. Speaking to Daily Mail Australia, they offered a glimpse into how they transformed their bodies through intermittent fasting - and you can still enjoy wine, pizza and chocolate.

Willy McCue, 19, was hospitalized with the flu in early February in Rockland County, New York. The aspiring firefighter then developed pneumonia, an infection caused by complications from the flu, followed by sepsis, a life-threatening blood infection that kills 30 percent of patients. Doctors had to amputate both of McCue's feet, one hand and the fingers on the other hand. The teen is pictured ledt while on the job and bottom right during a high school football game.

The 'Condom Challenge' is reportedly making a comeback as teens post videos of themselves snorting unwrapped condoms through their nostrils and pulling the out of their mouths. Health experts warn that inhaling condoms is a serious choking hazard and that the spermicidal lube could cause an allergic reaction or infection.

Sam Pearson (pictured left with neurosurgeon Mike Carter), nine, from Chippenham, Wiltshire, was diagnosed with a mutation in the GNAO1 gene after suffering violent, flailing movements brought on by a chest infection in October 2015. After being put in an induced coma (right) in order to control his movements, doctors decided to fit Sam (pictured inset, believed to be after the procedure) with a Deep Brain Stimulator, which creates an electrical field that overrides the pathway causing the jerky movements.

Thousands of women suffering embarrassing bladder problems could be spared risky and invasive surgery thanks to a simple jab. Many women, such as Kate Winslett, pictured, suffer from the issue. A 2015 study published in the Central European Journal Of Urology looked at how effective injections were among 250 women after three years. It showed 82 per cent were either cured or had a significant improvement in their symptoms.

Today, at 75, I’ve tackled six Ironmans, seven triathlons, five duathlons and seven London Marathons. But when I took my first tentative steps towards a sportier life, I was a typical stressed-out mum, living just outside Northampton with Phil, pictured inset on their wedding day in 1964, and our teenage children – Steve, Gary and Kate. I ferried them around and worked long hours as a social worker. Without a shadow of a doubt, it was Phil who inadvertently pushed me into running at the age of 50 – and it was running that sustained me through my grief after he died, writes EDWINA BROCKLESBY.

The number of cosmetic surgeries performed on men has increased more than 325 percent between 1997 and 2015. Speaking with Daily Mail Online, plastic surgeons said more and more men are requesting nose jobs, lip injections and eyelid jobs. Some are even bringing in pictures of Brad Pitt, Jude Law and Tom Cruise for inspiration. Pictured: This is a fusion of Brad Pitt's eyes, Harry Styles' lips, Jude Law's nose and Henry Cavill's chin.

First grader Gavin Clampett, of Connecticut, experiences a variety of motor and vocal tics due to the neurological disorder, including grunting, exaggerated sniffing and blinking. He also has high-functioning autism and OCD. His nine-year-old sister Brynn (right) and their mother helped him make a video about his ticks. They hope it will teach those who stare at him and taunt him about his condition.

EXCLUSIVE: For rugby legend Jonny Wilkinson (pictured left recently, and right during a match in 2007), his epic battle with injury is almost as famous as his breathtaking performance that led England to Rugby World Cup victory in 2003 (pictured holding the trophy inset with a teammate). Dogged by dozens of setbacks, there were times when he spent more time off the pitch during his professional playing days than on it. Just weeks after propelling England to glory, he sustained a serious shoulder injury that was the start of an endless spiral of rehab and relentless frustration to get back out on the pitch. It was a dark time for the former fly-half, who has spoken openly about battling depression during this dark time. �It wasn’t just my body that was falling apart– my mental health was really suffering too and I was regularly taking sleeping pills,’ he told MailOnline.

Felix Davidson (left), from Northumberland, is believed to be one of just 300 people in the world who suffers from cardiofaciocutaneous syndrome (CFC). The rare genetic condition struck his joints, making them overly flexible, and doctors warned he may never walk in his life. But Felix's quick-thinking teachers recorded the precious clip of him walking, which his emotional parents have branded a miracle. Julia (right), who has two other children, praised the staff for grabbing an iPhone to record the moment her 'incredible' son walked.

Mike Marjama, 28, catcher for the Seattle Mariners baseball team, shared his story of overcoming eating disorders that began in middle school in a short documentary released this week. He is one of 10 million men in the US who struggle with eating disorders, which have the highest mortality rate of any mental illness. He is pictured left in the film, right on the field and inset during a workout.

Easter is a time to indulge in hot cross buns and plenty of chocolate guilt-free but new graphics reveal how long you need to exercise for to work off Easter favourites. They show how it would take a 30-minute run to burn off one hot cross bun, 15 minutes of burpees for one Creme Egg, two spin classes to burn off the 524 calories in a Lindt chocolate bunny. One kettlebell class would work off the 445 calories in a bag of Mini Eggs, while it would take more than two hours of push ups for one Easter egg, and 30 minutes of hot yoga for one Malteaser bunny, the infographics state.

Peter Fonagy, head of the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families, of which the Duchess is royal patron, opened up to People magazine, about the inspiration behind Kate's favoured projects.