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Pacemakers	77 Members
A pacemaker (or artificial pacemaker, so as not to be confused with the heart's natural pacemaker) is a medical device which uses electrical impulses, delivered by electrodes contacting the heart muscles, to regulate the beating o... Category: Heart, Blood & Circulation

Painful Intercourse	242 Members
Dyspareunia is painful sexual intercourse, due to medical or psychological causes. The term is used almost exclusively in women, although the problem may occur in men. The causes are often reversible, even when long-standing, but ... Category: Women's Health

Pancreatic Cancer	319 Members
Pancreatic cancer (also called cancer of the pancreas) is represented by the growth of a malignant tumour within the small pancreas organ. Each year about 31,000 individuals in the United States are diagnosed w... Category: Cancers

Pancreatitis	863 Members
Chronic pancreatitis can present as episodes of acute inflammation in a previously injured pancreas, or as chronic damage with persistent pain or malabsorption... ... Category: Gastrointestinal System

Panic Attacks	6695 Members
A panic attack is a period of intense fear or discomfort, typically with an abrupt onset and usually lasting no more than thirty minutes. Symptoms include trembling, shortness of breath, heart palpitations, s... Category: Anxiety Disorders

Paralysis	132 Members
Paralysis is the complete loss of muscle function for one or more muscle groups. Major causes are stroke, trauma, poliomyelitis, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), botulism, spina bifida, multiple sclerosis, and Guillain-Barr� s... Category: Traumas & Injuries

Paranoia	682 Members
Paranoia is a disturbed thought process characterized by excessive anxiety or fear, often to the point of irrationality and delusion. Paranoid thinking typically includes persecutory beliefs concerning a perceived ... Category: Anxiety Disorders

Parenting 'Tweens (9-12)	1262 Members
Preteen is a person between nine and twelve (but this age could sometimes extend up to the age of 15) before that person becomes a teenager. It is a relatively recent term used to describe a distinct period in life in which childr... Category: Children's Health & Parenting

Parenting Big Kids (5-8)	1605 Members
This community is focused on the joys, challenges and frustrations faced by parents of 5 to 8 year olds. The major areas of child development include: Physical development - Concerning the physical growth and the development of... Category: Children's Health & Parenting

Parenting Newborns & Infants (0-1)	2094 Members
This community is focused on the joys, challenges and frustrations faced by parents of infants (0 - 12 months). The major areas of child development during this time period include: Physical development - Concerning the physica... Category: Children's Health & Parenting

Parenting Preschoolers (3-5)	1921 Members
This community is focused on the joys, challenges and frustrations faced by parents of 3 to 5 year olds. The major areas of child development include: Physical development - Concerning the physical growth and the development of... Category: Children's Health & Parenting

Parenting Teenagers (12-18)	2265 Members
Adolescence is the period of psychological and social transition between childhood and adulthood (gender-specific, manhood, or womanhood). Someone in Adolescence is called a Teenager. As a transitional stage of hum... Category: Children's Health & Parenting

Parenting Toddlers (1-3)	2489 Members
This community is focused on the joys, challenges and concerns faced by parents of toddlers (1 to 3 year olds). The major areas of child development include: Physical development - Concerning the physical growth and the develop... Category: Children's Health & Parenting

Parents of Children with ADHD	2185 Members
This community is designed as an open forum where the parents and guardians of children with ADHD (Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder) can give and receive support, as well as discuss ideas, techniques, concerns, surprises, ... Category: Mental Health & Addiction

Parkinson's Disease	1469 Members
Parkinson's disease (paralysis agitans or PD) is a movement disorder often characterized by muscle rigidity, tremor, a slowing of physical movement (bradykinesia), and in extreme cases, a loss of physical movement ... Category: Brain & Nervous System

Pemphigus	77 Members
Pemphigus is an autoimmune disorder that causes blistering and raw sores on skin and mucous membranes. As with other autoimmune disorders, it is caused when the body's defenses mistake its own tissues as foreign, and attack the ce... Category: Skin & Hair

Peptic Ulcers	131 Members
A peptic ulcer is an ulcer of one of those areas of the gastrointestinal tract that are usually acidic. A more general term, peptic ulcer disease (PUD), is also in use. Most ulcers are now known to be associated wi... Category: Gastrointestinal System

