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Hyperbilirubinemia type I
Better known as Gilbert's disease, a common but harmless genetic condition in which a liver enzyme essential to the disposal of bilirubin (the chemical that results from the normal breakdown of hemoglobin from red blood cells) is abnormal…
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- Flu vaccine, nasal-spray See: Nasal flu vaccine
- Fever, Ebola virus A notoriously deadly virus that causes fearsome symptoms, the most prominent being high fever and massive…
- Nodular Bumpy.
- Acute coronary syndromes A spectrum of conditions involving chest discomfort or other symptoms caused by lack of oxygen to the heart…
- Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report Known for short as MMWR, this is a key weekly scientific publication prepared and published by the US Centers…
- Childhood ataxia with CNS hypomyelinization Ataxia with central nervous system hypomyelinization: An inherited brain disease that occurs mainly in…
- Magnesium sulfate A remarkably versatile compound administered intramuscularly and intravenously as an anticonvulsant and as a…
- PUVA PUVA stands for psoralen (P) and ultraviolet A (UVA) therapy in which the patient is exposed first to…
- Iridology The practice of diagnosing disease by examining the iris of the eye. Although some diseases do affect the…
- Autosomal recessive A genetic condition that appears only in individuals who have received two copies of an autosomal gene, one…
- Frey syndrome Sweating on one side of the forehead, face, scalp, and neck occurring soon after ingesting food as a result…