Conditions

Cradle cap is the yellowish, greasy scale that forms on a baby's scalp in the first months of life.

A newborn's skull is not a single rigid box. It is several bones joined by flexible seams called sutures.

This is an extremely rare brain disease: worldwide it is diagnosed in roughly one or two people per million each year.

This is a long-term inflammation that the immune system, for reasons nobody has pinned down, aims at a person's own bowel.

Croup is swelling of the airway just below the vocal cords. It gives a child a harsh barking cough and a noisy intake of breath, and gives parents the…

Cushing's syndrome is the condition caused by a prolonged excess of cortisol in the body. Most often that excess comes from outside, in the form of…

Almost any everyday wound can be seen through at home: stop the bleeding, wash it, cover it, and within a few days it starts to close.

This is an uncommon condition in which nausea and vomiting arrive in episodes: for several hours or several days a person is genuinely ill, then it stops…

Cyclospora is a single-celled parasite that reaches people through water and raw greens and causes a long-running watery diarrhoea.

Cystic fibrosis is a condition people are born with, in which every fluid the body makes comes out too thick.