A student with a rare condition that caused her to faint every time she stood up over 14 years is finally back on her feet.
Lizzie Rees, 22, suffers from postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS), which affects the body's ability to adjust to the pull of gravity.

The condition causes her heart rate to speed up whenever she stands, causing her to pass out up to five times a day.
Even getting up from a chair would cause her to collapse and she often had to crawl around on her hands and knees or use a wheelchair.
But after countless medical experts failed to cure the problem she is finally enjoying a normal life after a heart specialist prescribed a drug to control her blood flow.
Miss Rees, from Bristol, said: 'I would pass out up to five times a day and was constantly getting injured banging my head and have to go off to A&E.
'I have seen cardiologists and doctors of pretty much every speciality going, but it is great to know that this is treatable.
'I remember feeling so much better after I started treatment. I still pass out occasionally but going to college now shows how far I have come.'
POTS is a form of dysautonomia - an abnormal functioning of the Autonomic Nervous System (ANS), which controls many subconscious bodily functions including breathing and balance.
When the average person stands their blood pressure drops slightly but the ANS recognises this and causes their heart rate to momentarily increase.
But in POTS patients, their blood pressure plummets when they stand, causing the heart to race. Blood supply is not able to reach the brain quickly enough, resulting in dizziness, vision loss and fainting.

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TMZ is reporting that Bieber was actually knocked down by an undercover cop who had lept to his defense when a crowd got rowdy; not realizing he was a police officer, Bieber got defensive, and his security team tried to pull the police officer away.

Things were cleared up, however, and disorderly conduct charges against one of his bodyguards were dropped. Scroll down for a photo, and click over to COED Magazine for more.

Justin Bieber was jumped and knocked down by a man outside a New York City Macy's where he was signing autographs, ABC 7 Eyewitness News in New York reports.

Bieber, who appeared on "The Late Show" in the city Wednesday night and appeared on "The View" earlier Thursday, was assaulted after coming outside to tell fans that they would not be able to access his cologne debut and autograph signing; only fans who had waited in line to receive a ticket were allowed in.

When he stepped out, ABC reports, a man took him to the ground after jumping over a barrier; the teen star was uninjured, but "very shaken up," a source told the news station.

The man was taken away by police.

When director David Wain let loose the news that he was in the planning stages of a prequel to his star-studded, cult classic comedy "Wet Hot American Summer," fans were ecstatic, but perhaps a bit doubtful that it would really happen. After all, would stars like Paul Rudd and Elizabeth Banks really want to go back and do that?

Rudd and Banks, along with a number of other co-stars from the 2001, 1980s-set camp film, told Entertainment Weekly with great enthusiasm that they'd be up to return to their roles -- and that there's already been talk about it.

"It's been discussed over the last decade in various forms and incarnations," Rudd told EW. "I think we would all be up for doing it."

Rudd also that he'd work for basically free, something he'd have to do given the last film's budget of $1.8 million.

Banks was even more excited about the possibility of a summer camp reunion.

"Look, any chance to get that group of people all together in a room I will take," the actress said. "It's been such a blessing on my life that I got to be included in that circle of people."

Two men intent on attacking a military recruiting station to inspire Muslims to defend their religion from U.S. actions abroad were snared by FBI agents in a terror plot sting, authorities said Thursday. Abu Khalid Abdul-Latif, also known as Joseph Anthony Davis, of Seattle, and Walli Mujahidh, also known as Frederick Domingue Jr., of Los Angeles, were arrested Wednesday night after they arrived at a warehouse garage to pick up machine guns to use in the attack, an FBI agent wrote in a criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court.
The machine guns had been rendered inoperable by federal agents and posed no risk to the public.
The two suspects appeared in federal court Thursday in tan prison garb and listened as prosecutor recited the charges against them. Detention hearings were set for Wednesday.
Their court-appointed defense lawyers declined to comment. The suspects could face life in prison if convicted.
Authorities learned of the plot early this month when a third person recruited to participate alerted the Seattle Police Department, the complaint said. Investigators immediately began monitoring the men, and the confidential informant continued to string them along by promising to obtain weapons.
The building, the Military Entrance Processing Station on East Marginal Way in Seattle, also houses a daycare. Recruits for all military branches are screened and processed there.

