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Charleigh Boyne, 28, a dance teacher from Manningtree, Essex, developed a flesh-eating disease days after giving birth. Husband Liam, 28, (pictured left) rushed her to hospital where a CT scan revealed she had necrotising fasciitis (NF) and it was 'eating away her abdomen'. Following a six-hour operation, she was put into an induced coma for two days.

Janusz Racz, from London, was given a heartbreaking diagnosis of just four to five months to live in May after the disease was spotted during a colonoscopy. Told chemotherapy and radiotherapy would only give the scientist, 67, a 35 per cent chance of surviving over five years, he opted to take part in the pioneering trial. The vaccine, codenamed BNT116, is made by BioNTech using the same mRNA technology that underpinned its highly effective Covid jab. Doctors believe the treatment - which is custom built for patients to stop their cancer returning - will herald a new era in fighting the disease. Designed to treat non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), the most common form of the disease, they say it is far more precisely targeted than chemotherapy.

Nansi Alys, from Criccieth in Gwynedd, Wales, was taken to the doctor when she was just three-years-old after her mum Leila Evans noticed a small lump on her toe, in May 2021. Doctors told Ms Evans that the lump was a wart, but in the months following, the lump continued to grow. Eventually she was diagnosed with a rare-type of tumour that only affects about five in a million people.

Fans first speculated about 43 year-old hitmaker's appearance back in May, following a performance in Mexico in which she seemed to have 'travelled through time', sporting an ultra-slim and youthful look. Their immediate conclusion was that the Genie in a Bottle singer had fast-tracked her way to dramatic weight loss using injections of blockbuster slimming drug, Ozempic. 'Ozempic ages everyone terribly but it's honestly working wonders for her. She looks incredible,' one fan speculated. 'Best Ozempic results. She looks great', another agreed, with a third adding: 'That's Ozempic Aguilera.' Now, cosmetic doctors have weighed in, suggesting the singer's new look is indeed likely a result of a 'miracle' weight loss jab, as well as facial surgeries.

I am standing with a group of seven nervous strangers in the drawing room of the pretty Georgian manor house of Combe Grove, where the evangelist Methodist cleric John Wesley used to preach. These days however, this 70-acre estate on the edge of Bath is home to a new evangelism, one that promises to transform health and lives - which is why we're all here. Combe Grove is a health centre specialising in transforming poor metabolic health (the umbrella term used to describe poor health caused by such conditions as high blood pressure, high blood sugar levels, high cholesterol and a large waist) which significantly increases your chance of developing heart disease, type 2 diabetes, dementia and having a stroke. They won't, however, be offering us medication to get our health back on track. Instead, the approach used here is part of a wider movement that focuses on a lifestyle approach to tackling chronic health problems.

When Jake Spencer, a then 17-year-old from Ashford, Kent started experiencing pain in his left thigh while learning to drive, he assumed it was muscle strain from using the clutch. But the real cause of the mystery ache was a rare form of cancer that nearly cost the now 26-year-old his limb. However, it would take three years for medics to uncover that the disease was the real culprit and if it had taken much longer he would have needed his leg amputated. And even then, it would return to haunt him again.

The DJ, 46, who presents BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs, said it had 'thank God' been caught early. In an Instagram post, Lauren Laverne told fans she was expected to make a 'full recovery' but did not reveal which cancer she had been diagnosed with. NHS screening programmes have long been lauded by experts as a key way to help diagnose cancers earlier. The services are thought to save around 10,000 lives a year, according to research by The Nuffield Trust. Yet, just one is routinely offered to under 50s like Ms Laverne. However, you should be offered others if you are considered high-risk of the disease, for instance due to a family history.

US scientists found children were left with prolonged symptoms 'in almost every organ system' after being struck down with the virus - a phenomenon now better known as long Covid. The researchers, who tracked more than 4,000 kids who had been infected, also discovered younger children were more likely to suffer trouble with memory or focusing, and teens a loss of taste or smell. Experts today labelled the findings 'convincing evidence' that kids are not 'faking it' and warned that health bodies 'will need to be prepared to deal with it for a generation'. Last month Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner's daughter Violet revealed she contracted a post-viral condition in 2019 and urged medical facilities to impose 'mask mandates' in a passionate speech to the LA County Board of Supervisors.

Terminally ill former England Boss Sven-Goran Eriksson, 76, has a rounder and puffier appearance. Cancer experts say his cancer treatment could be the cause. He revealed in January that he has pancreatic cancer and said in a 'best case' scenario he only had a year left to live. Speaking at the end of a new Amazon Prime documentary about his life, called 'Sven', Eriksson gave a final message to former players, coaches and supporters after speaking openly about his affairs and life in the film.

Josie Rowley, 69, was in her garden tending to her plants when she says an insect bit her on her left leg in September last year. The avid gardener from Bantry Bay, Cork, Ireland, noticed two red marks on her leg when getting ready for bed but thought nothing of the 'mosquito bite'-sized punctures. But days later the bite marks turned into 'gruesome' ulcers.

