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MPs are urging doctors to stop using body mass index

MPs are urging doctors to stop using body mass index Shaun Wooller Health Correspondent For The Daily Mail © Provided by Daily Mail MailOnline logo Doctors should stop using body mass index as a measure of health because it harms body image and contributes to weight shaming , MPs say. The measure, calculated from weight and height, is used to categorise people as underweight, healthy weight, overweight or obese. BMI is also used by the NHS to determine eligibility for weight loss or gain programmes.  © Provided by Daily Mail Doctors should stop using body mass index as a measure of health because it harms body image and contributes to weight shaming , MPs say

Girl, 6, given 12 months to live after brain tumour diagnosis

Girl, 6, given 12 months to live after brain tumour diagnosis Monica Greep For Mailonline © Provided by Daily Mail MailOnline logo The heartbroken family of a six-year-old girl told she has 12 months to live have said she has been robbed of her childhood by a rare form of incurable brain cancer.  Lily McKelvey, six, from Essex, was diagnosed with a diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG), a rare tumour which develops in the brainstem, after she began violently vomiting in the mornings.   Her parents Jack and Elizabeth are now desperately fundraising to send Lily to New York for a pioneering treatment which isn t available in the UK and may prolong the little girl s life. 

Doctors call for gap between first and second vaccine doses to HALVE

Doctors call for gap between first and second vaccine doses to HALVE Katie Weston For Mailonline © Provided by Daily Mail MailOnline logo Senior doctors have called for the gap between the first and second doses of Pfizer s Covid-19 vaccine to be halved to six weeks.  The British Medical Association (BMA) has recommended to cut the waiting time, warning in a letter that the strategy is difficult to justify and the UK is internationally isolated . It emerged on Thursday that NHS hospitals could be banned from giving out the jabs if they don t stick to the strategy of delaying second doses by 12 weeks or longer, despite initial proposals to leave a three-week gap. 

Missouri toddler, 3, had a stroke after COVID-19 diagnosis

Missouri toddler, 3, had a stroke after COVID-19 diagnosis Matthew Wright For Dailymail.com © Provided by Daily Mail MailOnline logo A three-year-old boy in Missouri has made a miraculous recovery after his bout with COVID-19 resulted in him having a stroke. The family is calling the recovery the best Christmas present ever. Colt Parris had been inside MU Women s and Children s Hospital in Columbia, Missouri, for a week fighting against the coronavirus and recovering from his stroke. We thought we were going to lose him for sure, Tim Parris, the boy s father, said to KSN. I don t care how tough you are; you will cry. You can t help it when it s your 3-year-old laying there.  

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