Disease

Disease
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impairment of the normal state or functioning of the body as a whole or of any of its parts. Some diseases are acute, producing severe symptoms that terminate after a short time, e.g.
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Disease, Jakob-Creutzfeldt: A transmissible degenerative brain disorder technically termed spongiform encephalopathy. Eating "mad cow" meat or squirrel brain can lead to Jakob-Creutzfeldt-like disease. Better known as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD).
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Diseases & Conditions A-Z
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Pets and Heart Disease: Expert Patient Deanne Stein on her dog, Rocky's, stroke.
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Disease develops when a combination of fatty material, calcium, and scar tissue (plaque) builds up in the arteries that supply the heart with blood.
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Fifth disease is caused by the human parvovirus. It is most prevalent in the winter and spring and is usually seen in children 5 to 14 years of age. Outbreaks of the disease frequently occur in school settings.
What are the symptoms of fifth disease?
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Celiac Disease (CD)
Celiac Sprue, Coeliac Disease, Gluten Enteropathy, Gluten Intolerance, Gluten Intolerant Enteropathy, Gluten Sensitive Enteropathy, Nontropical Sprue, Wheat Allergy ...
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Kidney Disease in Children is a series of fact sheets developed by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), National Institutes of Health.
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About Buerger disease
Also known as thromboangiitis obliterans, Buerger disease is a rare type of peripheral vascular disease that involves inflammation of the smaller arteries in the extremities (vasculitis).
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Winter vomiting disease is caused by an infection of the Small Round Structured Virus (SRSV). This is also known as Norwalk-like virus.
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What causes it?
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Diseases & Conditions
Acute Mitral Incompetence (Mitral Regurgitation, Acute)
Acute Mitral Insufficiency (Mitral Regurgitation, Acute)
Angina Pectoris (Stable Angina)
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Diseases & Conditions Index
Comprehensive and reliable medical information on more than 1600 diseases, conditions, illnesses, and disorders. Find your topic by using the A-Z listing or the search function.
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Rh Disease (Hemolytic Disease of the Newborn)
When foreign cells enter the body, an immune response is triggered, and the body produces antibodies targeted specifically against proteins on the foreign cells.
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Gum disease (periodontal disease) is an inflammation in the gums, bone, and tissues that surround and support the teeth. Gum disease is most likely to affect adults over 30, although anyone is at risk.
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The disease is a reality. Because of the cost to the public health care system, it costs the taxpayer money whether the person has the disease or not.
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The disease often begins as a rash. If you don't get treatment, the infection can cause serious nerve or heart problems as well as a disabling type of arthritis (pain and swelling in one or more joints caused by inflammation).
How does it occur?
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Gum disease treatment aims to remove plaque and make it as difficult as possible for it to reform. With mild gum disease, more careful brushing and flossing may cure the problem without need for further treatment.
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The disease is transmitted through the discharge produced by both men and women. If one spouse is treated for this, the other one must be also.
To delay treatment is to intensify the effects of the disease.
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The disease is fatal, with the majority of deaths occurring within 3 to 12 months of illness.
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Lyme Disease
What Is Lyme Disease? (Other Names: Lyme arthritis, Tick-borne Borreliosis)
Lyme disease, caused by the bite of a deer tick, is an illness that can affect many systems in the body.
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Lyme disease, which is also called Lyme borreliosis, is a vector-borne disease. This term means that it is delivered from one host to another.
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DISK DISEASE - A condition that results in the abnormal protrusion (bulging), herniation, or prolapse of a vertebral disc from it's normal position in the vertebral column.
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Lyme disease is a progressive, systemic illness that is caused by bacteria (Borrelia burgdorferi) and is usually transmitted by the bite of an infected deer tick. Infection may result in flu-like symptoms (e.g.
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This disease is not diagnosed by a single blood test. Instead the doctor must rely on observation and physical examination. The first thing he or she looks for is a high, spiking fever.
