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Holly will have a revolutionary treatment in America to try and remove most of the brain tumour

A schoolgirl who went to hospital suffering from headaches was horrified to be told she had a brain tumour the size of an orange.

Doctors discovered the benign tumour inside Holly Dougill-Brooks’s brain after they realised she had lost sight in her left eye over a matter of months.

Holly, eight, had started getting headaches last year but after an eye test showed no problems a viral infection was put down as the cause. But the headaches came back in February and after visiting the GP with her mother Melanie Dougill, she was referred to the ophthalmic department at Northampton General Hospital.

When she had her appointment in July doctors said that unbeknown to Holly she had gone blind in her left eye. An emergency MRI scan revealed an orange-sized tumour in her brain.

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The Duchess of Cambridge has written a moving letter to a nine-year-old cancer patient she met last month on a visit to the Royal Marsden hospital.

Catherine sent the note of support to young leukaemia sufferer Fabian Bate, with whom she spent time when she and William attended the opening of a new children’s wing at the hospital.

The hand-signed letter, believed to be her first personal act of charity since marrying into the royal family, spoke movingly of how the Duchess had been touched by the boy’s ‘strength of character’.

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Tributes have been paid to an 11-year-old boy who has died from a brain tumour after raising thousands of pounds for charity.

Harry Moseley, from Birmingham, became well-known through his presence on Twitter after being diagnosed with the tumour after becoming ill in 2007.

Many celebrities have paid tribute to him on the site while Cancer Research UK said he was an “inspiration”.

Harry made and sold bracelets for his Help Harry Help Others campaign.

He had been in a coma since August and died on Saturday night.

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Girl, 9, who was youngest to have double lung transplant dies

Mariam had a short life but I could have lost her four-and-a-half years ago, says mother. A schoolgirl who became the youngest person in the world to undergo a double lung transplant four years ago has died.

Mariam Imran was just five when she underwent the life-saving operation – but a year ago her body began to reject the organs.

Shortly before her death, the nine-year-old told mother Faaiza Dar: ‘I’m not scared of dying, mummy, but I’m scared of leaving you’.

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Beaming with delight little Deepak Paswaan shows off his normal body for the first time since undergoing surgery to remove the legs and arms of his underdeveloped twin growing out of his chest.

For years, Deepak, 7, from Bihar, India, had to suffer taunts and bullying from other children over the appalling disfigurement.

Some taunted him as a ‘devil’ and a ‘freak’ while others even viewed him as a god. Hindu pilgrims used to visit his home to worship him as an incarnation of the god Vishnu, who is often depicted with more than four limbs.

Last year his family for help to get the unwanted limbs removed and give Deepak the chance of a normal life

And Deepak’s world was turned upside down when leading surgeons from Bangalore’s Fortis Hospital agreed to operate for free.

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I know it sounds like a cliche but my mum Sandra really is young at heart – she had me at 20, and is only 58 now. My friends like her, and we do loads together.

Listeners of my BBC Radio 1 show will know her from the ‘My Gullible Mum’ segments – we ring her and tell her ridiculous things, such as that I’ve been arrested for keeping livestock (one cow and six pigs) in my flat, and she generally believes me. I think of her as a friend – my best friend.
So when she mentioned she’d been feeling tired and out of sorts, I instantly went on alert, especially when she confessed she couldn’t run around as normal because her right leg and arm were a bit stiff and difficult to move.

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A six-year-old suffers from a rare condition which makes his skin break out in sores and blisters at the slightest touch.

Rhys Williams, was born with the incurable Epidermolysis Bullosa – a genetic disorder which can prove fatal.

Despite living with the painful condition, Rhys has refused to let it get him down and has been described by his parents as their ‘little hero’. The youngster from Bolton, is one of 5,000 sufferers in Britain. His parents Tanya Moores, 28, and Mark Williams, 44, were devastated when he was diagnosed shortly after he was born.

