Adele has made an incredible fitness transformation with Pete Geracimo, who has been a personal trainer for over 20 years. In a recent interview, she revealed that she wanted to 'get in shape for myself, but not to be a size zero or anything like that'. For her this meant cutting back on sugar, giving up smoking and hitting the gym - specifically, doing weights. Here, her London-based trainer explains how they did it. Pictured: In 2008 (left) and last week (right). 

 US surgeons have successfully performed a face transplant on a man who shot himself in the jaw in a failed suicide bid. Andy Sandness, 31, from Wyoming, had the 56-hour operation at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota last year, 10 years after failing to take his life. He was first allowed to see his new face in June after three weeks of recovery at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, and his first response was to write down, 'far exceeded my expectations'. His friend of a decade, Dr Samir Mardini, who led the surgical team, told him that 'You don't know how happy that makes us feel'. His new face once belonged to 21-year-old father-to-be, Calen Ross, who shot himself before his wedding in June. Pictured: Mr Sandness before the operation (left), seeing his face for the first time after (inset), and in January 2017 (right).

EXCLUSIVE: Abigail Earnshaw (left and right), from Harrogate, had been playing with her older brother when she was struck in the face by one of the popular toy's foam darts. Her terrified mother, Amanda, 42, said she heard a 'horrible, piercing scream' before rushing to her daughter's aid. A dark patch of blood slowly formed across half of her eye (bottom inset), but luckily the youngster recovered and had no lasting issues. But eye surgeons are concerned over the increasing power of foam dart guns, such as those made by Nerf (top inset), and are scared that someone could be left blind after an accident. While Ms Earnshaw is now appealing to manufacturers to include eye goggles with every gun sold.

This is a glimpse inside America's first lab dedicated exclusively to egg freezing. Extend Fertility, a 'boutique' clinic in New York City's Midtown, is focused solely on preserving a woman's eggs to save for the hope of a pregnancy years down the line. While fertility preservation already exists, it has only ever been offered as a secondary service by IVF providers. This week, Extend Fertility upgraded its services to become the first place on the East Coast using the latest freezing method, Cryotec. With that move, they make a staggering claim that they can ensure almost 100 percent survival rate of at least 12 eggs per patient. Now, Daily Mail Online can offer a rare look inside that process.

A new study conducted by plastic surgeons at the University of California, Irvine, has revealed what women consider to be the perfect dimensions for attractive lips. After analyzing morphed computer images, a 50 percent increase from the natural one to two ratio was considered to be the best.

Gwyneth Paltrow (right) and Victoria Beckham (left) are just two of many A-listers who snapped straight back to their pre-baby bodies. But after seeing their dramatic changes, rates of women going under the knife to get beach body ready have quadrupled in the past five years, according to a leading plastic surgeon from Imperial College, London. Top of the list of requests are tummy tucks and boob jobs as women become more body conscious.

A new study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has revealed where where medical providers consistently order more tests and treatments. Medical providers in the Northeast, the deep South, and most of California tend to diagnose their patients rather aggressively. By contrast, providers in the Midwest and Mountain West, among other areas, are less aggressive in diagnosing patients.

Mood swings have been cited for years as a possible side-effect, but many women complain that their negative experiences on hormonal contraceptives are dismissed by the medical profession. Becky Field (above left) is one woman who is convinced that the Pill had a damaging impact on her mental health after she began taking it as an 18 year old.

In a study published last week by Edinburgh University, first-born children were found to display more intelligence than their younger siblings. Other studies show they are also likely to be taller and to live longer. Scientists have also discovered that middle children are the most likely to achieve high political office, while the youngest are more likely than their older brothers and sisters to seek stardom on stage or screen. Decades of in-depth investigation has produced a wealth of data that reveals exactly how the odds are stacked for every one of us, as JOHN NAISH reveals.

