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Obesity | 4398 Members |
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Obesity is a condition in which the natural energy reserve, stored in the fatty tissue of humans and mammals is increased to a point where it is thought to be a significant risk factor in certain health conditions, leading to incr...
Category: Personal Challenges
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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) | 3122 Members |
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Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a psychiatric disorder, more specifically, an anxiety disorder. OCD is manifested in a variety of forms, but is most commonly characterized by a subject's obsessive (repetitive, distressing, ...
Category: Anxiety Disorders
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Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD) | 872 Members |
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Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD) an ongoing pattern of disobedient, hostile, and defiant behavior toward authority figures that goes beyond the bounds of normal childhood behavior.
When a child cannot seem to control his ang...
Category: Children's Mental Health
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Optic Atrophy | 38 Members |
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Optic atrophy is the loss of some or most of the fibers of the optic nerve. In medicine, "atrophy" usually means "shrunken but capable of regrowth", so some argue that "optic atrophy" as a pathological term is somewhat misleading ...
Category: Ears, Eyes & Mouth
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Optic Nerve Hypoplasia | 72 Members |
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Optic nerve hypoplasia is a medical condition that results in underdevelopment of the optic nerves. During the second month of pregnancy, a structure called the optic stalk develops into a pair of optic nerve bundles. These bundle...
Category: Ears, Eyes & Mouth
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Oral Herpes | 72 Members |
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The herpes simplex virus (HSV) (also known as Cold Sore, Night Fever, or Fever Blister) is a virus that manifests itself in two common viral infections, each marked by painful, watery blisters in the skin or mucous membranes (such...
Category: Infectious Diseases
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Organ Transplants | 266 Members |
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An organ transplant is the transplantation of a whole or partial organ from one body to another (or from a donor site on the patient's own body), for the purpose of replacing the recipient's damaged or failing organ with a working...
Category: Personal Challenges
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Osteogenesis Imperfecta | 37 Members |
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Osteogenesis imperfecta is a group of genetic bone disorders. It is one of the brittle bone diseases. People with OI either have less collagen than normal or the quality is poorer than normal. As collagen is an important protein i...
Category: Genetic & Metabolic
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Osteoporosis | 355 Members |
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Osteoporosis is a disease of bone in which bone mineral density (BMD) is reduced, bone microarchitecture is disrupted, and the amount and variety of non-collagenous proteins in bone is changed. Osteoporotic bones are more suscepti...
Category: Women's Health
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Other Ear Problems | 79 Members |
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An ear is the organ used by a human or an animal to detect sound waves. The term may refer to the entire system responsible for collection and early processing of sound (the beginning of the auditory system), or merely the externa...
Category: Ears, Eyes & Mouth
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Other Eye Problems | 165 Members |
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There are many diseases and disorders that may affect the eyes.
As the eye ages certain changes occur that can be attributed solely to the aging process. Most of these anatomic and physiologic processes follow a gradual decline...
Category: Ears, Eyes & Mouth
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Other Heart Problems | 154 Members |
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The heart is a hollow, muscular organ in vertebrates responsible for pumping blood through the blood vessels by repeated, rhythmic contractions, or a similar structure in annelids, mollusks, and arthropods.
Category: Heart, Blood & Circulation
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Ovarian Cancer | 377 Members |
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Ovarian cancer is a malignant ovarian neoplasm (an abnormal growth located on the ovaries). It is the fifth leading cause of cancer death in women, the leading cause of death from gynecologic malignancies and the second most commo...
Category: Cancers
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