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Hand & Foot Abnormalities
The spectrum of congenital upper extremity deformities include a variety of defects or anomalies ranging from the partial duplication of a single digit or thumb, to the complete absence or failure of formation an entire limb. Thes... Category: Children's Physical Health

Hartnup Disease
Hartnup disease, or Hartnup's disease, or Hartnup disorder, is a genetic metabolic disorder in the absorption of the amino acid tryptophan that leads to the insufficent production of nicotinamide. Nicotinamide is necessary for ... Category: Genetic & Metabolic

Head and Neck cancers
Head and neck cancers are malignant growths originating in the lip and oral cavity (mouth), nasal cavity, pharynx, larynx, thyroid, paranasal sinuses, salivary glands and cervical lymph nodes of the neck. Head and neck cancers are... Category: Cancers

Health Care Reform
Health care reform is a key issue affecting the lives of a great number of members. This community is a place to communicate ideas, problems, solutions, and experiences with health care. Health care reform is a general rubric ... Category: Current Events

Healthy Eating
This community is a forum for people who are determined to improve their eating habits for health, personal wellness and other reasons. What you eat can have a dramatic impact on your life expectancy, your mood, your physical and ... Category: Gastrointestinal System

Healthy Relationships
No relationship is perfect. A long-term relationship requires constant effort to understand each other, fix misunderstandings, solve problems and continue to grow as both individuals change and evolve. How we deal with our misunde... Category: Relationships & Sexuality

Healthy Sex
This community is dedicated to an open discussion about healthy sex and sharing thoughts and feelings about sexuality and improving one's sex life. Most active adults desire to have an active and fulfilling sex life, both for them... Category: Relationships & Sexuality

Hearing Loss & Deafness
While some cases of hearing loss are reversible with medical treatment, many are permanent. Whether temporary or permanent, how severely hearing is compromised not a uniform. In some cases the hearing loss is only mild and or mode... Category: Ears, Eyes & Mouth

Heart Attack
Acute myocardial infarction (AMI or MI), commonly known as a heart attack, is a serious, sudden heart condition usually characterized by varying degrees of chest pain or discomfort, weakness, sweating, nausea, vomiting, and arrhyt... Category: Heart, Blood & Circulation

Heart Failure
Congestive heart failure (CHF), also called congestive cardiac failure (CCF) or just heart failure, is a condition that can result from any structural or functional cardiac disorder that impairs the ability of the heart to fill wi... Category: Heart, Blood & Circulation

Hemochromatosis
Haemochromatosis, also spelled hemochromatosis, is a hereditary disease characterized by improper processing by the body of dietary iron which causes iron to accumulate in a number of body tissues, eventually causing organ dysfunc... Category: Gastrointestinal System

Hemolytic-uremic syndrome (HUS)
Hemolytic-uremic syndrome (or haemolytic-uraemic syndrome, abbreviated HUS) is a disease characterised by microangiopathic hemolytic anemia, acute renal failure and a low platelet count (thrombocytopenia). The classic childhood... Category: Infectious Diseases

Hemophilia
Hemophilia or haemophilia is the name of any of several hereditary genetic illnesses that impair the body's ability to control bleeding. Genetic deficiencies (or, very rarely, an autoimmune disorder) cause lowered plasma clotting ... Category: Heart, Blood & Circulation

Hemorrhoids
Hemorrhoids (also known as haemorrhoids or piles) are varicosities or swelling and inflammation of veins in the rectum and anus. Two of the most common types of hemorrhoids are external and internal hemorrhoids. External hemorrhoi... Category: Gastrointestinal System

Hepatitis B
Originally known as serum hepatitis, hepatitis B has only been recognized as such since World War II, and has caused current epidemics in parts of Asia and Africa. Hepatitis B is recognized as endemic in China and various other pa... Category: Gastrointestinal System

Hepatitis C
Hepatitis C is a blood-borne viral disease which can cause liver inflammation, fibrosis, cirrhosis and liver cancer. The hepatitis C virus (HCV) is spread by blood-to-blood contact with an infected person's blood. Many people with... Category: Gastrointestinal System

Heroin Addiction & Recovery
Heroin or diacetylmorphine (INN) is a semi-synthetic opioid. It is the 3,6-diacetyl derivative of morphine (hence diacetylmorphine) and is synthesised from it by acetylation. The white crystalline form is commonly the hydrochlorid... Category: Addiction & Recovery

Hiatal Hernia
Hiatus hernia or hiatal hernia is the protrusion (or hernia) of the upper part of the stomach into the thorax through a tear or weakness in the diaphragm. The symptoms include acid reflux, pains, similar to heartburn, in the chest... Category: Gastrointestinal System

Hidradenitis Suppurativa
Hidradenitis suppurativa or HS is a skin disease that affects areas bearing apocrine sweat glands and hair follicles; such as the underarms, groin and buttocks, and under the breasts in women. The disease manifests as clusters ... Category: Skin & Hair

High Blood Pressure
Hypertension or high blood pressure is a medical condition wherein the blood pressure is chronically elevated. While it is formally called arterial hypertension, the word "hypertension" without a qualifier usually refers to arteri... Category: Heart, Blood & Circulation

High Cholesterol
Hypercholesterolemia (literally: high blood cholesterol) is the presence of high levels of cholesterol in the blood. It is not a disease but a metabolic derangement that can be secondary to many diseases and can contribute to many... Category: Heart, Blood & Circulation

