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Marc Weiner, 53, needs a kidney transplant. Rather than spend the next five to eight years on a waiting list with 100,000 sick New Yorkers, he got creative and took out a $35,000 per month Time Square ad for a donor (left). Marc was diagnosed with bladder cancer in 2015, but it spread to his kidneys, so all three organs had to be removed. He's now been cancer free for two years and is eligible for a transplant, but he doesn't want to wait and his doctors say that the dialysis (top right) that is keeping him alive could do severe damage to his heart and blood vessels if he stays on it long term. So, the TV news producers stepped out from behind the camera and, with his wife, Lisa's and daughter, Lilly's encouragement (bottom right), onto the bright lights of a big Broadway Billboard.

EXCLUSIVE: Professor Karin Michels (left), who also heads the tumour research center at the University of Freiburg in Germany, made the controversial statement about coconut oil (inset) last month. But Dr Aseem Malhotra (right), an avid supporter of saturated fats and former cardiologist at Frimley Park Hospital in Surrey, said her comments were bringing the prestigious Harvard University into 'disrepute'. In a scathing video recorded for MailOnline, Dr Malhotra called on her to apologise for her 'entirely false' claim and to retract it.

Kelsey Husler, 24, conceived the two sets of multiples completely naturally, beating odds of approximately 700,000 to one. The soon-to-be mother of four, from Moorhead, Minnesota gave birth to her fraternal twin son and daughter Braxton and Auvianna Hunter, now aged three, on Halloween 2014. Kelsey, who had the twins with different partners and is currently single, learned she was pregnant again back in February, this time fraternal twin girls. The mother, an independent distributor, is due to give birth next month and said her three-year-olds are bursting with excitement for their new twin sisters to arrive.

The number of vans used to ferry cycle hire scheme bikes between docking stations means that they do not cut carbon dioxide emissions, according to Cyrille Médard de Chardon from the University of Hull. According to the researchers, the bikes aren't having a positive on public health, since they are predominantly used by wealthy white men who are already in shape. Tere are currently around 1,000 cycle hire schemes globally which are likely to be used by a similar demographic.

The unnamed 37-year-old (pictured left and right, with her shoulder rotated 180 degrees) was diagnosed with Gorham-Stout disease, sometimes referred to as 'vanishing bone disease'. Doctors at the Pondicherry Institute of Medical Sciences have published the bizarre tale in the prestigious British Medical Journal Case Reports. Writing in the prestigious journal, medics led by Dr Pasupathy Palaniappan wrote there was just a 'small sliver' of her humeral head left (inset), which connects the arm to the shoulder.

For the past six excruciating years, Sam Delmege tried desperately to have a baby. The 34-year-old wife of septuagenarian millionaire Max Delmege, 73, has offered a poignant account of her brutal battle with infertility. The couple, who met eight years ago, started trying to conceive in 2013. But their six-year attempt to start a family have led to three devastating miscarriages and spending more than $100,000 on IVF treatments. Here, the Sydney nurse spoke candidly about their turbulent struggles of having a baby against the ever-decreasing odds.

The son of Chicago's police chief has been sworn in as a rookie officer just a year after he donated a kidney to his dad. Daniel Johnson, 26, received a big hug from his father Superintendent Eddie Johnson, 58, as he walked across the stage on Tuesday (pictured), with the elder Johnson calling it 'one of the most special days' of his life. In January 2017, Eddie revealed at a news conference that he was diagnosed with glomerulonephritis more than three decades ago. Glomerulonephritis is an acute inflammation of the kidney that affects the glomeruli, which filer the kidneys. Eddie also revealed he was on a transplant waiting list because his kidneys were functioning at 10 percent capacity, which is when Daniel was tested and found to be a match. The transplant was performed last August at Rush University Medical Center and declared to be a success.

An agency that responds to humanitarian crises fears it will trump the pandemic of 2014, which killed 11,000 and decimated West Africa. The International Rescue Committee said: 'Without a swift, concerted and efficient response, this outbreak has the potential to be the worst ever seen.' Aid workers are battling round-the-clock to contain the outbreak, feared to have struck 111 people in the east of the DRC, on the border with Uganda. Experimental drugs have been shipped into the area to control the virus, considered to be one of the most lethal pathogens in existence.

Londoner Michelle Elman, 25, who appeared on Loose Women on Thursday (main), had 15 surgeries in the first 20 years of her life, including operations to fix an obstructed bowel and punctured intestine (pictured inset in hospital as a child). When she was 11 she went under the knife again for a brain tumour, and says she died for a few seconds.

