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Back Pain	3757 Members
Back pain is one of the most common reasons people seek medical care. In fact, about 3 in 4 adults will experience back pain during their lifetime! The term back pain includes pain affecting the neck, midb... Category: Brain & Nervous System

Batten Disease	15 Members
Batten disease is a rare, fatal, inherited disease of the nervous system (neurodegenerative disorder) that begins in childhood. Early symptoms of this disorder usually appear between the ages of 5 and 10, when parents or physician... Category: Genetic & Metabolic

Bedrest	87 Members
Bedrest as a medical treatment refers to staying in bed day and night as a treatment for an illness or medical condition, especially when prescribed or chosen rather than resulting from severe prostration or imminent death. Even t... Category: Personal Challenges

Bedwetting	531 Members
Bedwetting (or nocturnal enuresis or sleepwetting) is involuntary urination while asleep. It is the normal state of affairs in infancy, but can be a source of embarrassment when it persists into school age or the t... Category: Children's Mental Health

Behcet's Disease	157 Members
Beh�et's disease (also known as Adamantiades-Beh�et's disease), is a chronic condition due to disturbances in the body�s immune system. This system, which normally protects the body against infections by producing controlled infla... Category: Muscles & Bones

Bell's Palsy	575 Members
Bell's palsy (facial palsy) is characterised by facial drooping on the affected half, due to malfunction of the facial nerve (VII cranial nerve), which controls the muscles of the face. Named after Scottish anatomi... Category: Brain & Nervous System

Bereavement	14207 Members
Bereavement refers to mourning or grief of a significant loss. While bereavement usually refers to the death of a loved one, it can also be applied to the loss of a relationship, or even a major change that involve... Category: Death & Dying

Bereavement - Teens	1013 Members
This community is focused on teens who have lost someone close to them. Grief is a multi-faceted response to loss. Although conventionally focused on the emotional response to loss, it also has a physical, cognitive, behavioral, s... Category: Death & Dying

Bipolar Disorder	20347 Members
Bipolar disorder is not just a single disorder, but a category of mood disorders marked by one or more periods of abnormally high energy and euphoria. People who experience these manic episodes often experience acc... Category: Mental Health & Addiction

Bipolar Disorder - Teen	1435 Members
This community is dedicated to teenagers struggling with bipolar disorder. Bipolar disorder, often referred to as manic-depression in the general literature, is a psychiatric condition defined by periods of extreme mood. These moo... Category: Teens

Bisexuality	3805 Members
Bisexuality is a sexual orientation which refers to the aesthetic, romantic, and/or sexual attraction of individuals to other individuals of both their own and the opposite gender or sex. Most bisexuals are not equ... Category: Relationships & Sexuality

Bladder Cancer	159 Members
Bladder cancer refers to any of several types of malignant growths of the urinary bladder. It is a disease in which abnormal cells multiply without control in the bladder. The bladder is a hollow, muscular organ th... Category: Cancers

Blindness & Visual Impairment	663 Members
Blindness is the condition of lacking visual perception due to physiological or psychological factors. Various scales have been developed to describe the extent of vision loss and define "blindness". Total blindne... Category: Ears, Eyes & Mouth

Body Modification	392 Members
Body modification (or body alteration) is the permanent or semi-permanent deliberate altering of the human body for non-medical reasons, such as: sexual enhancement; a rite of passage; aesthetic reasons; denoting affiliation, trus... Category: Skin & Hair

Bone Cancer	154 Members
Bone tumor can be used for both benign and malignant abnormal growths found in bone, but is most commonly used for primary tumors of bone, such as osteosarcoma (or osteoma). It is less exactly applied to secondary,... Category: Cancers

Bone Marrow Transplant	106 Members
Bone marrow transplantation (BMT) or hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) is a medical procedure in the field of hematology and oncology that involves transplantation of hematopoietic stem cells (HSC). It... Category: Cancers

Brain / CNS Tumors	823 Members
A brain tumor is any intracranial tumor created by abnormal and uncontrolled cell division, normally either found in the brain itself (neurons, glial cells (astrocytes, oligodendrocytes, ependymal cells), lymphatic... Category: Cancers

Brain Injury	1465 Members
Traumatic brain injury (TBI), traumatic injuries to the brain, also called intracranial injury, or simply head injury, occurs when a sudden trauma causes brain damage. TBI can result from a closed head injury o... Category: Traumas & Injuries

Breakups & Divorce	23338 Members
Divorce is the termination of a marriage in which both spouses are still living. In the United States, there are two types of divorce: "no fault" and "at-fault." Under the former, the spouse who initiates the divor... Category: Relationships & Sexuality

Breast Cancer	1194 Members
Breast cancer is a cancer that usually originates in the ducts or lobules of the breast. In general, cancer occurs when the body creates cells far in excess of what the body normally requires. These cells group tog... Category: Cancers

Breastfeeding	861 Members
Breastfeeding is the process of a woman feeding an infant or young child with milk from her breasts. Babies have a sucking reflex that enables them to suck and swallow milk. Also important in the process is an effe... Category: Children's Health & Parenting

Bullying	985 Members
Bullying is the act of intentionally causing harm to others, through verbal harassment, physical assault, or other more subtle methods of coercion such as manipulation. Bullying can be defined in many different ways. Although the ... Category: Relationships & Sexuality

Burns	161 Members
A burn is a type of injury to the skin caused by heat, electricity, chemicals, or radiation (an example of the latter is sunburn). In classical medical literature, there were six degrees, the first three of which are still commonl... Category: Traumas & Injuries

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