Rare Genetic Condition Makes 10-Year-Old Boy Feel Constantly Hungry
David, a 10-year-old boy from Singapore, was diagnosed with Prader-Willi Syndrome, a complex genetic condition that makes him feel hungry no matter how much he eats. Imagine filling your stomach with copious amounts of nutritious food and never actually experiencing that sensation of fullness that we know as ‘satiety’. That is what David Soo, a […]
Woman with Two Skin Tones, Two Immune Systems Is a Living, Breathing Medical Oddity
Taylor Muhl, a model and singer from California, often says that she is her own twin, and as strange as that sounds, she means it quite literally. The 33-year-old was diagnosed with genetic Chimerism, an extremely rare condition explained as “an organism composed of cells from different zygotes”. As a child, Taylor was obsessed with twins, constantly […]
Rare Condition Causes Woman to Smell Like Rotten Fish
For 14 years, company director Ellie James has been receiving the same Secret Santa presents at Christmas – bottles of perfume and bars of soap. And when she opens them, she is met with roaring laughter from her colleagues. The presents are mortifying, they break her heart every time because they are a subtle reminder […]
Rare Brain Disease Makes Woman Fearless
Haunted houses, cockroaches or any kind of bugs for that matter, snakes, you name it, there’s nothing in this world that will freak this woman out. I can’t even imagine what it would be like to never experience fear, but there is someone out there who really is fearless, due to a rare disorder, called […]