All the latest news and updates relating to childhood diseases and illnesses
A TODDLER died hours after returning home from a busy hospital where doctors said she just had a “typical viral rash”;.Three-year-old Penny Stevens and her moth...
FOUR critically ill children’s dreams have come true as they performed with Eurovision’s Sam Ryder at Disneyland Paris.Molly Townsend-Blazier, 9, Jax Morris, 9,...
A BABY who was born with her heart outside her body has undergone a groundbreaking operation to protect the fragile organ.Vanellope Hope Wilkins, now seven, bea...
THE world’s mostinfectious disease has been detected in a senior school, according to health chiefs.Parents of pupils at Morgan Academy in Dundee, Scotland were...
WHEN your child has a fever, reaching for a cold flannel might seem like an obvious fix. However, doctors generally advise against it, as it can sometimes make...
A MUM says cruel people claim she shouldn't be a mother – because her phobia of being sick is so extreme she had to send her baby to live with her grandmother f...
WHEN Callum Stone’s parents were called to pick him up from school with a headache, they never imagined it would result in a life-altering diagnosis.“He wasn’t...
A TOXIN produced by E. coli – which can cause food poisoning – may be driving rates of bowel cancer in young people, scientists have discovered.Experts believe...
A SINGLE mum felt like she “lost her daughter overnight”; after her child developed a rare condition which keeps her locked in her body and prevents her from wa...
HOSPITAL bosses have apologised after an 11-week-old baby girl died following a series of devastating failure.Little Nova Maynard Parsons, from East Grinstead,...
CAROLE Lawrie was horrified when her son’s leukaemia was missed -doctors brushed off his swollen eye as hay fever.“If I hadn't gone back [the third time] and pu...
A MAN nearly died on his honeymoon after catching a bug and is now permanently disabled due to a “hotel error”.Newlyweds Thomas and Natasha Coupland were enjoyi...
