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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Kawasaki disease is acute inflammation of the walls of the small and medium arteries, and it starts in childhood, most often under the age of five.
A keloid is a scar that grows more than it should and extends beyond the boundaries of the original wound.
Keratosis pilaris is the small rough bumps that give the skin a sandpaper feel or a permanent goose-pimple look.
The kidneys sit deep inside the body, one on each side of the spine beneath the lower ribs, and a tumour there can grow for a long time in silence: there is…
A kidney infection, or pyelonephritis, is an inflammation that began not in the bladder but higher up, in the kidney itself.
A kidney stone is a hard lump of crystals that grows in urine the way salt drops out of a saturated solution.
Klinefelter syndrome means one extra X chromosome in a boy: instead of the usual XY the make-up is XXY.
Knock knees, or genu valgum, describes the position in which the knees come together while the ankles stay apart with a gap between them.
A tooth that comes right out of its socket after a blow or a fall is one of the few dental emergencies where the clock really matters.
Kyphosis is the backward curve of the spine in the chest region — the one that makes the upper back look rounded.