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Vicki and Octavia, our mother and daughter agony aunts, answer your questions

I’m 72 and have been diagnosed with lung cancer. I don’t want to tell my two children because I believe a problem shared is a problem doubled (or in this case tripled). But my husband disagrees. He says it will be much harder for them to deal with later when they eventually find out, and that my selflessness is in fact selfish. What should I do?

VICKI Whatever you wish, at this point. The human heart rejects the very fact of death – that’s what ‘living in hope’ means. The diagnosis is a savage shock to anyone: I know people who refused a biopsy because they did not want to hear words they dreaded framed by a doctor. You should do what you must to bulwark your own strength and if that means focusing only on yourself, do that. Your husband will also do what he must, you know. The problem shared might be easier to bear for him. But if you don’t want to know that, don’t ask him.

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Mother with cystic fibrosis defies medics to give birth to triplets

This is the woman who has made medical history – by giving birth to identical triplets whilst suffering from cystic fibrosis.

Kandace Smith, from South Louisiana, U.S. was told by doctors to terminate the dangerous triplet pregnancy as they didn’t think she was going to survive.

People with the lung disease cystic fibrosis have a shortened life expectancy and any pregnancy is dangerous because of the extra pressure it puts on the lungs.

But Miss Smith, 20, bravely refused, and carried on with the world-first pregnancy, even though it meant risking her own life.

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Doctors find girl, 4, has rare kidney tumour

When a four-year-old took a tumble off her bike her father rushed her to hospital after she developed internal bleeding.

But the accident turned out to be a blessing in disguise for little Nikkita Mills, when doctors treating her discovered she had a tumour on her kidney.

Single father Adrian, 43, said: ‘That accident quite probably saved her life.
‘She is a lively, healthy child and was probably the most active child on the campsite. Who knows how long it would have been before we started noticing any signs she was unwell with the tumour if it wasn’t for that accident?’

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Boy, 5, endures horn implants so surgeons can remove birthmark

Doctors have treated a young boy with a large birthmark on his face… by implanting horns in his forehead.

George Ashman, 5, was born with a bright red blemish on his forehead and his mother Karen, 33, feared he would endure a lifetime of bullying.

So when he was four he underwent a surgical procedure to stretch the ‘normal’ skin on his forehead so the birthmark could be removed and covered with the new unblemished tissue.

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Attack followed misunderstanding over a ‘joke’ about a football strip

Attacker Benjamin Owen, 27, jailed for five years. A guest at a christening needed 50 stitches after he was glassed in the face following a quip about his orange tie representing the ‘tangerine’ colours of Blackpool Football Club, a court heard.

Victor Lisowski, 25, was asked if he was a Blackpool supporter by Benjamin Owen, but Mr Lisowski misunderstood the comment and pushed Owen away who retaliated by smashing a glass in his face.

Mr Lisowski was left with a permanent scar running from his left eye to the bottom of his chin, while Owen, 27, was jailed for five years after he was convicted at Bolton Crown Court of wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.

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This is Liana-Jean Lisle who it is believed could be the tallest five-year-old in Britain.

She was born at an average weight and height but quickly started growing at double the rate of other children the same age.

By the time she was two she was 3ft 7in tall – the same as a five-year-old – and now, as she starts at a primary school in South West London she will be the same height as children in the top year.

She already wears adult shoes and is thought to be the tallest five year old in Britain.

Her mother, Donna Lisle, 28, and 5ft 10in, said: ‘People always think Liana-Jean is older, about nine or ten. They assume she is really immature or even has learning difficulties and it really upsets me.

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A 10-year-old boy who was impaled on the handlebars of his bicycle at the seafront in Port Talbot has been airlifted to hospital.

He had been cycling along the promenade at Aberavon with his mother on Wednesday morning.

Swansea Coastguard said the incident happened at around 11:40 BST. Port Talbot Coastguard rescue team and Aberavon beach lifeguards were at the scene.

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A mother-of-four with two broken feet was left struggling in a wheelchair after NHS bosses refused to treat them at the same hospital.

Julie Elvin’s left foot is being treated at the University Hospital of North Tees in Stockton and her right at James Cook Hospital in Middlesbrough.

