- Margot Martini, 18 months, has found a stem-cell donor
- More than 50,000 people signed up to volunteer after campaign
- About 1,600 people per year require a stem-cell donation
By
Mail On Sunday Reporter
17:00 EST, 15 February 2014
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17:01 EST, 15 February 2014
A matching stem-cell donor has been found for toddler Margot Martini, thanks to a worldwide campaign by her family, championed by The Mail on Sunday.
The 18-month-old has a rare form of leukaemia and needs a bone marrow donation in order to survive.
More than 50,000 people expressed an interest after Margot’s parents Yaser and Vicki, from Essington in Staffordshire, launched a web campaign to find potential donors.
Search over: Margot Martini, 18 months, pictured with her parents Yaser and Victoria Martini at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London, has finally found a donor
The appeal was retweeted by celebrities including Gary Barlow and Stephen Fry.
‘We are assured by the medical team at Great Ormond Street Hospital that the donor is an “adequate match†with regard to their tissue type and a good option for us,’ said Yaser, pictured above with Margot and Vicki.
‘Given the timing of her chemotherapy programme and the medical advice, we are seizing this opportunity to avoid any delay in treatment.
‘We know very little about the donor but wish to thank them for agreeing to donate bone marrow. We very much hope to meet them one day. We’re also extremely grateful to everyone who responded.’
About 1,600 people in the UK require a stem-cell donation each year. You can register to become a donor at deletebloodcancer.org.uk.
Bad diet: Overweight people who choose diet drinks also eat more calories
Ever wondered why overweight people
who order diet drinks often get no slimmer? New research found they may
increase their calorie intake, so consume just as many as those having
sugary drinks.
The study from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore
found overweight adults who drank an artificially sweetened drink ate on
average 88 more food calories per day, while the obese consumed an
extra 194.
Telling the
truth is more pleasurable and less taxing on the brain than lying,
according to research from the University of Toronto. In a brain scan
study, researchers found that when participants told lies, the neural
reward systems were less active.
There was more brain activity in the
frontal lobe when telling a lie, suggesting that deception is more
stressful than being honest.
Strike a pose at Voga class
If you find yoga staid and enjoy throwing shapes around on the dancefloor, you might want to try a new class called Voga.
It’s a fusion of yoga plus ‘vogueing’ – the highly stylised dance form popularised in the 1980s by Madonna.
The classes, recently launched by set designer turned yoga instructor Juliet Murrell, combine stretching moves with posing and claim to offer the same mind and body benefits of regular yoga – with a dose of fun and attitude.
If that doesn’t sound cool enough, a live DJ plays tunes during every class.
lhouseofvoga.co.uk
A portable device producing the same weak electromagnetic fields as an MRI scan could be a new treatment for the blues.
It was developed after a chance discovery that depressed people experience mood improvements following an MRI scan.
A trial by psychiatrists and brain-imaging specialists at Harvard University found that patients with bipolar or depression who were treated with the device felt a 60 per cent greater improvement in mood than those given a placebo.
Just how low field magnetic stimulation, or LFMS, works is unclear. One theory is that it affects the electrical activity of nerve cells in areas of the brain.
‘It could prove useful as a rapidly acting treatment for depression, either alone or in combination with antidepressants,’ say researchers.
Antidepressants and electroconvulsive therapy can take four weeks to improve mood.
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