Inflammatory bowel disease is a chronic condition of unknown origin characterized by severe inflammation and mucosal destruction in the intestine. There are two main forms: Crohn s disease ...

Alzheimer's disease is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that impairs memory and cognitive judgment and is often accompanied by mood swings, disorientation and eventually delirium.

Certain foods can be bad for your health if you have kidney disease. Avoiding or limiting foods high in sodium, potassium, and phosphorus when you have kidney disease can help slow or stop disease ...

A major health alert has been issued for anyone who has visited a major city in the last 10 days after several cases of a potentially life-threatening disease were confirmed. Over the past three ...

Source: AAP / Dean Lewins Six people have been hospitalised as hundreds of thousands are warned to monitor for symptoms after a Legionnaires' disease outbreak in Sydney's busy city centre.

Itchy skin, or pruritus, can be a symptom of liver disease. However, not everyone with liver disease experiences itching, and the specific causes of this itching are unknown. Treatment for itching ...

Case 7 recovered from diffuse disease but was left with a moderate ... including farmer's lung, Wegener's granulomatosis, chondromalacia and giant-cell arteritis. 3 In the context of differential ...

Six people have contracted Legionnaires' disease after spending time in Sydney's CBD over the past three weeks. People who have been in the CBD over the past 10 days are advised to remain alert ...

As concerns over the potential spread of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) grow across Europe, farms are tightening biosecurity measures to safeguard both livestock and the broader agricultural industry.

Disease pressure in wheat is seen as moderate 1to low in the current dry weather, but these two diseases, as well as brown rust, eyespot and mildew, could develop quickly with a change in the weather.

Both of her parents had diabetes and hypertension. One sister had had kidney disease that required hemodialysis at 17 years of age; she died at 18 years of age. The patient identified as Hispanic.

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