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Mother-of-five with stage 4 lung cancer climbs Andes with daughter for one last trip with

Isabella de la Houssaye, 55 (left), was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer in January 2018. It was a shock to the mother-of-five, who had never smoked, never drank and lived an incredibly active lifestyle. During treatment, she decided she wanted to have one last adventure with each of her five children. In January of this year, she and her daughter Bella Crane, 22, decided to hike up to the top of Mount Aconcagua, the highest mountain not in the Himalayas. The climb takes about two weeks and requires battling temperatures as low as -40F. De la Houssaye and Bella reached the peak, which is elevated at nearly 22,300 feet (right).

Hospitals in Lithuania are to begin advertising operations to patients in the UK

Health Tourism Lithuania (inset, a grab from its website) claims it has been inundated with enquiries from Britons frustrated at having to wait months for routine treatment. The body has now revealed that, from next month, it will target patients across the home nations with Facebook and Google adverts. NHS data revealed a total of 4.23million people in England were waiting for hospital treatment in March – the longest the waiting list has ever been. Reda Ambrozaite, one of the founders of Health Tourism Lithuania, claimed the NHS crisis is tempting scores of patients to seek care abroad (pictured right, the red is one clinic HTL claims to work with). In March, it was reported an 86-year-old man went to Lithuania to have his hip replaced because he was afraid he would die waiting for op on the NHS. Instead of shelling out for private surgery in the UK, Peter Gaillard (left), from Wales, had the life-changing procedure for £6,000 – and the NHS paid him back for it.

The unnamed patient, from Canada, revealed he drunk an 'erk sous' extract up to twice a day for two weeks before going to hospital with dangerously high blood pressure.

The trial of 952 participants was led by researchers at the Medical Research Institute of New Zealand (MRINZ). The volunteers used either an anti-viral cream or honey.

Cosmetic 'tweakments' to banish bingo wings and build biceps at the same time

Statistics released last week showed that some 28,000 people in the UK underwent cosmetic surgery in 2018 - about half the number in 2013. Instead, the choice these days seems to be ‘tweakments’: smaller procedures with, hopefully, subtle, natural results. Here are some of the latest advances, and what the experts had to say about them. They include EMsculpt (left) - which hones muscles by blasting them with electromagnetic energy; top right, a device from Renuvion, for non-surgical skin tightening and resurfacing. It emits a heated helium gas from a needle-like handpiece; and bottom right, the Recross rotational fractional resection, which tightens lax, wrinkly skin without cutting and stitching.

Kacper Krauze, of Appleby, Cumbria, fell into a freezing river in February. He was saved 25 minutes later when paramedics restarted his heart. He was in a coma for three weeks.

Girl, 15, delighted because NHS made a life-changing drug available

Abbie Bolt, 15, from Minster in Kent, suffers from spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) and has to be hooked up to a machine throughout the night to help her breathe. She is wheelchair-bound because of the crippling condition and struggles to find the strength to perform routine tasks such as brushing her hair. Now she may be able to access Spinraza (left), after health officials approved the drug in England and Wales following a negotiating deadlock which lasted 17 months. Abbie's mother, Mel (pictured together right), said the drug – thought to cost £450,000 for a patient's first year's supply - should 'have been made available in the first place'.

Regularly smoking cannabis can affect teenagers so severely that they end up three years behind their classmates in terms of brain development, a landmark study has found.

Called APPA, the pill is based on anti-inflammatory compounds found in peonies – flowers that brighten up flowerbeds in late spring and summer.

Anorexia sufferer, 51, has been denied crucial treatment by NHS

Angela Whiteford, a mother-of-two from South London, suffers from anorexia - the eating disorder with the highest mortality rate of any mental illness: it kills one in ten victims. What began as a diet to lose her post-pregnancy weight in 1994 quickly spiralled into a life-threatening illness. Now, 25 years on, it has destroyed more than half of her life. (Angela is pictured, left, and aged 18, before she developed anorexia.) NHS figures seen exclusively by The Mail on Sunday show one in five patients hospitalised for eating disorders in 2018 were aged over 40. Since 2012, the number of inpatients aged over 40 has doubled to almost 4,000, a much bigger increase than in those under 18.

