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Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic inflammatory disease that affects the central nervous system (CNS). It causes inflammation that leads to small...
Lupus is a chronic autoimmune disease that affects five million people worldwide, the vast majority of whom are women. The immune system is designe...
Multiple myeloma is a type of cancer of the blood that affects the bone marrow. It is a relatively common disease as it represents 10–15% of all ha...
Pneumonia is a respiratory system disease that affects the lungs. The elderly and young children are the groups most at risk of developing pneumoni...
A pituitary tumour is a lesion located in the pituitary gland. The majority of pituitary tumours are pituitary adenomas (estimated at 95%) that ori...
A brain tumour or neoplasm is an uncontrolled growth of the brain cells. If these cells are identical to those which form normal brain tissue, then...
Pregnancy is the period running from the moment of fertilisation until the delivery. During this time, which tends to last 40–42 weeks, the expecta...
High blood pressure is probably the most prevalent condition worldwide and affects approximately a third of the population. It is the primary cardi...
A loss of consciousness occurs when not enough blood reaches the brain and corresponds to a loss of awareness of oneself and one’s surroundings. In...
Twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome is a specific disease unique to multiple pregnancies in which two or more foetuses share the same placenta. In th...
Fever is a high body temperature, usually defined as above 37.5 °C, but particularly when higher than 38 °C. It is normally caused by an infection....
A liver transplant, or hepatic transplant, involves replacing a diseased liver with a healthy portion or entire liver taken from a living or deceas...
Sexually transmitted infections are infections acquired while practicing unprotected sexual intercourse with an infected person. Some examples are...
Colon and rectal cancer is a type of tumour that appears in the large intestine. It is the third most frequent cancer in both sexes: after lung and...
Prematurity is when a child is born before the 37th week of gestation. Every year 15 million babies are born prematurely in the world. Of these, ma...
Endometriosis is one of the most common benign gynecological diseases and affects 10% of women of childbearing age. The tissue that forms the linin...
Asthma is a chronic inflammation that affects the airways, which decreases the flow of air that enters and leaves the lungs. Symptoms appear differ...