Diseases and mutations 2024, September
Specialists of the Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion in the Czech Republic have cured a 27-year-old patient with acute lymphoblastic leukemia, whose chances of survival were zero
Ian Brooks, a British resident suffering from a rare and aggressive form of cancer, whose body was affected by about 70 malignant tumors, according to the most optimistic forecasts of doctors, only a few weeks remained to live
In Brazil, an unusual case was recorded: a 30-year-old woman still has the body of a one-year-old child. Maria Audete do Nasqumento was born on May 7, 1981, but looks like a one year old
Youngsey - a remote village in the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan, has been a mystery to researchers for decades. About 40% of the villagers are several heads below the average
Angus Palmes, 13, from the UK looks like a small child due to a rare chromosomal abnormality. At birth, he seemed completely normal, but at the age of three he just stopped growing
A brain tumor caused this 19-year-old to grow 20 centimeters in just one year. Doctors fear that he will never stop growing
Brock Brown, 22, from Michigan, has grown to 7 feet 9 inches (240 cm) and was named "the tallest teenager in the world" a few years ago.Brock has congenital Sotos syndrome, a genetic disorder also known as cerebral gigantism.- Salik.bizWhen Brock was a child and went to kindergarten, his height was already over 153 cm
Have you ever met the tallest woman in the world? Not just very, very tall, but a giant? No, this is not a joke at all, and there is absolutely nothing funny in the history of these women
A 17-year-old girl from Turkey named Rumeysa Gelgi, whose height is 2 meters 13 centimeters, was officially declared the tallest girl in the world
Primordial dwarfism or primordial dwarfism is a type of dwarfism (dwarfism) in which the child's limbs, head and body are formed in the womb of a smaller size than ordinary people
From a few feet away, this Indian named Basori Lal can easily be mistaken for an ordinary little child. In fact, he is already 50 years old, but his height is only 29 inches (73 cm)
Baby Liang Xiaoxiao amazed the whole world the other day. Apparently the smallest three-year-old girl on the planet, she lives with her mother in the Chinese city of Changsha. She is only 54 centimeters tall and weighs 2.5 kg
Bridget and Bradley Jordan from a small town in Illinois are officially listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the smallest brother and sister in the world
The Turkish doctors discovered that the patient's fingers were unusually mobile: they were noticeably shortened, but if you pulled the end, they moved apart like a telescope. Doctors consider this condition a consequence of rheumatoid arthritis, due to which the bones of the phalanges were partially destroyed and became shorter
Englishwoman Lily Clarke was only 17 years old when very strange things began to happen to her. An active and cheerful girl before, a student, preferred to everything in the world … to sleep. Three years have passed and the situation has not changed
George Donlan from Manchester suffers from a rare genetic disorder. It has been diagnosed in only 150 people worldwide. Doctors don't know how to deal with the anomaly also known as ring 18
An unusual fish with a deformed swollen head fell on the fishing rod of a fisherman in the Chinese province of Guizhou. A man went fishing with friends and among ordinary carps he suddenly came across a very strange specimen
Residents of the Lady Frere region in the Eastern Cape (South Africa) are horrified by the sheep-born creature and are sure that it was not without witchcraft or bestiality (bestiality)
The owners of one of the farms in western Brazil unexpectedly got hold of a unique mutant bird. Here an amazing chicken was born, shocking with its appearance not only modern farmers, but also poultry veterinarians
Now home to the Kostin family, which lives in the village of Krylovskaya, local residents go to the zoo. Now, to the Kostin family, who lives in the village of Krylovskaya, local residents go to the zoo
Modern medicine is developing quite rapidly, but even with modern diagnostic technologies, many of the diseases of mankind cannot be cured. Environmental diseases are the most pressing problem and experts from all over the world are trying to create an effective drug against cancer cells
Frequent use of plastic dishes leads the fairer sex to excessive hair. This was stated by British scientists after examining several women who began to grow beards
Russian specialists are ready to offer a unique technology for inhaling a mixture of helium and oxygen.The technology of a mixture of helium and oxygen heated to high temperatures may soon be used in infectious diseases clinics to rescue patients with coronavirus infection
Throughout the history of our planet, humans have coexisted with bacteria and viruses. We looked for ways to resist the bubonic plague and smallpox, and in response they looked for ways to infect us
What does every person need in order to be happy, calm and satisfied with life? Perhaps the answer here may be obvious: each of us needs health, money and a satisfied need for recognition and love. Well, if scientists are unlikely to be able to help you with money and the need for recognition, then in order to protect your mental health, researchers have conducted a series of experiments concerning diseases of the psyche and nervous system
Living in highly polluted areas can cause schizophrenia and autism in children
The albino girl from Yakutia was nicknamed "Siberian Snow White" on the Internet. The unusual appearance of the child interested the employees of the modeling agency
A group of scientists from the UK, USA, Italy, Germany, Australia, Singapore, South Africa, India, the Netherlands and Switzerland has published a global study on vision problems in humans in The Lancet
Neurologist Gabrielle Jordan from the University of Newcastle announced that she had found a woman who is a tetrachomat, that is, a person who can distinguish more colors than any other inhabitant of the Earth
Bozena Danilovic, 28, suffers from disordered spatial awareness. Her case is unique in that because of this she does not experience constant dizziness, but sees the world upside down
Pam Roberts, 41, from Maidstone, Kent, England, says her condition is similar to daily brutal torture
Women who regularly use aluminum salt deodorants risk breast cancer, new Swiss study finds
Doctors and the woman herself are still in shock and cannot find an explanation for what happened. You, too, have heard about miraculous cases when a person after a coma suddenly unexpectedly for himself began to speak in an unfamiliar language
German doctors are faced with a unique case. A blind patient with dissociative identity disorder, also known as “multiple personality disorder,” regains her sight after feeling like a different person
Recently, a 41-year-old man named Zhou appeared in the waiting room of a hospital in China's Yunnan province with a swollen eyelid and excruciating headache.According to Zhou, it all started 2 months ago, when the eyelid on his right eye began to swell up a lot and at the same time began to periodically hurt his head
Congenital or acquired disability - not uncommon situation among people, and one of the most terrible types of disability - blindness
An unexpected result was brought by stem cell paralysis treatment for a US resident. Eight years later, a woman was horrified to find that her nose had grown on her spine
In her sixty-something years, a wealthy lady decided to do a lifting and rejuvenation of the skin of her face by grafting stem cells
Canadian scientists have summarized the results of more than 200 studies analyzing the influence of excess weight on the development of various diseases and pathological conditions and found that obesity is a factor that accelerates all aging processes
Panic gripped Africa. There are rumors of killer bananas on the continent. Locals claim that fruits that eat human flesh have appeared on sale. Bananas that cause necrotizing fasciitis were allegedly brought into the country