Ex-marine Carl Ayres, 28, took cocaine at a local pub in Farnborough, Hampshire, last December 31. Then, on January 4, the ex-marine went for a five-mile run, which is believed to have triggered high blood pressure and caused a slow-moving clot to develop. The next morning, Mr Ayres collapsed and was rushed to hospital, where he suffered a life-changing stroke (left). He recovered, but has been left unable to speak or walk - and his mother Julie says she now has to wipe his bottom. He is currently needs a wheelchair to get around (inset) but is having physiotherapy. Mrs Ayres said she released the photograph of him in hospital to warn others of the dangers of cocaine. She said: It's so heartbreaking. He was so active and full of life. Now I wipe his bum...If I can get one other person to realise how it's affected my family and Carl than going public has to be worth it. People think it won't happen to them. Carl is proof it can.'

The video was release on today in honor of World AIDS Day. In it, 30 men say the first word they think of when the disease is mentioned. The mention of AIDS can have a particular effect on members of the gay community, as they have been hardest hit by the disease. While over 1.2 million people in the US are infected with HIV, 63% of them are gay men. This fact was clearly in the minds of some of the men who participated in the video, who offered up words of sadness or fear, like 'terrifying', 'loss', and 'pain'. Others, though, showed a more positive outlook, calling AIDS 'preventable' and 'beatable'. They talked of hope, adding that with more education, this disease could be wiped out completely.

Critical care nurse Nicola Kitchin, 37 (left), of Worcester, uploaded a photograph of complicated medical equipment to Facebook last Saturday. Accompanying the photograph was an angry message to health secretary Jeremy Hunt, daring him to keep the intensive care apparatus going for 60 minutes (pictured right). She has been has been 'overwhelmed' after her angry post went viral and has now racked up almost 75,000 likes and 52,000 shares on Facebook. Mrs Kitchin, who left the NHS four months ago, said it is 'heart-breaking' nurses are leaving the profession because of poor pay. She said: 'Nurses are facing increasing workloads but have had no pay rise in the last few years. We have taken a pay cut in real terms as inflation has risen and I really do think we deserve a pay rise. It just feels like the Government think so lowly of us and that is just heartbreaking, because I love my job as a nurse.'

Surgeons at the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research in India have successfully separated the girls. They were expected to discharged from hospital today.

The parents of 15-year-old Jenny Fry (right and top left when she was a little girl) claim that she suffered from electro-hypersensitivity (EHS), which caused her to suffer tiredness, headaches and bladder problems. Her mother Debra told the hearing that Jenny was badly affected by the wireless internet connections at Chipping Norton School (bottom left) in Oxfordshire where she was a pupil. After suffering from persistent EHS, the schoolgirl was found hanged in Brooke Woods, near her home in Chadlington, in June 11 this year.

New Zealand has the highest rate of drug treatment in the world, with 4,392 people per million receiving help, mainly for cannabis abuse. The figures come from a map (shown) produced by Recovery Brands. The organisation used data from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). Iran has the second-highest rate of treatment. It borders Afghanistan, the world's top producer of opium, and serves as a major trafficking route, with large amounts of heroin being consumed in the country.

EXCLUSIVE: Dr Wayne Osborne of treated.com designed the map to encourage New Yorkers to walk just one or two extra stops each day, as an economical way to get fit and lose weight. He told Daily Mail Online: 'Some might look at the calorie totals and think that walking between two or three adjacent stops isn't going to make that much of a difference. But doing this twice each day on a commute soon adds up.'

Sophie Kearney, 43, pictured centre, a part-time Pilates instructor from Bray, Berkshire, suffered from hormonally induced tension headaches almost daily. Nadine O'Connor, 44, pictured left, a company director from Hampshire, spent a decade being regularly hospitalised for severe migraines. Mildred Talabi, 32, pictured right, began suffering from 'overuse headaches' after frequently taking paracetamol to relieve her headaches. Up to three million Britons suffer from chronic daily headaches - and women are twice as likely to suffer as men.

Daisy Buchanan, 30, pictured far left and far right, was always jealous of her mother's figure. Anne, 56, pictured centre left and centre right, is a size eight whereas Daisy has been a size 14 from age 12. As a teenager Daisy developed bulimia because of this - and became dangerously thin. She's now happy being a size 14 - and her mother's relaxed attitude about food has rubbed off on her.

