Diseases & Health Conditions
Educational information about diseases, symptoms, and related treatments
Abdominal aortic aneurysm
About abdominal aortic aneurysms Symptoms of an abdominal aortic aneurysm Causes of an abdominal aor...
Addison’s disease
About Addison's disease Symptoms of Addison's disease Causes of Addison's disease Diagnosing Addison...
ADHD in adults
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in adults is a condition that affects several differ...
ADHD in children and young people
ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) is a condition that affects how the brain works in d...
Alopecia (hair loss)
Alopecia is simply the medical term for hair loss. Losing up to 100 hairs a day is completely normal...
Concussion
Concussion is a type of brain injury. It can happen after a head injury, or after a hard knock to th...
Early miscarriage
An early miscarriage means losing your pregnancy before the 12th week. It's the most common type of...
Ectopic pregnancy
An ectopic pregnancy happens when a fertilised egg implants in the wrong place. An ectopic pregnancy...
Edwards’ syndrome
Edwards' syndrome (also known as trisomy 18) is a genetic condition that begins to affect babies whe...
Fungal nail infection
A fungal nail infection is a condition where the nail turns thick and discoloured, and breaks easily...
Head lice and nits
Head lice are tiny insects that live in the hair, and nits are the small, empty egg cases left stuck...
Heatstroke and heat illness
Heatstroke and other heat illnesses happen in hot conditions, whether indoors or outdoors, often fro...
Hypothermia (low body temperature)
Hypothermia happens when the body's temperature falls below 35°C, compared with a normal reading of...
Ingrown toenail
An ingrown toenail is a common problem where the nail grows into the surrounding skin. It can be pai...
Late miscarriage
A late miscarriage is one that happens after 12 weeks but before 24 weeks of pregnancy. You can als...
Learning disability
A learning disability is a serious, lifelong condition that affects how a person develops. If you ha...
Living with dysfibrinogenemia
Dysfibrinogenemia is a rare bleeding disorder that runs in families. Kimberley's story Kimberley wa...
Living with sickle cell anaemia
Sickle cell disease is the name for a group of blood disorders. The most severe of them is sickle ce...
Living with vasculitis
Vasculitis is a group of rare conditions that cause inflammation in the blood vessels. Nicola's sto...
Low blood pressure
Low blood pressure means the pressure of blood in your arteries the vessels that carry blood from th...
Minor head injury
A minor head injury is a bump or cut to the head that doesn't cause any serious harm to the brain. I...
Miscarriage
A miscarriage means losing a pregnancy before 24 weeks. It happens in about 1 in 5 pregnancies. Sin...
Molar pregnancy
A molar pregnancy happens when a fertilised egg ends up with the wrong amount of genetic material in...
Neck injury
A neck injury can happen from something small, like a strained muscle, or something bigger, like a f...