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Thousands of pills filled with powdered human flesh have been discovered by customs officials in South Korea, it was revealed today. The capsules are in demand because they are viewed as being a medicinal ‘cure-all’. The grim trade is being run from China where corrupt medical staff are said to be tipping off medical companies [...]

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South Korea has seized thousands of smuggled drug capsules filled with powdered flesh from dead babies, which some people believe can cure disease. The capsules were made in north-east China from babies whose bodies were chopped into small pieces and dried on stoves before being turned into powder, the Korean customs service said. Officials refused [...]

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Jack Osbourne and his fiancé Lisa Stelly were overjoyed to welcome their first child into the world two weeks ago. And now the delighted new parents have shared the first public photo of the tot. The couple can be seen with their arms around  Sharon Osbourne as she cradles her new granddaughter, Pearl. The touching [...]

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They say being a bride and becoming a mother are two of the best days in a woman’s life. And Danielle Clewlow managed to achieve both in one day, when just after saying her vows, she gave birth to a bouncing 7Ib 7oz baby boy. Incredibly, just-married Danielle and her new husband Aaron, 25, even [...]

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Seven-week-old Kodi Sarah Wall was placed in an ‘unsafe sleeping environment,’ a pathologist told an inquest at Barrow, Cumbria. The coroner warned parents that a settee was a ‘very unsafe’ place for babies to sleep. Kodi’s mum, Samantha Louise Wall, put her to sleep on the living room settee, on top of a cushion resting [...]

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The river takes its time to meander through a wooded valley. You’ll want to, too, as you wind gently along its banks, crossing the water by this famed Exmoor monument. The River Barle is knee-deep to a toddler, every shining blue-grey stone visible on its bed. Children scout in the shallows for sticklebacks and splash [...]

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The miniscule foot of baby Carolina Terzis – who miraculously survived being born four months premature – is dwarfed by the palm of an adult. The tiny infant is thought to be Brazil’s smallest surviving baby, weighing just 12oz and measuring only 27cm tall. Her mum Alexandra, 32, who gave birth in November five months [...]

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The dilemma My best friend is pregnant with her second child. I am godmother to her first child, a girl, and she has asked me to be the new baby’s godmother, which I treat very seriously. My friend said the reason she was asking me was because she sees all I do for my goddaughter [...]

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Fertility treatment increases the risk of birth defects in babies, according to the largest scientific study of its kind. Babies conceived by assisted techniques are at least one-third more likely to suffer from congenital problems than those conceived naturally, the new research has found. Birth defects including heart, spinal and urinary tract problems, limb abnormalities [...]

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White babies aged just nine-months-old show signs of racial bias, according to a study in facial recognition. Researchers at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst found that by the young age the babies were already discriminating against those of different races in their ability to recognise faces and emotional expressions. They analysed 48 Caucasian babies [...]

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A seven-month-old baby died after being forgotten inside a pickup truck all day as temperatures soared to 90 degrees. Police in the Houston suburb of Sugar Land are investigating the death of the baby, whose name and gender has not been identified. The baby’s father allegedly dropped off two older children to elementary school and [...]

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Celebrities are turning into mummy moguls, using their pregnancies as a way to substantially increase their income. In an attempt to extend their shelf life, a growing number of underemployed, or under-the-radar celebrities are using parenthood as their career Plan B. For celebrities like Jessica Simpson, Kendra Wilkinson and Tori Spelling, their baby bumps have [...]

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Perched on a special red chair in her hospital bed, this was tragic Hayley Fullerton just a few days before she died. Bright-eyed and munching on a piece of toast, she was recovering well from heart surgery. And although the blonde-haired one-year-old was still underweight for her age, her parents and doctors had every hope [...]

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A coroner has questioned if a baby girl who died in hospital was under the care of ‘work experience’ nurses. He made the remark yesterday after hearing that one-year-old Hayley Fullerton had been looked after by clinical support workers who had made errors on her medical notes. This included ‘incorrect’ entries and one afternoon that [...]

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Three times in three days, Jodie Conlay took her baby son Lewis for urgent treatment convinced he was suffering from more than just chickenpox. On each occasion the frantic mother was sent away by doctors. The morning after the final hospital visit, 12-month-old Lewis was found dead in his bed. In addition to the chickenpox, [...]

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A desperate couple are in a race against time to save the life of their baby daughter after she was born without an immune system.Oil executive Graeme Warnell, 42, and his wife, Aga, 37, have just four months to find a bone marrow donor to save 10-week-old Nina.Little Nina suffers from ‘bubble baby syndrome’ and [...]

