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Carcinoid Syndrome
Carcinoid syndrome refers to the array of symptoms that occur secondary to carcinoid tumors. Carcinoid tumors are discrete, yellow,...
Career Changes
This community is dedicated to the difficult challenges of transitioning from one career or job to a new one. Especially as we grow older, it can be...
Caregivers
A voluntary caregiver is a spouse, relative, friend or neighbor of a disabled person or child who assists with activities of daily living and assists...
Caring For Aging Parents
Caring for aging parents can be a difficul time as we become the caretakers for our parents. This broad responsibility can encompass such services as...
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) is a medical condition in which the median nerve is compressed at the wrist causing symptoms like tingling, numbness,...
Celiac Disease
Celiac disease is an auto-immune disorder of the digestive system that occurs in genetically-predisposed individuals. It is characterised by damage...
Cerebral Palsy
Cerebral palsy or CP is the most common childhood physical disability. It is a permanent physical condition that affects movement. There is no cure...
Cervical Cancer
Cervical cancer is a malignancy of the cervix. Worldwide, it is the second most common cancer of women. It may present with vaginal bleeding but...
Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease
Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, also known as Hereditary Motor and Sensory Neuropathy (HMSN) or Peroneal Muscular Atrophy, is a heterogeneous inherited...
Chemotherapy
Chemotherapy is the use of chemical substances to treat disease. This community is dedicated to those undergoing chemotherapy or helping a loved one...
Chicken Pox
Chicken pox starts with conjunctival and catarrhal symptoms, moderate fever and then characteristic spots appearing in two or three waves, mainly on...
Child Support & Custody
This community is dedicated to those involved in child support and custody cases. There are a myriad of challenges involved in any case and this is a...
Children Of Divorced Parents
This community is for the children of divorce, both for adult children who have lived through a divorce as well as parents concerned about the...
Cholecystitis
Cholecystitis is inflammation of the gallbladder. It is commonly due to impaction (sticking) of a gallstone within the neck of the gall bladder,...
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) describes a sense of exhaustion and post-exertion malaise, even when you have gotten enough rest and sleep. The...
Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL)
Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (or "chronic lymphoid leukemia") CLL, is a cancer in which too many lymphocytes (a type of white blood cells) are...
Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia (CML)
Chronic myelogenous leukemia affecst the balance of blood cells in the body, disrupting the normal balance. The cancer cells eventually begin to...
Chronic Pain
Physicians and professionalsdefine pain as chronic if it lasts longer than three to six months and is persistent. It's distinct from acute pain that...
Cirrhosis
Cirrhosis is a consequence of chronic liver disease, most commonly caused by alcoholism and hepatitis C. Ascites is the most common complication of...
Cleft Lip / Palate
Cleft is a congenital deformity caused by a failure in facial development during gestation. It can be treated with surgery shortly after birth with...
Cocaine Addiction & Recovery
Cocaine addiction is the excessive intake of cocaine, and can result in physiological damage, lethargy, depression, or a potentially fatal overdose....
Codependency
Codependency is defined as someone who exhibits too much, and often inappropriate, caring for another person's struggles. A codependent person may...
Colds & Flu
The common cold is a mild viral infectious disease of the upper respiratory system (nose and throat). Symptoms include sneezing, sniffling, nasal...
College Stress
This community is dedicated to the unique challenges and stresses of being in college or university, including: relationship challenges, roommates,...
Colon Cancer
Colorectal cancer, also called colon cancer or bowel cancer, includes cancerous growths in the colon, rectum and appendix. Many colorectal cancers...
Color Blindness
Color blindness is the inability to perceive differences between some or all colors that other people can distinguish. It is most often of genetic...
Coma
A coma is a profound state of unconsciousness. A comatose patient cannot be awakened, fails to respond normally to pain or light, does not have...
Coming Out
This community is dedicated to the challenges that gay men and lesbian women face, both between the partners in a relationship and from other...
Common Variable Immunodeficiency
Common variable immunodeficiency (CVID) is a group of 20-30 primary immunodeficiencies (PIDs) which have a common set of symptoms but with different...
Conduct Disorder
Conduct Disorder is a pattern of repetitive behavior where the rights of others or the social norms are violated. Possible symptoms are over...
Congenital Heart Disease
Congenital heart disease is heart disease in the newborn, and includes congenital heart defects, congenital arrythmias, cardiomyopathies, and...
COPD & Emphysema
COPD is a progressive disease characterized by airflow obstruction or limitation. Emphysema is characterized by loss of elasticity of the lung...
Coronary Heart Disease
Coronary heart disease is the end result of the accumulation of plaques within the walls of the arteries. While the symptoms and signs of coronary...
Craniosynostosis & Plagiocephaly
Craniosynostosis is a medical condition in which some or all of the sutures in the skull of an infant close too early, causing problems with normal...
Crohn's Disease & Ulcerative Colitis
Crohn's disease is a systemic inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) of unknown cause, that results in chronic inflammation of the intestinal tract. It can...
Crouzon Syndrome
Crouzon Syndrome is when an infant's skull and facial bones, while in development, fuse early or are unable to expand, preventing normal bone growth...
Cushing's Syndrome
Cushing's syndrome is an endocrine disorder caused by excessive levels of the endogenous corticosteroid hormone cortisol. Symptoms include rapid...
Cystic Fibrosis
Cystic fibrosis, (CF) is a common hereditary human disease which affects many different parts of the body, including the lungs, pancreas,...