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Gestational Diabetes: Symptoms, Diagnosis & Complications

Gestational diabetes is a type of diabetes that is first diagnosed or starts during pregnancy. Similar to type 2 diabetes, it involves insulin resistance and an inability to ...
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Gallstones: Causes, Treatment and Prevention

Gallstones are supersaturated, pebble-like deposits of bile inside the gallbladder. They can be as small as a grain of sand or as big as a golf ball and ...
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Fibromyalgia: Causes, Diagnosis and Treatments

Fibromyalgia is a chronic condition characterized mainly by fatigue and widespread pain in muscles and joints. It affects about 2 percent of the U.S. population and affects seven ...
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Erectile Dysfunction: Symptoms and Treatment

With ever-present advertisements touting the benefits of erectile dysfunction (ED) drugs, the condition has become highly visible in recent years. But that doesn’t make it any more welcome ...
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Epilepsy: Symptoms and Treatment

Epilepsy is a chronic neurological disorder characterized by recurrent seizures that can range from brief lapses of attention or muscle jerks to severe and prolonged convulsions. About 50 ...
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Eczema: Symptoms and Treatment

Up to 15 million Americans are afflicted with the chronic skin disorder eczema, the vast majority of them infants and children who have a strong chance of eventually ...
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Ear Infections: Symptoms and Treatment

Ear infection, or “otitis”, can affect the inner ear or outer ear. Otitis media is an infection of the middle ear, the area right behind the ear drum. ...
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Diarrhea: Causes, Symptoms & Treatments

As unpleasant as diarrhea is, this universal ailment rarely causes serious problems. Most people have diarrhea once or twice a year, according to the Cleveland Clinic. Causes Sometimes ...
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Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease: Symptoms, Diagnosis and Treatment

Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) is a rare, yet fatal, brain disease characterized by the spongy degeneration of the brain. Although CJD and mad cow disease (properly known as bovine ...
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Cold Sores: Symptoms, Treatments and Prevention

Medically known as recurrent herpes labialis, cold sores, or “fever blisters,” are groups of painful, fluid-filled blisters that tend to cluster on or around the lips, though they ...
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