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Back Pain
Back pain is one of the most common reasons people seek medical care. In fact, about 3 in 4 adults will experience back pain during their lifetime! The term back pain includes pain affecting the neck, midback and low ba... Category: Brain & Nervous System

Batten Disease
Batten disease is a rare, fatal, inherited disease of the nervous system (neurodegenerative disorder) that begins in childhood. Early symptoms of this disorder usually appear between the ages of 5 and 10, when parents or physician... Category: Genetic & Metabolic

Bedrest
Bedrest as a medical treatment refers to staying in bed day and night as a treatment for an illness or medical condition, especially when prescribed or chosen rather than resulting from severe prostration or imminent death. Even t... Category: Personal Challenges

Bedwetting
Bedwetting (or nocturnal enuresis or sleepwetting) is involuntary urination while asleep. It is the normal state of affairs in infancy, but can be a source of embarrassment when it persists into school age or the teen years. Pr... Category: Children's Mental Health

Behcet's Disease
Behçet's disease (also known as Adamantiades-Behçet's disease), is a chronic condition due to disturbances in the body’s immune system. This system, which normally protects the body against infections by producing controlled i... Category: Muscles & Bones

Bell's Palsy
Bell's palsy (facial palsy) is characterised by facial drooping on the affected half, due to malfunction of the facial nerve (VII cranial nerve), which controls the muscles of the face. Named after Scottish anatomist Charles Bell,... Category: Brain & Nervous System

Bereavement
Grief is a multi-faceted response to loss. Although conventionally focused on the emotional response to loss, it also has a physical, cognitive, behavioural, social and philosophical dimensions. Common to human experience is the d... Category: Death & Dying

Bereavement - Teens
This community is focused on teens who have lost someone close to them. Grief is a multi-faceted response to loss. Although conventionally focused on the emotional response to loss, it also has a physical, cognitive, behavioral, s... Category: Death & Dying

Bipolar Disorder
Bipolar disorder (previously known as manic depression) is a diagnostic category describing a class of mood disorders where the person experiences states or episodes of depression and/or mania, hypomania, and/or mixed states. Left... Category: Mental Health & Addiction

Bipolar Disorder - Teen
This community is dedicated to teenagers struggling with bipolar disorder. Bipolar disorder, often referred to as manic-depression in the general literature, is a psychiatric condition defined by periods of extreme mood. These moo... Category: Teens

Bisexuality
Bisexuality is a sexual orientation which refers to the aesthetic, romantic, and/or sexual attraction of individuals to other individuals of both their own and the opposite gender or sex. Most bisexuals are not equally attracted t... Category: Relationships & Sexuality

Bladder Cancer
Bladder cancer refers to any of several types of malignant growths of the urinary bladder. It is a disease in which abnormal cells multiply without control in the bladder. The bladder is a hollow, muscular organ that stores urine;... Category: Cancers

Blindness & Visual Impairment
Blindness is the condition of lacking visual perception due to physiological or psychological factors. Various scales have been developed to describe the extent of vision loss and define "blindness". Total blindness is the com... Category: Ears, Eyes & Mouth

Bone Cancer
Bone tumor can be used for both benign and malignant abnormal growths found in bone, but is most commonly used for primary tumors of bone, such as osteosarcoma (or osteoma). It is less exactly applied to secondary, or metastatic t... Category: Cancers

Bone Marrow Transplant
Bone marrow transplantation (BMT) or hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) is a medical procedure in the field of hematology and oncology that involves transplantation of hematopoietic stem cells (HSC). It is most often p... Category: Cancers

Brain / CNS Tumors
A brain tumor is any intracranial tumor created by abnormal and uncontrolled cell division, normally either found in the brain itself (neurons, glial cells (astrocytes, oligodendrocytes, ependymal cells), lymphatic tissue, blood v... Category: Cancers

Brain Injury
Traumatic brain injury (TBI), traumatic injuries to the brain, also called intracranial injury, or simply head injury, occurs when a sudden trauma causes brain damage. TBI can result from a closed head injury or a penetrating head... Category: Traumas & Injuries

Breakups & Divorce
Divorce or dissolution of marriage is the ending of a marriage before the death of either spouse. The main causes of divorce in 2004, according to a recent study, were extra-marital affairs (27%), family strains (18%), emotional/p... Category: Relationships & Sexuality

Breast Cancer
Breast cancer is cancer of breast tissue. Worldwide, it is the most common form of cancer in females, affecting approximately one out of eleven to twelve women at some stage of their life in the Western world. Although significant... Category: Cancers

Breastfeeding
Breastfeeding is the process of a woman feeding an infant or young child with milk from her breasts. Babies have a sucking reflex that enables them to suck and swallow milk. Also important in the process is an effective latch, a n... Category: Children's Health & Parenting

Burns
A burn is a type of injury to the skin caused by heat, electricity, chemicals, or radiation (an example of the latter is sunburn). In classical medical literature, there were six degrees, the first three of which are still commonl... Category: Traumas & Injuries