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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Heart failure is the state in which the heart stops pumping as much blood as the body needs.
The heart runs on wiring of its own: it sets the rate and keeps the upper and lower chambers contracting in turn.
There are four valves inside the heart, and every one of them works like a one-way door: it opens, lets blood through and shuts tight so that none comes back.
The burning behind the breastbone that climbs towards the throat and leaves a sour taste in the mouth is familiar to almost everyone: a heavy supper, you lie…
The body cools itself in two ways: by sending blood to the skin and by evaporating sweat. In hot weather both mechanisms run at full stretch, and sooner or…
Heat rash appears when the ducts of the sweat glands become blocked and sweat cannot reach the surface of the skin.
How much blood is lost in a period is something a woman has nothing to compare with: nobody has seen anyone else's, so her own seems ordinary.
It nearly always starts the same way: within a few hours, dark red dots and blotches come up on the shins and buttocks, looking like small bruises or insect…
Hepatitis is not one illness but a general word for inflammation of the liver. The causes differ: five viruses named after letters, alcohol, medicines and…
Hepatitis A has a worse name than it deserves. It is inflammation of the liver caused by a virus that travels on unwashed hands, in water and in food.
