Guillain-barre Syndrome : Risk Factors
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Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) is an infectious disease caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). It was first recognized in the United States in 1981.
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AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome) is the final and most serious stage of HIV disease, which causes severe damage to the immune system.
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Detailed information on HIV and AIDS, including transmission, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment
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Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is the final and most serious stage of the disease caused by the human immunodeficiency virus. Symptoms begin when an HIV-positive person presents a CD4-cell (also called T cell, a type of immune cell) count below 200.
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Detailed information on HIV and AIDS, including transmission, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment
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Detailed information on human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) during pregnancy
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A person with HIV can look and feel perfectly healthy. But that person can give HIV to others as soon as he or she is infected with the virus.
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Homosexuals and heterosexuals alike are at risk. Infected people can pass HIV on to anyone with whom they have intimate contact. Men can infect female or male partners, as can women.
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Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) is an infectious disease caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). AIDS is the advanced form of infection caused by HIV and typically only manifests itself after a long latency period after initial HIV infection.
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New drug treatments can delay the effects of AIDS and are helping patients live longer. But the reality is that no medicine can cure AIDS or the virus that causes it, HIV. Once inside the body, HIV destroys immune system cells, making it difficult to fight off illness.
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If you're not quite sure what's up with AIDS these days, don't feel alone. Misconceptions and falsehoods concerning AIDS and HIV abound.
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Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) is an infectious disease caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). It was first recognized in the United States in 1981.
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What's true and what's not when it comes to AIDS? Here's a look at some common myths surrounding HIV infection and AIDS.
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Detailed information on HIV and AIDS, including transmission, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment
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Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a retrovirus that causes acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) by infecting helper T cells of the immune system. The most common serotype, HIV-1, is distributed worldwide, while HIV-2 is primarily confined to West Africa.
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Caging a Killer: Fighting AIDS for Two DecadesOften called the president's lead physician in the war against AIDS, Eric P. Goosby, M.D., has been a leading AIDS researcher for nearly two decades.
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Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, or AIDS, is the final, life-threatening stage of infection with any of the human immunodeficiency viruses (HIV-1, its many subtypes, or HIV-2), which are transmitted from person to person sexually (including via anal, oral, and vaginal intercourse, both heterosexually and homosexually), through contact with blood (mainly via equipment used to inject illicit drugs and, rarely, via medical uses of blood), and perinatally (from mother to fetus or newborn during pregnancy, labor, and delivery, or after birth through breast-feeding). ORIGIN AND HISTORY HIV-1 and HIV-2 both appear to have been transmitted to humans from primates in Central and West Africa, probably to hunters or processors of carcasses of primates consumed as food (referred to as " bush meat " ).
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Detailed information on HIV home care for your child
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HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) was identified in 1983 by the French scientist Luc Montagier and his staff at the Pasteur Institute in Paris. Ever since that discovery, scientists have been searching for ways to treat those infected with HIV, and to produce a vaccine to prevent its spread.
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Bacteria are prokaryotes (unicellular organisms with no membrane-enclosed nucleus) with simple structures that typically range in size from about 0.5 to 20 micrometers.
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The bacterium Heliobacter pylori is the only one that can survive inside the human stomach. It causes gastritis and ulcers, but is generally treatable with a combination of antibiotics.
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The FDA notes that shellfish, especially mollusks, are more likely to cause foodborne illness than fish because shellfish pump water through their bodies.
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Hodgkin's lymphoma is a malignancy (cancer) of lymph tissue found in the lymph nodes, spleen, liver, and bone marrow.
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Detailed information on Hodgkin's lymphoma, including symptoms, causes, diagnosis, and treatment
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What Is Hodgkin's Disease?Hodgkin’s disease is a type of cancer.
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Detailed information on Hodgkin's lymphoma, including causes, stages, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment
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I’ve Just Been Told I Have Hodgkin’s DiseaseThere are very few things scarier than being told you have cancer. You may feel like you’re in shock.
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Detailed information on Hodgkin's lymphoma, including causes, symptoms, staging, diagnosis, and treatment
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Expert-reviewed information summary about the treatment of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma during pregnancy.
