The pseudopregnancy, popularly known as psychological or false pregnancy pregnancy is a rare syndrome in which a woman who is not pregnant, not only firmly believes he is expecting a baby, and starts to present typical symptoms of pregnancy, including absence of menstruation and increased abdominal volume.
What is pubic pediculosis? The name pubic lice did not appear randomly, as Phthirus pubis is a parasitic insect of the same family as Pediculus humanus capitis, the famous lice that infests the scalp.
The chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or simply COPD is a term used for a group of lungs diseases characterized by chronic obstruction of the airways within the lungs.
In late October 2015, the World Health Organization (WHO) released a report of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IACR, its acronym in English) in which the processed red meats are now classified as carcinogens Group 1 of the IARC , the same group to which the cigarette, asbestos and ionizing radiation belong. For those not familiar with the term a carcinogenic substance is one that is capable of stimulating the development of a cancer in the body.
For a long time treatment for impotence was restricted to penis injections, mechanisms that create voids or prostheses implanted through surgery. Since late 1990s, however, there has been a simple and convenient treatment for erectile dysfunction, drugs that inhibit Phosphodiesterase type 5 (PDE-5), commercially known as Viagra, Cialis and Levitra.
Hypertension, commonly called high blood pressure, is a disease that affects about 1 in 3 people in the world. Hypertension is a chronic disease with no cure and the vast majority of cases, but currently has a large arsenal of drugs for its control.
Neck pain is an extremely common symptom. Its origin is usually an inflammation of the pharynx (pharyngitis) or the tonsils (tonsillitis). In over 50% of cases the sore throat is viral or allergic origin, and there is therefore a specific treatment to improve inflammation, since antibiotics are indicated only in cases of pharyngitis or tonsillitis bacterial origin.
In this text we will address dietary care, existing treatments and the consequences for the body of poor control of calcium and phosphorus metabolism in patients with advanced renal failure.
Rheumatic fever, commonly known as rheumatism in the blood, is a complication that can occur after a picture of pharyngitis caused by the bacterium Streptococcus.
Rheumatism is an old medical term, which for decades has ceased to be part of medical dictionaries, but that is still widely used by laypeople. Rheumatism usually be employed in the case of diseases of muscle and non-traumatic osteoarticular system origin, which in practice eventually include hundreds diseases from different sources.
