Breast milk banks tackle high infant mortality in S. Africa
Patrick, a premature baby weighing a minuscule 1.2 kilos (2.65 pounds), was “saved” by a breast milk bank in South Africa, where child mortality is high despite being the continent’s…
Patrick, a premature baby weighing a minuscule 1.2 kilos (2.65 pounds), was “saved” by a breast milk bank in South Africa, where child mortality is high despite being the continent’s…
History was made in China on November 20, as the county’s first womb transplant was carried out successfully on a 22-year-old woman with a uterus donated by her mother. According…
What a brave and noble little man! Feng Molin’s mother has been blind since childhood and when his father lost his sight in 2006 after suffering acute meningitis, the then…
Grant Hasse was born with two very rare conditions – one that’s usually fatal, the other that should have left him unable to talk. But at almost 4 years old,…
A mum who went for a Brazilian ‘bum-lift’ to give her a new look died from an ultra-rare flesh-eating bug, an inquest heard. Jane Kiiza went to a top Harley…
A baby’s brain tumor, which cannot be operated on, reportedly reduced in size following a kiss on the head from the Pope, at least that’s what the family thinks. Pope…
The Lagos State Government has warned Lagosians against eating exhumed and contaminated chicken that are in circulation within the state as they pose a serious health risk to everyone. The…
The United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, has disclosed that over 50million Nigerians do not have access to toilets hence resort to open defecation. The world body also revealed that Nigeria…
A 25-year-old woman, Nicola Congdon and her mother from Falmouth in Cornwall, England, knits tiny jumpers for their chicken so they don’t suffer from cold. “It’s important to make people…
When he was just 2 years old, David Spisak, Jr. was diagnosed with leukemia. Today, six years later, the Chesapeake, Virginia boy has gone through two bone marrow transplants and…