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Hodgkin's Lymphoma During PregnancyGeneral InformationNote: A separate PDQ summary onAdult Hodgkin's Lymphoma Treatmentis also available.This summary discusses the treatment of Hodgkin's lymphoma during pregnancy.What is Hodgkin's lymphoma?Hodgkin...
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Understanding the Types of Hodgkin’s DiseaseFinding out which type of Hodgkin’s disease you have is an important step in choosing the best treatment. There are 2 different types of Hodgkin’s disease.
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Can I Get Checked for Hodgkin’s Disease Before I Have Symptoms?Screening tests check for signs of cancer in people who don’t have any symptoms.
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Am I At Risk for Hodgkin’s Disease?Scientists and medical professionals are working hard to better understand who will get Hodgkin’s disease, and why.
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What Can I Do if I’m At Risk for Hodgkin’s Disease?If you have any of the factors that put you at risk for Hodgkin’s disease, what can you do?
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Can I Prevent Hodgkin’s Disease?No one is sure how to prevent Hodgkin’s disease.
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What to Know About Your Treatment Choices for Hodgkin’s DiseaseResearchers are continually finding new ways to treat Hodgkin's disease. People diagnosed with it now have more hope for a cure than ever before.The choices that you have for treatment...
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What Are the Symptoms of Hodgkin’s Disease?Hodgkin’s disease has many different symptoms.
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What to Know About Treatment for Recurring Hodgkin’s DiseaseIf Hodgkin’s disease comes back after treatment, the cancer may still be cured. In many cases, it may respond to other chemotherapy drugs.
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Follow-up Care for Hodgkin’s DiseaseWhen you have radiation and chemotherapy, you may have long-term side effects. While these are not common, they are significant.
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Types of Treatment for Hodgkin’s DiseaseHodgkin’s disease treatments are either local or systemic.Local treatments remove, destroy, or control the cancer cells in a certain area of your body. Radiation therapy is a local treatment.Systemic treatme...
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Can I Survive Hodgkin's Disease? What Is My Prognosis?
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How Your Doctor Uses a Biopsy to Diagnose Hodgkin’s DiseaseA biopsy is the only way for your doctors to know for sure if you have cancer. For a biopsy, the doctor removes a sample of the tumor.
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Tests That Help Evaluate Hodgkin’s DiseaseOnce the diagnosis is established as Hodgkin’s disease, the second important part of diagnosis is assessing how advanced the disease is. Depending on where the initial lymph nodes are, you may need some o...
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Hodgkin’s Disease PathophysiologyThe pathophysiology of a disease is a description of how it grows and moves through the body. Hodgkin's disease has a special way of spreading.Hodgkin's disease is different from other lymphomas because of the pres...
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What to Know About Radiation for Hodgkin’s DiseaseRadiation uses high-energy X-rays to kill cancer cells. For Hodgkin’s disease, the radiation comes from a machine that is directed to the outside of your body.
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What to Know About Chemotherapy for Hodgkin’s DiseaseChemotherapy is the use of drugs to kill cancer cells. For this treatment, you will see amedical oncologist.This is a doctor who specializes in using drugs to treat cancer.
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What to Know About Stem Cell Transplant for Hodgkin’s DiseaseThe first step for this treatment is to be treated with high doses of chemotherapy. Your body would normally not be able to handle such high doses because all the bone marrow and many ot...
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Frequently Asked Questions About Hodgkin’s DiseaseListed below are some frequently asked questions regarding Hodgkin’s disease.Q: What are lymphomas?A:Lymphoma is a kind of cancer that starts in the lymphatic system.
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Get Support During Treatment for Hodgkin’s DiseaseDealing with your feelings is often easier as you learn more about Hodgkin’s disease and get support from others. Doctors, nurses, and other members of your healthcare team can answer your questions.
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Tips for Feeling Your Best During Treatment for Hodgkin’s DiseaseWhen you are being treated for Hodgkin’s disease, you will most likely have side effects. Depending on how advanced your cancer is, you may also have symptoms of the disease.