Chloe Saxon, from Manchester, has spent thousands over the past twelve years in a bid to enhance her figure and 'look [her] best'. Inspired by celebs including Kendall Jenner and Bella Hadid, the 36-year-old has had two Brazilian butt lifts (BBLs), a breast augmentation, five nose jobs and filler in her cheeks, lips and even her hips. But the influencer and glamour model, who has admitted to travelling to Turkey for her surgery, still wants another boob job and fox eye facelift, dubbed a 'ponytail lift'. Doctors have long warned Brits contemplating going abroad for cut-price boob jobs, bum lifts and other procedures to think again.

Taking weight loss drugs like Ozempic alongside antidepressants could raise the risk of suicide, a major study suggests. Researchers in New York, Switzerland, and Italy combed through a World Health Organization database for reports of suicidal thoughts from more than 140 countries. The team then narrowed their search to reports of suicidal thoughts or attempts from patients taking both an antidepressant and either semaglutide or liraglutide - the active ingredients in Ozempic and Victoza, respectively. They found 107 cases of suicidal or self-harm thoughts or actions among those who took semaglutide and 162 from those on liraglutide, suggesting a harmful interaction between the weight loss drugs and antidepressants. However, experts slammed the study for its 'weak evidence' and 'major limitations' based on 'spontaneous reports' of interactions between GLP-1 medications like Ozempic and antidepressants. They also cautioned that the proportion of reports linked to both drugs was too small to determine an association.

Lounging beside an infinity pool, dining at Salt Bae 's restaurant and being chauffeured around the resort in VIP cars. This might sound like what you'd expect from a luxurious all-inclusive holiday in any popular destination. But it is also the experience promised to Brits who contemplating going abroad for cut-price boob jobs, liposuction and other risky procedures. Following futher British deaths at the hands of botched cosmetic operations in Turkish clinics, MailOnline has analysed the tactics used by some of the biggest foreign providers to lure in customers. Not only do the clinics and services often downplay the potentially deadly risks of the procedures, they tempt Brits with the promise of a holiday of a lifetime - promoting lavish accomodation for cut prices.

Madi Foster, from Stafford in Staffordshire, was an otherwise healthy and 'physically fit' teenager. But at just 17-years-old she suddenly started to become breathless easily and lacked energy. Worried by the unexpected change, she visited the GP with her mum Nicola Foster, 51. Yet she claims she was told it was merely anxiety and prescribed antidepressants. It was only after her symptoms worsened two years later, suffering back pain and 'sweating buckets' that medics in A&E spotted her spleen was enlarged. Scans confirmed she had a rare and aggressive cancer, adrenocortical carcinoma - which strikes just one in a million people. Despite having the tumour removed and surviving septic shock, in February the 20-year-old was shockingly told her cancer had spread and she had just 15 to 18 months to live.

Three-year-old Cole Pugsley from Arbertillery, Wales, is unable to go on holiday's abroad or even sit in sunlight from the window without suffering a painful reaction. He suffers from polymorphic light eruption (PMLE) which causes his skin to break out in painful rashes and blisters - even after just a few minutes in the sun.

Clueless actor Alicia Silverstone, 47, filmed herself picking and biting into a small orange berry, while asking fans 'what the heck' is was. In response to the video which has gained 1.1million views on TikTok, fans warned the actor the plant is a 'toxic' Jerusalem Cherry and urged her to update them on how she was feeling.

It is understood 140 women reached an undisclosed settlement with manufacturers Johnson & Johnson, Bard and Boston Scientific. Payouts are expected to total millions of pounds and follow a long-running campaign by the Mail. Transvaginal mesh implants, which are made of plastic, were used to treat incontinence and prolapse after childbirth. But complications included chronic pain 'like razors inside the body', difficulty urinating, bladder and bowel perforations, bleeding and mesh eroding through the vaginal wall. Many needed further surgery to remove the mesh. Lisa Lunt at law firm Pogust Goodhead, which led the litigation at the High Court in London, said women implanted with the mesh have had 'years of suffering' and that 'hundreds' were prevented from making a claim due to ten-year time limits from the date of manufacture.

An Illinois woman who was told she couldn't have children has become a mother to rare 'twiblings' - after giving birth weeks before her surrogate. Rachel Storch, 36, suffered severe scarring on her uterus from the birth of her first child. After a subsequent miscarriage, doctors believed she would have just a one in 100 chance of having another baby. To spare themselves the trauma, Mrs Storch and her husband, Michael, decided to hire a surrogate last year. But within a few weeks, Mrs Storch learned she was pregnant. Babies Sydney and Remi were born this spring just 18 days apart, becoming 'twiblings,' two children born to the same parents but carried by different people.

