Diseases and mutations 2024, September

Little Haley Rivera hasn't slept for more than three hours since she was born. Parents who have been deprived of normal sleep for 18 months have turned to specialists for help

Scientists all over the world are puzzling over the secrets of this phenomenon. In terms of the number of myths and legends, lethargy knows no equal. Cause and effect What is it: a disease or a simulation? Why does it arise? How to get out of this state and how to avoid it

20-year-old hockey player Carson Meyer, who plays for the Columbus Blue Jackets NHL team, experienced general weakness and malaise for almost a year. He was often drowsy, suffered from loss of appetite and lost weight

Looking at old family photos, Taylor Smart seems to be looking into someone else's life. Now she is 18, and two years ago, as a result of the fall, the girl forgot everything about herself

Everyone can remember at least one film or series where the intrigue revolves around a character who suddenly forgot who he is and what his everyday circumstances are

After a simple dental operation, William lost the ability to remember anything. What happened to him? The answer to this medical mystery has every chance of changing our understanding of the brain, says BBC Future

Photo: @sorsasta A resident of the British city of Southport, Merseyside, was paralyzed due to an infection transmitted to her by a stray cat. Writes about this edition of the Daily Mail

A two-year-old girl suffering from a rare syndrome has twice as many veins as she should. As a result, this child can die of a blood clot at almost any time

Pakistani doctors are trying to understand the cause of the strange condition of the two brothers - at night they lose the ability to move and talk. Two boys, 9 and 13 years old, have already become known as "sunny children"

A strange disease, a symptom of which is causeless hysterical laughter and subsequent fainting, is spreading rapidly in the Sudanese province of Kardafan

A Chinese man who went to the hospital complaining of abdominal pain and blood in his urine was stunned by the diagnosis. Doctors told him that he is a woman

A family in Khabarovsk ate the larvae of parasitic worms and was hospitalized in serious condition.According to the Territorial Authority of Roszdravnadzor for the Khabarovsk Territory and the Jewish Autonomous Region, currently doctors of the KGBUZ "GKB No

How can a living person be sure that he is dead? It would seem absurd However, this condition is well known to those who suffer from Cotard syndrome. There are only a few hundred such people all over the world

Currently, such a medical concept as an epidemic - Often, the ordinary reader associates with mass infectious diseases, however, even now there is relatively little material about epidemics of a mental nature

Modern inhabitants believe that they all live in a civilized world with their own foundations and norms of morality. But, if you look at some of the customs of the inhabitants of the Black Continent, it seems that time stopped there hundreds of years ago

Pole Tomasz Nadolski is 25 years old, but outwardly he looks like an 11-12 year old boy. His childlike appearance is so natural that to prove his age, Tomas must always carry his passport with him. Outside people don't believe him at his word

This woman underwent a face transplant three years ago after it was disfigured by a huge tumor. Now it is simply impossible to recognize her, because the operation made the woman completely normal

If Andy Rae (32) does not see his wife Joe (34) and daughter Chloe (3) for only two days, he will no longer recognize them. Andy does not remember his childhood, his wedding day, the day his child was born, or who his parents were

Scientists have compared for the first time all known species of Leptospira bacteria: some of this genus cause deadly diseases in humans and pets

24-year-old United Kingdom resident Harnaam Kaur will be included in the next edition of the Guinness Book of Records as the fairer sex with the longest beard

In the United States, nosocomial infection with Candida auris has begun to spread. The mortality rate from it reaches 60 percent; there are no drugs to combat it. Reported by New Scientist

For the prevention of any viral infection, including COVID-19, WHO specialists advise less contact with others, wear masks, wash your hands more often and try not to touch your face. But, as it turned out, the last recommendation is practically impracticable

Ismail Ali, 4, from Luton, UK, suffers from the rare Crigler-Nayyar syndrome

In a 61-year-old American woman, doctors diagnosed a unique bladder fermentation syndrome. Because of this pathology, alcohol was constantly produced in the body of the pensioner, which was excreted in the urine. The description is in the Annals of Internal Medicine

A team of scientists led by Licio Augusto Velloso from the University of Campinas has identified a cause that contributes significantly to weight gain. This was reported in a press release on the EurekAlert

10-year-old boy Arya Permana lives in West Java (Indonesia) and is probably the fattest child in the world. He already weighs as much as 192 kilograms

A family from the suburbs of London spent a huge amount on finding the right diagnosis for their son. This is reported by the British edition of the Daily Mail. In January 2018, 16-year-old Valentino Erodotou complained of sharp pain and burning sensation in the chest area

German and American paleontologists diagnosed osteosarcoma in the ancestor of the tortoise - reptile Pappochelys rosinae, which lived about 240 million years ago. Scientists note that this is the oldest known case of such a disease in higher vertebrates

Three people have died from the Zika virus in South American Venezuela. President of the country Nicolas Maduro announced this yesterday, having drawn up a report on the epidemiological situation

A group of American scientists have found that pancreatic cancer is able to reprogram itself and alter metabolism in order to spread to other tissues and organs and become resistant to chemotherapy

Every year in India, dozens (and even more than a hundred) children die from a mysterious fatal brain disease. In 2014, 150 children died, and in 2019, 53 children have already died in the last 10 days.Only in recent years have doctors found out that most likely it is a toxin that is formed in lychee fruits at this time of the year and affects only weakened children's organisms

Indian surgeons successfully operated on a seven-month-old baby from Iraq who was born with eight limbs, Hindu reported on Saturday. The treatment took place at the Jaypee Hospital in the city of Noida, Delhi agglomeration

Pakistani Ahmed Khan is famous for his bulging eyes and is about to break the Guinness record. This was reported by the Daily Mail

Muhammad Mushtag, a 40-year-old Pakistani, worked as a butcher and lived a normal life until a dangerous parasite entered his body two years ago.These small roundworms, called filariae, are carried by mosquitoes and block the lymphatic vessels when they get under the skin

Doctors only know about 200 cases of this disease

18-year-old Siamese twin sisters Neave and Nelly Kolstein have two fully developed healthy bodies, but in the head area they have grown so much that in fact they have one head for two, including a large common artery, which makes them impossible operate

American Todd Ray is the owner of the largest collection of living two-headed animals in the world. He has two-headed turtles, snakes, lizards, even one lamb

2-year-old Siamese twins with a rare form of head splicing flew from Bangladesh to Hungary on Sunday to take part in a risky separation operation

Maria and Consolata Mwakikuchi, Siamese twins of a rare type - with one body for two, two arms, two legs and two heads, died in Tanzania last weekend. 21-year-old girls die after prolonged illness

The girls Kelly and Carter Torres were born with one body two below the ribcage. This type of Siamese (conjoined) twins is very rare, it is called omphalo-sciatica and makes up only 5% of all Siamese twins