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Sideropenic anaemia

Anaemia is deficiency of haemoglobin in blood. Regarding to the mechanism of appearing, anaemias are divided to anaemias caused by bleeding, decreased creation or increased deterioration of erythrocytes.

Section: in-sickness-and-health

Down's merry men

Approximately one of 650 of all new born babies has Down's syndrome, the chromosomal disorder caused by the presence of all or part of an extra 21st chromosome.

Section: in-sickness-and-health

Ticks - the harpoon-like family

Ticks are not active parasites for they don't hunt a victim. They had small radius of moving, they do not jump or fly like mosquitoes - a victim must come to them.

Section: in-sickness-and-health

Escherichia coli - an opportunistic bacteria

Most of Escherichia coli types are harmless for humans but some of them may cause life dangerous complication like a severely kidney damage function or even sepsis.

Section: in-sickness-and-health

Almost a step to the Holy Grail

The term "French paradox" describes French habit to eat fatly, to eat cheese frequently, drink wine and at the same time they don't suffer from heart and blood vessels illnesses.

Section: in-sickness-and-health

Hepatitis C - silent killer

Our liver does a remarkable job every day to keep us alive and healthy. Along with brain and heart, our liver is one of the biggest and most important organs in our body.

Section: in-sickness-and-health

From A to G - Hepatitis

The cause of hepatitis is sometimes hard to explain which refers to the fact that some viruses are not yet discovered.

Section: in-sickness-and-health

Inflammatory bowel disease

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is general term for ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease, disorder of unknown cause which result with large or small intestine inflammation.

Section: in-sickness-and-health

Conjunctivitis or "crying games"

It is estimated that about 20 percent of people have some type of eye hypersensitivity reaction. Conjunctivitis is the most frequent eye inflammation (or infection) in developed countries.

Section: in-sickness-and-health

Impotency on its knees

During last few decades professional opinion about reasons for impotency has been changed. Researchers today allow that there are medical reasons for 70 to 80 percent cases of impotency.

Section: in-sickness-and-health

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