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  Sudden infant death syndrome

  Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) is any sudden and unexplained death of an apparently healthy infant aged one month to one year. The term cot death is often used in the United Kingdom, and crib ... > more
• Infant's Health
  Healthy Aging
  Pregnancy and Childbirth
  Birth Defects
  Attention Deficit Disorder
  Child Development
   
  

  Premature birth

  Premature birth (also known as preterm birth) is defined medically as childbirth occurring earlier than 37 completed weeks of gestation. Most pregnancies last about 40 weeks. About 12 percent of ... > more
• Vaccines
  Infectious Diseases
  Viruses
  Healthy Aging
  Diseases and Conditions
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  Chickenpox

  Chickenpox, also spelled chicken pox, is the common name for varicella simplex, classically one of the childhood infectious diseases caught and survived by most children. Chickenpox is caused by the ... > more
• Eating Disorders
  Eating Disorder Research
  Mental Health Research
  Sports Medicine
  Nutrition Research
  Mental Health
   

  Bulimia nervosa

  Bulimia nervosa, more commonly known as bulimia, is an eating disorder. It is a psychological condition in which the subject engages in recurrent binge eating followed by intentionally doing one or ... > more
• Hormone Disorders
  Diabetes
  Women's Health
  Attention Deficit Disorder
  Menopause
  Children's Health
   

  Growth hormone treatment

  Growth hormone (GH) is a protein hormone secreted by the pituitary gland which stimulates growth and cell reproduction. In the past growth hormone was extracted from human pituitary glands and given ... > more
• Obesity
  Diet and Weight Loss
  Fitness
  Healthy Aging
  Attention Deficit Disorder
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  Body mass index

  The body mass index (BMI) or Quetelet Index is a quotient of body mass which takes into account both height and weight measured as kg/m2, and is used as a simple means of classifying sedentary ... > more
• Vaccines
  Healthy Aging
  Attention Deficit Disorder
  Infectious Diseases
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  Mumps, Measles, Rubella
   

  Pertussis

  Pertussis, also known as whooping cough, is a highly contagious disease that is one of the leading causes of vaccine-preventable deaths. There are 30–50 million cases per year, and about ... > more
• Mental Health Research
  Mental Health
  Depression
  Psychology
  Healthy Aging
  Attention Deficit Disorder
   
  

  Psychopathology

  Psychopathology is a term which refers to either the study of mental illness or mental distress or the manifestation of behaviours and experiences which may be indicative of mental illness or ... > more
• Healthy Aging
  Alzheimer's Research
  Parkinson's Research
  Birth Defects
  Diseases and Conditions
  Chronic Illness
   

  Huntington's disease

  The causative gene for Huntington's disease, HD, one of the first genes identified to cause an inherited disease, is located on chromosome 4. Huntington's disease is inherited in an autosomal ... > more
• Attention Deficit Disorder
  Sports Medicine
  Psychiatry
  Children's Health
  ADD and ADHD
  Down Syndrome
   
  

  Tourette syndrome

  Tourette syndrome (also called Tourette's syndrome, Tourette's disorder, Gilles de la Tourette syndrome, GTS or TS) is an inherited neurological disorder with onset in childhood, characterized by the ... > more

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