That really awful hacking cough that’s now doing the rounds? It’s pertussis — whooping cough, or the 100-day cough as it’s become known — and cases are surging in the UK.
While it’s a very nasty infection if you get it as child or an adult — as I know from my own experience after ending up in A&E — for very small babies, it can be lethal.
Earlier this week, I wrote in the Mail that some paediatric colleagues
Die Ducks werden im NHL Entry Draft nächsten Monat den dritten Pick haben. Es ist das dritte Mal in vier Saisons, dass die Ducks einen Platz unter den ersten drei Draft-Picks haben.
San Jose wird zuerst wählen, gefolgt von den Chicago Blackhawks.
Es wird allgemein erwartet, dass der Stürmer der Boston University, Macklin Celebrini, die erste Wahl ist. Celebrini, ein 17-jähriger Neuling, gewann dieses Jahr den Hobey Baker Award und ist damit der jüngste Spieler, der zum besten College-Eishockeyspieler gewählt
Kate Middleton is recovering well and will be back by Easter, royal insiders have claimed – but they say she needs to be left in peace as she struggles to deal with the aftermath of Mother’s Day photo row.
Kate publicly took the blame for the family photograph released by Kensington Palace on Sunday as she issued an apology for the ‘confusion’.
It came after a public explosion of conspiracy theories, after six of the world’s top picture agencies including
Attendance Allowance is an important benefit for elderly people who need help caring for themselves.
It’s worth either £68.10 or £101.75 a week, and you don’t need to be hard-up to qualify.
It is for people over state pension who need help at home because of an illness or disability.
Benefit experts believe many people fail to claim Attendance Allowance, as they might be unaware of the payments or believe they are means-tested.
Anyone who applies has to fill in
Lynsey Bleakly had been trying to conceive for two years when, aged 39 and aware she was running out of time, she visited an acupuncturist who specialised in treating fertility problems.
‘The longer it didn’t happen, the more anxious I became,’ says Lynsey, now 47, who tearfully told the £90-an-hour therapist her story. But the acupuncturist seemed unperturbed by Lynsey’s history. ‘She said she’d got lots of women pregnant, and it would be me next.’
It was a bold claim.
As the daughter of the one-time king and queen of daytime TV, Richard and Judy, Chloe Madeley had an idyllic childhood.
She wanted for nothing and was cocooned by the love of two parents, who even finished work in time to collect her from her prestigious private day school.
However, she could never have predicted that the privileges bestowed upon her would, in early adulthood, lead to so much vitriol — from colleagues and even strangers — that she would
One night shortly before my 40th birthday, I suddenly found I couldn’t stop sobbing.
I was in an unhappy marriage, and the pressure of being a working mum to three young children had been building for a while, but I was bewildered by what was happening to me. In fact, I was in the throes of a breakdown.
My husband tried to comfort me but was unable to; the person I really needed by my side was my mum. I
A mother-of-two has spoken out about the financial hardships children face today, and how she feels ‘helpless’ as a parent.
Jessica McCabe, 51, from Alabama, who previously worked in the US Air Force, took to TikTok to share her fury on how society has strayed from meritocratic values.
As the words ‘Where did the American dream go?’ are displayed across the screen, Jessica explained that she always told her children that if they work hard, they will be financially comfortable.
Lionel Messi unselfishly passed up the chance to score his first Inter Miami hat-trick by handing a struggling team-mate the opportunity to take a penalty. Fellow forward Josef Martinez had failed to score since Messi’s arrival at the beginning of July but was handed the opportunity after winning a spot-kick.
Messi has been in sensational form since securing his free transfer to MLS. The Barcelona icon had already scored a stunning, match-winning free kick on his debut in a 2-1
Markets are pricing in two more interest rate hikes this year in yet more misery for struggling mortgage borrowers.
The Bank of England raised rates by a widely expected 0.25 percentage points yesterday, with some observers thinking there might be another ‘shock and awe’ 0.5 per cent
