Conditions
Common conditions
Asthma
Asthma is a common condition that affects breathing. With appropriate treatment, symptoms can usually be well controlled.
Lipedema
Lipedema is a chronic condition causing abnormal fat accumulation, mainly in the legs. It can lead to pain and easy bruising.
Psoriasis
Psoriasis is a skin condition that causes red patches and scaling. Treatments help manage symptoms.
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Long-sightedness is a way the eye can be built: distance is clearer than close up. It also goes by the names hypermetropia and hyperopia.
A reading below 90/60 mmHg is conventionally called low blood pressure. Unlike high pressure, though, low pressure is not in itself a disease: a great many…
Hypoglycaemia means blood glucose has dropped below 4 mmol/L. Nearly always it happens to people treating diabetes with insulin or with tablets that push the…
A low sperm count is a common reason for difficulty conceiving. It does not mean infertility: many men with reduced counts become fathers, including without…
White blood cells are the cells that recognise microbes and destroy them. When they are scarce, infections take hold more easily, run a rougher course and…
This is the name for infections of the airways and the lungs, the thing usually called a chest infection.
Lung cancer is one of the commonest malignant tumours and the leading cause of cancer death worldwide.
When people say lupus they nearly always mean systemic lupus erythematosus, a disease in which the body's defence system stops telling its own tissues from…
Lyme disease is an infection caused by bacteria of the Borrelia group and carried by ticks of the Ixodes group. It does not pass from person to person.
Lymphoedema is persistent swelling that appears when the lymphatic system can no longer keep up with draining fluid away from the tissues.
