4 h. ago What are parents to do as doctors clash with Trump administration over vaccines?

The nation’s leading doctors groups are in a standoff with federal health officials over vaccines

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3 d. ago NHS doctor warns parents to not buy these 9 toys for children this Christmas

Dr Lillie Parker, an NHS paediatric doctor working in Accident & Emergency, has issued a warning to parents over the hazards posed by several popular toys this Christmas

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3 d. ago Donald Trump urged to break rules for Scotland World Cup clash as Brazil told to unleash Tartan Army hate figure

The US President was front and centre of the World Cup draw in Washington yesterday

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3 d. ago NHS A&E doctor urges all parents to avoid buying these toys this Christmas

An NHS paediatrician working in an Accident & Emergency department has provided a list of popular toys she urges parents not to buy owing to the risk of injury and accident

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4 d. ago CDC advisory panel votes to limit hepatitis B vaccines for newborns

Move from RFK Jr’s advisers mirrors Trump team’s regressive approach to longstanding vaccine guidanceThe US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)’s vaccine advisers voted on Friday morning to limit hepatitis vaccines in a major move signaling the Trump administration’s regressive approach to vaccines that have been given safely and effectively for decades.The panel of advisers to the US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, decided to remove the well-established and far-reaching recommendation that all newborns in the US receive a hepatitis B vaccine. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Royal Family LIVE: Prince Harry reignites Donald Trump row in awkward clash with Firm

Prince Harry made a surprise appearance on late night American chat show The Late Show With Stephen Colbert where he poked fun at US president Donald Trump, just hours after a major royal event

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6 d. ago Matthew Perry’s parents brand his doctor 'among most culpable’ over his death in emotional statement ahead of sentencing

Dr Salvador Plasencia admitted injecting Perry with liquid ketamine in the weeks before his death and sold him the drug for home use

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6 d. ago Parents given flu warning as 'high rates' seen in babies and children

There are already 'high rates of flu among babies, children, and young people' according to doctors in Wales as they appealed to parents

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6 d. ago Matthew Perry's parents brand his doctor 'among the most culpable of all' in their son's death as they hit out at 'greedy jackals'

The late friends actor, who passed away age 54 in October 2023, was under the acute effects of ketamine at the time of his death.

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8 d. ago Parents begged doctors 'let him go' before boy, 15, 'died in front of everyone'

Antonio Galisi-Swallow died at Leeds' Children's Hospital after undergoing surgery - his parents said they asked doctors to stop as they tried to resusciate him

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1 week ago Experts say strict new FDA protocol for vaccine approval is ‘dangerous and irresponsible’

Lead FDA vaccine regulator announced new approval process after claiming Covid vaccine had killed 10 childrenThe leading vaccine regulator at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced a far stricter course for federal vaccine approvals, following claims from his team that Covid vaccines were linked to the deaths of at least 10 children.Experts suggest the announcement will make the vaccine approval process significantly more difficult. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Girl, five, died after being sent home hours after having tonsils out

Amber Milnes's parents say they should have trusted their instincts and questioned doctors

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2 w. ago Doctor explains baby hair colour change mystery and parents are mind

The doctor shared with parents why it happens - and people are saying it happened to them

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2 w. ago Marjorie Taylor Greene to resign from Congress after clash with Trump

US president threatened primary challenge against the Republican firebrand over her campaign to release the Epstein files

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3 w. ago What AI doesn’t know: we could be creating a global ‘knowledge collapse’ | Deepak Varuvel Dennison

As GenAI becomes the primary way to find information, local and traditional wisdom is being lost. And we are only beginning to realise what we’re missingThis article was originally published as ‘Holes in the web’ on Aeon.coA few years back, my dad was diagnosed with a tumour on his tongue – which meant we had some choices to weigh up. My family has an interesting dynamic when it comes to medical decisions. While my older sister is a trained doctor in western allopathic medicine, my parents are big believers in traditional remedies. Having grown up in a small town in India, I am accustomed to rituals. My dad had a ritual, too. Every time we visited his home village in southern Tamil Nadu, he’d get a bottle of thick, pungent, herb-infused oil from a vaithiyar, a traditional doctor practising Siddha medicine. It was his way of maintaining his connection with the kind of medicine he had always known and trusted.Dad’s tumour showed signs of being malignant, so the hospital doctors and my...

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3 w. ago ‘I don’t want anyone to suffer like I did’: the intersex campaigners fighting to limit surgery on children

What should be done about the small proportion of babies born with genitals that are neither typically male nor typically female? Many of those affected believe parents and doctors are often too quick to schedule operationsSmall Luk was initially “so happy” to be offered genital reconstruction surgery, aged eight. Doctors had told her she was a boy, but that she had an illness, which was why she couldn’t urinate standing up. “They told me this is a problem,” the 60-year-old from Hong Kong says. “And that in the future, you cannot marry, you cannot have a baby, so you need to have surgeries.”Having been bullied at school for her ambiguous gender presentation, she found the idea that she could be “modified back to normal” a compelling one. But it wasn’t as simple as the doctors made out: Luk had an undeveloped uterus and vagina in her body as well as underdeveloped male genitals. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Warning to parents over 'deadly' flu strain set to rip through Britain... and how to keep your children safe

Leading children's doctors have urged parents to get their children the nasal spray that protects against flu amid concerns over a particularly bad flu season.

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4 w. ago Infectious diseases doctor urges parents to sign one document in UKHSA alert

Dr Kostas Karampatsas, a paediatric infectious diseases consultant at St George's Hospital, spoke in a clip shared by the UKHSA

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