Antiviral are drugs used to Tx viral infections. Like antibiotics (for bacteria), specific antivirals can Tx specific viruses. Unlike most antibiotics, antivirals don't destroy the target pathogen, but rather inhibits their...

Hair loss (aka alopecia, baldness) is loss of hair from the head/body. Sx Can be general hair loss, or male pattern hair loss Classification Alopecia areata, an autoimmune disorder Alopecia totalis, which involves the loss...

Stress [urinary] incontinence (aka effort incontinence) is due to insufficient strength of the closure of the bladder. [faq]What is stress incontinence? It's where, whenever you put physical stress on your body, you...

Tay-Sachs disease (aka GM2 gangliosidosis or hexosaminidase A deficiency) is a rare autosomal recessive genetic disorder. In its most common variant (infantile Tay-Sachs disease), it causes a progressive deterioration of...

Glucagonoma is a rare tumor of the alpha cells of the pancreas, that results in the overproduction of the hormone glucagon. Alpha cell tumors are commonly associated with glucagonoma syndrome,...

Hypercholesterolemia (aka dyslipidemia) is high levels of cholesterol in the blood. Pathophysiology Cholesterol is a sterol It is 1 of the 3 major classes of lipids, which all animal cells utilize to construct...

Vaginal bleeding is any bleeding through the vagina. PV is shorthand for blood loss per vaginam (Latin for "through the vagina"). [faq]What is vaginal bleeding? It's bleeding through the vagina. What is a...

Prenatal diagnosis and screening is the testing for diseases or conditions in a fetus or embryo before it is before. Purpose It aims to detect birth defects e.g. neural tube defects, Down...

Embolization is the detachment, and travelling mass carried by circulation, capable of clogging capillary beds, creating arterial occlusion, at a site distant from its point of origin. Classification [[Thromboembolism]], embolism of thrombus...

Antibody (Ab, aka immunoglobulin, Ig) is a large, Y-shaped protein, produced mainly by plasma cells (i.e. WBC's which secrete large volumes of antibodies), that is used by the immune system...