3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (332+ words) A PEST-CONTROL specialist has described the moment he visited a property in Pontypridd and saw “the worst cockroach infestation I have ever seen” after pulling back a sofa to find it swarming with the insects. Gareth Davies, owner of Pest…...

1+ week, 2+ hour ago   (328+ words) A MOTHER has spoken of how her son narrowly survived a brain tumour that medics only uncovered as they looked into a tiny fingernail infection. Sam Sharp, 39, gave birth to her son in 2020. But just 11 days later, baby Joey was…...

2+ week, 14+ hour ago   (566+ words) Six cases of Ewing sarcoma strike Ladera Ranch DeANN KLING is one of three people on her street diagnosed with breast cancer. Seventeen-year-old Brody Matteson went through hell in the last year of his life. Feeding tubes, blood transfusions, ambulance…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (514+ words) The night before, the 29-year-old had told his mother he was hungry. He had barely been eating and lost about 10kg from not having an appetite. So she was glad when he asked for the dish. The mother and son had…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (485+ words) ‘‘Excuse me, are you a psychiatrist?’’ I was walking along the park connector near my home, as I do most evenings. After hours of sitting in air-conditioned clinics, listening to the heavy, fractured narratives of human suffering, these walks are…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (540+ words) On a football field my friend Andy’s slide tackle was a thing of venomous beauty. In the mid-1980s he'd gallop towards strikers like one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, sliding through damp grass, cannoning into the ball, sweeping…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (499+ words) Q I've always heard that the BRAT diet, with its bland foods, helps ease diarrhoea and nausea from a stomach bug. Do doctors still recommend that? A Doctors once swore by a diet of bananas, rice, apple sauce and toast…...