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This disease is probably caused by microtrauma (small, usually unnoticed injuries caused by repetitive overuse) that occurs before the complete maturity of the anterior tibial tubercle attachment.
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idney disease is a major health problem in this country, afflicting some eight million Americans.
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Gaucher disease, type 1: The most common and best known form of Gaucher disease. It affects the spleen, liver, and bone marrow and spares the brain.
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Von Gierke disease is a group of inherited metabolic disorders that involve increased glycogen storage. Since glycogen is needed to fuel muscles, problems with its metabolism can affect the whole body.
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Huntingdon's Disease
What is Huntingdon Disease?
Huntingdon's Disease is an hereditary, progressive, degenerative neurological disorder causing a complex mixture of physical, cognitive and mental health problems resulting in profound disability.
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1. Alzheimer's disease is the same as dementia and is a natural part of the aging process.
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2. How many people in the United States are thought to suffer from Alzheimer's disease?
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DISEASES (NIAID): An NIH institute that conducts and supports research to study the causes of allergic, immunologic, and infectious diseases, and to develop better means of preventing, diagnosing, and treating illnesses.
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Diseases or problems with any of the organs that lie inside the abdominal cavity can lead to pain as well as other symptoms like change in bowel habits, nausea, or vomiting.
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Disease of the kidneys. Swelling or breakdown of the kidney.
nephrosis
A disease of the kidney that causes malfunction but no inflammation. Also called nephrotic syndrome.
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Diseases of the heart and blood vessels.
Cardiovascular system
Body system composed of the heart and blood vessels responsible for circulating blood throughout the body.
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Disease that cannot be cured and will cause death.
testicle (TES-tih-kul)
One of two egg-shaped glands found inside the scrotum that produce sperm and male hormones. Also called a testis.
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A disease that mostly affects mouthbrooding cichlids from the East African Rift Valley, but not exclusively.
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Heart Disease is the #1 killer of adults in the United States. .
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Crohn disease:
Indication: short-term use in the treatment of moderately to severely active Crohn disease to reduce signs and symptoms in patients who have an inadequate response to conventional therapy and the treatment of patients with fistulizing ...
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Crohn's disease is an inflammatory disease of the digestive tract, and is more common than previously thought. This article looks at the symptoms, tests and possible treatments for the condition.
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WILSON'S DISEASE - A genetic disorder leading to increased retention of copper in the liver resulting in chronic hepatitis and cirrhosis. If untreated, liver failure may occur.
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Infectious diseases - Microbiology
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Evasion of host immune recognition plays a key role in the establishment of systemic viral infection.
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Cancer A group of diseases in which malignant cells grow out of control and spread to other parts of the body. Cancer in situ The stage where the cancer is still confined to the tissue in which it started. Candidiasis A common fungal infection.
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Research Interest: Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder paralleled by selective neuronal death, which is probably caused by the deposition and neurotoxicity of the amyloid -peptide (A).
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The Centers for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC) recommends the evaluation and treatment of women at high risk for adverse pregnancy outcome in early second trimester, and the treatment of low risk women for symptomatic infection.
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By a carefully planned, routine examination, one can recognize both normal and diseased states.
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But very young babies and children with heart or lung disease and weak immune systems are at increased risk of developing severe infections and complications.
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Acne: An inflammatory skin disease that effects the tiny pores thats cover the face, arms, back and chest as well as the oil glands attached to them.
Acrylic: It has moisture barrier as well as waterproofing, water repelling properties.
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A major study conducted by the Cornell-China-Oxford Project that surveyed more than 10,000 families in mainland China and Taiwan found that they have a significantly lower incidence of certain cancers, heart disease, obesity, ...
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As a consumer of hormone replacement therapy (HRT), I was, as many others were, perplexed by the information recently released stating that HRT can increase the risk of heart disease, ...
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Now he is breaking new ground at the interface of biology and engineering, creating microelectromechanical devices to build hand-held diagnostic tools and to enhance the identification of human disease genes.
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