When someone has acute depression and is unable to get out of bed, counselling is not the right approach. Instead, they should be referred to the local Crisis mental health team, says DR ELLIE.

Plaguing almost a million British women, the relatively unknown ailment known as lichen sclerosus causes severe inflammation and irritation in the area on or near the genitals.

The curve-enhancing surgery that kills one in 3,000 of those who try it

Dessiree (pictured left) – we are only told her first name – is the face, and body, of a new ad campaign from cosmetic medicine giant Allergan, the company behind the famous anti-wrinkle jab Botox. A quote from Dessiree, billed as an ‘actual aesthetic surgery patient’, sits beside her picture, which neatly explains the procedure she has allegedly undergone. ‘I was so excited. I had no idea my fat could be transferred to another area of my body,’ she says. However, fat transfer is one of the riskiest cosmetic operations, linked to permanent disfigurement, blindness, and a significant chance of a rapid, agonising death. The most common areas for fat to be injected are the lips, cheeks or into the bottom to create a pert, lifted effect – emulating the silhouettes of reality star Kim Kardashian (right), and singers Jennifer Lopez and Beyoncé (although none of them have admitted to having buttock enhancing surgery).

DR MAX THE MIND DOCTOR: I spent a summer holiday working in a nursing home, where I saw elderly people, many of whom had dementia, being treated in utterly sickening ways.

Researchers based at Griffith University, Brisbane, gave rats a diet abundant in linoleic acid for 10 weeks. They ate the equivalent of three times more than they should.

Muscular dystrophy toddlers are given hope with new wonder drug Spinraza

Last week, NHS England announced that the drug, Spinraza, would be available to treat the genetic disease that affects an estimated 1,300 British children and adults. The condition, which robs the body’s muscles of their power, varies in severity. The worst and most common form, called type 1, usually leads to death within the first two to four years of life. Less severe types can still cause lifelong suffering, with few able to walk unaided. Two-year-old Hune Gascoigne (pictured; also with her mother, Zeedee Sawyer-Hartley, 27, and Zeedee's partner Ben Gascoigne, 30), from Stoke-on-Trent, was one of the first patients in England to benefit from the new drug.

It is well known that people who sleep fewer than five hours a night can expect memory problems but a UCL study found the same effects in those who get a healthy-sounding nine hours a night.

Mother-of-four Jessica Davies, 33, from Pembrokeshire, Wales, was seven months old when she was involved in a house fire which left her with severe burns across 65 per cent of her body.

Man woke up with a baseball-sized lump on his elbow caused by flesh-eating bacteria 

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT - Chris Gordon, 44, a teacher in New Ulm, Minnesota, woke up in March 2015 with a lump on his elbow. At first he was dismissed, but his condition deteriorated. He was airlifted to the Mayo Clinic where he was diagnosed with necrotizing fasciitis, a bacterial infection that destroys skin, fat and tissues around the muscles. Once he was diagnosed, he required 65 days in hospital to save his life.

New Jersey officials confirmed on Friday that a traveler at Newark Liberty International Airport on May 8 had measles, potentially exposing thousands, as outbreaks surge in New York City/

Trendy food alternatives that may or may not be better for you

Pizzas, puddings, crisps – they are just a few of our favourite ‘guilty pleasures’. But now the lines between healthy and unhealthy choices are becoming increasingly blurred, thanks to the latest drive to ‘health up’ our favourite treats with surreptitious use of superfoods or other virtuous-sounding ingredients. Take, for example, chocolate mousse made with avocado. Is it a salad or pudding, or something in between? And is posh-sounding cacao (pronounced ca-cow) better for us than cocoa, or just a ploy to sell us a more expensive version of chocolate? From chickpea puffs to cauliflower rice, the Mail on Sunday reveals how these ‘healthy alternatives’ compare with our well-loved favourites.