Tran Thi Yen Nhung (left), 28, complained of pain inside her nose, which doctors initially dismissed as sinusitis, three years ago. After the pain continued and her family spent a total of the equivalent of £180,000 (500million VND), on prospective cures, doctors finally operated on her in My Tho, Vietnam. Yet, rather than solving the problem, the procedure actually made the infection worse. Within a year, it had consumed nearly all of Miss Nhung's face - destroying her nose and mouth (right and inset). The infection was also infested with flies. She tragically died from the illness on 27 December.

A 19-year-old Australian girl who cannot digest food and will spend the rest of her life being fed via a tube is determined to get her life back on track. Barbara Sass (pictured) was diagnosed with gastroparesis and intestinal failure in the last two years, and has had a number of near death experiences since. She said at one point she was going home to 'die' before specialised tube feeding gave her a second chance.

Emily Bonney, 18, from Blackpool, takes up to 60 tablets every day to keep her lungs functioning at a normal rate - but this didn't stop her following her dreams of becoming a cheerleader (left). After being diagnosed with life limiting cystic fibrosis - a genetic condition which causes the lungs to become clogged with mucus - aged eight, she has defied the odds. The teenager (inset in hospital) even finds time to practise while in hospital receiving treatment (right) She has now been chosen to represent Team England at the ParaCheer world championships this year.

EXCLUSIVE: Women's style has always been at the ever-changing whim of fashion trends. And pubic hair is no different. But surgeons at DHI Global (pictured main), who usually specialise in men’s hair transplants, are reporting a sharp rise in women requesting bikini line restoration (top and bottom right) after inadvertently damaging their own hair follicles as they groom. In addition, they say celebs including Gwyneth Paltrow (inset), Cameron Diaz and Lady Gaga – who all embrace full growth down below – have inspired women to reclaim the natural look.

Alayna Jacobs, four, from Ripley, Tennessee, was diagnosed with an incredibly rare condition called ROHHAD. It causes her to rapidly gain weight and drops her core body temperature dangerously low. Less than 100 people in the world have been diagnosed, and Alayna is unlikely to live past her 10th birthday.

Danielle Johnson (pictured left with her son, Lucas), 24, from Manchester, went into labour five weeks early after catching pneumonia, forcing doctors to place her in an induced coma. Her son, Lucas (right and inset his 20-week scan), was born healthy - but when doctors tried to wake her up, she was unresponsive and remained so for three weeks. When she eventually woke up, she was convinced that she had lost her baby and the nurses were trying to kill her. She even attacked her brother after he showed her a picture of Lucas because she was so adamant he was lying and that her son had died. Because of her illness, she wasn't able to meet him until he was 24 days old and it was nearly three months before they could share a cuddle. But after initially struggling to bond with Lucas, the mother-of-two has finally developed a strong relationship with him.

WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: Annette Stevens, 48, from West Sussex, had implants to boost her 'saggy' breasts over 13 years ago but was left with a range of health problems caused by a 'severe' gel leak. She travelled to Holland in October 2016 where she paid £6,000 to have them removed (left and right, after surgery) to stop them from rupturing, and discovered the tissue protecting them had been rotting inside her chest (inset).

BDSM has been considered taboo for years because of how different it is from 'vanilla' sex. But playing a dominant, or submissive, role can actually improve your physical and mental health, including reducing your stress levels, increasing your number of feel-good hormones and strengthening your immunity.

Eva Marie Harris, six, from Rocky River, Ohio, died after coming down with a rare complication that killed after she caught the flu. She developed a rare case of a neurological disease called ADEM, which causes the body to attack the brain and the spinal cord.

When British journalist Leah Hardy couldn't fit into a size 16 Primark frock, she was mortified. She put it down to work and stress, but her recent stomach test suggests a completely different cause. The new test is called Map My Gut, and was recently launched by Tim Spector, a professor of genetic epidemiology at King's College London. The founder of the UK Twins Registry and the British Gut Project, Professor Spector has a database of more than 14,000 people whose microbiome has been tested.