The 46-year-old broke her feet on two separate occasions said she was left bemused by hospital ‘policy’ which prevents both feet being treated on one site.

She said: ‘It is absolutely mad.

‘The people at James Cook have said they would be happy to hand over to North Tees. But North Tees say they won’t interfere with other hospitals.’

Mrs Elvin now faces a battle to attend appointments at the hospitals which are 10 miles apart and 19 miles from her Hartlepool home.

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Amaya Hess ‘super-excited’ about prospect of regaining sight in eye

Mother no longer angry about dog attack five years ago
Says daughter puts a smile on her face every day.

A seven-year-old girl whose face was savaged by a vicious dog is ‘super-excited’ about the prospect of regaining the sight in her eye as she prepares to undergo her 57th operation.

Amaya Hess suffered appalling injuries five years ago when she was mauled like a rag doll by a pit bull terrier.

The animal tore apart her ear, eye and nose, and ripped off her scalp, leaving the two-year-old in a coma for three months.

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Seven-year-old can’t stop giggling since surgeons removed her brain tumour

Life has literally been a laugh a minute for Enna Stephens following surgery to remove a brain tumour – thanks to a bizarre side-effect of the operation.

The seven-year-old has been giggling uncontrollably for a month, and her chuckles have helped parents Vana and Dougie cope with her illness.

Mrs Stephens, 40, said: ‘Things happened so quickly that Dougie and I were numb.

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Children who spent long periods in hospital when they were younger are more likely to be passed over for promotion later in life, it has been claimed.

New research by the British Heart Foundation and the Medical Research Council has also suggested that people who had a low birth weight may have fewer prospects for advancing their career.

It found that those who were ill in childhood were also more likely to be at risk of heart disease by middle-age.

And it revealed that early health problems and lower birth weight can predict socio-economic status in adulthood, regardless of the socio-economic status into which people are born.

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A toddler died from meningitis three days after he was turned away from a medical centre to see a doctor, an NHS inquiry found.

The mother of three-year-old Obed-Edom Bans was later phoned by a nurse, who instead prescribed the children’s medicine Calpol and antibiotics, even though he had an emergency card as a sickle-cell sufferer.

He soon became seriously ill and three days later was rushed from his home in New Addington, Croydon, to St George’s Hospital in Tooting, South London, where he died from meningitis in October last year.

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The families of children with chronic heart and lung conditions today called on David Cameron to stop hospital plans they say will put lives in danger.

Proposals to close the children’s cardiac surgery department at the Royal Brompton could have devastating consequences for thousands of young patients, they fear.

Their comments come only weeks after medical leaders, including Professor Sir Magdi Yacoub, the first person in Britain to perform a heart and lung transplant, said the specialist unit was “irreplaceable” and called for the plans to be scrapped.

In February, the Joint Committee of Primary Care Trusts recommended child heart surgery at the hospital in Chelsea be discontinued, leaving only two centres offering heart surgery for young patients in the capital – one at Great Ormond Street and the other at Guy’s and St Thomas’. A decision will be made by the end of the year.

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A little boy who “died” for almost 40 minutes has made a miracle recovery – after a quick-thinking surgeon brought him back to life by massaging his heart with his hands.

Joshua Baker, five, suffered a huge cardiac arrest just a few days after undergoing a risky operation to correct a rare heart condition.
His heart stopped beating, and his terrified parents believed they had lost their little boy.
But amazingly, dedicated medics started to massage his heart – and after 40 minutes, it began to beat by itself.
Doctors warned his parents that even if he survived the night, Joshua would probably suffer brain damage because his brain had been without oxygen for so long.

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The day Allie McCormack revealed she had been pelted with flour by bullies, her mother Lesley she knew they had to make a drastic change.

Her overweight daughter had long been the punchline of cruel jokes at school. Allie had struggled to stay slim ever since she started taking an epilepsy drug at the age of five.

The pill caused Allie to pile on the pounds and though she switched drugs when she was seven she turned to comfort eating as her size had left her struggling to make friends.

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A ten-year-old girl nearly lost one of her legs when she was bitten by a shark – in just three feet of water.

