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Add to My Stories When little Jack Oldacre goes with his parents on a day out they are often accused of leaving him to roast in the summer heat. But the youngster actually has an incredibly rare condition which makes his skin look SUNBURNT all year round. The 21-month-old was born with Netherton’s syndrome, a condition that affects just one in 800,000 people

Up to 100,000 lives could be saved every year if a known drug were given to seriously bleeding trauma patients, says a report from a global trial.

Skin cancer can be quite prevalent on the feet, and often between the toes – where people don’t tend to look I have never minded touching people’s feet. I don’t really look at them as feet, just a problem that needs to be sorted out.

Selective mutism – when your child only speaks to family and close friends – is a much misunderstood problem Alice is a child who is seen and not heard. The four-year-old is the easiest pupil to manage in her nursery, but while this quietness may seem like a blessing, it is causing her family serious worry. “Alice is no trouble to her teachers,” says her mother, Kay Rippin

Some people are more anxious than others, but a turbulent flight can trigger a fear of flying I’ve always thought it was normal to be scared of flying. You’re stuck in a confined metal tube, thousands of feet in the air and someone you have never met before is driving. What is there not to be scared about?

Often it is seen that antibiotics for a sinus infection, stop providing results after a certain period of time. Hence, these sinus infection home remedies can be of great help. The simplest of home remedies is to drink a lot of warm water.

If you need yet another good reason to convince yourself or your kids to go outside and get your hands in the dirt, here it is: new research reveals that a bacterium in the soil not only lowers depression and anxiety but also can make you smarter! Science Daily reports that “exposure to specific bacteria in the environment, already believed to have antidepressant qualities, could increase learning behavior.” The new research was presented at the 110th General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology in San Diego. ” Mycobacterium vaccae is a natural soil bacterium which people likely ingest or breathe in when they spend time in nature,” says Dorothy Matthews of The Sage Colleges in Troy, New York, who conducted the research with her colleague Susan Jenks. Previous research studies on M.