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Yen Lau says she was “living her best life” until a small bite turned her world upside down. The 32-year-old, from Glasgow, got Lyme disease after being bitten by a tick on a camping trip to Loch Lomond. After her health deteriorated she was misdiagnosed with having chronic fatigue and a pain disorder. An app […]

The Funniest Tweets From Parents This Week (Aug. 17-23) | HuffPost Life Kids may say the darndest things, but parents tweet about them in the funniest ways. So, each week we round up the most hilarious 280-character quips from moms and dads to spread the joy. Scroll down to read the latest batch and follow

Image copyright Getty Images What do you think about hospital food? Bake Off judge Prue Leith is the latest celebrity chef to be recruited in the quest to improve the food hospital patients eat. The government has launched a review of hospital food, first announced in June, to set new quality standards for the 140

Image copyright Family photo Image caption Nadia Sharif was a “really bright girl”, her family said A mental health unit for vulnerable young people where two girls died in two months is to close, a watchdog has said. The Care Quality Commission (CQC) rated Middlesbrough’s West Lane Hospital as inadequate and said patients were at

Modern online romance scams are premeditated, organized crimes that steal millions ― potentially billions ― of dollars from vulnerable, lonely people over the internet. The scammers may just have lit upon the perfect crime: They sit at computers safely overseas, hunting for their prey on social networks, and they rarely get caught. The victims are

I can’t recall a time I’ve ever written to you. It’s probably because the written word feels too serious. Yet I don’t think I could express my sentiments today any other way. After all, at my very core, I am culturally Chinese through and through. There are some things we feel too heavily to audibly

The Latest on the reaction to the fires in the Amazon (all times local): 2:30 p.m. In a sharp escalation of tensions with Brazil, France is accusing President Jair Bolsonaro of having lied to French leader Emmanuel Macron and says it now opposes a trade deal with the South American bloc Mercosur because of his environmental

Odds are good that at some point in your adult life, you’ve talked to yourself — in your head, or even out loud. Some people do it regularly, and even find it helpful. But you might be wondering: is it normal to talk to yourself? Is it ever a good thing? Or a bad thing,

Growing up in Texas among a large Asian American community, I remember many family friends with extensive backyard gardens that produced fruit and vegetables like choy sum and tatsoi. Even after I moved away, my parents would tell me about so-and-so stopping over with sweet potato leaves from their garden or dropping off oranges. I

The World Health Organization says it’s theoretically possible to wipe out malaria, but probably not with the flawed vaccine and other control methods being used at the moment. Dr. Pedro Alonso, the U.N. health agency’s global malaria director, said WHO is “unequivocally in favor” of eradication, but that major questions about its feasibility remain. In