It was a story that shocked the nation when, in 2011, The Mail on Sunday revealed how police were investigating the deaths of babies at an NHS maternity unit - and that midwives may have covered up mistakes by destroying medical records. One of the victims was Joshua Titcombe, just nine days old when he died. When his grieving father set out to discover what had happened, he came up against a web of lies, whitewashed reports and personal slurs, and had to take on hospital executives ducking responsibility. This is his shocking account of a tenacious five-year battle with the authorities that eventually revealed the truth, but has left him still seeking justice for Joshua.

Mothers who suffer adult incontinence have praised Kate Winslet for admitting she has 'accidents' since having children. (Pictured from left) Jane Duckworth, 46, from Cornwall, Zarine Bedford, 37, from Scotland and Sahia Sindhu, 34, from London have shared stories of their own embarrassing moments after the star admitted on the Graham Norton show that she wets herself if she goes on the trampoline with her children. The condition affects one in three women in the UK over 18.

Minati Mondal, 51, was admitted to Debdoot Sevayan Hospital in Kolkata, West Bengal, two weeks ago after suffering crippling stomach pain and acid reflux for two months (pictured inset). Scans revealed she was suffering from gallstones, tiny balls of cholesterol and salt that gather in the gall bladder. But they did not expect to find such a huge number of stones. As part of a one hour operation, surgeons removed 11,950 stones (pictured main), which is believed to be a new world record. Dr Makhan Lala Saha, a gastrointestinal endosurgeon at the hospital, said: 'I was astonished to see the large number of stones that we extracted from the gall bladder of this patient. I had never thought that a gall bladder could contain so many stones.'

Doctors tried to save Oscar Webb's right eye (pictured main) after the accident in Stourport-on-Severn, Worcestershire, seven weeks ago. He was struck in the face by a drone propeller (top right) which was being flown in the garden. He will need several operations before he can have a prosthetic one fitted. Mother Amy Roberts (bottom right) spoke on Watchdog to warn people about the dangers of drones.

Earlier this year, actress Rita Wilson, Tom Hanks's wife of 27 years, mother of their children Chester and Truman, and stepmother to Tom's elder two, Colin and Elizabeth, announced she'd had a double mastectomy and reconstructive surgery following a scare with breast cancer. She is now sure she has beaten the disease, saying she feels 'blessed' to have had the love and support of her family and friends throughout the difficult time. The important thing, Hanks reiterates firmly, is that Rita is now doing fine.

Preeti Kumari Rai, 17, from Faridabad, outside New Delhi, began to get a hunched back and twisted spine at the age of eight. She was diagnosed with congenital scoliosis with severe deformity (pictured in an MRI scan, centre, and right). More than 10 doctors from various hospitals in New Delhi told her there was nothing they could do, but she's now found a surgeon who will attempt to correct the curvature. Despite the risks - which include death and paralysis - Preeti is determined to have the operation so she can live a 'normal' life and one day work for the Government. She said: 'I am very excited about the surgery. I told many doctors that I'm willing to take the risk; I'm OK with the risk of paralysis. I'm not afraid but no doctor would commit. Now I've finally found one.' She wants to prove to people she can get a respected job and look after herself instead. I've told my parents that the day I get a job with the government is the day they celebrate my marriage,' she added. I don't care for marriage like typical girls in Indian culture, I want a good job and to support myself.'

Jim Calder passed away after a battle with lung cancer on November 7, 2015, just shy of his 67th birthday, but not before his son James put out a call out to the cast of his favorite TV show, Seinfeld, to wish him a happy birthday. To his shock, the videos began pouring in, from cast members including including stars Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Wayne Knight.

Jordan Lotter, 18, of Tower Hamlets, London (pictured, right, at age four), was diagnosed with an aggressive malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumour in his abdominal cavity nine months ago. He underwent chemotherapy, but a blockage in his intestines meant he needed a four-hour operation to remove it. After being told he was in remission, just two months later, came the devastating news it had returned. He has now been sent home with a bottle of morphine as doctors say they can do no more for him. Desperate to prolong his life, his father Charles Lotter, 55 (left) is determined to raise £65,000 to send him to a specialist clinic for treatments including immunotherapy and low-dose chemotherapy not available on the NHS. His father said: 'As his dad it's my role to give him hope. That's why I looked elsewhere. I believe that where there's life there's always hope. I think you should never give up hope. Miracles do happen.'

Audrey Kopp, from Louisville, was rushed for emergency surgery after a red lump on her wrist was found to be infected with three strains of bacteria, which jumped from a hair tie around her wrist. She said: 'I didn't believe it at first, I thought that it was a spider bite or something else, not from wearing a hair tie.' Now recovering, Ms Kopp has spoken out in a bid to warn other people of the potential dangers.