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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Cellulitis is a bacterial infection of the skin and the tissue beneath it. It is worth saying at the outset, because the confusion is constant: it has…
Cerebral palsy is not one disease but a shared name for disorders of movement and posture caused by damage to an immature brain: before birth, during birth or…
The cervix is the short, firm canal between the vagina and the cavity of the womb. A tumour here almost never appears out of nowhere: a virus spends years…
Cervical spondylosis is the name given to age-related wear in the upper spine: the discs between the vertebrae lose water and flatten, small spurs of bone…
This is not one disease but a whole family of inherited conditions in which the peripheral nerves gradually fail — the nerves that carry instructions from the…
Someone whose sight has failed badly suddenly starts seeing things that are not there: a pattern on a blank wall, a branch stretching across the living room…
Most people meet this diagnosis not in a neurologist's room but in a scan report: an MRI was done for headaches or after a knock on the head, and the report…
Chickenpox is remembered as a week of itching in childhood, and most of the time that is exactly what it is: in a small child the illness sorts itself out…
Chilblains are a reaction of the small blood vessels of the skin to cold, damp conditions.
The word cataract is filed away under old age, yet the lens can turn cloudy in a newborn. The difference lies not in the cloudiness but in the timing.
