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‘I’m visually impaired, but I got to see my unborn baby’: Blind photography exhibition World Unseen features incredible ultrasound scan | Ents & Arts News
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Running her fingers over her scan for the first time, Karen Trippass could feel straight away that her unborn baby had her husband’s nose. Born with bilateral coloboma, a rare condition also known as cat-eye syndrome, she never thought she would experience this pregnancy milestone in the same way that sighted expectant mums do, the…
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RSV vaccine could cut baby hospital admissions by more than 80%, study suggests | Science & Tech News
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A vaccine to combat a common seasonal virus among babies could reduce hospital admissions by more than 80%, a trial has shown. Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) impacts 90% of children before they reach the age of two, often causing a mild cold-like illness. But infection can also lead to severe lung problems like pneumonia, and…
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‘Baby brain’ in mothers caused by hormonal changes before birth, rather than after, scientists say | Science & Tech News
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The condition known as “baby brain” may be caused by hormonal changes before birth, rather than, as commonly thought, as a result of the impact of bearing a child, scientists have said. A study of mice by a team from the Francis Crick Institute, found their brains began preparing for “the big life change” of…
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‘Chilling’ surge in use of smart speakers and baby monitors to control domestic abuse victims, MPs say | Politics News
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Connected devices such as baby monitors and smart speakers are increasingly being used to survey, harass and control domestic abuse victims, MPs have warned. The government has been urged to do more to tackle the rise in so-called “tech abuse” – whereby smart technology and connected devices are used to broaden and facilitate patterns of…
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UK’s first ‘three-parent baby’ born after IVF procedure | Science & Tech News
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The first baby created from three genetic parents has been born in the UK. To prevent inherited disease doctors created a “three-parent baby” by using a technique known as mitochondrial donation treatment (MDT). The procedure, aimed at stopping a mother from passing on defective genes in the mitochondria – tiny power plants in cells that…
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Rare baby blue spiral in Alaska skies leaves Northern Lights enthusiasts ‘bewildered’ | Science & Tech News
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Northern Lights enthusiasts were left “bewildered” after a baby blue-coloured spiral resembling a galaxy appeared amid the aroura in the skies of Alaska. Although it might have looked like the sudden appearance of a portal, or the beginnings of an alien invasion, the sky spiral was caused by excess fuel released from a SpaceX rocket…
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Rare cancer survivor with no ovaries gives birth to ‘miracle’ baby | UK News
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A woman who gave birth after having her ovaries removed to save her life and beat an exceptionally rare form of cancer has described her newborn as a “miracle” baby. Stacey Broadmeadow, from Stockport, was diagnosed with pseudomyxoma peritonei (PMP) in 2017, of which the chances are one in a million. The 38-year-old – who…
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Baby deaths mystery from 1930s solved by researchers finding ‘abnormal’ gene shape link to vitamin D side-effects | UK News
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An 80-year-old mystery linked to a wave of baby deaths in the 1930s and 1940s has finally been solved by researchers. The fatal ingredient was found in household staples – milk, bread, cereal, margarine. But it was put there to try and make children healthier. In the early 1900s, more than 80% of children were…
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Richard Branson woke in middle of night to find Elon Musk barefoot in his kitchen – and holding his baby | UK News
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Richard Branson has revealed a bizarre story about finding Elon Musk in the kitchen of his New Mexico house in the middle of the night before his first space flight. In an interview this weekend, Mr Branson said the Twitter and Tesla owner was completely barefoot, holding his fast-asleep baby X Æ A-12, and had…