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As if you needed any excuse to get yourself a four-legged companion, or give the one you currently have a boop on the nose and scratch on the belly for being very good, new research suggests that dogs may help protect children from developing not only eczema but also asthma. Weirdly, this was found to be the case even if a child was known to be allergic to the animals, but only in certain situations. Researchers wanted to see if the presence of a dog in houses had any impact on these childhood conditions. Eczema is often more common in children than in adults, and causes the skin to become dry, red and itchy, while asthma is more commonly found in children living in urban environments. From this, two studies looked at how exposure to dogs at different points of development contributed. Both papers have been presented at the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI) Annual Scientific Meeting. “Although eczema is commonly found in infants, many people don't k

A 98-year-old mother has moved in to a care home - to look after her 80-year-old son. Tom Keating became a resident at Moss View care home in Huyton, Liverpool, in 2016 because he needed additional care and support. And just over a year later his mother Ada decided to move into the same home to help look after her eldest child. The mother and son, originally from Wavertree, are inseparable and love spending time together playing games or watching Emmerdale. Devoted mother Ada Keating has joined her son Tom (pictured together) at Moss View care home in Huyton, Liverpool to help workers looks after her 80-year-old son The pair share a special relationship as Tom never married and has always lived with Ada They share a special relationship as Tom never married and has always lived with Ada. Ada said: 'I say goodnight to Tom in his room every night and I'll go and say good morning to him. 'I'll tell him I'm coming down for breakfast. When I go out

The few startups that grow rapidly to over $1 billion in revenue are almost never in retail, they’re usually in technology or other industries. Retailers that grow so fast are normally unsustainable, I try not to even comment about them. Except for this one. I can’t recall ever seeing anything like it. It has grown so fast and so high that it’s worth looking at. Growth like this has to have tapped into an underlying need that most other industry people didn't see. If you want to understand consumers and you find companies like this, it's worth looking at more closely because there's probably a trend or a need they're serving that's not otherwise apparent. It's not easy to figure out what that kind of growth reveals, sales growth numbers on their own don’t explain why consumers do what they do. It means consumers are up to something different and it’s up to the observer to figure out what that is. Reaad more here

A 74-year-old man has taken to the streets in a desperate search to find a kidney donor for his wife. Every day, Wayne Winters puts on a sandwich board advertisement and walks for miles near his Farr West, Utah home. “I don’t walk real fast,” he told Fox 13 Now. Winters said he came up with the idea after his wife, Deanne, was diagnosed with stage 5 kidney failure and he was at a loss of how to help. “I didn’t know what to do,” he told the news outlet. “I felt like I needed to do something.” He saw a similar story on the news about a man in search of an organ donor for his wife, and made his own sign before heading out. Nothing that rush hour is his favorite time to walk, Winters said that on his first day, a driver stopped to tell him he would get tested to see if he was a match. “I say ‘Deanne, I think we have a good chance of getting you a kidney,’” he told Fox 13 Now. But until it’s confirmed, Winters said he’ll keep walking with his sign. One side of his board bring