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What is severe morning sickness?

Kate Middleton is being treated in hospital for a very severe form of morning sickness called hyperemesis gravidarum

Kate Middleton is being treated in hospital for a very severe form of morning sickness called hyperemesis gravidarum. Hyperemesis gravidarum (HG) is a rare condition believed to affect up to 2% of women in pregnancy and is a severe form of morning sickness. It tends to be more common in young mothers, women who are [...]

Lizzie Velasquez, world’s ugliest woman, releases second book about her struggle to be accepted

Lizzie Velasquez was born without adipose tissue, meaning she has no body fat and, despite eating up to 60 small meals a day, remains at a delicate 58 lbs

Lizzie Velasquez has been ridiculed, stared at in the street and called “the world’s ugliest woman” by insensitive cyber bullies. But, after years of misery and self doubt, Lizzie Velasquez says she can finally shrug off the hurtful comments about her looks as “just words”. Lizzie Velasquez, from Austin, Texas, was born without adipose tissue [...]

Ben Stacy, the living descendant of the Fugate blue family of Kentucky

Ben Stacy came from an isolated family in Kentucky whose members were born with a rare condition that discolored the skin

Ben Stacy came from an isolated family in Kentucky whose members were born with a rare condition that discolored the skin, as a result of a coincidental meeting of recessive genes, intermarriage and inbreeding in the 1800’s. Ben Stacy was born in 1975 and although the color soon diminished from him, his lips and fingernails [...]

Ryan Marquiss, the world’s first child to survive being born with heart outside his body

Ryan Marquiss is the first child in the world to survive being born with his heart outside of his body

Ryan Marquiss is the first child in the world to survive being born with his heart outside of his body. Having the heart outside the body, ectopia cordis, is an incredibly rare condition and usually babies are stillborn or die within three days. Ryan Marquiss’ heart also hadn’t developed and so he only had half [...]

The story of Apalachia’s “Blue Family” whose members were born with a rare skin discoloration

Fugate family developed a rare skin discoloration as a result of a coincidental meeting of recessive genes, intermarriage and inbreeding

The extraordinary story of Appalachia’s “Blue Family” began back to the early 1800’s, when an isolated family from eastern Kentucky – who can trace their roots back to a French orphan – started producing children who were blue. As a result of a coincidental meeting of recessive genes, intermarriage and inbreeding, members of the Fugate family [...]

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