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Of or pertaining to the prevention and treatment of illness, and the preservation of physical and mental well-being, through the services provided by medical professionals.
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Broken Heart Syndrome
Health care; Diseases
A physical or severe emotional stress can cause the "broken heart syndrome" or Takotsubo cardiomyopathy. Its symptoms are similar to the ones of a heart attack, such as chest pain ...
Gourmand syndrome
Health care; Diseases
Gourmand syndrome is a rare and curious syndrome which produce in the patient an uncontrollable desire to buy or cook exquisite and sophisticated food or dishes. The disease was ...
pine mouth syndrome
Health care; Diseases
By eating pine nuts some people perceive a bitter metallic taste. This taste, known as "pine mouth," usually begins 12 to 48 hours after eating pine nuts and lasts from several ...
fishy odor syndrome
Health care; Diseases
It is a disease that affects one person in 200,000, whose main clinical manifestation is that patients who suffer it release a strong smell of rotting fish. It occurs due to an ...
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
Health care; Diseases
The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC)mission is to help strengthen Europe’s defences against infectious diseases, such as influenza, SARS and HIV/AIDS. It ...
Legionnaires' disease
Health care; Diseases
A potentially fatal infectious disease caused by aerobic bacteria called Legionella. The bacteria got its name from the 1976 Philadelphia convention of the American Legion in ...
Wilson's disease
Health care; Diseases
A rare, inherited disorder that occurs when copper pools in the red blood cells. May cause tremors, muscle rigidity, speech problems and dementia.
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