Stephen Hsu, co-founder of Genomic Prediction at Michigan State University, insists that, while it is currently not allowed in many countries including the US and the UK, we will soon come around.

The 85 million American families that have pets are at a greater risk of developing IBS than are non-animal lovers, according to new East Tennessee State University research.

Dr Michael Mosley shows how to beat chronic pain simply by breathing

'Controlled breathing' can be an important part of treatment for managing chronic pain and stress. By taking long, deep breaths, you are forcing your diaphragm - the big muscle that lies beneath the lungs - downwards, making your belly expand. This reduces tension and stress. There are lots of different deep breathing exercises you can try. Here are three I’ve used, which advocates say may help you cope with pain, says Dr Mosley (pictured) - namely, three-four-five breathing; four square breathing; and alternative nostril breathing.

A new study on 6,985 people over 50 found life purpose lowered their risk of early death. People with a sense of purpose are more likely to go to the doctor and engage in healthier habits.

The life-threatening fungal infection Candida auris has struck over 600 people in 12 US states, prompting doctors to call for new guidelines and one senator to ask for a federal state of emergency to be declared.

Ronaldo accused of promoting £350 fitness sham SIXPAD toning belts

Ronaldo (pictured left. in an advert for the devices) is the ambassador for SIXPAD, a Japanese tech company which specialises in 'electric muscle stimulation' (EMS) products. Health experts said the football icon was misleading his fan base by promoting £350 toning belts (bottom left) that give the illusion they build muscle. They come in the form of training belts (top right, the £230 Abs Fit 2) that zap currents into muscles after being wrapped around users' abs, arms and legs. The £1.8billion firm reportedly raked in more than £315million in revenue last year with the Juventus star's rock-hard abs plastered on its website and flagship store in Westfield Shopping Centre, West London (bottom right). But experts have told MailOnline that, while the equipment is effective for recovery, it does nothing for muscle growth.

A monthly injection of erenumab, the first new migraine drug for 20 years, was approved in Scotland in April. But in a blow to more than 500,000 people, NHS watchdog NICE rejected it in England.

A review by Sir Mike Richards, the NHS's former cancer director, has already found computer systems used by the health service in England are not up to standard for running the programmes.

More than 2,000 pre-schools in China use robots which take photos of children's hands to spot signs of illness and slow the spread of illnesses, but experts in the UK are sceptical.

Dog owners are suffering hand injuries because they’re holding their leads wrong

Experts at the British Society for Surgery of the Hand say they are regularly having to treat fractures, lacerations and dislocated fingers among people injured while walking their dogs. A single hospital - Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust – treated 30 serious hand injuries caused by 'dog lead or collar misuse' in just one year, the society reports. Pictured: How you shouldn't hold the lead (left) and how you should (right).

The non-governmental organisation Mercy Corps said authorities are not containing the deadly virus in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo now the death toll is rising faster than before.

The 54-year-old woman - who has not been named - had previously reacted to metallic jewellery. An allergy patch test at Tokushima University, Japan, revealed she could not tolerate nickel.

Pregnant woman threw up 50 times a day due to crippling illness that affects one in 100

Hannah Dalton from Benfleet, Essex, was diagnosed with hyperemesis gravidarum, which left her bed-bound and unable to hold down food for the first six months of her pregnancy. The 30-year-old was confined to a wheelchair (pictured left) for the final three months and had to relearn how to walk after her second daughter Alexandra (inset) was born. Mrs Dalton threw up 50 times a day, with the faintest of smells and even noises triggering vomiting episodes. The business analyst became so malnourished from not being able to eat that clumps of her hair fell out. Pictured right: The mother mustered the strength to stand up with her first daughter Elizabeth toward the end of the pregnancy.

Research from Queen Mary University in London found doctors were seeing Spanish flu for years before it exploded into a pandemic which infected a third of the world's population.