Mark Pollock, from Holywood, Northern Ireland, fell out of a two-storey-high window in 2010, broke his back in three places, and is now paralysed from the waist down. The 38-year-old, who lost his sight in one eye aged five and went blind at 22, and his fiancée Simone George, 39, now organise a charity run called Life Style Sports Run In The Dark which takes place in 45 cities across the globe, and a film about their struggle is out this year.

New York City Marathon winner Shalane Flanagan (left) says she attributes her success to long hours training and changing her diet. The 36-year-old has now written a cookbook with her best friend, and fellow runner Elyse Kopecky, Run Fast. Cook Fat. Eat Slow, (right) about how she learned to eat healthy fats and to replace processed foods with whole foods. Nutritionist Tammy Lakatos Shames spoke to Daily Mail Online about how whole foods prevent an athlete from crashing and how by incorporating healthy fats, you can stay fuller longer.

A new study by Australia's Bond University has revealed there's one important factor many tend to overlook when trying to lose weight. While diet and exercise are key (stock image, left, right and inset), there's a third factor that's necessary for success.Not only can it help shed unwanted kilos, the weight stays off longer.

In a world first, University of Minnesota researchers researchers have built a three-dimensional artificial 'eyeball' capable of detecting changes in light levels. By using 3D printing (pictured), scientists were able to produce the prototype much faster than previous efforts – sparking hope this could be a viable commercial solution in future. Researchers say the next step is to create a prototype eyeball (pictured, inset) with more light receptors to re-create a greater quality of sight.

Luci Hall and Joseph Barker (pictured right with their sons at 15 months old), both 26, were terrified when their boys Charlie and Harvey Barker were born at just 24 weeks in May 2017, weighing 1lb 6oz and 1lb 4oz, respectively (seen left as newborns). Medics told the couple not to plan any sort of future for the boys, who could barely grasp their mother's finger (inset). Yet, nearly a year-and-a-half on, the brothers from Leeds have defied doctors' expectations.

Maxine Jones (pictured left and right), 52, claims she is living a 'prison sentence' because of her aquagenic urticaria - thought to strike around 50 people worldwide. Ms Jones, of Ecclesfield, South Yorkshire, can only shower twice a year because of the condition, which took a year to diagnose. She can't go out in the rain and has to wear gloves (bottom inset) when brushing her teeth, making tea and chopping fruit to avoid any moisture touching her skin. Ms Jones, who controls her condition through tablets - including one used to treat leprosy, said: 'If I touch water at all the pain is awful.' (pictured top inset: her hives after touching water)

After a swift investigation, Texas Children's Hospital in Houston (right) announced last night that it has fired a nurse who posted about a measles patient in an anti-vaxxer Facebook group and saying she thought of exposing her child to a sample of the infection (bottom). The highly contagious virus (left) was eradicated from the US by 2000, but in 2018 there have already been 124 cases. Public health expert suspect that the disease is reemerging on the heels of the growing anti-vaxxer movement. The nurse posted to a Facebook group for anti-vaccination parents in Texas, describing the first measles patient she had seen at her workplace, a move which the hospital decided violated patient privacy protections.

Tom Varga claims he was bitten by a tick, which he later removed, while walking his dog Cher (both right) on the fells near Millom in the Lake District in August last year. The 33-year-old's symptoms only came to light 10 months later when he began experiencing extreme fatigue, headaches and eye pain, which led to him being diagnosed with tick-born encephalitis (pictured left in hospital).

Two weeks after Raven Pritt (right) was born prematurely earlier this month, doctors told her parents, Cassandra Brooks and Brandon Pritt (left, with Raven), that she was suffering from a rare, genetic disease known as GACI. The disorder is caused by a buildup of calcium that narrows blood vessels and arteries and restricts blood flow. Raven was given just a 15 percent chance to live past six months. Now the couple, from Staunton, Virginia, has received approved to transfer their daughter to the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia where she will be treated with a new drug in hopes of saving her.

Wayne Manns, from Detroit, Michigan, has swollen breasts because of a hormonal condition called gynaecomastia (pictured left) and says he was cruelly bullied through school and is now ashamed of his body – even resorting to taping down his chest and wearing big jackets to hide his man boobs (pictured right). Manns, a father of two, says he has never taken his children (pictured inset, Mr Manns with his daughter Maya, six) to the beach because he is afraid they will think he's a 'freak' if he takes off his shirt.

