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A 15-year-old model with albinism, who has appeared in Vogue, has said she wants to inspire people with disabilities to achieve their dreams. Kimberley Leech would have dark skin, eyes and hair, but her condition means she has less pigmentation and impaired vision. The teenager, from Swadlincote, Derbyshire, who appeared in the Italian edition of […]

Lego have designed “Braille bricks” to help pupils with sight loss. The BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire programme has been to meet pupils at one specialist school testing them out. Some say other communication tools should also be taught. Watch the Victoria Derbyshire programme on BBC Two and BBC News Channel, 10:00 to 11:00 BST – and

Image copyright LOWELL GEORGIA/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY More than half a million children in the UK were not given a crucial measles jab between 2010 and 2017, an analysis by children’s charity Unicef reveals. It comes as NHS chief, Simon Stevens, warned measles cases had almost quadrupled in England in just one year and urged families

The Latest on the opioid epidemic (all times local): 2:15 p.m. President Donald Trump says his administration is using every resource it has to fight the nation’s opioid crisis. He says “nothing is going to stop” him from wiping it out. He says his administration has secured $6 billion in federal dollars over two years

Image copyright Alamy Image caption Electrodes read the electrical activity in the brain Scientists have developed a brain implant that can read people’s minds and turn their thoughts to speech. The team at the University of California, San Francisco says the technology is “exhilarating”. They add that their findings, published in the journal Nature, could

U.S. measles cases in 2019 have climbed to their highest level in 25 years in a resurgence largely attributed to misinformation that is turning parents against vaccines. New York City health officials on Wednesday reported 61 new cases since late last week, pushing this year’s nationwide tally past the 667 cases reported for all of

How much screen time is too much for babies and young children? The World Health Organization has advised parents that under-twos should not spend any time passively watching screens. Children aged two to four should not spend more than an hour a day watching programmes or playing computer games, it also says. But are such

President Donald Trump claimed credit Wednesday for progress in battling the opioid epidemic amid debate over whether the crisis has peaked and what his administration has accomplished. Interested in Opioid Epidemic? Add Opioid Epidemic as an interest to stay up to date on the latest Opioid Epidemic news, video, and analysis from ABC News. “It’s

Image caption Judith Mills says she is incontinent and virtually unable to walk A woman struggling to walk after an operation by a neurosurgeon had unacceptable treatment, doctors say. Since 2014, the care of Hussien El-Maghraby has been scrutinised, with an inquiry ruling three years later he should no longer perform complex procedures without further

Image copyright Getty Images Babies and toddlers should not be left to passively watch TV or other screens, according to new World Health Organization guidelines. Sedentary screen time, including computer games, should not happen before a child is two, the WHO says. The limit for two- to four-year-olds is an hour a day and less