Nurses are told to put up with sexual harassment - including rape threats and being followed in their cars - at work by NHS bosses, Royal College of Nursing congress in Liverpool heard.

Public Health England urges parents to vaccinate their children against measles

PHE said its renewed call was triggered by concerns about outbreaks of the virus, which can kill children if they aren't protected. Measles cases in England have more than doubled in the last two quarters, with 231 confirmed reports in the first quarter of 2019. In comparison, PHE data shows there was just 97 cases in the last quarter of 2018, and 143 confirmed reports in the quarter before. 'Measles can kill and it is incredibly easy to catch, especially if you are not vaccinated,' said PHE's head of immunisation, Dr Mary Ramsay.

Scientist behind anti-vaxxers' favorite study says 'it's just not even a valid' 

The scientists who published a study a decade ago that linked a gene variant to 'adverse events' in response to smallpox shots say the study, is not 'valid' by today's standards. The research is often cited by anti-vaxxers as a justification for a 'medical' exemptions to shots, but it was only regarding smallpox vaccines and the authors are asking the journal that published it to clarify that the findings don't hold up today.

With more than 10 million American children attending summer day and overnight camps, camp owners and industry associations said they are urging parents to follow medical experts' advice.

State Sen. Richard Pan, D-Sacramento, left, receives congratulations from Southern California Democratic state Sen. Bob Archuleta, right, after his measure to toughen the rules for vaccination exemptions was approve by the Senate, Wednesday, May 22, 2019, in Sacramento, Calif. The bill, SB276, gives state public health officials instead of local doctors the power to decide which children can skip their shots before attending school. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

California lawmakers moved ahead Wednesday with tougher rules that limit parents from choosing whether to vaccinate their.children by putting state health officials in charge of the decision.

The Royal College of Nursing in the UK has said parents should be educated about the benefits of vaccines instead of being berated for being sceptical about them.

Boy who needed in-utero heart surgery celebrates his first birthday 

Sara Toner, 21, from Spokane, Washington, was six months pregnant when she learned her son, Tyler (left and right), had hypoplastic left heart syndrome. This is a heart defect that makes it difficult for blood to flow through the body properly. Doctors told Toner that if she didn't immediately have in-utero surgery, her son's survival rate was below 10%. Surgeons at Boston Children Hospital performed at least five surgeries in which they inserted a tiny balloon in his valve to allow for blood flow. The surgeries increased Tyler's survival rate to 60% and he was born in May 2018. He's had six surgeries since birth, but has continued to thrive and just celebrated his first birthday.

A study by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health analysed children's pollution exposure from the womb to age seven, finding that boys working memory was affected by high levels.

Moms secretly infiltrate online groups that promote feeding children BLEACH to 'cure' them

Melissa Eaton, 39 (right), of Salisbury, North Carolina, and Amanda Seigler, 38 (left), of Lake Worth, Florida, have been infiltrating online groups. The groups suggest that feeding children chlorine dioxide, an industrial strength bleach, can 'cure' autism. It was popularized by former Chicago real estate agent Kerri Rivera, who claims to have reversed autism symptoms in more than 500 children. Eaton and Seigler, who each have an autistic child, take screenshots of the posts and notify local child protection agencies of child abuse. Poison control centers have warned that the chemical can irritate the eyes and skin, and even lead to a build-up of fluid in the lungs.

Studies show ingredients can be more (or less) beneficial depending on what you eat them with. Rob Hobson, a UK-based nutritionist, lays out what to avoid and what to go for.

A man known only as Sakthivel had the 5kg tumour removed in a 10-hour operation after spending most of his life too scared and low on money to have the life-changing surgery.

The recall, issued on Wednesday, involves short ribs, brisket, ribeyes, and more. It comes days after a top hot dog vendor recalled 2,000 pounds of frankfurters after finding bits of metal in them.

