Prostate cancer: causes, symptoms, prevention & treatment
Prostate cancer is the presence of cancer cells in the prostate gland. Most often,...
What to eat if you have lung cancer
Lung cancer is the third leading cancer in the United States with more than...
Lung cancer: causes, symptoms, prevention & treatment
Lung cancer usually begins to form in mid-fifties or sixties. Smoking is responsible for...
Breast cancer in young women: signs and prevention
Each year in the United States, nearly 280,000 women are diagnosed with breast cancer....
Breast cancer in men
Breast cancer, which is very common in women, also affects men. In the United...
Breast Cancer: causes, risk factors, prevention & treatment
Cancer means the presence of abnormal cells that are growing in an uncontrolled way....
Risk factors of breast cancer
Breast cancer is a multifactorial disease: several factors can increase the risk of its...
Anxiety: causes, symptoms, prevention & treatment
Anxiety disorders are a frequent mental illness which is expressed in various forms (generalized...
Hemorrhoids: causes, symptoms, prevention & treatment
Hemorrhoids are dilated veins that form in the anus or rectum. It is normal...
Cirrhosis: causes, symptoms, prevent & treatment
Cirrhosis is a disease characterized by the gradual replacement of healthy liver tissue by...
Cholecystitis: causes, symptoms & treatment
We talk about cholecystitis when there is inflammation of the gallbladder due to the...
Pyelonephritis: causes, symptoms & treatment
Pyelonephritis is a bacterial infection of one or both kidneys. This is an acute...
Ectopic pregnancy: causes, symptoms, prevention & treatment
Ectopic pregnancy is a pregnancy that develops outside the uterine cavity. It occurs when...
Hormonal imbalance: causes, symptoms, treatment & prevention
Hormones play a major role in the body by acting as messengers. When there...
Dengue: causes, symptoms, prevention & treatment
The dengue fever (also known as “tropical flu”) is a viral disease caused by...
Parkinson’s disease: causes, symptoms & treatment
Parkinson’s disease is a disease of the nervous system that affects movement. It develops...
Cancer: causes, symptoms, prevention, and treatment
The term “cancer” encompasses a group of diseases characterized by the uncontrolled multiplication and...
HIV/AIDS: causes, symptoms, prevention and treatment
HIV, or human immunodeficiency virus, is a type of virus that can cause a...
Syphilis: causes, symptoms, prevention and treatment
Syphilis is a sexually transmitted infection (STI) caused by a bacterium called Treponema pallidum....
Insomnia: causes, symptoms, prevention & treatment
In medicine, insomnia is part of the large family of sleep disorders, which includes...
Amenorrhea: causes, symptoms, prevention & more
Amenorrhea is the absence of menstruation in a woman of childbearing age. Amenorrhea occurs...
Depression: causes, symptoms, prevention & treatment
Everyone experiences sadness or boredom at some point, especially after experiencing a disappointment like...
Dementia: causes, symptoms, prevention, treatment and more
Dementia is not a specific disease but rather a general term used to describe...
Asthma: causes, symptoms, treatment and more
Asthma is a disease characterized by a more or less important inflammation of the...
Alzheimer’s disease: causes, symptoms, prevention, treatment & more
Alzheimer’s disease is a degenerative disease that causes a progressive decline in cognitive ability...
Men can also have hot flashes
About 20% of men over 60 would suffer from hot flashes, similar to the...
Hypothyroidism: causes, symptoms, prevention and treatment
Hypothyroidism is the result of insufficient hormone production by the thyroid gland, this butterfly-shaped...
Diabetes and diet: what you should or shouldn’t eat
Diet plays a key role in the balance of diabetes and it is a...
What is Gestational diabetes?
Gestational diabetes is a type of diabetes that appears during pregnancy, usually in the...
What is toxoplasmosis?
Toxoplasmosis is a zoonotic disease, which means it is transmitted to humans from animals,...
What is insulin?
Before the discovery of insulin (1921), people with diabetes were doomed to die. Its...
Type 2 diabetes: causes, symptoms, prevention and treatment
Type 2 diabetes is a disease characterized by chronic hyperglycemia, that is, by too...
Type 1 diabetes: causes, symptoms, prevention and treatment
Type 1 diabetes accounts for 5-10% of all diabetes cases. This form of the...
Diabetes: Causes, Types, Symptoms and Prevention
Diabetes is an incurable disease that occurs when the body cannot properly process sugar...
What is diabetes insipidus?
Diabetes insipidus (DI) is a rare endocrine disorder that significantly impacts the body’s ability...
Herpes: causes, symptoms, prevention and treatment
Herpes is a viral disease that results in the appearance of small, clustered vesicles....
Chlamydia: causes, symptoms, prevention and treatment
Chlamydia is the most common sexually transmitted infection (STI) in North America and Europe....
Sleep apnea: causes, symptoms and treatments
Sleep apnea is manifested by involuntary stops in breathing, “apnea”, which occurs during sleep....
Gonorrhea: Causes, Symptoms, and treatments
Gonorrhea is a sexually transmitted infection (STI) caused by the bacteria Neisseria gonorrhoeae. It...
Malaria: Causes, Symptoms and Prevention
Malaria is a tropical parasitic infection that can be fatal if not treated in...
