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Diabetes (Type 2)
Diabetes insipidus

How psychosocial factors can influence diabetes outcomes

12 Jul 2018

The issue of how psychosocial factors can influence diabetes outcomes is the essence of this in-depth analysis on behalf of Roche Diabetes Care Here, health psychologist Professor Katharine Barnard...

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What is cannabis oil and how does it work?

9 Jul 2018 • 4 comments

What is cannabis oil? Cannabis oils are extracts from cannabis plants. Unprocessed, they contain the same 100 or so active ingredients as the plants, but the balance of compounds depends on the...

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Tea towels 'can cause food poisoning'

12 Jun 2018

Multi-use of tea towels is putting households at risk of food poisoning, research suggests. Scientists from the University of Mauritius examined 100 towels that had been used for a month. They found...

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How much should seniors exercise to improve brain function?

6 Jun 2018 • 2 comments

To boost their reasoning skills and the brain's processing speed, seniors may need to exercise for 52 hours over a period of 6 months, concludes a new study. The good news is that low-intensity...

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Autoimmune hepatitis
Benign liver tumours
Cirrhosis
Hepatic failure
Hepatic veno-occlusive disease
Hepatitis A
Hepatitis and liver diseases
Hepatitis B
Hepatitis D
Hepatitis E
Hepatitis H
Hepatitis of the child
Hepatorenal syndrome
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and NASH
Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis

How are liver function and cholesterol production linked?

6 Jun 2018 • 5 comments

Most cholesterol in the body is made in the liver and is necessary for good health. But some forms of cholesterol can cause several health issues, including damage to the liver. Cholesterol is a...

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Prostate cancer

A new approach to the treatment of prostate cancer

31 May 2018

By understanding the production of specific human sex hormones, it can help develop new treatments for prostate cancer and polycystic ovary syndrome, a new study suggests. The study, led by...

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Cancer

Cancer: 'If exercise was a pill it would be prescribed to every patient'

21 May 2018 • 1 comment

Exercise should be prescribed to all cancer patients, and not to do so would be harmful, some of Australia’s leading experts on cancer have warned. The Clinical Oncology Society of Australia has...

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Body clock linked to mood disorders

21 May 2018 • 4 comments

Disruption to the body's internal clock may put people at increased risk of mood disorders, scientists say. A clock ticks in nearly every cell of the body. And they change how the tissues work in a...

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Exercising regularly 'can keep heart and arteries young'

21 May 2018 • 3 comments

Exercising four to five times a week is necessary to stop the main arteries to the heart from stiffening up, research suggests. Two or three exercise sessions a week kept only some arteries healthy,...

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Adams-Stokes syndrome
Aneurysm
Angina pectoris
Angio-osteohypertrophic syndrome
Angioedema
Aortic arch interruption
Aortic dissection
Arrhythmias
Arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia
Arterial hypertension
Arteriovenous malformation
Atherosclerosis
Atrial fibrillation
Attention deficit disorder with or without hyperactivity
Atypical coarctation of aorta
Brugada syndrome
Budd-Chiari syndrome
Buerger disease
CADASIL syndrome
Cardiac syndrome X
Cardiomyopathy
Cardiovascular diseases
Cardiovascular syncope
Catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia
Cerebral arteriovenous malformation
Cerebral vasculitis
Cerebrovascular accident
Chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency
Complete atrioventricular canal
Congenital heart disease
Congenital pulmonary valve stenosis
Congestive heart failure
Coronary heart disease
Criss-cross heart
Dependent personality disorder
Disorders of the heart valves
Ebstein malformation
Endocarditis
Familial isolated dilated cardiomyopathy
Familial isolated restrictive cardiomyopathy
Familial long QT syndrome
Giant cell arteritis
Heart attack / Infarction
Heart murmur
Hemorrhoid
Hereditary angioedema
Hereditary spherocytosis
Holt-Oram syndrome
Hypercholesterolemia
Idiopathic orthostatic hypotension
Idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension
Low blood pressure
Mitral valve prolapse
Moyamoya disease
Myocardial infarction
Myocarditis
Non-familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
Obliterative arteriopathy
Orthostatic hypertension
Other diseases
Partial atrioventricular canal
Patent ductus arteriosus
Pericarditis
Peripheral arterial disease
Peripheral artery occlusive disease
Phlebitis
Postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome
Pulmonary arterial hypertension
Pulmonary embolism
Pulmonary Hypertension
Raynaud Syndrome
Rendu-Osler-Weber disease
Romano-Ward syndrome
Scimitar syndrome
Silent ischemia
Supra ventricular tachycardia
Supravalvular aortic stenosis
Takayasu arteritis
Temporal arteritis
Tetralogy of Fallot
Transient ischemic attack
Transposition of the great arteries
Tricuspid atresia
Tumours of the heart
Valvular heart disease
Varicose veins
Vasculitis
Venous thrombosis
Ventricular tachycardia
Wegener granulomatosis
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