Tracy Richardson, 55, from Wallingford, Oxfordshire had been plagued by debilitating headaches since 2014 which left her bed-ridden for days and struggling to work.

Three ME patients reveal the accusations they have endured

It's a controversial condition that has been swept under the carpet for decades amid claims that it is merely psychological. Instead, the now-proven truth is myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) is physical - and not just made up by mentally-ill patients. Before being struck down by ME, Jennifer Chittick (left) was out-going, hard-working and excited about her future as a primary school teacher. Now, a decade after falling ill, the 31-year-old is weaker than ever, completely bed-bound and reliant on her retired parents to care for her. For years doctors told Jo Moss (right) she was suffering from anxiety and depression or that she would be less tired if she didn't sleep so much. Now, 13 years after she was diagnosed with ME, the 44-year-old has been too weak to get out of bed for six years and doctors still don't know how to help her. And it’s been two years since a coroner ruled ME was to blame for the death of young drama student Merryn Crofts (centre with her mother). But her devastated mother, Clare Norton, says the unjustified stigma and lack of knowledge surrounding the cruel condition remains a major issue.

The UK's Competition and Markets Authority has accused pharmaceutical firms Alliance, Focus, Lexon and Medreich of breaking competition law by setting up a controlled supply of a medicine.

Woman had 30 amputations in six years because of poor blood circulation

Sarah Cox (pictured left with husband Rob and son James), 32, was diagnosed with an aggressive form of Raynaud's disease, which cuts off the blood circulation to her hands and feet, aged 17. The mother also suffers from scleroderma and lupus, two conditions which cause the immune system to destroy healthy cells. She was medically retired from her job as emergency call operator with the police in 2011 and has been forced to have most of her fingers and a toe amputated (top right, her fingers before and after amputation) to relieve the pain. Mrs Cox, from Kingswood, Bristol, was told she'd likely never have a child because the stress of pregnancy on her organs could kill her. But the defiant mother went on to marry, join the police force and have a child (bottom left, James looking after his mother in hospital).

Mum of epileptic boy whose seizures are eased by cannabis reveals he'll run out of the

Billy Caldwell's mother Charlotte, from County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, appeared on This Morning today to slam health officials as 'cruel' as she revealed her son, 13, will run out of prescribed medical cannabis tomorrow - with a new prescription unlikely without a fresh battle. (Pictured from left: Charlotte Caldwell on This Morning today, right Billy backstage at the ITV studios)

The unnamed man, believed to be from Greece, was visiting the casino every day. Other impulsive behaviours linked to medication include shopping and sex.

Cancer and dementia will drive up the numbers needing palliative care in most countries globally, including the US and the UK, according to a new study published in The Lancet.

Heartbreaking moment brain dead baby girl is taken on her final journey to donate her

Coralynn Sobolik, who was 22 months old, was kissed goodbye by her mother, Meagan Sobolik, 29, who says, 'I'll love you forever'. In the tear-jerking video, doctors and nurses line the corridors to honour Coralynn while singing Amazing Grace. Coralynn, of New Hampton, Iowa, had been declared brain dead just one day earlier after a brief five-day battle with parainfluenza. Complications from the illness meant she suffered cardiac arrest three times before being declared brain dead. Three people will be saved by Coralynn, whose life support was turned off on April 22 before she donated her heart, liver and kidneys. (Pictured left, Coralynn before she was ill, and right, nurses in the hospital as Coralynn is wheeled into surgery).

George Hobbs, of Kent, had a fall in August 2018 and later saw a growth from the wound. The grandfather is furious he had to visit his GP three times before being referred to specialists.

