14 h. ago Best pals take on gruelling Newcastle to Stirling bike ride for youngster battling rare condition

Craig MacLachlan and friend Jack McFadyen completed the route from the Angel of the North sculpture to King's Park on Sunday - with the monies helping the family of Eireann MacFarlane from Whins of Milton.

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4 d. ago Scots baby believed to be only person in the world living with two rare conditions

"We had never heard of either of these conditions before, and finding out he had both was so difficult to digest."

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7 d. ago NHS aspirin ‘liver and brain damage’ alert for children with rare condition

NHS guidance has a strict warning considering giving their children aspirin as a painkiller

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7 d. ago Bruce Willis' kids 'already grieving' as wife fears they may never 'bounce back'

Hollywood star and Die Hard actor Bruce Willis was diagnosed with a relatively rare form of dementia in 2023, with his condition progressing so that he's now non-verbal

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8 d. ago NHS to screen for rare genetic condition which affects one in seven babies each year

The condition prevents the normal breakdown of protein in food

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9 d. ago Naked bike riders launch ‘emergency’ demonstration against federal troops

One rider called the nude ride a ‘quintessentially Portland way to protest’

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9 d. ago Woman, 41, born with a painful condition that leaves her skin as delicate as tissue paper and was 'not expected to survive infancy' reveals how she copes with living in daily agony

Courageous Emma Fogarty, 41, is the longest living Irish person with Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB), a rare and painful condition that leaves the skin as delicate as tissue paper.

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1 week ago Galloway grandmother, 87, takes on bike ride with a twist in memory of her children

The grandmother will have her grandson by her side throughout the challenge.

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2 w. ago Jack Whitehall 'honours TV star Nicholas Lyndhurst's late son Archie' with 'passion' project

Archie died in his sleep after suffering an intracerebral haemorrhage caused by acute lymphoblastic lymphoma - an incredibly rare condition which kills around 800 people a year.

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2 w. ago Bullies call me ‘The Hulk’ because of my huge arm, but I was born with it, and I know I’m beautiful

A YOUNG woman has hit back at cruel trolls who dub her 'The Hulk' because she was born with a rare condition. Olivia Klopchin, 20, from Springfield, Vermont, US, was diagnosed with a vascular malformation at just two months old. Olivia revealed that in her case, it predominantly affects the veins on her left arm,...

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2 w. ago Woman who 'planned her own funeral in secret' dies as boyfriend reveals heartbreak

Jody Lewis, 35, has been remembered by her boyfriend Dean Edwards after she died in Liverpool after a lifelong struggle with cystic fibrosis, a rare and incurable genetic condition

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2 w. ago Portlanders are organizing a naked bike ride to protest Trump militarization of city

Trump has claimed that the city has descended into ‘lawless mayhem’ and that federal troops are needed to protect ICE agents in Portland

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2 w. ago Schoolboy, 13, left unable to breathe after pet parrot sparked rare condition

Kenny Kajan, 13, inherited his mother's love for birds but found himself suffering flu-like symptoms, including a cough and high temperatures, before needing to go to hospital

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2 w. ago Scots schoolgirl stuck 'in limbo' in hospital waiting on vital heart transplant

Brie McCann, 6, was born with Ebstein’s anomaly; a rare condition that affects the flow of blood through a valve in the heart.

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2 w. ago Former Wales coach Warren Gatland opens up on heartbreaking death of his four

Warren Gatland, 62, and his wife Trudi lost baby daughter Shauna after she was born with spina bifida, a rare condition where the spine and spinal cord fail to develop properly inside the womb.

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3 w. ago ‘Happy, healthy’ girl left paralysed from neck down after falling ill

Ivy Amos was diagnosed with transverse myelitis, a rare neurological condition caused by inflammation of the spinal cord

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3 w. ago What is diabetes insipidus? The rare condition that is unrelated to blood sugar

Diabetes insipidus quietly affects hundreds of thousands of people worldwide

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3 w. ago Woman with two vaginas offers to sell very intimate item to fan – but it'll cost you

EXCLUSIVE: Annie Charlotte, 27, made a name for herself in the adult industry using her rare medical condition uterus didelphys as a marketing strategy to attract subscribers

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3 w. ago Woman with two vaginas hit with £180k HMRC bill as she ‘didn’t know she had to pay tax’

EXCLUSIVE: Annie Charlotte, 27, has made millions of pounds in her adult industry career. The Surrey-native used a rare medical condition to drastically increase her earnings

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4 w. ago 'I went for a routine eye test, six months later I was blind in both eyes'

Jamie Ward was diagnosed with a rare genetic condition within weeks of going for his routine eye test and ended up losing his sight in both eyes just months later - despite having no symptoms

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