Diseases

Diseases

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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 and difficulty to ...

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 first described by ...

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 days to two weeks. Is ...

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 inborn error of ...

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 has a small core ...

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 which many people ...