The shark bit Cassidy twice, plunging its jaws in so deeply doctors had to remove one of its teeth from her leg.

The terrifying attack happened on Topsail Beach, North Carolina, just one day after she and her family arrived from Pennsylvania on vacation. Cassidy was happily playing with her body board in the shallows, which are only about three-feet deep, when she suddenly felt something pulling on her leg.

She told MyFox8: ‘It didn’t hurt at first. It pulled me down, and it hurt. I thought it was somebody messing around and then I found out that it wasn’t.’

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As Liz Ling entered the final stages of labour, she and her husband Declan felt growing excitement at the impending arrival of their baby.

By LUCY ELKINS

With the final push, the couple gripped each other’s hand in anticipation.

But when their son Ottis was born in May 2007, instead of the sound of a newborn crying, there was silence. The couple’s strapping 9 lb 4 oz boy was stillborn.

It was a terrible shock – there had been no hint of any problems during Liz’s pregnancy. Nor was Ottis premature; he was born two weeks after his due date and Liz had felt him kicking right until the end.

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Lizzie would crawl on her hands and knees or use a wheel chair to stop herself collapsing

By DAILY MAIL REPORTER

A student with a rare condition that caused her to faint every time she stood up over 14 years is finally back on her feet.

Lizzie Rees, 22, suffers from postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS), which affects the body’s ability to adjust to the pull of gravity.

The condition causes her heart rate to speed up whenever she stands, causing her to pass out up to five times a day.

Even getting up from a chair would cause her to collapse and she often had to crawl around on her hands and knees or use a wheelchair.

But after countless medical experts failed to cure the problem she is finally enjoying a normal life after a heart specialist prescribed a drug to control her blood flow.

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An Indian father whose 15-year-old conjoined twin daughters are living in increasing agony has pleaded for help – or for them to be allowed to die.

By TED THORNHILL

Saba and Farah Shakeel are joined at the skull and have been suffering terrible headaches, joint pain and slurred speech as they grow older.

The girls have received specialist help in the past, thanks to the intervention of the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, but their father, Mohammed, who works on a tea stall in Patna, cannot afford any more treatment.

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A six-year-old boy is fighting for his life after being pulled unconscious from the bottom of a swimming pool in Arbroath.

The youngster was found shortly before 1500 BST on Saturday at the Red Lion Caravan Park’s leisure centre.

The boy, who is understood to be local to the area, was resuscitated at the scene and then taken to Ninewells Hospital in Dundee.

Tayside Police said that the child’s condition was critical.

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Josh Hodgkiss has given himself a black eye and ripped his toe nails out because he doesn’t notice when he hurts himself

JHis family have been given a £10,000 padded tent for him to sleep in so he doesn’t hurt himself

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Parents quickly get used to their children getting scrapes and bruises.

But when your child’s injuries are not accompanied by shrieks of discomfort, it is a little more worrying.

Three-year-old Josh Hodgkiss hurts himself more than most – because he cannot feel pain.

The toddler has bitten his tongue in half, given himself a black eye and even ripped his own toe nails out because he doesn’t notice when he hurts himself.

The brave boy was born with a rare genetic disorder called Smith-Magenis Syndrome, which also means he has no concept of danger and is wide awake when everyone is sleep because his sleep hormones are reversed.

His long-suffering parents Mark and Stephanie Hodgkiss, from Telford, Shropshire, have spent around £12,000 adapting their house to help Josh, including installing sensory lights.

They have also been given a special £10,000 padded tent for his room by Telford and Wrekin Council so he doesn’t hurt himself.

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‘We were close to having to go to his funeral’

By Lee Moran

An eight-year-old boy is ‘lucky to be alive’ after he was horrifically mauled by a Border Collie.

Cameron Whithers was playing with his great aunt’s dog Dexter, at her house, when the collie suddenly locked its jaws onto his head and bit his face, arm and fingers.

What makes the attack all the more shocking is that Border Collies are normally known as being incredibly intelligent and loyal.

