Showing posts with label A to Z Diseases. Show all posts
Showing posts with label A to Z Diseases. Show all posts

Blood Disorders

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Blood has been keeping the history by inheriting the masculine traits from generation to generations. However every man dose not make the history, he might be inheriting something that may end the future of his generations. Blood disorders are commonly inherited diseases. This inheritance may not make you siblings be proud of you.

Osteoporosis Disease

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Osteoporosis is a very common problem which usually occurs in a large number of people. It signifies excessive weakening of bones of an individual. People who suffer from osteoporosis are more likely to get their bones fractured. Women are more likely to suffer from this disease. Osteoporosis should not be neglected. It should be treated with the help of medication.

Coronary Artery

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Coronary artery disease signifies the contraction of arteries as a result of atherosclerosis. Due to the contraction of arteries, enough oxygen does not reach up to the heart muscles. When sufficient amount of oxygen is not received by the heart then it leads to pain in chest. This condition is named as Angina. The occurrence of heart attack is usual in case an artery is blocked completely.

Types of Bipolar Diseases

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Bipolar disorder is also called bipolar mood disorder, manic-depressive illness, manic depression, bipolar affective disorder and manic-depressive disorder. People with the disorder experience unusual shifting of energy, mood, behavior and the ability to function normally. These mood swings are from high periods of mania to low episodes of depression. The disorder can be either mild or severe and the mood swings can be frequent or infrequent. Depending on the symptoms manifested by the person affected, the disorders can be

Different Types of Heart Disease

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Heart disease is a huge term that can describe many different conditions. All of these conditions have some effect on the heart or the blood vessels that supply the heart. It’s certainly possible to have several types of heart disease at the same time, which can make it difficult to think of these numerous diseases as separate. The fact that the heart is part of the circulatory system means that disease in one part of the system will have an affect on how all parts work.

Treatment for depression

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Depression, for the purposes of this article, refers to the mental disorder known as major depressive disorder. This kind of depression is a recognised clinical condition and is becoming a common condition in developed countries, where up to 20% of the population is affected by this disorder at some stage of their lives.[1] Patients are usually assessed and managed as outpatients, and only admitted to an inpatient mental health unit if they are considered to pose a risk to themselves or others.

Personality Disorder

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Personality disorder is a general term for a type of mental illness in which your ways of thinking, perceiving situations and relating to others are dysfunctional. There are many specific types of personality disorders.
In general, having a personality disorder means you have a rigid and potentially self-destructive or self-denigrating pattern of thinking and behaving no matter what the situation.

Different Types of Mesothelioma

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A disease that has only started to come to light in recent years, mesothelioma is a cancer that normally presents itself in malignant form and results in tumours in and around vital organs of the body. The definition of the word mesothelioma is literally cancer of the mesothelium (-oma being a medical term for cancer).

Brain hemorrhage

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 Cerebral hemorrhage

A cerebral hemorrhage (or intracerebral hemorrhage, ICH), is a subtype of intracranial hemorrhage that occurs within the brain tissue itself. Intracerebral hemorrhage can be caused by brain trauma, or it can occur spontaneously in hemorrhagic stroke. Non-traumatic intracerebral hemorrhage is a spontaneous bleeding into the brain tissue.[1] A cerebral hemorrhage is an intra-axial hemorrhage; that is, it occurs within the brain tissue rather than outside of it. The other category of intracranial hemorrhage is extra-axial hemorrhage,

Kidney diseases

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Polycystic kidney disease

Polycystic kidney disease is a condition where cysts (cavities) form in the kidney. Some of the cysts do not cause any progressive kidney failure. Other cysts are of the inherited type, which may enlarge and slowly crowd out the normal kidney. Eventually, after a long period of time, the patient may need artificial kidney treatment or transplantation. Symptoms of this disease range from no symptoms at all to blood appearing in the urine.

Hepatitis C

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Hepatitis C is an infectious disease affecting the liver, caused by the hepatitis C virus (HCV).[1] The infection is often asymptomatic, but once established, chronic infection can progress to scarring of the liver (fibrosis), and advanced scarring (cirrhosis) which is generally apparent after many years.

Heart Attack



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Definition

A heart attack usually occurs when a blood clot blocks the flow of blood through a coronary artery — a blood vessel that feeds blood to a part of the heart muscle. Interrupted blood flow to your heart can damage or destroy a part of the heart muscle.

Fever

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A fever isn't an illness itself, but it's usually a sign that something out of the ordinary is going on in your body. Fevers aren't necessarily bad. In fact, fevers seem to play a key role in helping your body fight off a number of infections.

About Diseases






















Curing attitudes of stigmatization,
A disease is an illness that affects the body (a single area or the whole system) and/or mind within a single organism (World Health Organization). Basically when a person is in a diseased state, they are no longer classified by modern and traditional medical diagnosis as “healthy”. Some examples of common diseases worldwide are: Influenza A virus, Asthma, HIV/AIDS, HPV, Malaria,

Brain tumor














A brain tumor is an abnormal growth of cells within the brain or inside the skull, which can be cancerous or non-cancerous.
It is defined as any intracranial tumor created by abnormal and uncontrolled cell division, normally either in the brain itself (neurons, glial cells (astrocytes, oligodendrocytes, ependymal cells), lymphatic tissue,

Asthma

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Asthma is a chronic disease of the lungs. In New York State (NYS), more than 1.1 million adults have asthma 1. Asthma occurs at any age but is more common in children than adults. Nationally, nearly one in 13 school-age children have asthma, and that rate is rising more rapidly in preschool-aged children and those living in urban inner cities than in any other group.

Arthritis

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The New York State Arthritis Program was created to help New Yorkers learn how to better manage their disease. The program has partnered with a variety of organizations to better inform the public about arthritis and how to live with the disease more effectively and comfortably.

Cancer

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Definition

Cancer refers to any one of a large number of diseases characterized by the development of abnormal cells that divide uncontrollably and have the ability to infiltrate and destroy normal body tissue. Cancer also has the ability to spread throughout your body.

Cervical Cancer

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This topic talks about the testing, diagnosis, and treatment of cervical cancer. For general information about abnormal Pap test results, see the topic Abnormal Pap Test.

What is cervical cancer?
Cervical cancer occurs when abnormal cells on the cervixgrow out of control. The cervix is the lower part of the uterus that opens into the vagina.