Conditions

Rabies has a feature that sets it apart from other infections: while there are no symptoms it can be prevented with almost complete reliability, and once…

In the cold the fingers turn white and go numb, then turn blue, and as they warm up they flush red, tingle and hurt.

Millions of people colour their hair for years without the slightest trouble. In some, though, dye eventually provokes a reaction: from mild itching of the…

Reactive arthritis is joint inflammation that begins a few weeks after a gut or genitourinary infection.

Almost every baby brings milk back up, and almost always it means nothing at all. A newborn's stomach is tiny, the food is entirely liquid, feeds are…

RSI is not a diagnosis but a collective name for pain that comes on from monotonous work with the hands: at a keyboard, behind a counter, with a tool, with…

RSV is one of the most ordinary winter viruses, and almost every child has had it by the age of two.

The name covers every infection of the organs we breathe with: the nose and sinuses, the throat and voice box, the airways and the lungs.

In the evening, once you finally sit down or lie down, something hard to describe starts up in the legs — not quite pain, more a heavy stirring deep inside…

Being short is not, in itself, an illness. It is a feature of the body that people live with, work with, drive with, raise children with and grow old with…