It comes days after the savage attack by a black Labrador, also a traditionally ‘friendly’ breed, on a three-year-old.

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They’re trained doctors whose parents are distinguished writers – yet for 20 years these identical twins have competed with each other in the most disturbing way imaginable

By Jill Foster

Twins Maria and Katy Campbell were only 11 when they overheard a snippet of conversation between their parents which, they claim, was to change their lives for ever.

Maria recalls: ‘We were standing at the top of the stairs and heard our Dad remark: “Gosh, those girls are becoming young women, aren’t they? They’re getting hips.” ’

To most people, it’s the kind of harmless remark that an observant father might make about his pre-teen daughters. But for Maria and Katy, who are the identical daughters of distinguished writers, it triggered a sinister pact that would haunt the family for more than two decades.

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The mother of a baby scalded by midwives from Stafford Hospital said her daughter may need skin grafts.

Six-day-old Katie Ward was scalded on her left foot during a visit by midwives, who put the foot in a jug of water, at her home on 15 May.

Her mother Julie Ward, of Acton Trussell, said her daughter “screamed quite considerably” when it happened and that she herself “panicked”.

The hospital has apologised and is investigating.

Ms Ward said she and her daughter had both been in a bedroom when the incident happened. She was having an injection in her arm and Katie was being weighed and having tests.

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A pair of midwives at a crisis-hit hospital are being investigated after carelessly plunging a six-day-old baby’s foot into a bowl of scalding hot water.

By Daily Mail Reporter

Mother Julie Ward said her daughter’s foot was dipped into the water by two midwives from Stafford Hospital – where more than 1,200 patients are thought to have died due to poor medical care over a three-year period.

Newborn Katie Ward was left with ‘skin hanging off’ her foot after midwives visited her family’s home in Acton Trussell, Staffordshire.

Mrs Ward said the two Stafford Hospital midwives, one of them a student, had arrived at her home to carry out routine blood tests a few days after she had given birth.

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A Christian mental health worker has been sacked after passing colleagues a booklet warning of the physical and psychological damage some women suffer after an abortion.

Margaret Forrester discussed the booklet with family planning staff at the health centre where she worked because she felt that the NHS was failing to give patients information about the risks and other options to terminating a pregnancy.

But after a six-month disciplinary process, during which Ms Forrester had to fight her own case and became ill, she was found guilty of “gross professional misconduct” and fired.

She has spoken out over the “scandal” of the pro-abortion culture in the medical profession and claimed that Christians were “an easy target” for “politically correct” bureaucrats in the NHS.

“The NHS has a pro-abortion stance which comes from a secular religion. It is a belief system which is aggressively anti-Christian,” she said.

Ms Forrester’s difficulties began on Nov 2 last year, when she had an informal conversation with a colleague in her role as a psychological wellbeing practitioner in Westminster, central London.
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Casey Anthony’s murder trial was cut short today when she was taken ill after pictures of her dead daughter’s skull were shown.

By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 4:59 PM on 10th June 2011

Anthony cried and looked away as graphic photos of her two-year-old daughter Caylee’s remains were shown to the jury at the trial in Orlando.

Judge Belvin Perry had warned anyone who might become queasy to leave the courtroom before the images were displayed.

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The cancer survivor allergic to modern life: Mother is so sensitive to electric gadgets she has to live by candlelight.

By Andy Dolan

18th May 2011

* Condition is so severe her neighbours can’t even have Wi-Fi
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Problems began after chemotherapy for bowel cancer

She cannot watch television, listen to the radio or boil the kettle to make a cup of tea.

So severe is Janice Tunnicliffe’s sensitivity to electricity that even her neighbours have had to stop using wireless internet.

The mother-of-two spends her evenings playing board games by candlelight, avoiding switching on lights or using fridges, freezers, computers and mobile phones.

Mrs Tunnicliffe, 55, claims a course of chemotherapy during treatment for cancer left her with a rare condition called electrosensitivity, which causes severe reactions to the electromagnetic fields given off by electrical appliances.

