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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A tooth breaks at the worst possible moment: on an olive stone, on a boiled sweet, on the arm of a pair of glasses, in a fall off a bike.
Chlamydia is the most common sexually transmitted infection and also the quietest one. Most infected people have no discharge, no pain and not the faintest…
Cholera is a gut infection that drains fluid faster than any other cause of diarrhoea. The bacterium behind it, Vibrio cholerae, settles in the small…
A cholesteatoma is a build-up of skin in a place where skin has no business being: behind the eardrum, in the middle ear and the mastoid bone.
Chronic kidney disease, or CKD, means a lasting fall in how well the kidneys work — going on for more than three months — or proven damage to kidney tissue.
Chronic lymphocytic leukaemia is a cancer of the blood in which mature-looking but useless B lymphocytes pile up in the bone marrow, the blood and the lymph…
This illness usually starts not with a complaint but with a line on a routine blood test: the white cell count comes back several times higher than it should…
This illness has no day on which it began. Someone smokes for two or three decades, then notices they climb the stairs more slowly and blames it on age and…
The pancreas is a small organ sitting behind the stomach, and it holds down two jobs that look incompatible at first glance: it makes a juice full of enzymes…
Chronic traumatic encephalopathy is progressive brain damage linked to repeated blows to the head over many years.
