Kevin Daly was worried that even when he lost 34 pounds, his beer belly wasn’t going away. “I don't even like beer,” he explained to the New York Daily News. “I was lean. I'm 6'3" and very athletic.” The financial planner shed the weight in 2015 after he had open-heart surgery, but he and his wife Rachelle were baffled when his stomach didn’t go down. The 63-year-old told the newspaper, “I thought they literally left stuffing and tools in me from surgery.” But it wasn't stuffing and tools - the financial planner, from Hoboken, N.J., was eventually diagnosed with liposarcoma — a rare cancer that develops in the fat cells of soft tissue. Typically, patients can gain 10 to 20 pounds because some tumors can be very large, but a tumor in the abdomen may be tough to diagnose because patients may think they’ve gained weight. The tumor (pictured) was nearly triple the size the surgical team expected it to be, and that it had wrapped around one of Daly’s kidneys. Doctors believe it took 10 to 15 years for the mass to grow to the size it did.
But unfortunately cutting out the problem won't work on everything, and it isn't going to work on a man in the UK has caught the world's "worst-ever" case of super-gonorrhoea. He had a regular partner in the UK, but picked up the superbug after a sexual encounter with a woman in South East Asia (read: she probably has a penis). Public Health England says it is the first time the infection cannot be cured with first choice antibiotics. The main antibiotic treatment - a combination of azithromycin and ceftriaxone - may have failed to treat the disease, but analysis of the man's infection suggests one last antibiotic could work. He is currently being treated and doctors will see if it has been successful next month.
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