‘What this research shows is that some babies don’t have this same robust arousal response. James was born a healthy 8 lb 8 oz on February 23, 2016, and showed no signs of ill-health. Yet two months later, Susie learned that those cuddles had caused irreparable damage to her son’s tiny body. He was, effectively, born without an immune system, making the mildest cold potentially fatal.

An update by EU health chiefs on Wednesday said there had been 11 casualties worldwide but a 12th suspected death was announced in Ireland on Thursday. The reaction, a cell death known as pyroptosis which is linked to inflammation, is thought to occur in roughly eight out of ten patients hospitalised with Covid. They look like high-tech smart speakers or designer coffee tables and come with grand claims they can purge rooms of harmful pollutants, allergens, bacteria, fungal spores and even the Covid virus. Air purifiers – which suck in a room’s air and filter it before pumping it back out – are must-haves for health-conscious consumers, it seems. A survey from the Government’s Office for Product Safety and Standards found one in 12 Britons owned one. Many said they made the purchase – often costing hundreds of pounds – due to concerns about air pollution and, of course, Covid.

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Applications for funding have opened for VCSE organisations who support women experiencing reproductive issues to remain in or return to the workplace. He believes he was exposed to asbestos while renovating his iconic shop Sex on Chelsea’s Kings Road. Women with bulging waistlines beware, a Canadian study has found every extra two inches on your waist increases your risk of breaking a bone in your leg by 7 per cent. Stocks of chlorphenamine maleate, an active ingredient in Piriton medication and other such remedies, are widely limited, according to Boots. Joseph Sigmon, 37, from North Carolina, was diagnosed with tinnitus after returning from the battlefield in 2013. The father-of-two claims the condition – which can be sparked by prolonged exposure to loud sounds – was due to faulty ear plugs.

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The total number of monkeypox cases confirmed in the UK in recent days has now risen to seven. The magnetic marker liquid and detection tool can help guide surgeons to spot cancerous tissue so it can be removed without damaging surrounding healthy tissue. The Health Foundation and the King’s Fund urge Yorkshire, Midlands and North East MPs to protect constituents from crippling care costs in key parliamentary vote. DHSC is a ministerial department, supported by 25 agencies and public bodies.

• The father-of-two claims the condition – which can be sparked by prolonged exposure to loud sounds – was due to faulty ear plugs.
• Introducing mandatory menopause training in medical schools could prevent thousands of women from being misdiagnosed – and also save the NHS huge sums of money.
• The Food and Drug Administration is set to approve COVID-19 vaccine booster shots for children as young as five years old as early as Tuesday, the New York Times reports.
• The number of safety incidents logged by ambulance trusts in England has skyrocketed 77 per cent in the last year compared to before the pandemic, official figures show.
• Honoure Stark of Toronto, Canada, initially dismissed an ‘unusual spot’ on her forehead she found in 2008 as eczema, until it began to eat away at her flesh, which prompted her to visit a doctor.

But Dutch scientists are already experimenting on expanding this technology to go further and create a bionic eye. They are working on an brain implant that would use the camera on the glasses to take a picture and transmit it wirelessly to a tiny chip installed on a blind person’s visual cortex. The visual cortex is the part of the brain that translates messages normally received by the eye into images.

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Introducing mandatory menopause training in medical schools could prevent thousands of women from being misdiagnosed – and also save the NHS huge sums of money. Dr Jonathan Oliver, a public health expert at Minnesota University, warned that many cases were undiagnosed because symptoms may not be triggered for up to 12 hours. Manufacturers of the UK’s most commonly used drugs are struggling with a ‘perfect storm’ of rising costs of raw materials and delays of up to 18 months to secure approvals from the medicines regulator. Michael White , from Fleet in Hampshire, lost all four limbs due to a rare inflammatory condition, but was able to shoot some pool and take a sip of ice cold beer thanks to his new robotic limb. He was diagnosed with Behçet’s syndrome and between 2012 and 2017, a condition that causes the immune system to mistakenly attack healthy tissue and affects just 1,000 people in the UK. Abigail Beck, 15, from Tucson, Arizona, was last month diagnosed with aquagenic urticaria – a condition that causes hives when skin comes into contact with water.

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There has only been one documented case of a womb being inserted into a trans woman in the past – but she died from complications just months later. Impregnating a trans woman would be an even bigger feat, and would require the use of IVF and a C-section, because they do not have a functioning vagina. Dr Narendra Kaushik, who runs a gender reassignment clinic in New Delhi, has said he is ‘very, very optimistic’ he can make a success of the procedure.