A Melbourne teenager has recorded an emotional video message to say goodbye after he was told by doctors he may not have long to live.

Shaun Wilson-Miller, 17, has battled heart problems since he was a child but last week he was given his worst diagnosis yet.

A biopsy revealed his body was rejecting his second heart transplant and doctors say they cannot perform a third.

Shaun, who became a Heart Kids Ambassador at the age of 13, filmed a video titled "My Final Goodbye" in which he thanks his family and friends and tells them he will miss them.

"This has been an awesome ride and I have no regrets," Shaun says.

"Live life to the fullest because you never know what's going to happen."

Shaun's father Cameron told ninemsn he was extremely proud of his son, who has become an inspiration to many others with health problems.

"He did that all himself. At first I didn't want him to make the video and I told him not to," Cameron said.

"But it's out there and it's touched a nerve all over the world."

Cameron said his son wanted to spread his message about staying positive to as many people as possible.

"He just wants to be positive in life, no matter what happens to you in life, be positive," Cameron said.

"He's just going to deal with the cards he’s been dealt and that’s it."

Shaun, who is writing a book about his life, has already inspired many people through work he has done as a motivational speaker.

"He's always just had that confidence to get up and talk even from a young age," Cameron said.

"He's helped lots of heart kids. He's even helped nurses with their relationships. He's like a guru. He just sits down and talks to people and changes their minds."

In 2010 Shaun struck up a friendship through Facebook with boxing champ Garth Wood, who that year defeated Anthony Mundine while Shaun sat ringside.

"Garth Wood says he's his inspiration, he was the motivation behind his fight against Mundine," Cameron said.

True to his message, Shaun also revealed positive news in his video — he has his first girlfriend, a 16-year-old who also battles heart problems.

"This girl has sat by his side and they inspire each other," Cameron said.

A US couple born just hours apart at the same hospital have died within days of each other, when the wife passed away while visiting his body at a funeral home.

Ronald Clark Oman died on April 16, only weeks after being diagnosed with cancer.

His wife of 58 years, Linda, died three days later during a visitation of her husband's body, local station Wood TV 8 reports.

"She said, 'Ron, I will see you soon,' and we — my sisters and I — were in the background saying, 'No, Mom, we need you around here for a while,'" their daughter Debbie Oman-Monfre said.

The pair were delivered by the same doctor just two hours apart at Borgess Medical Centre in Kalamazoo, Michigan in 1936.

They wed months after graduating high school together, both at the age of 17.

"I don't think we realized growing up what a great love story this was," Ms Oman-Monfre said.

"She had always said, 'That's how I want Ronnie and I to go, because I can't live without him."

The Omans leave behind nine children, 16 grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren.

A Western Australian woman has described the moment her grief-stricken grandmother collapsed and died after kissing her husband's coffin at his funeral.

Michelle Chorlton was at her grandfather's funeral in Perth on January 9 in 2002 when her grandmother who "didn't want to live without a husband" was rushed away in an ambulance.

Her story is one of many shared by ninemsn readers today after a study by the University of Birmingham was released showing a scientific link between grief and the risk of infection.

Ms Chorlton said her 79-year-old grandmother was in good health until her partner of 55 years died.

A US grandmother who looks decades younger than her age has credited her youthful appearance to her raw vegan diet.

Annette Larkins, 70, has been dubbed the “ageless beauty” by US media who say she looks as if she could be in her forties.

Mrs Larkins told the WPTV Network that she became a vegetarian in the 1960s when her husband owned a meat store.

As the years went by she gradually became a vegan, and for the past 27 years has only eaten raw fruit and vegetables.

A Sydney teen with a previously undetected — and fairly common — heart condition was rushed to hospital on two separate occasions after drinking Red Bull.

Her story is one of many sent in by ninemsn readers who have had serious health problems after consuming energy drinks, which are currently sold in Australia without labels carrying clear health warnings.

Alicia Franklin was first hospitalised after an incident a few months short of her 18th birthday, when she was at a party, looking after an intoxicated friend.

A woman with Tourette's syndrome who suffered uncontrollable muscle spasms has been all but cured, after doctors drilled into her head to place electrodes in her brain.

British woman Jayne Bargent is one of the first Tourette's sufferers to be implanted with the "brain pacemaker", which sends tiny electric impulses into the region believed to cause muscle tics, Sky News reports

British museum chiefs have rejected a suggestion by experts in law and medical ethics that the skeleton of an 18th-century man known as the "Irish Giant" should be removed from display and buried at sea.

Charles Byrne, originally from County Londonderry, stood just over 7ft 7in tall.

