Conditions and Diseases

Presents an in-depth look at malaria.

Article by Margaret C Douglass, MD.

Provides information on this disease and the program for its elimination being undertaken.

Provides information on the research being undertaken into this disease and its vectors.

Consumer health resource center providing information on the causes, symptoms, and treatment of pinworms.

Includes cause, life cycle, clinical features, diagnosis, and treatment.

Factsheet with cause, symptoms, prevention, and treatment.

Directory of factsheets, news, and articles.

Encyclopedia article on this infection which is caused by water-borne trematode parasites.

American Osteopathic College of Dermatology information page on cercarial dermatitis. Covers description, cause, geographic occurrence, treatment, names for this condition in different parts of the world, and other causes of itching among swimmers.

Article by Ryan Tenzer, MD.

Article by Derek Linklater, MD.

Article by Imad S Dandan, MD.

Article by Raquel Mora, MD.

Fact sheets and articles on this disease caused by tapeworms.

Scientific and medical article on the disease.

Detailed information from eMedicine.com.

Detailed information from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Provides information on this life-threatening condition that occurs when a person’s blood pressure drops to a dangerously low level. Includes details of symptoms, causes, diagnosis, treatment and complications.

Includes information on the latest research, news and therapies. Includes audio interviews with Lyme doctors, specific protocols followed by healthy survivors of the disease and lifestyle support resources.

Includes information on Ixodes dammini, the deer tick responsible for most cases of the disease, the symptoms in man and animals, the treatment and tick control.

A definition of this disorder along with a look at the symptoms, diagnoses, treatment and prevention.

Provides information including clinical features, skin manifestations, diagnosis, treatment and prevention.

Detailed article from eMedicine.com.

Fact sheet from the Centers for Disease Control.

Includes cause, symptoms, complications, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment.

Factsheet with cause, risk factors, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment.

Features information on risks, preventions, treatments, precautions and support.

News on the disease.

General overview, clinical findings, treatment, and lab studies.

Description, symptoms, prevention and treatment; aimed at parents.

Research article on the disease.

Article by Dr Charlie Easmon, specialist adviser in travel medicine, describing the disease, how it is transmitted and what to do to prevent infection.

Features links to information about the disease, with the focus on news links.

Features maps, fact sheets, links, and information about the disease in the state.

First reported confirmation of antibodies to the disease in UK birds.

Includes facts about the disease and the prevention program in the state.

Abstract of the report with links to related articles and research.

Presents maps, news, and disease information.

News, journal articles, maps, and disease information.

Directory of journal articles on the disease.

The BBC reports that Nicola Wilding, 35, who lost the use of her right arm in a car crash is actively considering having her hand cut off and replaced with a bionic prosthesis.

Serving the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Includes details of meeting times, location, and biographical information about David Norcott, group facilitator.

Provides information on this type of chronic arthritis. Includes details of symptoms, causes, diagnosis, treatment, complications and self help.

World-wide roof organization, lists addresses and additional data of self-help societies of patients suffering from this or related diseases in 30 countries.

Independent medical resource on the disease Gout, causes, symptoms, treatment, diet & uric acid.

Offers Urcinol, natural extracts formulated to help remedy gout flare-ups safely.

Information for patients, including symptoms, treatments, nutritional considerations, recovery and questions for your doctor.

Information and resources pertaining to degenerative arthritis. By William C. Shiel Jr., MD, FACP, FACR.

Essay on the doctor for whom the syndrome was originally named.