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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Giant cell arteritis is inflammation of the wall of large and medium-sized arteries, most often the ones that run under the skin of the temples.
Giardia is a single-celled parasite that settles in the small bowel and stops it absorbing fats and sugars properly.
This is the commonest inherited quirk of metabolism and probably the most harmless: roughly one person in twenty has it, it is picked up more often in men…
Glandular fever, known in medical notes as infectious mononucleosis, is put together in a misleading way.
Glaucoma is the slow loss of the optic nerve, the cable that carries the picture from the eye to the brain.
Glomerulonephritis is damage to the kidney's filters, the microscopic tufts of vessels through which blood is cleaned.
Behind the eardrum sits a small cavity that should contain nothing but air. Sometimes it fills with a thick clear fluid: the eardrum can no longer vibrate…
A goitre is an enlargement of the thyroid gland, the small butterfly-shaped organ at the front of the neck.
Gonorrhoea is a bacterial infection of the mucous membranes that is passed on during sex. It settles in the urethra and the neck of the womb, in the rectum…
Gout begins abruptly and nearly always at night: you wake to pain in the joint at the base of the big toe, which within a few hours has turned hot, purple and…