Personality Disorders	3029 Members
Personality disorders form a class of mental disorders that are characterized by long-lasting rigid patterns of thought and behaviour. Because of the inflexibility and pervasiveness of these patterns, they can ... Category: Mental Health & Addiction

Pet Bereavement	1462 Members
The loss of a pet or a non-human animal to which one has become emotionally bonded can be an intense loss, comparable with the death of a loved one. Whilst there is strong evidence that animals can feel such loss for other animals... Category: Personal Challenges

Phenylketonuria (PKU)	57 Members
Phenylketonuria [PKU] is a human genetic disorder (though it is possible to exist in mice), in which the body lacks phenylalanine hydroxylase, the enzyme necessary to metabolize phenylalanine to tyrosine. Left ... Category: Genetic & Metabolic

Pheochromocytoma	52 Members
A pheochromocytoma (also phaeochromocytoma, English spelling) is a tumor of the medulla of the adrenal glands originating in the chromaffin cells, which secretes excessive amounts of catecholamines, usually epinephrine and norepin... Category: Endocrine System

Phobia	1773 Members
A phobia (from the Greek "fear"), is a strong, persistent fear of situations, objects, activities, or persons. The main symptom of this disorder is the excessive, unreasonable desire to avoid the feared subject... Category: Anxiety Disorders

Physical & Emotional Abuse	10371 Members
Abuse is a general term for the treatment of someone that causes some kind of harm (to the abused person, to the abusers themselves, or to someone else) that is unlawful or wrongful. Physical abuse is abuse involv... Category: Personal Challenges

Plastic Surgery	234 Members
Plastic surgery is a general term for operative manual and instrumental treatment which is performed for functional or aesthetic reasons. Common reconstructive surgeries are: breast reconstruction for women who... Category: Personal Challenges

Pleurisy	62 Members
Pleurisy, also known as pleuritis, is an inflammation of the pleura, the lining of the pleural cavity surrounding the lungs, which can cause painful respiration and other symptoms. Pleurisy can be generated by ... Category: Lungs & Respiration

Pneumonia	93 Members
Pneumonia is an illness of the lungs and respiratory system in which the alveoli (microscopic air-filled sacs of the lung responsible for absorbing oxygen from the atmosphere) become inflamed and flooded with fluid... Category: Infectious Diseases

Pneumothorax	47 Members
A pneumothorax or collapsed lung is a medical emergency caused by the collapse of the lung within the chest cavity. It can result from: a penetrating chest wound, barotrauma to the lungs, spontaneously (most common... Category: Lungs & Respiration

Polio	32 Members
Poliomyelitis, often called polio or infantile paralysis, is a viral paralytic disease. The causative agent, a virus called poliovirus (PV), enters the body orally, infecting the intestinal wall. It may proceed to the blood stream... Category: Infectious Diseases

Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD)	755 Members
Polycystic kidney disease (PKD) is a progressive, genetic disorder of the kidneys. It occurs in humans and other organisms. PKD is characterised by the presence of multiple cysts (polycystic) in both kidneys. The d... Category: Kidneys & Bladder

Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS)	5293 Members
Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS, also known clinically as Stein-Leventhal syndrome), is an endocrine disorder that affects 5-10% of women. It occurs amongst all races and nationalities, is the most common hormo... Category: Women's Health

Polycythemia	117 Members
Polycythemia is a condition in which there is a net increase in the total circulating erythrocyte (red blood cell) mass of the body. There are several types of polycythemia. Primary polycythemia, often called polycythemia vera (PC... Category: Heart, Blood & Circulation

Polymyositis & Dermatomyositis	509 Members
Dermatomyositis (DM) is a connective-tissue disease related to Polymyositis (PM) that is characterized by inflammation of the muscles and the skin. The cause is unknown, but it may result from either a viral infection or an autoim... Category: Muscles & Bones

Porphyria	74 Members
The porphyrias are inherited or acquired disorders of certain enzymes in the heme biosynthetic pathway (also called porphyrin pathway). They are broadly classified as hepatic porphyrias or erythropoietic porphyrias, based on the s... Category: Genetic & Metabolic

