A 'genetic breakthrough' promises an effective treatment for Alzheimer's

A team from Cardiff University has identified 92 genes that significantly increase the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease, whereas only three genes were known when their research began in 2009, which means there is an exponential increase in information about the disease.

Professor Julie Williams, director of the Cardiff Dementia Centre, said: "By 2040 I think we will be in a position to offer a range of treatments, and we may not know the exact cause, but one of them will be able to deal with a wide range of causes."

Gene therapy and improved understanding from international studies contribute to increasing expert knowledge of amnesia, which is the most common type of dementia, and is known to have no effective drug or treatment or to slow its symptoms.

Professor Williams, who was awarded a CBE for her work, explained: "Once you know where to start looking, you can study the effects that genes have on certain brain activity."

"Things are accelerating and getting better all the time," said Williams, who has studied Alzheimer's disease for 30 years. "I've learned more in the last seven years than I've learned in the last 20 years."

Tests that cost millions in the 1990s can be done for about £30. A breakthrough in the research means that experts have discovered that microglia mistakenly kill off healthy brain cells, including synapses.

Synapses are connections between nerve cells, and if they are unnecessarily discarded, they can cause a person to lose the connections that generate thought and memories.

But Professor Williams told the BBC that having studied thousands of cases, she realized there would not be a single weapon. Instead, the disease should be considered more like a heart disease where many factors contribute, and many treatments will help delay and prevent it.

Some of the drugs have already been licensed for use in other Alzheimer's conditions and could be used within five years. Source: Daily Mail

Military doctors save a Russian soldier by extracting a bullet from his heart

Doctors at the Vishnevsky Central Military Clinical Hospital performed a unique operation to extract a bullet from the heart of a soldier who performed his combat duties in the area of ​​the special military operation.

This was stated by a spokesman for the Russian Ministry of Defense, who said that the complex surgery was carried out under the supervision of the head of the Cardiac Surgery Center at the Military Hospital, Alexander Leschuk.

The complexity of the operation was that the bullet was stuck in the soldier's heart.

Alexander Leschuk said: “The patient was taken to us from the anterior border directly, and on the same day we did all the necessary medical research and examinations and immediately brought him to the operating table. We discovered a bullet, affixed to the left ventricle and pericardium, which ruptured part of the left ventricle.” The bullet passed through the left lung, next to large vessels, but did not hit it, so the result was good. The patient survived, and of course he will return now, after extracting this intrusive body, to carry out his duties.

A spokesman for the Ministry of Defense indicated that the surgery was performed in the unique (multidisciplinary) hybrid operating room that was established in the "Vishnevsky" Central Military Hospital only. The operating room is equipped with all the necessary modern medical equipment and devices, where doctors can perform several surgical interventions of varying complexity at one time, and most importantly, doctors from different specialties participate in it.

The surgeon explained: “The sergeant was in the front line where he came under fire, and when he raised his left arm, the sniper shot him in the left half of the chest and hit him between the tissues of the body armor. We moved him to the hybrid operating room, because there it is easy to detect all of the small fragments.” And large foreign bodies. The work of the heart has been restored, and tomorrow the patient will find himself able to walk."

The head of the Cardiac Surgery Center also said: “Military doctors working on the front lines have already carried out more than 100 such operations to extract bullets and shrapnel from the heart. These are shrapnel, gunshot wounds, vicious heart lacerations and lacerations inside the heart.

And we all have enough time to save the soldiers, because our military medical service is able to quickly transport patients from the front lines.

It is noteworthy that the Cardiac Surgery Center in the "Vishnevsky" military hospital conducts up to 5000 complex operations every year, including 1500 open-heart operations, where doctors constantly save the lives of Russian soldiers. Source: Novosti

A rare medical condition in Jordan, A tumor in a man that secretes pregnancy hormone

In a rare medical case that was registered in Jordan, medical examinations for pregnancy showed a positive result for a man in his forties.

"The pregnancy test was positive for a 42-year-old man," said Dr. Hossam Abu Farsakh, a consultant histopathologist, on his Facebook page.

He added, "The pregnancy examination was positive as a result of the secretion of the pregnancy hormone from a tumor in the pancreas spreading to the liver."

Dr. Abu Farsakh confirmed that "this man's case represents a rare medical condition of tumors and has its own treatment." Source: RT

Egypt The reaction of a woman who committed a crime that shook public opinion after the decision to refer her papers to the Grand Mufti

Yesterday, Monday, the Kafr El-Sheikh Criminal Court witnessed a hysterical state of crying and screaming, after the accused and her lover heard the court's decision to refer the papers of their case file to the Mufti.

“I did what..I didn’t do anything.” This was the scream of the accused of premeditatedly killing her husband after hearing the court’s decision, while she continued to utter incomprehensible words in a state of crying, and she was subjected to a state of fainting, and she was dealt with by the policemen assigned to guard her.

On the other hand, the first defendant in the case, the housewife's lover, remained "silent" inside the dock, placing his hands on his head in a state of shock following the court's decision.

(Naira J.M.), 33 years old, a housewife, who resides in the village of Al-Tawahniyah in the Kafr El-Sheikh center, accused of killing her husband on the grounds of an illegal relationship between her and (Alaa A.A.), 30 years old, Naqqash, who lives in the village of Mit Al-Diba, affiliated with the Qalain Center, made detailed confessions about the crime, during her interrogation by the investigation authorities.

Naira said during her interrogation that her husband, the victim, was a "monster" against her and was stingy with her, and that she always complained about him to her lover, before she agreed with him to kill him and get rid of him because he "troubled" her, according to her description.

In order for the air to clear and lead each other to the other, they agreed to get rid of it in any way until she once agreed with her lover to bring poison after passing through a number of shops in Kafr El-Sheikh in order to bring poison.

And the wife continued, that her lover found a kind of poison and assured her that she should put it in her husband's tea while he drank it for more than a day, assuring her that if she did that, he would die alone.

And she continued: Indeed, I did this and put poison on the tea twice to the extent that he felt, and he said to her: This tea does not taste like a monster, so why does it pick up something?

And the wife continued in her confessions that after he discovered the change in the taste of the tea, she stopped putting the poison.

The wife added that she agreed with Aladdin, her lover, to kill him and think together, and on the day of the crime she called her lover, and assured him that her husband was sick, saying: I told him Hosni Dabeh today and he will distribute meat and he will be tired and unable and will not be able to resist you sincerely, call him and say that you want In a journey and then take him on an empty road and his death.

And Naira continued: I bought a knife from the Thursday market in Kafr El-Sheikh, and my lover, Alaa El-Deem, told me that he would finish it and talk to her, and she actually phoned her husband while she was with him at home, and said to him: Let's go for a walk and I will give you the money you want and then her husband went to him, and after that her lover called her from Her husband's phone, and he said to her: Oh Naira, it's over, I killed him, Naira, oh Naira, keep in mind, don't confess to me, and it's forbidden to call me at all these coming days, and then I knew that my husband was killed and dead, and I preferred to pretend that I didn't know anything and cried, and then the police came and took me from the front of the house And that's all that happened. Source: Masrawy + Cairo 24