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This big bundle of joy is Jack George Butt who gave his delighted parents an extra special reason to celebrate St George’s Day. The not-so-little newborn baby weighed in at a whopping 13lb and 5oz when he was delivered by Caesarean Section at Medway Maritime Hospital in Kent. The child, who ranks as one of [...]

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A teenager has contacted police to say she is the mother of a baby boy whose body was found in waste being sorted at a Scunthorpe recycling plant. Police received a call from a girl in a distressed state on Wednesday, reporting she was the mother of the baby found at Bell Waste Control. Humberside [...]

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A teenager has contacted police to say she is the mother of a baby boy found dead in waste being sorted at a recycling plant. Officers received a telephone call on Wednesday from a girl in a distressed state who said she was the mother of the baby found at Bell Waste Control in Scunthorpe. [...]

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Avery Canahuati was six months old when she died on Monday from a genetic disease called spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). For months, her parents Mike and Laura Canahuati chronicled her life on a blog that is still inspiring millions of people worldwide. When she was born on Nov. 11, 2011, doctors predicted she would not [...]

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Overdue babies are at higher risk of health problems, research suggests. A study found babies born after 42 weeks were more likely to suffer behavioural problems such as ADHD in early life. Most UK mothers are induced before 42 weeks but pregnancies lasting beyond 43 weeks are not unknown. Women should be aware of the [...]

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AS MANY as 450,000 lives could be saved each year by taking a cue from marsupials. If parents of premature babies in poor countries were to continuously carry infants against the skin in “kangaroo pouches” and increase breastfeeding and regular medical monitoring, we might save more of the 15 million babies born too soon each [...]

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Fifteen million babies, one in 10 births, are born prematurely every year, a global project suggests. One million of these babies die soon after birth. The joint report, led by the WHO, says three quarters of deaths could be prevented with basic care. For the first time premature birth rates have been estimated by country, [...]

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The body of a baby was found today in waste being sorted at a recycling plant. Police have appealed for help in identifying the child’s mother who they believe is vulnerable and in need of medical treatment. The child, thought to be a six-month-old boy, was found by staff at the Bell Waste Control site [...]

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All babies should be screened at birth for heart defects using a cheap simple test that will pick up three out of four affected infants, claim researchers. Around 5,000 babies are born each year suffering from congenital heart disease, with around half diagnosed before they leave hospital. But the remaining babies who show no visible [...]

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A family doctor let a baby die from a heart condition 24 hours after he failed to examine him at his surgery and advised his parents to give him paracetomol, a medical tribunal heard today. GP Renjith Nair, 36, was shown Calum Smith by his mother and told he had breathing problems and was cold [...]

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Teething necklaces made from amber stones could snap and choke babies who have been given them to ease mouth pain, parents have been warned. The small necklaces have amber gems on a string but mothers have complained that some have snapped, sending the tiny stones spilling onto the ground. There are fears that curious tots [...]

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Police have urged the mother of a baby whose body has been found at a recycling plant to come forward, saying she may need medical help and support. The baby, thought to be a boy and up to six months old, was found at Bell Waste Control in Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire, at about 09:30 BST. [...]

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A doctor accused of treating the family of a seriously-ill baby with “utter contempt” has apologised for not requesting physiotherapy sooner. Thirteen-month-old Hayley Fullerton died of heart failure at Birmingham Children’s Hospital in November 2009. Her family have accused staff of ignoring their concerns. Dr Oliver Stumper apologised at an inquest but also said: “I [...]

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The six-month-old girl with a rare genetic disorder and a ‘bucket list’ blog created by her parents died of complications from the disease yesterday, her father wrote today. Avery Lynn Canahuati was born in November with spinal muscular atrophy type 1 (SMA) and was given only months to live. Her father Mike had chronicled his [...]

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A woman from Lancashire has appeared in court over the death of her baby son after a television fell on top of him. Natalie McMillan, now of Dirkhill Road, Bradford, appeared at Burnley Magistrates’ Court charged with the manslaughter of four-month-old Kian. Ms McMillan, 24, is also charged with child neglect between December 5 and [...]

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A Mexican woman who claimed to be pregnant with nine babies is not expecting and is simply clinically obese, health officials have said. They have also revealed it would be impossible for Karla Vanessa Perez to be carrying nonuplets because her fallopian tubes have been removed. The 32-year-old has also been branded a liar for [...]

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A 13-month-old baby might not have died if she had received better medical care at Birmingham Children’s Hospital, an inquest has been told. The conclusion of the hospital’s inquiry into Hayley Fullerton’s death was read out by coroner Aiden Cotter. Hayley had successful heart surgery but died in November 2009 after developing an infection and [...]