Post Partum Depression	685 Members
Postpartum depression (also postnatal depression) is a form of major depression which can affect women, and less frequently men, after childbirth. It is widely considered to be treatable. Studies report prevalence rates from 5% to... Category: Mental Health & Addiction

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)	6315 Members
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a term for certain psychological consequences of exposure to, or confrontation with, stressful experiences that the person experiences as highly traumatic. These experiences can involve act... Category: Anxiety Disorders

Prader-Willi Syndrome	33 Members
Prader-Willi Syndrome (PWS) is a genetic disorder in which seven genes (or some subset thereof) on chromosome 15 are missing or unexpressed (chromosome 15q partial deletion). PWS is characterized by hyperphagia and food preocc... Category: Genetic & Metabolic

Pre-menstrual Syndrome (PMS)	1117 Members
Premenstrual Stress Syndrome (PMS, also called Premenstrual Stress, Premenstrual Tension, PMT, Premenstrual Syndrome, Periodic Mood Swing) is stress which is a physical symptom prior to the onset of menstruation. PMS should not be... Category: Women's Health

Precocious Puberty	211 Members
Early pubic hair, breast, or genital development may result from normal but early maturation or from several abnormal conditions. Early puberty which is normal in every way except age is termed idiopathic central precocious pubert... Category: Children's Physical Health

Pregnancy	4897 Members
Pregnancy is defined as beginning when the developing embryo becomes implanted into the endometrial lining of a woman's uterus. In some cases where complications may have arisen, the fertilized egg might implant it... Category: Children's Health & Parenting

Pregnancy - Teens	1116 Members
This community is dedicated to the experience of being pregnant, specifically as a teenager. Pregnant teenagers face many of the same obstetrics issues as women in their 20s and 30s. However, there are additional medical concerns ... Category: Children's Health & Parenting

Pregnancy After Loss/Infertility	1853 Members
Pregnancy always presents challenges, but for those who have struggled to get pregnant or have lost a previous child, a new pregnancy brings additional stress. This community is dedicated to those who have lost a previous pregnanc... Category: Children's Health & Parenting

Premature Birth	348 Members
Premature birth (also known as preterm birth, or premie) is defined medically as childbirth occurring earlier than 37 completed weeks of gestation. Most pregnancies last about 40 weeks. Premature babies are sometim... Category: Children's Physical Health

Prescription and Synthetic Drug Abuse	1517 Members
A prescription drug (or POM Prescription Only Medicine, in UK) is a licensed medicine that is regulated by legislation to require a prescription before it can be obtained. The term is used to distinguish it from over the counter d... Category: Addiction & Recovery

Primary Carnitine Deficiency	23 Members
Primary carnitine deficiency is a condition that prevents the body from using fats for energy, particularly during periods without food. Carnitine, a natural substance acquired mostly through diet, is used by cells to process fats... Category: Genetic & Metabolic

Progeria	2 Members
Progeria narrowly refers to Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria syndrome, but the term is also used more generally to describe any of the so-called "accelerated aging" diseases. The word progeria is derived from the Greek for "prematurely... Category: Genetic & Metabolic

Prolactinoma	652 Members
A prolactinoma is a benign tumor of the pituitary gland that produces a hormone called prolactin. It is the most common type of pituitary tumor. Symptoms of prolactinoma are caused by too much prolactin in the ... Category: Endocrine System

Prostate Cancer	301 Members
Prostate cancer is a disease in which cancer develops in the prostate, a gland in the male reproductive system. Cancer occurs when cells of the prostate mutate and begin to multiply out of control. These cells may ... Category: Cancers

Prostatitis	82 Members
Prostatitis is any form of inflammation of the prostate gland. Inflammation of the prostate leads to pain, often during voiding but also in back and rectum. Frequent urination and increased urgency may suggest a cystitis (bladder ... Category: Men's Health

Pseudotumor Cerebri	1150 Members
Idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH), sometimes called benign intracranial hypertension (BIH) or pseudotumor cerebri (PTC) is a neurological disorder that is characterized by increased intracranial pressure (... Category: Brain & Nervous System

Psoriasis	1694 Members
Psoriasis is an immune-mediated disease which affects the skin and joints. When it affects the skin it commonly appears as red scaly elevated patches called plaques. Psoriasis plaques frequently occur on the elbows... Category: Skin & Hair

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