LODI, CALIFORNIA - MARCH 18: LITTLE Olivia Chicchon remains upbeat despite battling a rare condition that has made the right side of her face heavily swollen. Two-year-old Olivia, was born with a lymphatic malformation that crosses her...

CARDIFF, WALES - MARCH 14: A YOUNG mother has developed an incredibly rare water allergy after giving birth to her daughter. Cherelle Farrugia, 26, from Cardiff, Wales, breaks out into painful itchy hives whenever she comes into contact...

A mother and her inspiring six-year-old son who was born with a gap in his face is raising awareness of the treatment of people with facial differences. Christian Buchanan from Woodbury, Tennessee, was born with Tessier cleft lip and...

NORTH CAROLINA, US - MARCH 11, 2019: A MOTHER-of-two has been born with a rare birth defect that has resulted in her having no hands. Despite being born without hands, Janet Brown, 31, from Durham, North Carolina, didn’t let her...

CHHATTISGARH, INDIA - MARCH 14: CONJOINED twins Shivanath and Shivram Sahu say they have no regrets turning down offers to separate them - calling their condition a ‘gift from God’. The boys, who have just turned 18 and live near Raipur...

SUNNYVALE, CALIFORNIA - 5 NOVEMBER 2017: A defiant teenager born with a rare facial tumour that leaves her unable to speak or eat dreams of becoming a nurse. Doctors said Jacqueline Rodriguez would not live to see her first birthday, but...

A WOMAN suffering with an extremely rare condition means she constantly smells like FISH. Kelly Fidoe-White, from Oldham, Greater Manchester, has lived her entire life with Trimethylaminuria - a disorder more commonly known as...

A defiant teenager born with a rare facial tumour that leaves her unable to speak or eat dreams of becoming a nurse. Doctors said Jacqueline Rodriguez would not live to see her first birthday, but the now 16-year-old has truly defied all...

WILMINGTON - NOVEMBER 15: AN 11-year-old boy with a rare form of dwarfism is one-in-a-million. Levi Krystosek, 11, has a rare form of dwarfism called Jansen's Metaphysical Chondrodysplasia, which affects the growth of bones and causes...

A FATHER suffering with a genetic condition has 'bubble-like' tumours covering his entire body. Believed to be suffering from Neurofibromatosis, Shadot Hossain is in a race against time to secure surgery to save his sight - and his life....

A MOTHER hopes for surgery for her baby boy whose head has swollen to TWICE its natural size. Born a healthy baby boy, Mohammad Hasan's head started to dramatically swell when he was just 16 days old. Now 18-months-old Hasan's head...

An Indian man has become a local celebrity - because he's 50 years old and only 29 inches tall. Basori Lal, from Madhya Pradesh in India, has become a hero in his village and is regularly visited by curious travellers from the...

UTTAR PRADESH, INDIA - JULY 29, 2017: A BOY suffering from a mysterious condition has caused his hands to grow 12 INCHES LONG. According to his family, 12-year-old Tarik has had 'big hands' since the birth. The young boy, from Uttar...

ATLANTA, GEORGIA - MARCH 06: A 17-YEAR-OLD girl with paralysed arms has sworn that she’ll never let her disability stop her from dancing. Sarah Todd Hammer, from Atlanta, was just eight years old when she developed acute flaccid...

Parents of twins with autism so severe they were forced to contain them in a prison-like home have gone to great lengths to improve their behaviour. As Mark and Annie Montague walk arm in arm along the beach, with their 11-year-old twins...

Fragile Zoe Lush has a rare condition which means her bones are so delicate they 'break in the wind'. Zoe broke several bones whilst she was still in the womb, shattered her collarbone during birth and broke another 100 bones before her...

SHANXI, CHINA, AUGUST 2016: A dedicated couple have raised an abandoned disabled child, keeping her alive by feeding her mouth-to-mouth like a bird. Li Huanme found her daughter, Likun, 16 years ago in the hallway of the hospital in...

A TEENAGER who suffers from an extremely rare condition means if he falls asleep unassisted - he dies. Liam Derbyshire was born with Ondine's Curse, officially known as Congenital Central Hypoventilation Syndrome, which causes...

Lindsay Hilton is a badass CrossFit extraordinaire and a full contact rugby player - she also happens to have been born without limbs. The 31-year-old from Halifax, Nova Scotia has never let a lack of arms and legs hold her back from...

ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA - MARCH 08: AN INTERABLED couple whose wedding video went viral prove trolls wrong. Phillip Eling was born with a rare form of Muscular Dystrophy called Bethlem Myopathy – affecting the skeletal muscles and connective...

This video provides an insightful overview of organ transplants, covering the history, process, and ethical considerations involved. From the first kidney transplant in 1954 to the complexities of matching donors and recipients, viewers...

WOODBURY, TENNESSEE - 7 NOV: A mother and her inspiring six-year-old son who was born with a gap in his face is raising awareness of the treatment of people with facial differences. Christian Buchanan from Woodbury, Tennessee, was born...

CORONA, CALIFORNIA - JULY 28, 2017: A FOUR-YEAR-OLD girl with cerebral palsy has become an Instagram Star. Finley Smallwood may only be four-years-old but she already has over 100,000 followers on social media. At a glance, you'd think...

CROYDON, SURREY, 19 JULY 2017: An aspiring make-up artist has embraced her feeding tube by glamming it up to create unique looks. From a very young age Emily Jones' family knew that something was wrong, but it took doctors until she was...