In the three years since she developed the illness, Mrs Tunnicliffe has suffered headaches, chest pains, nausea and tingling in her arms and legs whenever she is close to any device that emits electromagnetic fields.

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Baby born with rare back-to-front heart recovers after his organ is rewired following doctor’s life-saving hunch

By Daily Mail Reporter

17th May 2011

A baby boy who was born with a back-to-front heart has amazed doctors by making a complete recovery following drastic surgery to reverse the condition.

Ellis Hobbs was born with a heart condition that affects just one in 20million children, which caused blood to pump through his organ in the wrong direction.

The newborn had to undergo open heart surgery when he was just eight days old, as surgeons battled to save his life.

Medics at Birmingham Children’s Hospital managed to ‘rewire’ his heart – and Ellis, now three months old, has made a complete recovery.

He has now been allowed home to Coventry to his delighted parents, Claire and Andy, and big sister Isabelle, four.

Claire, 31, said: ‘We were absolutely terrified when we found out Ellis had such a horrendous condition.

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A British mother who admitted on American TV that she gave her eight-year-old daughter Botox injections has had the child taken away by social workers.

By Paul Thompson

17th May 2011

Britney Campbell was removed from the care of her mother Kerry after the TV appearance boasting about the beauty treatment sparked outrage across the U.S.

Hundreds of complaints were received when she was featured on the Good Morning America show injecting her daughter with the anti-wrinkle treatment.

Campbell, originally from Birmingham, but now living in San Francisco, said she was carrying out the beauty treatments to help her daughter be more competitive in child pageants.

Her daughter complained that the injections hurt her face, but said she didn’t want any wrinkles on her face. But officials in San Francisco acted after receiving hundreds of calls to their child abuse hotline. The local child protection unit took the girl away over the weekend.

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Agony of woman who suffers from ‘face blindness’.

By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 12:09 AM on 5th May 2011

Imagine living in a world full of strangers, not even recognising the faces of your own family. That is the world of Tara Fall. Mrs Fall, from Iowa, has trouble remembering anyone and can only identify her two children when she picks them up from school by the clothes they are wearing.  She suffers from a rare condition known as prosopagnosia, which is also known as ‘face blindness’. Everyone who walks through her front door is a stranger to her – a friend, her husband, her children. If she looks away from you for a minute she will not recognise you the moment she looks back.

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Man in his 30s also hurt in 9.15pm attack.

By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
Last updated at 7:14 PM on 30th March 2011

• Police say injured pair are not related
• Gunman on bicycle targeted two youths hiding in shop
  

A five-year-old is in a critical condition after being gunned down in a London street. Police believe that the young girl and a shopkeeper were caught in the crossfire of a gang targeting two youths who sheltered in their shop. The shopkeeper, 35, is also being treated in hospital after he was hit inside Stockwell Food & Wine shop, on Stockwell Road, South London, at 9.15pm last night.

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A family circus turned into a horror show when a one-year-old boy in the audience suffered head wounds after falling 15ft through the bleachers to the ground.

By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
Last updated at 2:19 PM on 26th March 2011

The boy had been watching the Universoul Circus in the Bronx, New York, with his family when the accident happened. Darius White was immediately rushed to hospital on Friday where his condition was described as critical but stable.

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First man in U.S. to get full face transplant.

By MARK DUELL
Last updated at 9:59 PM on 21st March 2011

• Dallas Wiens’s relative says transplant is beyond what he thought possible

This father is closing in on a dream of kissing his three-year-old daughter again. Dallas Wiens has become the first man in the U.S. to have a full face transplant after a 30-man team of Boston doctors worked for 15 hours to complete an operation on him. The 25-year-old, of Fort Worth, Texas, had his entire face replaced – including his nose, lips, skin, animation muscles and nerves to power them and give sensations.

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A mum was left with horrific burns on her legs after kneeling in B&Q cement while carrying out DIY in her kitchen.

