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One such hub of remarkable medical stories is the subreddit r/medizzy, where people alike share some of the most captivating cases. This community dives into rare conditions that baffle even ...
Emanuel Zayas, 14, suffered from a rare medical condition called polyostotic fibrous dysplasia, an illness which causes the body to replace portions of bones with soft tissue.
Jackie Galgey, 45, shares in a personal essay her experience with trigeminal neuralgia, also called the suicide disease, which caused her one-sided facial pain.
A 10-year-old Florida boy is beginning his path to recovery from a vascular condition so rare, the diagnosis doesn't even have a name. "I just usually had pain," John Kemp told WPTV. "We used to ...
A condition rarely diagnosed, Witzelsucht has been well documented in the recent era in at least two cases: Case #1: A 30-year-old, right-handed man was admitted to the department of neurology for irritability, inappropriate behavior, and morbid hyperphagia with obesity. His inappropriate laughter and persistent pun and joke telling was a sharp ...
Hyperthymesia, also known as hyperthymestic syndrome or highly superior autobiographical memory (HSAM), is a condition that leads people to be able to remember an abnormally large number of their life experiences in vivid detail.
Novemthree Siahaan (3 November 1998 – 14 September 2005) was an Indonesian boy who had the rare condition gigantiform cementoma. According to the Financial Times, he had "the largest recorded facial tumour". [1] The story of his life garnered much media attention when he was taken to Taiwan for treatment.
A man in western India reportedly sleeps 20 to 25 days per month, or 300 days per year, because of a rare medical condition called axis hypersomnia.