If you're trying to get Erin Andrews' autograph, it's probably not a good idea to mention the peephole video.

That is exactly what happened at the NCAA College World Series when a couple of fans kept calling out for Andrews to sign an autograph. After spending a few minutes calling her name and trying to grab the ESPN reporter's attention, one of the kids shouted, "I’m gonna watch your video tomorrow."

That didn't sit well with Andrews, who immediately looked over to the fans and stared them down.

She walked over to the stands and confronted the fan. She asked him to repeat himself, but he refused.

"If you are going to be cool enough to say that, man up to it," she said.

In the summer of 2009, Andrews was secretly videotaped while she was naked in her hotel room. The video was posted on the internet by a man named Michael David Barrett.

Barrett, 49, admitted to stalking Andrews for 18 months and was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in federal prison.

Evan Rachel Wood debuted a dramatic look at the premiere of HBO's "True Blood" Season 4 in Los Angeles on Tuesday night.
The actress showed off what appears to be a newly-shorn 'do, paired with a gray Dolce & Gabbana vest, matching trousers, red suspenders and studded heels

Catapulted to style stardom as a result of her sister's wedding, Pippa Middleton's clothing choices are almost as influential as her sister's. The day after the wedding, the little sis stepped out with a gray leather Modalu bag that sold out almost instantly. And we're sure she's done wonders for High Street brands such as Zara.

But earlier this month, Jezebel pointed out that Pippa committed "the ultimate pantyhose sin" while she was spotted wearing nude tights in Paris, "no less."

And somehow, the skin-toned hosiery trend is catching on! The Telegraph reports that sales of nude tights has "risen by up to 85 percent in the past year."

The shocking increase has been attributed to a hesitancy to jump from opaques in the winter months to bare legs in the spring, as nude stockings offer an in-between of sorts. A second, more health-conscious reason for the once-taboo (possibly still taboo) trend: "[It] may also be driven in part by fears over sun exposure. Malignant melanoma is Britain's second most common cancer in 15 to 34-year-olds."

Will you follow Pippa's lead and wear nude hosiery on cooler summer nights, or have you sworn off the flesh-toned tights?

Alyssa Campanella, 21, is dating "Tudors" actor Torrance Coombs, 28, UsMagazine.com reports.
And Coombs appeared to be super-psyched about Campanella's participation in the pageant and her subsequent win, Tweeting Sunday night, "Ridiculously proud of @AlyssCampanella, aka Miss CA USA," and, "Pardon my french, but HOLY F*CK! SHE WON! Congrats to @AlyssCampanella, Miss USA 2011. I am a puddle." No, we are a puddle! Honestly, that is kind of adorable.
Campanella, for her part, has been posting pictures of herself and Coombs. She also hinted at her relationship during the pageant itself, telling host Giuliana Rancic, "I'm obsessed with the Stuart and Tudor era. Whenever I go to Barnes & Noble I'm always in the history section and that is where you will find me," adding, "I watch 'Game of Thrones,' I watched 'Camelot' -- I know those are fantasy but I also watch the Tudors, so I'm a huge history geek."

The pregnancy came as a shock to them both, especially as they had split up just a couple of months before.
But if these pictures are anything to go by, it looks as though Jack Wilshere and Lauren Neal are very much a couple again.
The Arsenal star, 19, and Miss Neal, 22, were snapped kissing and being very affectionate towards each other as they enjoyed a holiday on the Italian island of Sardinia yesterday.
They snuggled up on their sunloungers on the beach as Wilshere lovingly stroked her burgeoning bump.
And they hugged and kissed at the water's edge as they dipped their feet to cool off from the hot sun.
And pregnancy is suiting Lauren very well and she looked radiant in her shiny coral bikini.

The reunited couple are making the most of their time together before the start of the next football season in August and before their first child is born later this summer.
Wilshere found out in April that Lauren was pregnant, even though they had ended their three-year relationship a few months before.
The midfielder, who is emerging as England's hottest young star, was reported to be 'shocked but delighted' by the news.