27th January 2016
Mike Higginbottom blamed his struggles with exercise on being unfit…until his heart stopped beating one day at the gym. “Apparently I pirouetted off the cross trainer, fell on my back and hit my head. I was out like a ...
9th December 2015
Daniel Titley found a way to show his gratitude 23 years after receiving a donor heart from 14-year-old Stephen Norris, who’d lost his life in a bike accident. Unfortunately, he couldn’t thank Stephen himself, so he did the next ...
7th December 2015
When Gabrielle Jackson suggested writing a column about her experience with this debilitating disease, she discovered that many of her female colleagues at Guardian Australia were silently suffering from endometriosis, too. The next thing she knew, a global awareness campaign ...
5th November 2015
Max Page is only ten years old, but he could give the Jedi Knights a run for their money despite the rare heart condition that he’s had since birth. The American actor, who rose to fame after he portrayed ...
3rd November 2015
Prostate cancer, hernias, multiple surgeries, and a stoma: Tony was alive, but his quality of life was suffering. That’s when his surgeon came to him with an idea. He would reconstruct Tony’s abdominal wall… using pig skin. Tony’...
12th October 2015
When Jane’s knee pain began tiring her out, she knew it was time to act. She was soon unable to teach dance classes or ride a bike. As a school teacher who spends all day on her feet, arthritis ...
1st October 2015
Hasan's daughters, Duaa and Shahd, were aged just one and four years old, respectively, when a rocket hit their house in Syria. Now doctors at a clinic in Jordan are working to rehabilitate them and hundreds of other victims of ...
28th September 2015
What do you do if your three-year-old gets tired after walking just one block and almost faints and turns purple when crying? Cynthia had these symptoms because she was letting out large amounts of blood through a small hole in ...
22nd July 2015
Jay Nickolaus was the jolly old age of 61 when he decided to undertake the climb to Kilimanjaro. If you’re like me, your first introduction to this monument of mountains was Disney’s The Lion King, where it appears as ...
27th May 2015
Imagine having routine surgery and ending up feeling even worse than before you had the procedure. Everything was well planned, you went to a good hospital with great staff and the operation went well. But then about a week later, ...