Luca suffers from muscular dystrophy, a disease that over time makes his body weaker and weaker and can only move his fingers as a result of the disease. In this touching photo project, Slovenian photographer, Matej Peljhan Matej, helped Luca to “play” by modelling scenes where Luca is in motion and taking the pictures from above.
 

These are before and after plastic surgery photos of Moly, the Shar Pei. Apparently the poor doggy had some sort of disease the left her unable to see so plastic surgery was required. I think she looked better before the surgery, but it is important to be able to see.

Lizzie Velasquez, a 21-year old and 5ft 2in student living in Texas, weighs only 56 pounds (25kg). The thing is, she is not anorexic, she has a very rare condition that prevents her from gaining weight!

Ashanti Eliott-Smith is like any other girls of her age, she goes to school, plays with her friends or her puppy, she likes horses and is a fan of Girls Aloud and JLS… But unfortunately, she has a rare incurable condition (Hutchinson–Gilford progeria syndrome) that makes her age faster than other people, 8 times faster to be more precise. This condition is very rare and only 52 persons in the world suffer progeria, with just one other kid in Britain.

There is such a rare and terrible disease Progeria - premature aging at an early age.

One gene mutates and affects the whole organism. Those born with progeria typically live about thirteen years, although many have been known to live into their late teens and early twenties and rare individuals may even reach their forties.

The disorder has a very low incidence and occurs in one per eight million live births.

Here’s Leon Botha, a guy who has progeria and who’s already 24 years old.

No one knows how many years he will live.

It’s not funny, but he really has this alien look…