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Urinary incontinence is a term given to involuntary leakage of urine. Disease impacts the quality of life of a person and is a distressing situation. Urinary incontinence generally results secondary to a underlying medical condition which is often treatable. If there is problem with stools the condition is known as fecal incontinence.

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Symptoms of Glaucoma

Glaucoma is characterized by triad of increased intraocular pressure, loss of peripheral vision and optic nerve damage. Regular eye examaintion helps to detect and treat glaucoma

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Tropical Sprue

Tropical sprue is a poorly understand syndrome that affects both expatriates and natives in certain but not all tropical areas and is manifested by chronic diarrhoea ,steatorrhoea,weight loss and nutritional deficiencies, including those of both folate and cobalamin.

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Giant Axonal Disease

Giant axonal neuropathy (GAN) is characterized by a severe early-onset peripheral motor and sensory neuropathy, central nervous system involvement (mental retardation, seizures, cerebellar signs, and pyramidal tract signs), and characteristic tightly curled hair. Most individuals become wheelchair dependent in the second decade of life and eventually bedridden with severe polyneuropathy, ataxia, and dementia. Death usually occurs in the third decade.

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Mitral Stenosis

Mitral stenosis is a valvular heart disease which affects the mitral valve.

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NAcetyl Glutamate Synthetase Deficiency

NAGS deficiency is a rare autosomal recessive inherited urea cycle disorder where a lack of a certain enzyme (N-acetyl glutamate synthetase) results in accumulation of ammonia in the blood as it can't be broken down and removed through the urine. Symptoms are visible within the first week of life and if not detected and diagnosed immediately consequences are fatal.

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What happens if there is a Bioterrorism...

It was March 20th 2003, the whole world was glued on their television sets, and the world was witnessing what many hailed as WORLD WAR 3. Which was the was on Iraq or Operation Iraqi Freedom in which all the big allied forces of United states along with UK , with smaller contingents from Australia and Poland were invading Iraq and to over throw Saddam Hussein.

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Diagnosis and treatment of binge eating disorder

Binge eating disorder is not an illness that can be treated on your own. The goals for treatment of binge eating disorder are to reduce eating binges, improve emotional well being, and to lose weight.

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Medications for osteoporosis

Osteoporosis is a disease which is characterized by low bone mass and loss of bone tissue making the bone weak and fragility of the bones. In the condition there will be no enough of new bone is formed.

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Diverticulosis

Diverticulitis is the common digestive disease of the large intestine. In this the diverticuli of the large intestine are inflamed. Diverticulosis is the abnormal pouches seen outside the colon. The inflammation of these diverticuli is called diverticulitis

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