High School Stress
This community is dedicated to many issues that can appear in high school, including relationships, academic issues, questions about college and future plans, pressure from friends or parents, or anything else you want to discuss. Category: Teens

HIV
HIV (also known as human immunodeficiency virus, and formerly known as HTLV-III and lymphadenopathy-associated virus) is a retrovirus that primarily infects vital components of the human immune system such as CD4+ T cells, macroph... Category: Infectious Diseases

Hives
Urticaria or hives is a relatively common form of allergic reaction that causes raised red skin welts. Urticaria is also known as nettle rash or uredo. These welts can range in diameter from 5 mm (0.2 inches) or more, itch severel... Category: Allergies & Immunity

Hodgkin's Lymphoma
Hodgkin's lymphoma, formerly known as Hodgkin's disease, is a type of lymphoma described by Thomas Hodgkin in 1832, and characterized by the presence of Reed-Sternberg cells. Unlike other lymphomas, whose incidence increases with ... Category: Lymphomas

Home Schooling
This community is dedicated to parents, educators, and students involved with home schooling. Home schooling - also called home education or home school - is the education of children at home, typically by parents or guardians, r... Category: Children's Health & Parenting

Homelessness
Homelessness refers to the condition and societal category of people who lack fixed housing, specifically a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence. The definition also includes a person who has a primary nighttime reside... Category: Personal Challenges

Homeschooling
The Homeschooling Community is an open forum for parents, home educators, and home students to voice their concerns, communicate about the challenges they face, and give and receive advice, ideas and support. Homeschooling ? ... Category: Personal Challenges

Homocystinuria
Homocystinuria, also known as Cystathionine beta synthase deficiency, is an inherited disorder of the metabolism of the amino acid methionine. It is an inherited autosomal recessive trait, which means the child is to inherit the d... Category: Genetic & Metabolic

HPV
Papillomaviruses [ Human papillomavirus ] are a diverse group of DNA-based viruses that infect the skin and mucous membranes of humans. More than 100 different human papillomavirus (HPV) types have been characterized. Some HPV typ... Category: Women's Health

Huntington's Disease
Huntington's disease (HD), formerly known as Huntington's chorea, is a rare inherited genetic disorder characterized by abnormal body movements called chorea, and a reduction of various mental abilities. It takes its name from the... Category: Genetic & Metabolic

Hydrocephalus
Hydrocephalus is an abnormal accumulation of cerebrospinal fluid in the ventricles of the brain. This increase in intracranial volume results in elevated intracranial pressure and compression of the brain. Like various other ne... Category: Brain & Nervous System

Hyperammonemia
Hyperammonemia is a metabolic disturbance characterised by an excess of ammonia in the blood. It is a dangerous condition that may lead to encephalopathy and death. It may be primary or secondary. Ammonia is a substance that co... Category: Genetic & Metabolic

Hyperhidrosis
Primary hyperhidrosis is the condition characterized by abnormally increased perspiration, in excess of that required for regulation of body temperature. Some patients afflicted with the condition experience a distinct reduction i... Category: Skin & Hair

Hyperlexia
Hyperlexia is a syndrome in which the main characteristics are an above normal ability to read accompanied with a below normal ability to understand spoken language. Hyperlexia appears to be different from what is known as hypergr... Category: Developmental & Learning Disorders

Hypermobile Syndrome
Hypermobility syndrome (known by a variety of other names, including Benign Joint Hypermobility Syndrome and HMS) is generally considered to comprise hypermobility together with other symptoms, such as myalgia and arthralgia, and ... Category: Brain & Nervous System

Hyperparathyroidism
Hyperparathyroidism is overactivity of the parathyroid glands resulting in excess production of parathyroid hormone (PTH). Increased PTH consequently leads to increased serum calcium (hypercalcemia) due to 1) increased bone resorp... Category: Endocrine System

Hyperthyroidism
Hyperthyroidism (or "overactive thyroid gland") is the clinical syndrome caused by an excess of circulating free thyroxine (T4) or free triiodothyronine (T3), or both. Major clinical features in humans are weight loss (often ac... Category: Endocrine System

Hypoglycemia (low blood sugar)
Hypoglycemia (hypoglycaemia in the UK) is a medical term referring to a pathologic state produced by a lower than normal amount of sugar (glucose) in the blood. The term hypoglycemia literally means "low blood sugar". Hypoglycemia... Category: Genetic & Metabolic

Hypoparathyroidism
In medicine (endocrinology), hypoparathyroidism is decreased function of the parathyroid glands, leading to decreased levels of parathyroid hormone (PTH). The consequence, hypocalcemia, is a serious medical condition. Hypocalce... Category: Endocrine System

Hypothyroidism
Hypothyroidism is the disease state caused by insufficient production of thyrohormone by the thyroid gland. There are several distinct causes for chronic hypothyroidism, the most common being Hashimoto's thyroiditis and hypothyroi... Category: Endocrine System

Hypotonia
Hypotonia is a condition of abnormally low muscle tone (the amount of tension or resistance to movement in a muscle), often involving reduced muscle strength. Hypotonia is not a specific medical disorder, but a potential manifesta... Category: Children's Physical Health

Hysterectomy
A hysterectomy is the surgical removal of the uterus, usually done by a gynecologist. Hysterectomy may be total (removing the body and cervix of the uterus) or partial (also called supra-cervical). Surgical removal of the ovaries ... Category: Women's Health