Mother dies days after having her stomach stapled
A mother died from complications four days after having a gastric bypass. Lynda Taylor, 33, opted for the risky surgery after failing to lose weight with dieting and anti-obesity drugs

‘I was seven-months pregnant when I was widowed overnight’
Ian couldn't wait to be a father but he died of a rare heart disease just two months before his daughter was born. Here his widow, Rachel, describes how she struggled to cope with his loss at seven-months pregnant

Breast-feeding curbs obesity in at-risk kids (Reuters)
Reuters - Women who develop diabetes during pregnancy are liable to have large babies, which in turn can lead to obesity in childhood -- but that chain of events may be interrupted if the mother breast-feeds, researchers report.

How do you tell your nine-year-old she could die in her 30s?
Krystie Maddox, 16, has Friedreich's ataxia, a rare disease which attacks the nervous system. Her mother has written a book about coping with her daughter's illness. Here's her heartbreaking, but ultimately uplifting, story

The changing face of a little hero
Ollie was born with a skull defect so terrible his mother couldn't bring herself to look at him. Now, after he endured 128 operations in just nine years, her love for her courageous, irrepressible son knows no bounds. Read about the emotional roller coaster of living with cranlosynostosis