Dave Smith suffered pain in his abdomen and changes to his bowel movements for more than a year before agreeing to see a doctor in 2023. But tests confirmed he did not have a condition that would affect his gut. It was only in January when the 58-year-old suddenly woke up in the middle of the night fearing he was suffering a heart attack that tests showed he had multiple tumours on his liver and pancreas. After doctors diagnosed him with pancreatic cancer in February, he lost four stone in just two months and decided he was too unwell to receive chemotherapy. He died weeks later at home on May 28.

Kaydell Brown, 38, of Sheffield, paid £5,400 for a 'mummy MOT' - a package deal involving a Brazilian butt lift, a tummy tuck and a boob job. The cost in Britain would have been around £15,000. The hairdresser underwent the procedures at Clinic Expert in Istanbul on the morning of March 26, 2024 but never came out. Her heartbroken sister Leanne, 40, who was due to have the same surgery, slammed the Turkish clinic, branding it a 'pop-up butcher shop that needs shutting down'.

For around five days every month, some nine million British women are battling intense and enduring pain that leaves some unable to work, look after children and even move. I'm talking about period pains, or menstrual cramps, which are severe for two thirds of those who have a monthly bleed, according to the most recent polls. As a gynaecologist, it's my job to offer patients treatments that will help their condition and, ultimately, their quality of life. But, when it comes to period pain, family doctors and other healthcare professionals don't seem to be taking the same approach.

Cases of the new mpox variant which kills up to one in 10 people it infects could now have reached three countries outside of Africa. Sweden became the first country outside of the continent to confirm a case of the new mpox strain, dubbed clade 1b, which has swept through central Africa killing hundreds since the outbreak began. Now Pakistan and the Philippines have reported suspected cases, though they are waiting on test results to confirm if the mpox case is specifically related to the strain sparking alarm. And experts suspect the new variant is already in Britain.

Charli XCX, 32, has a defined lifted shape to her brows and eyes, which cosmetic doctors say are 'highly likely' the result of a fox eye lift procedure. Social media user and injector, Molly Bailey, guessed the singer may have had a 'ponytail lift', also known as a fox-eye facelift, in an Instagram post last weekend (pictured right). But it seems Charli XCX is not phased by the plastic surgery accusations from her fans, as she responded: 'OMG I'm obsessed w this sh**'.

Drugs that can edit and rewrite DNA are set to banish problems ranging from high cholesterol to blood cancer - ushering in what experts have deemed the greatest medical breakthrough since antibiotics. For example, the pioneering treatment has already been used to combat a number of previously incurable conditions. Earlier this month the NHS pledged to roll out a £1.7 million therapy for sufferers of a rare blood disorder - and more are on the way. The Mail on Sunday can reveal that drugs for hereditary heart disease, leukaemia and urinary tract infections have shown ground-breaking results in trials and could be available to millions of patients within just three years.

Three weeks without a single green vegetable. A month without consuming any fruit. The only pulses? Tinned baked beans. This, according to a survey published earlier this month, is the diet of the average Briton. It's a far cry from 'five-a-day' - the five daily portions of fruit and vegetables that the NHS recommends is needed to keep us healthy. That guidance, designed to stave off heart disease and cancer, has stood for more than two decades and is highlighted regularly in public health campaigns. But only about one-third of women and a quarter of men achieve it, official data shows.

Fans of the late, great Dr Michael Mosley will be graced with one last fantastical documentary fronted by the health guru. Filmed last year, the three-part Channel 5 programme sees the former Mail columnist decode the marvels of the human body - and discover everything from why bones break as we age, to the remarkable benefits of cold water swimming. Dr Mosley, who died from heat exhaustion this summer while on holiday in Greece, puts his own body under the microscope, undergoing experiments to test his heart health, saliva production and how his body copes with a dip in freezing waters.

RUTH SUNDERLAND: Stumbling into your 'older self' is a disconcerting experience. Until it happened to me, I hadn't given mine a great deal of thought. But here I am, writing to myself (in a few decades' time) a letter. I know this sounds odd, but hear me out. When I say I 'stumbled' into my older self, I mean it quite literally. What happened was I fractured my shoulder after tripping on a tree root while out on a run. I thought it was an athletic injury. In fact it was due to osteoporosis.

Hannah Jacobs, from Barking in East London, suffered a suspected anaphylactic reaction to the drink last February. She had severe allergies to dairy, egg, fish and wheat, which had been diagnosed as a toddler and the family had managed this well throughout her life. An inquest today found the 13-year-old died following both a 'failure to follow the processes' and a 'failure of communication' between staff and Hannah's mother. But Abi Duyile, Hannah's mother, said allergy training 'is really not taken seriously enough' and called on warning stickers to be branded on all coffee cups.

The clade 1b mutation, which experts have called 'the most dangerous one so far', is believed to be behind a wave of miscarriages, and kills one in ten of those infected. Sweden has reported its first case of the new deadly form, marking the first time it has been found outside of Africa. Yesterday the World Health Organization (WHO) also declared the ongoing mpox outbreak a global public health emergency for the second time in two years. The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has already announced it is 'already planning' for UK cases. So just how worried should we be, who is most at risk, and what, if anything, should we do to protect ourselves?