Girl born with 14 fingers undergoes life-changing surgery to correct the defect

The unidentified three-year-old, from China, was treated at the Central Hospital of Shenyang Medical College, in the north-eastern province of Liaoning. Medics promised the procedure would not affect the child’s development, and would preserve both the function and aesthetics of her hands (pictured before surgery left). Hand surgery specialist Dr Zhan Jie, who operated on her, said: 'The girl had two extra fingers on each hand - quite a rare patient.' Pictured bottom right shows a scan of her left hand, with two bones coming out of the enlarged digit. The surgery was complicated by the fact that the fingers we wanted to keep and those we wanted to remove weren’t clear and obvious.' (pictured top right, her right hand after surgery, and bottom left during surgery)

As many as 10million people in rural Britain live in 'healthcare deserts'. They struggle to get access to GP appointments, community hospitals and nursing homes.

Doctors at University College London found vapers were 95 per cent more likely to be successful than those not using the gadgets in their attempts to kick the habit.

Scientists in London say those in higher education tend to be healthier, with lower BMI, blood pressure and likelihood of smoking protecting them from cardiovascular disease.

Hundreds of lives at risk because Ebay is selling dangerous smoke alarms that don't detect

An investigation by Which? found four smoke alarms listed on eBay and Wish.com (pictured) failed to sound in every house fire test. The devices, among the most popular and affordable online, are useless in real fire scenarios and put lives at risk, the study found. The alarms made up 171 of the cheapest 500 listings for smoke detectors on eBay. On Wish.com, 28 out of 200 listings were for three of the alarms that completely failed to detect smoke in the tests. All of the devices were unbranded, made in China and sold through Chinese re-sellers.

Data on stroke events and deaths between 2001 and 2010 were analysed. Oxford scientists said the findings suggest prevention efforts are failing those under 55.

Researchers from the University of Geneva tested sperm samples from more than 2,500 men to find only 38 per cent of them had sperm quality which matched up to global health standards.

BBC newsreader Jane Hill revealed her battle with breast cancer as she returned to work

Newsreader Jane Hill, 49, has revealed that she has been treated for breast cancer. Jane, who lives in north London, returned to BBC1’s News at One for the first time since November today (pictured main). In a series of tweets she said that she has been 'overwhelmed by so many lovely back-to-work messages' (inset) and added that her pass didn't work when she tried to get into the building this morning.

A study, led by the USC Marshall School of Business, found women performed better on math and verbal tests when room temperature was warmer, but men did better with cooler temperatures.

The processed foods of the Western diet can cause weight gain and new Tufts University research breaks down what foods are linked to which cancers, finding the low grain intake is highest risk.

Your face and nipples are teeming with mites: Tiny eight-legged creatures feast on our skin oils and mate while we sleep

Your face and nipples are teeming with mites. Demodex, as they are called, are tiny creates that live near hair follicles - including the fine, invisible facial and nipple hair on all of us. They feed off the oils on your skin and mate while you sleep. A microscopic gif gives a visceral idea of how these bugs spend their time on your face: wriggling their eight legs and puckering its 'mouth', through which it ingests oils and skin cells. You will rarely see symptoms of your 'demodex infestation', but they can be a contributing factor to skin issues like acne.

A new report from the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics has found that heart disease deaths decreased by 22 percent from 1999 to 2011, and then rose four percent from 2011 to 2017.

Since January, a salmonella outbreak has been sweeping across the US, sickening 52 people across 21 states. In interviews, 23 people said they came into contact with live poultry.

Man who had all four limbs amputated calls for...

Tom Ray (pictured without his prosthetics right, and left with his wife Nic and inset on their wedding day in 1998) was fit and healthy and living in Rutland in the East Midlands before he contracted sepsis at the age of 38 in 1999. He spent three months in a coma during which time his wife Nic gave birth to their second child Fred, a brother for Grace. Due to his illness, the family lost their business and had to sell their home. Mr Ray's sepsis – caused by a cut to his gum during a trip to the dentist, combined with a chest infection – came on rapidly and led to vomiting and a high temperature. He fell into a coma and when he awoke he could not recognise his wife.

The opioid and teen suicide epidemics may be linked, according to new University of Chicago Medical Center research that found that kids whose parents have the drugs are at double the risk.

