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Travelling with allergies
If you have a family member with an allergy, a simple trip away can be life-threatening.
Allergy risk may be tied to how you wash your dishes
A new study suggests that parents who wash their dishes by hand, rather than in a dishwashing machine, may unwittingly lower the likelihood that their children will develop allergies.
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Bounce4Batten: the campaign raising awareness for a rare disease
Two years ago, NSW parents Peta and Hamish were told that their once healthy daughter, Mia, had a rare "life limiting" genetic condition called Batten disease.
While his parents slept, this seven-year-old boy's life was saved by Jedi, his diabetes-sniffing dog
It was the middle of the night. The lights were off, the house was still, the six members of the Nuttall family were sound asleep. The machinery that monitors the blood sugar levels of 7-year-old Luke Nuttall, who suffers from dangerous type 1 diabetes, was utterly quiet.
Girl weighed 112 kilograms when she died of preventable asthma attack
An Illawarra girl who died of a "clearly preventable" asthma episode weighed more than 112 kilograms and lived in a putrid, mice-infested home – both contributors to her demise, an inquest has heard.
Passengers applaud as boy is removed from plane
Passengers laugh at seven-year-old as he and his family are taken off a plane because he had an allergic reaction to a dog on board.
Snake bit boy's face as he slept in his home near Macksville
A six-year-old boy has been taken to hospital after a large snake slithered into his bunk bed while he was sleeping and bit him on the face on the NSW mid north coast, a friend of the family says.
Boy suffers rare skin condition, 'slowly turning into stone'
Jaiden was diagnosed with a rare condition called stiff-skin syndrome at age 7.
Photo of son dying in parents' arms latest warning of dangers of meningitis
Photographs of the formerly fit and healthy Mason Timmins are the latest in a harrowing series of images intended to educate of the dangers of meningococcal disease.
Teen's plea for a bone marrow donor has gone viral, #Match4Zara
Thirteen-year-old Zara Al Shaikh, of Hampshire, United Kingdom joined Twitter last week looking for a bone marrow transplant.
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Terminally-ill eight-year-old boy who found love passed away
The little boy who found love while battling cancer has sadly died on Thursday.
Sydney's newest superhero Iron Boy hits the streets
A nine-year-old boy with a life-threatening illness is on his way to save the heart of Sydney after his superhero dream became a reality.
Six-year-old eats a box of cornflour a day to survive
George suffers from a rare and life-threatening disease called glycogen storage disease.
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