"Nodding syndrome" is a poorly-understood disease that causes children and teens to nod violently, as if having a seizure, when in the presence of food or when they get cold. Likened to epilepsy because of its effects, the disease is thought to be related to parasitic worms that also cause river blindness. First discovered in the Sudan in the 1980s, a new outbreak of nodding syndrome is sweeping across Uganda, and could spread elsewhere too.

Brazilian doctors said the conjoined twins born with one body and two heads will not be surgically separated at this time, Agence France-Presse reported.

Jesus and Emanuel were delivered by emergency C-section early Monday in Anajas, in the northeastern Para State in Brazil. They are in stable condition.

Two young children have been removed from a California residence that housed 110 cats, after police were led there by an overwhelming smell.

In January this year neighbours complained of an intense stench emanating from the house, prompting police to investigate, the OC Register reported.

Animal service officers wearing masks entered the home but left after a few minutes because the smell made them sick.

FORGET antibiotics, let's try nanoparticles. That's according to DARPA, the US military's research arm, which says that rather than spend money on new antibiotics, which only work until bacterial strains grow resistant, "readily adaptable nanotherapeutics" can fight infection instead.

A 290kg Queensland man who was too fat to go on The Biggest Loser and has not left his house in two years says he fears he could die any day.

This just breaks my heart.

The meerkat is natures' ultimate team player, according to someone who knows them well.

And that's one good reason why they'll be right at home in an enclosure at the new Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne.

A Melbourne mother is preparing to sue a local hospital after doctors left a 30cm surgical instrument inside her bowel during an operation.

Marion Fernando, 42, from Narre Warren South in Melbourne's east, suffered for six days after surgeons at Dandenong hospital left the metal object inside her during a hysterectomy procedure last Thursday.

CHONGQING, China — In a hallway at the Xinqiao Hospital of the Third Military Medical University, Liao Guojun spends his days pacing, sleeping on borrowed beds and hoping for news. His daughters are only feet away, behind a locked door at the end of the hall, but he rarely sees them.

Is anybody else offended by this, or is it just me?

A Melbourne mother-of-three who was left brain dead for 12 minutes after a heart attack has left doctors dumbfounded by walking out of hospital with no evidence of brain damage.

Rebecca, 52, has been living with fibromyalgia for more than 30 years. After struggling without proper treatment, she took charge of her disease and sought alternative therapies such as cognitive-behavioral therapy, acupuncture, and chiropractic manipulation to achieve pain control. She used to describe her pain as a nine or a 10 but now she says it's a one or a two. She has written a book to help others who are like her, Beyond Chronic Pain: A Get-Well Guidebook to Soothe the Body, Mind, and Spirit. In this video, Rebecca explains how her body feels and how carefully she has to navigate the world to keep pain at bay.

For comprehensive information about symptoms, treatment options, and the experience of living with fibromyalgia, visit our Chronic Pain Health Journey.

Tanning: skin cells in trauma

Our skin keeps us healthy and protects our bodies from the outside world. But skin can be damaged. Melanocytes are skin cells that produce a pigment called melanin. When ultraviolet radiation (UVR) hits melanocytes they produce extra melanin, our body's natural sunscreen.

The melanin moves towards the outer layers of the skin making it darken and look "tanned". This is a sign of our skin responding to UV damage and trying to protect itself from further UV damage.

Tanning under the sun or using a solarium can cause irreversible damage to skin cells. A tan therefore is not a healthy glow, but skin cells in trauma trying to protect themselves against damage that can start a melanoma growing. Sunburn can kill skin cells altogether.

The ability to tan varies between people; some burn or tan more easily than others. A tan can provide weak protection against sunburn, only about as much as an SPF3-5 sunscreen, depending on skin type, but a tan does not protect against skin damage.

Although a tan is visible, UVR also causes damage in the skin cells which can't be seen. This damage adds up over time, and can lead to skin cancer, so it is important to minimise exposure to UVR.

Research has found that solarium use more than doubles the risk of melanoma.

There's nothing healthy about a tan.

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) - The New Mexico Health Department reports a third case of hantavirus has been confirmed in the state.

Health officials say a 39-year-old man from McKinley County is hospitalized in critical condition at University Hospital in Albuquerque.

Both previous cases were fatal. The first was a 51-year-old woman from McKinley County who died in January. The second was a 35-year-old man from Torrance County who died this month.

The Department of Health says case of hantavirus—which is spread through rodent urine, droppings or saliva—usually increase in spring and summer when rodents are more active.

Health officials warn people to avoid contact with rodents and to use disinfectant when cleaning up nests or droppings.

Peep, chirp, quack! Live baby poultry, such as chicks, ducklings, goslings, and baby turkeys, often carry harmful germs called Salmonella. After you touch a chick, duckling, or other baby bird, or anything in the area where they live and roam, WASH YOUR HANDS so you don't get sick!

I found this link interesting, even though I'm in Australia.