Category: Diseases

How to Cure Dry Skin

Easy Home Remedies for Skin Moisture Loss The absence of sufficient water in the skin’s top layer can make the skin dry. Dry skin is the effect of several factors…

Heart Disease in the Middle East

A team of researchers from the Population Health Research Institute of McMaster University in Canada recently undertook a study to determine how common are the main risk factors for heart…

Gynaecomastia

As the name ‘man boobs’ suggests, enlarged breasts in a male are often dismissed lightly, or even treated as a joke. This article provides information for men who might be…

Dying From a Broken Heart

Link Between Heart Disease and Depression Can a man die of a broken heart? “Yes” says Dr Martin Cowie, consultant cardiologist at the National Heart and Lung Institute in London.…

Coeliac Disease

Coeliac disease (also called celiac disease, non-tropical sprue, c(o)eliac sprue and gluten intolerance) is an autoimmune disorder characterised by permanent damage or flattening to all or part of the villi…

Guillain-Barré Syndrome

Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS), is an acquired immune-mediated inflammatory disorder of the peripheral nervous system (i.e. not the brain or spinal cord). It is also called acute inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy, acute…

Graves-Basedow Disease

Graves-Basedow disease is a form of thyroiditis, an autoimmune disorder that stimulates the thyroid gland, being the most common cause of hyperthyroidism (overactivity of the thyroid). Also known in the…

Goodpasture’s Syndrome

Goodpasture’s syndrome (also known as Goodpasture’s disease and anti-glomerular basement membrane disease or anti-GBM disease) was first described by Ernest Goodpasture in 1919. It is an rare condition characterised by…

Crohn’s Disease

Crohn’s disease is a chronic inflammatory disease of the digestive tract and it can involve any part of it – from the mouth to the anus. It typically affects the…