A single mother spent five months in hospital after an abscess on her tooth led to a life-threatening infection on her brain. Rebecca Dalton, 35, suddenly saw her ‘personality change completely’ in March and thought she was suffering a mental breakdown. She had just finished a course of antibiotics for a small abscess on her upper … Read more
Children with a rare, life-threatening inflammatory condition linked to coronavirus may be suffering from a pediatric version of the ‘cytokine storm’ blamed for the deaths of many adult patients, suggests a new study. Kids have largely been spared from severe COVID-19 but they’re not immune and, in April, a disturbing trend emerged: children were testing … Read more
Children with a rare, life-threatening inflammatory condition linked to coronavirus may be suffering from a pediatric version of the ‘cytokine storm’ blamed for the deaths of many adult patients, suggests a new study. Kids have largely been spared from severe COVID-19 but they’re not immune and, in April, a disturbing trend emerged: children were testing … Read more
A weather phenomenon that triggers torrential rain could cause a spike in diarrhoea cases among African children, a study shows. Researchers found rates of the illness – which kills thousands of youngsters in Africa every year – soared by a third in a region worst-hit by La Niña. La Niña occurs between every three and seven … Read more
Being obese may double the risk of needing hospital treatment for the coronavirus, according to a major study. British scientists trawled through data for more than 428,000 people who were part of the UK Biobank. Some 340 of those tested positive for COVID-19 in hospital – one of the only places to access a test … Read more
A woman had to have her finger amputated after a manicure left her with a life-threatening infection that was eating away at her ‘finger and bone’. Jose Jackson, 57, from Carmarthen, Wales, had to get the top of her index finger surgically removed and nearly lost her ‘whole arm’ after contracting a staph infection. The … Read more