Diseases and mutations 2024, September

Lethargy comes from the Greek lethe "oblivion" and argia "inaction." This is not just a type of sleep, but a real illness

Such children - one in a million, the child has two independently functioning heads, but one body and one heart, and the parents are very happy to join the family. Asa and Eli Hamley were born to 34-year-old parents Robin and Michelle

Separation of Abigail and Madison Fitterer (Abygail and Madysen Fitterer) - the most successful operation to date in the world to separate Siamese twins … They were connected to each other in the chest and abdomen

We know a lot about tulips. Each man gave women bouquets of delicate spring flowers. We have also heard about the "tulip revolutions" in the countries of the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. But few people know that there have been economic tulip crises in history, and the first financial pyramid is also associated with these flowers

Lewis Albon of Radcliffe, Greater Manchester, was a sugary soda, and at 13, weighed 16 stones (101 kilograms) at 175 cm

The reason - Western way of life Plaques and lime deposits in the arteries begin to appear in Western countries as early as 25 years old

The head of a poor Indian family from Gujarat is willing to sell his kidney to provide the necessary treatment for his three obese children

The ancient Greeks and Romans, who amazed the world with beauty and strength, fought with obesity, ridiculed fat men. The soldiers, for example, could not exceed the established body weight, and the saddles were confiscated from cavalrymen with a tendency to be overweight

British doctors are puzzled by the mystical death of an absolutely healthy 15-year-old teenager playing for the Wales national taekwondo team. The boy suddenly died right in the arms of his girlfriend while watching a rugby match

Medical practice can be the perfect inspiration for horror films. Medicine can tell about real "walking dead", werewolves or own killer arm

In the British medical journal British Medical Journal Case Reports, a rare case of a person of unknown sex was recently described. A resident of Portugal under 42 did not know exactly what gender he was

29-year-old American Fabrizio Stabile was mowing the lawn as usual with a lawn mower outside his home in Ventnor, New Jersey on September 16 as he had a severe headache

Smoking turned out to be beneficial for the health of one of the inhabitants of Germany due to the fact that the carbon monoxide in the tobacco smoke helped him to suppress anemia. This is stated in an article published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry

The general state of health of modern children has deteriorated significantly in comparison with the generation of their fathers and mothers. Now you will not surprise anyone with cancer, autism, congenital pathologies and asthma diagnosed in infancy

But the results are not promising soon.In the States, the situation is difficult: almost five thousand cases, and only on Monday this number increased by a thousand, and already 86 dead. In hypermarkets, it's not exactly panic, but you can spend the whole day in the line for groceries (people are allowed inside in small groups)

Scientists have discovered a new and potentially extremely dangerous pathogen for humans in bats living in China. The virus found in bats belongs to the same deadly family as Ebola and Marburg

More than 5,000 flying foxes that lived near a quiet residential area of the city of Casino, Australia, suddenly fell dead from the trees. Experts cannot yet determine the reasons for the mass death of animals

Cole Cohen, a 26-year-old resident of the American city of Portland, had very serious problems with mathematics, spatial orientation and other things that were commonplace for her peers since childhood

When the family of five-year-old Caleb sits down at the dinner table, the baby can only watch the meal with envy and gnaw the crushed ice that is poured into his cup … How to live without food

A 60-year-old Chinese woman named Fan admitted that she ate 2-3 pieces of fatty pork every day. Gallstones are mainly caused by excess cholesterol

The best friend of a modern man - smartphone and internet? Or does a person need a person? The rapid development of gadgets and the Internet also has a negative side. Here are the diseases technology causes

Surgeons from British Birmingham are going to reassemble, like a mosaic, the head of 20-month-old Ruby Merlin, who was born with a rare disease

At the Children's Hospital in Memphis in the US state of Tennessee, surgeons have successfully performed a unique operation to separate Siamese twins fused in the sacrum

Organ transplantation is not easy even in developed countries. There are a lot of qualified doctors, and several thousand people stand in line for the necessary organs. In the US alone, there are 121,000 transplant waiting lists

Whenever Alexandra Metelkina puts her daughter to bed in the evening, she ponders: when Anya wakes up - in the morning, Two days later, In a week? And one more thing: will you have to go back to the hospital or will it be possible to survive the "hibernation" at home?

Lateral (lateral) amyotrophic sclerosis (ALS) - it is a disease that destroys nerve cells and deprives people of the ability to control their bodies

A boy named Eli (Timothy Eli Thompson) was born without a nose and is currently in the neonatal intensive care unit of the hospital in Mobile, Alabama, USA

A disease called Fibrodysplasia ossifying progressive (FOP) sounds much less scary than it really is. In fact, a person with such a disease is "locked" in his own body

18-year-old Mita Sabar looks like a child. Due to a huge tumor that struck her right arm, the girl hardly grows. For the first time a strange tumor struck her arm when Mitya was 12 years old

Scientists have uncovered the mystery of hundreds of mysterious child deaths that occur every summer in the Indian city of Muzaffarpur. It turned out to be a lychee fruit, the ripening of the fruit of which just coincides with the onset of the disease that takes away children's lives

Freak circuses were one of the most popular entertainment in the United States until the middle of the 20th century. The creators of the establishments recruited people with developmental disabilities and more terrible defects - and showed them to the amusement of the crowd. The audience poured into such circuses with a shaft

A 3-year-old boy from India had to undergo brain surgery to get rid of signs of premature puberty. The fact is that at the age of one and a half years, the child's genitals began to grow and his behavior changed

Even in the ancient world, not many diseases caused the same panic and destruction as the bubonic plague. This terrible bacterial infection was commonly spread by rats and other rodents

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has reported an intestinal infection epidemic that has broken out in five US states. Its source has not yet been established, although the disease is known to be caused by the bacterium Escherichia coli

Anila Ali, 3 months old from Pakistan, was born with a dangerous birth defect called craniosynostosis. It causes early closure of the cranial sutures and deformation of the skull

Zoe Lush was born with osteogenesis imperfecta, a genetic inherited disorder that makes the bones of the skeleton unusually fragile and break easily

13-year-old Nagina was born in a rural area of Nepal with a hereditary condition called ichthyosis. Due to ichthyosis, the skin of patients is severely flaky and looks like fish scales

Afhseen Qumbar, a nine-year-old Pakistani girl, lives in constant pain due to her neck being rotated 90 degrees. Her condition is not yet clear, since it has not been studied. Suspected of having a muscle disorder

A 29-year-old Welsh woman suffers from a rare and untreatable disorder called Chiari malformation. Because of this disease, the woman constantly experiences unbearable pain, and her brain slowly descends into the spine

The improper lifestyle of a modern person is often blamed for the development of various diseases, but, as the study has shown, people who lived more than 3000 years ago suffered from the same ailments