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Jack Johnson, 6, from Chorley, has had support from Wiggins, Ant & Dec and Jessica Ennis-Hill, who made the finger gesture in support of his parents' charity.
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Pioneering new treatment means medics can remove kidney stones from patients in just one procedure
The procedure, known as bilateral simultaneous ureteroscopy, aims to clear both kidneys at the same time, instead of during two separate operations. It involves visualising and positioning stones with a ureteroscope (left), before using a laser beam to break them up - leaving patients stone-free (right). Traditionally, sufferers are forced to undergo treatment on each kidney individually during separate hospital admissions. A recent study at Southampton General Hospital saw the technique performed on 22 patients suffering from kidney stones - with a staggering 92 per cent success rate.
Ashton, aged three, is first child in Britain fitted with battery-powered pump to help his failing heart
Ashton Hutcheson, three (left), was fitted with the HeartWare device (inset) to keep him alive until an organ becomes available for transplant. According to his mother Shanna, 22, from Aberdeen (right), the operation was his last hope. Ashton is the second child in the world to use the device which is plugged in at home or in hospital and is powered by a battery pack when he is out.
Father-of-one loses three limbs and half his face to flesh eating bacteria which started as a common cold just FOUR months ago
WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT. Alex Lewis, 34, spent a week in a coma after his major organs shut down. He had to have both of his legs and his left arm amputated after doctors told him it was his only chance of survival. The father-of-one, from Stockbridge, Hampshire, initially had a common cold but his symptoms worsened and he was rushed to hospital after his skin turned purple. He was diagnosed with a blood infection which developed into septicaemia and toxic shock syndrome and doctors warned he had a three per cent chance of survival.
Parents were told their son was hours from death when he was born needing emergency heart surgery…now he’s about to turn three
Emma Wilkinson 32, and Gary Marshall, 42, were told their son Calvin was unlikely to survive emergency heart and stomach operations in the weeks after he was born (pictured right, with his mother). The little boy was born with a heart condition which was picked up at Miss Wilkinson's 20 week scan. It means the chambers in his heart were reversed, leaving two big holes - a condition termed 'transposition of the great vessels'. But now, against the odds, he is excitedly preparing for the third birthday doctors feared he would never see.
I'd gladly take a smoker's lungs and risk cancer - to end the hell of life on the waiting list
Cystic Fibrosis sufferer Poppy Roberts, 23, from Monmouth would rather risk with smoker's lungs after waiting for two years for a transplant. Miss Roberts spends two weeks a month in hospital receiving intravenous antibiotics to halt the infections attacking her body. She also needs more than 60 different medications a day, and sleeps with an oxygen mask.
'I'm so close to my twin I felt her go into labour': Sister, 20, even experienced contractions throughout her niece's birth
Leanne Humphreys (right), from Bolton, developed unexplained stomach cramps just moments before identical twin Vickii Humphreys (left with Ava), also from Bolton, went into labour. Vickii said: 'I think it's amazing that Leanne had labour sympathy pains for me. We have shared everything else together, so why not this?' The twins are pictured right aged eight.
Good news, girls! Botox works... just as long as you make sure your skin doctor is as cautious as Cindy Crawford's
Legions of British women have quietly taken up the habit – quietly, because it’s still something that many do not want to shout about. In the right hands, Botox leaves you looking like a more relaxed, more youthful version of yourself. But it should be a �has she or hasn’t she’ piece of work – no one should be able to tell.
Do YOU have the 'fat gene'? Discovery of protein that controls metabolism could lead to anti-obesity drug
Mother branded a 'tramp' for breastfeeding in public hits back saying: 'I was showing much less flesh than many other women do'
Emily Slough, 27, was horrified when a stranger took a picture of her breastfeeding daughter Matilda and uploaded it to Facebook, calling her a 'tramp'. Appearing on ITV's Daybreak this morning, she hit back at critics, saying: 'I was showing a lot less flesh than a lot of people do - I wasn't sitting there with my breast out.' Breastfeeding mums aren't doing it to antagonise people or gain attention - they are doing it to meet their babies' needs.'
35st man who drank 4 litres of Irn Bru a DAY sheds 15st and qualifies as a fitness instructor to help other people 'embarrassed by their bodies'
Marc Rodwell, 26, saw his weight soar through his teenage years as he gorged on junk food, takeaways and guzzled down more than four litres of Irn Bru a day. His weight steadily ballooned until July 2010 when his father, fearing for his son's health, bought him a set of digital scales. But when Mr Rodwell stepped on, the screen simply read 'error' because he was too heavy. He has since lost 15 stone and qualified as a fitness instructor. he said: 'I am living proof that exercise and eating a healthy diet works. I'm not a leaflet or a poster, I'm a person working alongside them saying, 'I used to be nearly 40 stone.'
Chinese man has 2 STONE tumour removed from his back during risky nine-hour operation
WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: Yang Xiao, 27, from Shaanxi province, in China, bled so much during the operation that he had to be given around 40 pints of blood. He had surgery on February 19 and was released from hospital on March 12. He had had the tumour since he was a teenager and it measured 45cm by 30cm and was 17cm thick. He is pictured (left) before surgery and (right) after it.
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