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Hyperthyroidism is a condition that occurs when the thyroid gland is overactive, in other words, it secretes too much thyroid hormone.
Hypothyroidism is a disease caused by a decrease in the normal function (hypofunction) of the thyroid gland. This means that the thyroid gland is n...
Radiotherapy is a medical oncology treatment that uses high-energy ionizing radiation to eliminate tumor cells or slow their growth. It is a key t...
Sexual violence is any behaviour considered of a sexual nature that is carried out without the other person’s consent. It includes conduct such as...
Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) is a disease that encompasses a wide range of physical, mental, behavioural and cognitive abnormalities tha...
Bronchiolitis is a respiratory infection that affects suckling infants. It mainly occurs in the small airways, particularly in the bronchioles. It...
Aortic stenosis is a disease that occurs due to narrowing of the aortic valve, one of the four valves that control blood flow in the heart, which m...
Frontotemporal dementia is a group of neurodegenerative diseases that cause a progressive loss of neurons in the nervous system. In frontotemporal...
When a person has hereditary cancer, it means that they have a genetic alteration (mutation) in all their cells, which predisposes them to developi...
Cholangiocarcinoma is a heterogeneous group of tumours derived from bile duct cells. These ducts are little tubes that bring bile out of the liver...
Chemotherapy is one of the many treatments available for cancer. Its main feature is that it is a systemic treatment; that is, it reaches all parts...
Pulmonary hypertension is the abnormal increase in blood pressure in the pulmonary arteries. This increase in pressure can be produced by various...
Endocarditis is a type of inflammation that affects the inner layer of the heart chambers, known as the endocardium, and the heart valves. The m...
Gastroscopy is a technique that allows the upper digestive tract to be viewed directly. This part of the digestive tract runs from the mouth to the...
As the name implies, sex (or gender) reassignment surgery encompasses all those surgical procedures that are performed with the aim of making a tra...
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is a prion disease or a transmissible spongiform encephalopathies. They are a group of rare neurodegenerative diseases. O...
Vaccines are biological products. In other words, they contain viruses, bacteria or parts thereof. They are administered in order to prevent infect...
A hysterectomy is a surgical procedure to remove the uterus. In most cases, the uterus (body and cervix) is completely removed; this is called a t...
A gynaecological ultrasound is a diagnostic test used to view the pelvic organs (uterus or womb, ovaries, bladder and rectum or final portion of th...
The kidneys are the two organs responsible for filtering toxic substances from the blood and eliminating them in the urine. In these organs, tumour...