A rare cancer that permeates the bone appearing as a moth eaten effect on x-rays is called Ewing Sarcoma. You can just about make out this moth eaten effect on this x-ray from Dr M Richardson In the UK, an average of only 6 children a year are diagnosed, including a girl from Hull who […]
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Roots that look and smell like parsnips are washing up on beaches in Cumbria. Coastguards have warned people not to touch Oenanthe crocata (or Hemlock Water Dropwort to its friends).The poison attacks the nervous system causing death and seizures in humans and animals. It was fed to elderly pre-Roman Sardinians when they became a burden,
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Pope Gregory the Great (590AD) denounced leprosy as a punishment for sinful behaviour. Actually it is caused by a bacteria, and spread by inhaling droplets from someone’s nose.The bacteria prevents the suffer feeling pain in their extremities – which can become permanently damaged (or drop off) over time due to repeated injuries, infection and unnoticed
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I never forget when I was 8 years old my budgie (George) fell off his perch️ The death of Snowy, Spot or Fluffy is always a traumatic time in a child’s life Do pets help teach children about death – or does it just increase fear and worry about what will happen to Grandma or
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