The 31-year-old vlogger and author, who has 2.5million followers on YouTube, has shared her childbirth story to 'let things out' and help others, saying that giving birth to her first daughter Darcy seven years ago left her having flashbacks, nightmares and feeling exhausted as well as not bonding with her baby. (Pictured from left: Louise Pentland with daughter Darcy, 7, and new baby Pearl, seven months. Right: Pentland with Darcy as a baby. Inset: Darcy shortly after her birth)

Nineteen-year-old Caitlin White (pictured left and right), from Perth, Scotland, has severe gastroparesis, which causes a delay in her stomach emptying. Ms White, who weighs just 84lbs (six stone), describes her day-to-day life as being 'dominated' by hospital visits, where she receives daily infusions that can take up to 12 hours. The infusions also frequently cause Ms White, who has a suppressed immune system, to develop infections, with her battling life-threatening sepsis seven times this year alone.

Alexis Haines, née Neiers, rose to fame on her E! reality show Pretty Wild - which aired as she was busted for being part of the Bling Ring. She was sentenced to prison time after being charged with burglarizing Orlando Bloom's house. Now married and a mother-of-two, she shared a candid Instagram post about her post-baby body. She talks about her weight gain and the way her body has changed but she has strived for self-acceptance. She also admitted that she has had work done since becoming a mom, but still has stretch marks and cellulite.

So much of Sarah Dean's cervix was removed that it would have been impossible for her to become pregnant. But then doctors carried out an unusual operation. They stitched together what remained of her cervix above the birthing canal, so that if she became pregnant the stitch would hold the baby inside her womb until it was time to deliver. She then had IVF, and fertility doctors were able to perform the astonishing feat of guiding the embryo into what remained of her womb through a microscopic hole. Mrs Dean (pictured top with her husband Paul), from the West Midlands, gave birth to her son George (pictured right) three months ago.

Michael English is living evidence that we may finally have discovered a powerful secret to beating cancer. Astonishingly, this long-sought answer lies hidden inside our own bodies. Michael, a 72-year-old retired electrical engineer from Surbiton in Surrey, was first diagnosed with advanced and aggressive stage 3/4 prostate cancer 13 years ago. Each time doctors tried the latest treatment on him, be it hormones, drugs, radiotherapy or chemotherapy, his tumour was beaten back until it had apparently disappeared. But it always came back. Now, he's been given the all-clear after ten doses of controversial new treatment which experts have scorned for years. This is his story.

In the age of health and well being, carbs have long been regarded as public enemy number one. But in recent months, a new approach to nutrition and weight loss has taken the fitness industry by storm - with plenty of carbohydrates allowed. The circadian rhythm diet, more commonly known as 'carb backloading', involves restricting carbohydrates in the morning and throughout the early part of the afternoon and saving your carb consumption for the evening meal. The hashtag has more than 48,000 posts on Instagram, with users sharing incredible transformation photos and an array of tasty treats they snack on every evening.

Bo Smith, 32, from Sugar Land, Texas, posted the powerful photo of her with 10-day-old son James (pictured) on Facebook, along with the quote: 'Never be ashamed of a scar'. Bo later explained how she was diagnosed with a rare and aggressive form of breast cancer in 2015, and was told by doctors she only had 40 per cent chance of living for five years. Her moving post has been shared over 5,000 times on Facebook.

One-month-old Matthew Corpstein (left) is now thriving after doctors told his parents, Ariann and Drew (right), he wouldn't live hours past birth. Ariann and Drew, from Ankeny, Iowa, were told he had semi-lobar holoprosencephaly after a 20-week ultrasound. This is when the left side of the brain is fused to the right side at the frontal lobe and side lobes and they were told Matthew wouldn't live hours, let alone days, past birth. But last month, after he was born following induced labor, he surprised doctors by responding to lights, sounds and voices. As it turns out, Matthew had been misdiagnosed and what he was actually suffering from hydrocephalus, a fluid buildup in the brain. He was given a shunt to drain the fluid and has since gone home with his parents.

John McCain has died after a 10-month battle with the most aggressive form of brain cancer. It is the same that took the lives of Beau Biden (left) in May 2015, and Senator Ted Kennedy (right) in August 2009. Doctors describe glioblastoma as 'highly malignant' because it evades all forms of treatment modern medicine has to offer. Unlike more treatable tumors, glioblastoma is not contained. It melts into the rest of the brain. Surgeons can try to remove as much of the dangerous tissue as possible, but there is no way to eliminate the disease entirely.

Officer Shawn DePasquale, 26 (left and right), with the Rollinsford Police Department in New Hampshire was diagnosed with stage IV colon cancer in January. Three weeks earlier, in December 2017, he had joined the force. Because DePasquale is a new hire, he has had to take unpaid time off to receive his treatments - including radiation, chemotherapy and surgery - which are not covered by insurance. To help him out, his fellow police officers have been holding fundraisers - including raffles and T-shirt sales - in hopes of helping DePasquale pay his medical costs and spreading awareness of the disease.