By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
Last updated at 8:49 PM on 15th February 2011

Jane Dobson feared her legs ‘were going to explode’ after corrosive cement soaked through her trousers and began burning her flesh. The 46-year-old spent nine days in hospital and needed a skin graft after suffering the gruesome injuries as she tried to lay cement on her kitchen floor. Details of Miss Dobson’s injuries were revealed to a court after Trading Standards tried to prosecute the Hampshire-based DIY chain.….Continue Reading

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Mother-to-be who survived swine flu coma releases terrifying picture to persuade others to have jab.

By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
Last updated at 4:20 PM on 11th February 2011

A mother-to-be who was on the brink of death after contracting swine flu has battled back to health. Nyssa McGeehan, 27, from Elgin, was in a coma for 11 days after contracting the deadly flu strain. Her husband was told to prepare for the worst as she rapidly deteriorated. But she amazed doctors by pulling through and is now urging pregnant women to have the flu jab after admitting she hadn’t had it herself. Mrs McGeehan said she didn’t have the injection as she was scared of needles and the decision had nearly cost her her life.….Continue Reading

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The mother of a 13-year-old left in a coma after a car accident was stunned to be handed a citation by police for their daughter jaywalking.

By PAUL THOMPSON
Last updated at 2:08 PM on 6th January 2011

Officers visited the hospital where Takara Davis is fighting for her life to hand over the citation for illegally crossing a road in Las Vegas.Her shocked mother Kellie Obong said she was given the citation while her teenage daughter was being rushed into the operating theatre for emergency surgery.Vegas police chiefs have defended the issuing of the ticket and said they had not intended to be insensitive.Takara was walking home from school with friends when she was struck by a car as she crossed a road.….Continue Reading

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A murder investigation was under way yesterday after a 15-year-old boy was found dead in a bath.

8:29PM GMT 26 Dec 2010

The teenager was discovered apparently drowned and with a number of other injuries to his body at the property in Manor Park, east London, on Christmas Day. A 27-year-old man and the boy’s 27-year-old sister have been arrested in connection with his death. Police and an air ambulance rushed to the flat around 12.15pm after they were alerted by London Ambulance Service, who had responded to a 999 call reporting a drowning at the property.….Continue Reading

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Boy who weeps BLOOD baffles doctors.

By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
Last updated at 6:22 AM on 15th December 2010

These are the shocking new pictures of the boy who weeps blood. Calvino Inman, 17, has been suffering from the mysterious condition for two years and doctors remain clueless as to how to stem the flow of bleeding, which can last up to an hour at a time. But a documentary which will be shown tomorrow night on American television explores the phenomenon, experienced by only a handful of people around the world.….Continue Reading

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A toddler with a rare neurological disorder has had half her brain removed after she suffered up to 50 seizures a day.

By CLAIRE BATES
Last updated at 8:50 AM on 1st December 2010

Katie Verdecchia, 2, has Aicardi syndrome – an inherited condition that means the structure connecting the two sides of her brain are missing.

Her parents Maryalicia and Brian from Portland, Oregon, first noticed there was something wrong when their daughter began to experience short spasms in April 2008 just a month after her birth.….Continue Reading

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A schoolboy whose life was made a misery by bullies who taunted him for his skin condition was found hanged in his bedroom by his mother.

By JAMES TOZER
Last updated at 9:34 AM on 13th November 2010

Sam Riley, 13, had been targeted since he was at nursery as a result of his eczema, and had told a counsellor he had thought about killing himself.

The school was warned he had threatened suicide over his treatment by bullies but tragically staff were unable to prevent him taking his life.

Described by his family as ‘handsome and popular’, Sam had begun missing lessons but didn’t want his parents to complain to the school in case it made it worse, an inquest was told.….Continue Reading

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The girl, 7, who could get brain damage if she eats any protein.

By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
Last updated at 1:39 AM on 12th October 2010

A seven-year-old girl faces brain damage if she eats anything but fruit and vegetables.

Borsi Batki from Coventry is forced to watch as the other children tuck into cakes and biscuits at birthday parties, because she can’t eat anything with protein in it.

Due to an extremely rare metabolic condition, almost everything is off the menu except for a protein replacement supplement she has to drink six times a day.….Continue Reading