Diseases and mutations 2024, September

Albinism is a congenital disorder caused by the complete absence of melanin. This pigment is responsible for the color of our skin, hair and eyes

Yuan Taibing, a villager in the Chongqing area, is only 30 years old. His entire face is cut with deep wrinkles, and he looks 80. According to Chinese media, Yuan has a wife and two children

Even zoologists cannot yet determine what kind of species it is. '' I just went fishing on one ditch, it was still in the summer

At all times, people tried to use every opportunity to find a new viable option to destroy each other

In the village of Bogdanovka in Sumy region, a chicken with four legs hatched two weeks ago. - When I put eggs under the quota, I got one of the most, - says the owner, 67-year-old Nikolai Kravchenko

A five-year-old boy lost his ear and lower jaw after being bitten off entirely by hyenas. Now he has only hope for the help of plastic surgeons

American researchers found that the rat lungworm Angiostrongylus cantonensis has spread to five counties in Florida

The first case of a terrible tropical disease was recorded in Tatarstan. A resident of Kazan went to the hospital to undergo a routine medical examination, and the doctors found he had a rare disease. Writes about this kazanfirst.ru

This story is very similar to a horror movie. An unnamed 32-year-old Russian woman suddenly finds a strange lump under her eye

Rosemary Alvarez, an American from Arizona, recently came to the clinic with complaints of numbness in her arm and loss of vision. Prescribed magnetic resonance imaging reveals brain stem problems

An international group of scientists, including Russian specialists from the Far Eastern Federal University, found that a substance isolated from the Far Eastern sea cucumber (cucumaria) can kill tumor cells

In the Indian state of Gujarat, in January 2017, a girl with four legs was born. Two extra limbs grew from the bottom of her buttocks. The baby's parents were shocked and did not understand why this anomaly happened

In 1877, the Japanese Emperor Meiji witnessed his aunt, Princess Kazu, die of a widespread disease: kakke

Indian girl Varsha Sena was born with a third leg. The limb grew from her back in the lumbar region. Its anomaly is called polymelia (extra limbs) and is observed in about every millionth baby

Alana, 3, was very desirable. Her parents, Katherine and Mark Donlon, tried to have a child for four years, but when they finally succeeded, already at 20 weeks of pregnancy, doctors informed them of severe anomalies

Experts talked about the ailments that occur in one of millions of people and at first glance may seem fiction. Scientists named 5 rare unusual diseases that many do not even suspect

Cancer, which annually takes the lives of millions of people, originated at the same time as life on Earth, and therefore it will never be possible to completely destroy it, scientists warn

Scientists have announced a breakthrough in schizophrenia research: for the first time, a gene has been discovered that is uniquely associated with the development of this complex mental illness. The discovery is reported in the journal Nature

A child with one body and two heads was born in India. This is an extremely rare anomaly seen in the development of twins, known as dicephalic Parapagus. Often these children have one heart for two

An uncanny cloud of steam has caused illness in retirees at a commercial recreation center in Colorado. Local television station 9NEWS reports that half a dozen elderly people suddenly fell ill while standing at the entrance to a commercial recreation center

When a tourist came to one of the Bali hospitals with a strange red mark on his stomach, doctors decided that this was a symptom of an allergy. Later it turned out that the Aesculapians were very wrong

"What a strange baby?" Most people will say when they see pictures of Manpreet Singh, a resident of the Indian state of Punjab

A 13-year-old boy from India was born with a rare disease of hypertrichosis, from which his entire face is covered with thickly growing hair. The schoolboy is called a real werewolf and other nicknames for this

Doctors in Pakistan continue to study the phenomenon of two local residents - young brothers who completely lose their motor functions after sunset.In one Pakistani family, there are boys who are very different from their peers

In the course of numerous studies, scientists from the United States managed to develop a cure for Alzheimer's disease. It is called neurostatin. It is based on the substance bexarotene, which blocks an increase in a key protein in the human brain

35-year-old Indian Maksud Khan went to the Sanjay Gandhi hospital in Satna, Madhya Pradesh, with complaints of abdominal pain

22-year-old Sain Mumtaz from the outskirts of Lahore (Pakistan) is disfigured by Proteus syndrome. His head has grown enormously in height and width, while the disease continues to cause bone growth

59-year-old Thai resident Duangjay Samaksamam has the largest hands in the world. Their total weight is 94 kg. Alas, doctors offer her the only way out - amputation of limbs

If you suddenly become vigorous, active, cheerful, the world sparkled with bright colors, or you lost sensitivity to pain, this can be a very alarming symptom. Here are some very "pleasant" signs that may indicate serious illness

Thai researchers stunned everyone with frightening news that makes the hair on the head move: the world is rapidly spreading malaria, resistant to drugs. A mutating strain of this terrible disease has already reached Vietnam

AIDS, which used to be called the "plague of the 20th century," remains one of the most dangerous and little-studied diseases in the 21st century. That is, they study it a lot, but there are still not enough reliable facts about this disease

Thanks to the genomic editor CRISPR / Cas9, biologists have been able to find three genes by which HIV enters immune cells. These genes can be turned off without causing significant harm to human health

By 2015, the UN managed to provide treatment to 15 million people infected with HIV, which gives reason to hope for a complete victory over the global HIV epidemic by 2030, as UN Deputy Secretary General Michel Sidibé told reporters on the sidelines of the V International

Egyptian military doctors recently announced the completion of trials of drugs and equipment for the treatment of HIV and hepatitis C

In the US state of Mississippi, a unique case of complete recovery of a child born with the human immunodeficiency virus, which causes the disease - HIV infection, the last stage of which is known as acquired immunodeficiency syndrome

Doctors at the Cancer Center at Children's Hospital in Philadelphia (USA) have made a real breakthrough in medicine by learning how to treat cancer with HIV

The true cause of cancerous tumors is the overgrowth of the Candida fungus. This was suggested by the Italian doctor oncologist Tullio Simoncini and, naturally, he had problems, as he openly began to cure people quickly

For the first time, scientists have discovered an adult white killer whale in the wild. It is noteworthy that this happened in the territorial waters of Russia off the coast of Kamchatka. The white male was nicknamed Iceberg

I want to tell you about the case of a miraculous recovery, which I witnessed. It happened in one of the rural hospitals in Yakutia. In Chagda (Aldan district), the medical staff annually cleaned the territory of the hospital from chips

In human physiology, many congenital abnormalities can be observed. In our enlightened age, this no longer shocks anyone