Researchers in Taipei found that about 0.7 percent of people with bipolar disorder develop Parkinson's - compared to just 0.1 percent of people without the mood disorder, according to a new study.

The seven-hour footage of Janet Jenkins´s operation has been condensed into a four-minute 360-degree video (Cancer Research UK/PA)

Professor Tim Underwood, a surgeon at University Hospitals Southampton, was filmed doing the life-saving operation on Janet Jenkins, who needed her stomach reconnecting to her throat.

Couriers, including cyclists, deliver blood to more than 50 hospitals in London and the south-east. Their employment union said their hours had been cut and contracts changed.

Maine has confirmed one case of measles in a vaccinated child, making it the 25th state in the US struck by the nationwide outbreak this year, health officials confirmed on Wednesday.

Since January 2018, there have been 171 cases of hepatitis A reported in 36 counties in Pennsylvania. This year alone, there have been more than 60 cases confirmed of the liver disease.

Woman, 51, with 34GG breasts claims tight-fitting underwire bras left her with hole in her

Lynne McConnell, from Glasgow, had been wearing underwire bras (pictured holding one, left) - which are fitted with a thin strip of rigid material under the breasts - for 15 years. But in June last year a painful 'pea-shaped' lump formed in the middle of her chest. Mrs McConnell went to A&E; when the lump quickly grew into a huge, rock-hard cyst (top left). She was prescribed antibiotics when doctors mistook the cyst for an abscess caused by infection. But the tablets didn't work and she was forced to go to her local breast clinic a month later. She had to have the lump lump surgically removed, leaving her with an open wound (right) that couldn't be stitched up, needed dressing daily and took three months to heal.

Researchers from the University of Aberdeen visited all the hospitals in a major UK city and took note of the types of food and drink shops, cafes and vending machines were selling.

The £3.99 salad, launched in UK stores this month as part of the chain's new summer menu, poses a deadly risk to those allergic to milk and dairy products.

Charity accuses celebrity mothers of promoting unsafe baby sleep

British charity The Lullaby Trust has said influential mothers need to be careful what they post to their millions of followers because they may be promoting unsafe sleeping practices for babies. Kim Kardashian, Hilary Duff and Amy Childs, who have more than 150million Instagram followers between them – 139m of whom follow Kim – have all shared pictures on social media of their babies sleeping with loose bedding, on soft surfaces or while wearing hats. These may all increase the risk of sudden infant death syndrome, known as cot death, which kills five babies per day in the UK, according to the charity.

Honor Stanmore was kept awake all night 'scratching until she bled' due to the chronic skin condition. But her skin has cleared up after taking part in a NHS research trial at Oxford's Churchill Hospital.

Dementia app which uses how-to videos wins £100,000 in funding

Alzheimer's Society has awarded £100,000 each to the 'How do I?' app (see right) and Juice Drops (see inset). The app reminds sufferers how to boil a kettle, for example, with 'how to' videos. Lewis Hornby created Juice Drops, sweets that are 90 per cent water, when his grandmother Pat, pictured left, was hospitalised with dehydration. The charity said the ideas could help up to 120,000 people in the UK living alone with dementia.

Arizona woman born without arms learned to fly plane with just her FEET and became

Jessica Cox, 36 (left and right), from Phoenix, Arizona, was born with no arms. Doctors have not been able to understand why she didn't develop arms in her mother's womb. It's not been confirmed, but it's believed that Cox was likely born with amelia, a rare condition in which one or more limbs doesn't form. In 2005, Cox began training to fly airplanes with dual controls, with one foot on the yoke and the other on the throttle. Cox became certified in October 2008 by the Federal Aviation Administration to fly an Ercoupe, a light aircraft with a single engine.

The 'Moms + Marijuana' project at the University of Washington School of Medicine is the latest in a string of studies racing to deliver some concrete information as cannabis use increases all over.

Over 90 percent of the world's children live in highly-polluted areas, and University of Cincinnati brain scans revealed that those who do have greater anxiety and higher levels of a particular metabolite.

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