Cancer is responsible annually for about 8 million deaths worldwide. This number becomes even more shocking if we take into account that up to 50% of cancers can be prevented through simple care and some changes in lifestyle.
Excess weight should be seen not as an essentially aesthetic problem, but as a matter of personal health. Beyond the actual harm caused by excess body fat, a person with excess weight also often see exposed to other health problems such as overweight and obesity are often associated with an unhealthy diet and inactivity.
The CVA, popularly called a stroke, is the acronym for cerebrovascular accident, the medical term used when a part of the brain suffers an infarction, usually due to a failure in blood circulation.
We call rash the appearance of one or more red blotchy rash. The rash may be asymptomatic, but in most cases, is accompanied by other symptoms such as itching, fever or local pain.
The aneurysm is a dilatation in a segment of an artery, which arises from a fragility of the wall of the artery. Having an aneurysm is always a risk because an artery with a weak and dilated wall is more likely to rupture, causing bulky bleeding.
Acne is not a serious disease that can cause disability or lead to death, but their psychological impact can be remarkable, especially as it affects predominantly young adults and adolescents. At this stage of life, appearance and social acceptance are very important, and severe cases of acne may even lead to depression.
Acute HIV infection, also called acute retroviral syndrome is a flu-like frame, which appears 2 to 4 weeks after the patient has been infected with HIV.
Acute pulmonary edema (APE) is a medical emergency caused by leakage of water from the blood vessels into the lung tissue, making breathing difficult. In this paper we explain the causes, symptoms and treatment of acute pulmonary edema.
Adenoids are two small glands composed of lymphoid tissue, similar to the tonsils and lymph nodes. The adenoids grow during childhood and begin to regress around the age of 8 years. When they grow large, they can cause obstruction of the passage of air breathed through the nose.
Endometrium is the name given to the inner wall of the uterus, a very vascularized region and full of glands. It endometrial bleeding that menses occurs.
