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 retina is the one place in the body where blood vessels can be seen from outside, simply by looking into the eye.
Sex is built up in layers: the set of chromosomes, the way the gonads are arranged, the internal organs, the outward shape of the body, and how the tissues…
This is a condition present from birth in which a small piece of DNA is missing from chromosome 22.
Diphtheria is a contagious bacterial infection that mainly attacks the throat and nose and sometimes the skin.
The name comes from the Latin nummus, a coin: the patches come out round or oval, with a sharply drawn edge, as though they had been traced round a rim.
The kneecap, or patella, runs up and down a groove at the end of the thigh bone rather like a slider along its rail.
The shoulder joint pays for its range of movement with stability. The head of the upper arm bone is round and large, while the socket on the shoulder blade…
With the years the wall of the large bowel stops being a smooth tube: small pouches the size of a pea push outwards from it, and those are diverticula.
Every human cell holds forty-six chromosomes. In Down's syndrome chromosome twenty-one comes in three copies instead of two, and that extra genetic material…
Under the skin of the palm lies a firm sheet of connective tissue called the palmar fascia.
