Fiona Shaw promised she would eat healthy when she discovered she was pregnant.

She told her boyfriend she would give up fast food and eat fresh fruit and vegetables instead.

But 28 weeks into her pregnancy, Shaw’s morning sickness was so bad that she lost 42 pounds and was forced to have an emergency Cesarean section, reports the U.K.’s Daily Mail.

Increasing numbers of U.S. troops have left the military with damaged bodies and minds, an ever-larger pool of disabled veterans that will cost the nation billions for decades to come — even as the total population of America’s vets shrinks.

Despite the decline in total vets — as soldiers from World War II and Korea die — the government expects to be spending $59 billion a year to compensate injured warriors in 25 years, up from today’s $29 billion, according to internal documents obtained by The Associated Press. And the Veterans Affairs Department concedes the bill could be much higher.

It was an unhappy Mother’s Day for Arlene Lendor, who spent Sunday afternoon in the hospital with her 7-year-old daughter Hanna.

For more than two years, Hanna has suffered from pain, shortness of breath and headaches.

Despite numerous tests, doctors are unable to determine what the cause of her illness is, much less give it a name, reports The Trinidad & Tobago Express.

Eighteen-year-old Leanne Nicholson is recovering from her second heart transplant in six years.   The teen from England told London’s Daily Mail that there is a million-to-one chance of getting a second heart transplant. 

Nicholson was healthy until the age of 12 when a virus attacked the muscle tissue of her heart. She was diagnosed with cardiomyopathy, an enlargement of the heart tissue.

Doctors said her heart was so damaged it was as if she had suffered three major heart attacks – the upper two chambers of her heart were not functioning at all and the lower two were barely beating.

She was immediately put on life support, but a donor was found quickly.

However, within 14 months, Nicholson’s body began to reject the heart and she felt ill again.

Doctors told her she would need another new heart.

During my sixteen years practicing psychiatry I have treated dozens of men experiencing major depression after fathering a child.  These men have come to my office with symptoms like low mood, tearfulness, decreased self-esteem, impaired sleep and decreased concentration.  Some have even struggled with suicidal ideation.  It was enough to make me suggest to my publisher a year or so ago that we consider my writing a book on male postpartum depression.

Now, my clinical experiences have been borne out by a scientific study from the Center for Pediatric Research at the Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk.  Dr. James Paulson and his colleagues found that about 10 percent of new fathers displayed symptoms of major depression, far more than the three to five percent of men in the general population who suffer with the condition.

For the men I treated, becoming fathers represented far-ranging changes in their views of themselves.  Many felt ill equipped psychologically or economically or both to be valuable to a child.  For some, the birth of a child had made them dwell on their own fractured relationships with their dads.  For others, becoming a father made them feel as though their sex lives would be forever changed or even non-existent, lost in the translation from coupling to parenting.

More study is needed here, but one thing is clear:  It’s time for family physicians, obstetricians and pediatricians to be aware that post-partum depression affects mothers and fathers.  That means that children can be impacted early on in ways not previously understood or even considered.  The bonding necessary between mother and child has its counterpart in father-child bonding.  When depression interferes, the man isn’t the only one who suffers; so, too, does his son or daughter.

Here’s the good news:  Depression, including the postpartum variety, is highly treatable.  The vast majority of patients recover fully.  So lots of growing families can be helped by finding fathers for whom the joys of parenting are obscured by the shadow of a mental illness once thought to afflict only mothers.  

Watch Dr. Ablow discuss this topic on America’s Newsroom.

Dr. Keith Ablow is a psychiatry correspondent for FOX News Channel. His book, “Living the Truth: Transform Your Life through the Power of Insight and Honesty,” is a New York Times bestseller. Check out Dr. Ablow’s Web site at www.livingthetruth.com.

A Kansas City-area teenager who tried to pierce his lip with a needle from a first-aid kit ended up with a staph infection that almost killed him.

Zeke Wheeler of Blue Springs is recovering at Children’s Mercy Hospital after several surgeries on his knees and hips to remove the drug-resistant infection called Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus virus.

Now the 15-year-old high school freshman faces heart surgery, more hospitalization and a long course of antibiotics.

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A 2-year-old boy in England suffers from a rare genetic disease sometimes referred to as children’s Alzheimer’s disease, the Daily Telegraph reports.

Taylor Smith, of Barrow-in-Furness in Cumbria, England, has been diagnosed with Niemann-Pick disease, type C, a disease that will cause him to develop signs of dementia before he hits his teen years.

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A consumer advocacy group petitioned the government Thursday to pull the birth-control patch off the market, calling it far riskier than the pill.

“Ortho-Evra is a poor choice for women,” Dr. Sidney Wolfe of Public Citizen wrote the Food and Drug Administration.

Warnings about the Ortho-Evra weekly patch have escalated since a 2005 investigation by The Associated Press found patch users suffer higher rates of life-threatening blood clots than women who take birth-control pills.

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Depression, teens and marijuana are a dangerous mix that can lead to dependency, mental illness or suicidal thoughts, according to a White House report being released Friday.

A teen who has been depressed at some point in the past year is more than twice as likely to have used marijuana as teens who have not reported being depressed — 25 percent compared with 12 percent, said the report by the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy.

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