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We have our friends in America to thank for delivering us the latest fad doing the rounds of polite society: the gender-reveal party. If you haven’t yet received a candy-coloured invitation to one, then let me explain – these are celebrations at which friends and family gather around an expectant mother to find out the [...]

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The parents of a three-day-old girl who turned blue after she stopped breathing have praised a phone operator and paramedics for saving her life. Beata and Andrzej Kolon from Chandler’s Ford, Hampshire, dialled 999 when baby Leokadia had a respiratory arrest. They were given CPR instructions by an operator in Bicester, Oxfordshire, but she had [...]

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A mother driven to despair as her baby daughter lay dying in hospital bribed a nurse with a £100 gift voucher in the hope of improving her care. Hayley Fullerton died of heart failure within a month of her first birthday after doctors ignored Paula Stevenson’s pleas to transfer the little girl to an intensive [...]

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A gay couple who claim an IVF blunder led them to have babies from different racial backgrounds said today that they loved their children regardless. The pair were said to have been left “devastated” after the alleged mix-up at the London Women’s Clinic in Harley Street. It is believed that sperm from the wrong donor [...]

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IF YOU thought the bacteria that line our gut were pretty personal, think again. They influence our digestion, risk of disease, and even our behaviour. Now it seems we might be sharing these gut bugs with the people around us – via dust. James Scott at the University of Toronto in Canada and his colleagues [...]

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It goes without saying that the whole experience of first-time motherhood is a steep learning curve. Take a perfectly intelligent, capable woman, put her through the mind-blowing experience of birth, add one brand new baby, a dollop of sleep deprivation and a dogged determination to try to ‘get it right’ and, sooner or later, even [...]

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Julia Bradbury, the rambling man’s hot-buttered crumpet, has been temporarily plucked from her natural habitat and taken into captivity. The twinkle in her eye is untamed, ditto the dirty laugh, but she is looking a bit restless, humanely penned in behind a pub table. Although the Countryfile presenter is the first to admit she enjoys [...]

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A baby girl needed hospital treatment after she was savaged in her pram by a ferret. Ten-month-old Lola-Mae Knowles screamed in pain as the foot-long animal leapt on her and sank its teeth into her finger. Her frantic mother Chloe, 21, shouted for help and two firefighters who were driving past managed to pull the [...]

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A lottery winner who frittered away her £1.9m fortune on drink, drugs and luxury items is expecting twins – and she says the feeling is even better than when she hit the jackpot. Callie Rogers, who was 16 when she matched all six numbers to become Britain’s youngest lottery winner, is pregnant with two boys [...]

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The mothers of a string of babies born with a birth defect on the same Kent street are convinced they’ve found the cause – a banned weedkiller that’s the subject of a legal battle being fought in the US by famed lawyer Erin Brockovich. Across a period of 12 years, at least nine children have [...]

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I thought I knew what a premature baby would look like. I’d seen photos of tiny newborns with wedding rings over their wrists to show scale. But nothing prepared me for seeing, in real life, a child born months before its due date. Looking into an incubator in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) at [...]

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Parents Mike and Laura Canahuati received heart-wrenching news only weeks ago – that their five-month-old daughter Avery has only months to live. Doctors diagnosed their baby girl with Type 1 spinal muscular atrophy, the most severe kind, and gave her only 18 months to live. Rather than bemoan their tragic circumstances, the young couple decided [...]

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Feeding, burping, learning new things every day, being a baby can be hard work. But now tiny tots can relax and wash away the stresses of their day in their very own spa bath – that is, if their parents can afford the £1,358 price tag. A special hot tub has been created especially for [...]

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These days it seems sticking to traditional baby names like Charles or Olivia could be branded a touch old-fashioned. But Brits following in the footsteps of A-liters like the Beckhams may be left regretting their ‘trendy’ choice. Research carried out has found that 43% of parents confessed to having second-thoughts after naming their child. The Beckhams named [...]

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And as the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge cooed over a newborn baby yesterday, they proved that whenever the time comes, they will be doting parents. The Duke could not resist cradling three-week-old Hugo Eric Scott Vicary during a reception to celebrate the achievements of a group of polar trekkers.  Hugo’s parents, Vic and Hanna Vicary, [...]

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A baby girl has been born with three arms in India due to a rare condition that only affects one in a million infants. The newborn, who is just four days old, has two arms in the correct place but she also a has a third arm joined to her back near the spinal cord. Her [...]

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Having children brings an increased sense of meaning into people’s lives, according to the Prime Minister’s national happiness survey. The latest measure of the country’s well-being yesterday revealed that having children does not necessarily make people happier or more satisfied with their lot. But it does make them feel they have more of a reason for [...]

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