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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The large bowel is the last stretch of the digestive tract: the colon, where water is drawn back out of the food mush, and the rectum, where stool is formed…
Bowel incontinence means losing control over emptying the bowel: the contents arrive before you can reach a toilet, or leak out without you noticing at all.
A bowel polyp is a growth on the lining of the large bowel or the rectum. It is a very common finding: after the age of fifty, at least one polyp turns up in…
Bowen's disease is the earliest stage of squamous cell skin cancer. The altered cells are already there, but they remain confined to the surface layer of the…
A brain abscess is a walled-off pocket of pus inside brain tissue. The microbes reach it from a nearby focus in the skull, arrive through the bloodstream, or…
An aneurysm is a bulge on the wall of an artery in the brain, shaped rather like a berry on a thin stalk. The wall there is weaker and thinner than normal.
Brain death is the state in which the brain, brainstem included, has irreversibly stopped working, while breathing and circulation are kept going by machines…
A brain tumour is a mass of cells growing where there is no spare room. The skull does not stretch, so even a small, slow-growing mass can seriously disturb…
A breast abscess is a pocket of pus inside the breast, walled off from the surrounding tissue.
Everyone has breast tissue, whatever their sex: in men there is only a little of it, it sits under the nipple and never develops beyond a rudimentary state.
