Surgeons share a celebratory selfie after successfully separating three-day-old conjoined twins in a pain-staking operation
A 'challenging' five-hour operation proved a success...
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Fixed bedtime, sufficient sleep may lead to healthier teens
Bedtimes should be determined by several factors...
Baby's first cold can last longer depending on nose-dwelling bacteria
The study, published in ERJ Open Research, suggests that babies who have a wide variety of different bacteria living in their noses tend to recover more quickly from their first respiratory virus, compared to those who have less variety and more bacteria from either the Moraxellaceae or Streptococcaceae family...
Baby boy who was declared brain dead miraculously survives after his life support was switched OFF by doctors
His parents, Becki and Phil Crook, had said their final goodbyes to their ten-day-old son, who was brain damaged due to oxygen deprivation...
Baby girl was born with rare 'cats eyes'
The disorders have left the youngster, of Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, with a narrow and discoloured iris - similar to that of a cat...
Killed by a KISS: Distraught parents issue stark warning after their 14-day-old baby girl died from cold sore virus
Little Kiara was placed in an induced coma but doctors told her devastated parents that if she did pull through she'd probably be badly brain damaged...
Once-conjoined twins head home for Christmas
Seven months after they were born...
The science behind your urge to squeeze cute babies and animals
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Florida girl, 2, fighting cancer needs rare blood type only found in a VERY specific gene pool in Asia
Zainab Mughal, from South Florida, was diagnosed with neuroblastoma - a cancer in the nerve cells - and needs life-saving blood transfusions as she undergoes chemotherapy...
3-year-old girl in China may be world's youngest breast cancer survivo
The stains persisted for a few weeks and the woman was alarmed when she felt a small lump on the left side of her daughter's chest...
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