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What Does the 5-Year Survival Rate for Hodgkin's Disease Mean?Survival rates show the percentage of people who live for a specific length of time after being told they have Hodgkin's disease.
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Hodgkin’s Disease StagingBy using exams and tests, a doctor can tell the stage of a person's Hodgkin's disease. The stage tells the doctor how much and how far the disease has spread.
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Potential Side Effects from Radiation Treatment for Hodgkin’s DiseaseRadiation therapy affects normal cells as well as cancer cells. Side effects of radiation depend on the part of your body being treated.
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Potential Side Effects from Chemotherapy for Hodgkin’s DiseaseChemotherapy drugs are designed to attack and kill cells that divide quickly, including lymphoma cells. These drugs can also affect quickly dividing normal cells, such as your hair or b...
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Potential Side Effects from Bone Marrow or Stem Cell Transplant for Hodgkin’s DiseaseMost of the short-term side effects of stem cell transplantation are from the high doses of chemotherapy. These should go away as you recover from the transplant.
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Do What You Can to Ease Side Effects from Treatment for Hodgkin’s DiseaseHere are some common side effects from treatment for Hodgkin’s disease and how to ease them. You may not have all of these.
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Tell Your Healthcare Team How You Feel During Treatment for Hodgkin’s DiseaseTreating your cancer to get the best results is important. But your quality of life also matters.
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Hodgkin ' s disease, also called Hodgkin ' s lymphoma, is a type of cancer involving tissues of the lymphatic system, or lymph nodes. Its cause is unknown, although some interaction between individual genetic makeup, family history, environmental exposures, and infectious agents is suspected.
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Hodgkin ' s disease is a rare lymphoma , a cancer of the lymphatic system. Hodgkin ' s disease, or Hodgkin ' s lymphoma, was first described in 1832 by Thomas Hodgkin, a British physician.
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Hodgkin ' s disease is a rare lymphoma, a cancer of the lymphatic system. Hodgkin ' s disease, or Hodgkin ' s lymphoma, was first described in 1832 by Thomas Hodgkin, a British physician.
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What Are the Treatment Statistics for Hodgkin's Disease?The prognosis for people diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease before it has spread is very good.
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Expert-reviewed information summary about the treatment of childhood Hodgkin lymphoma.
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Expert-reviewed information summary about the treatment of adult Hodgkin lymphoma.
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Statistics About Hodgkin's DiseaseSome people use statistical reports to try to figure out their chance of getting cancer. Or they use them to try to figure out their chance of being cured.
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Can I Get Checked for Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma Before I Have Symptoms?Screening tests check for signs of disease in people who don’t have any symptoms.
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Infectious mononucleosis is a contagious illness caused by the Epstein-Barr virus that can affect the liver, lymph nodes, and oral cavity. While mononucleosis is not usually a serious disease, its primary symptoms of fatigue and lack of energy can linger for several months.
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Mononucleosis is a viral infection causing fevers, sore throat, and swollen lymph glands, especially in the neck. It is usually linked to the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), but can also be caused by other organisms such as cytomegalovirus (CMV. See also: Infectious mononucleosis (acute CMV infection)
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Detailed information on infectious mononucleosis, including symptoms, causes, diagnosis, treatment, and transmission
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Often called "mono" for short, mononucleosis is an infection by the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), one of the herpes viruses.
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Detailed information on infectious mononucleosis, including causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, and transmission
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Detailed information on infectious mononucleosis, including symptoms, causes, diagnosis, treatment, and transmission
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Detailed information on infectious mononucleosis, including symptoms, causes, diagnosis, treatment, and transmission
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Infectious mononucleosis is a contagious illness caused by the Epstein-Barr virus, which can affect the liver, lymph nodes, and oral cavity. While mononucleosis is not usually a serious disease, its primary symptoms of fatigue and lack of energy can linger for several months.
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To what extent should a person who has been diagnosed with infectious mononucleosis limit physical activities? And for how long? I know to avoid contact sports, but what about swimming, snorkeling or scuba activities once symptoms have eased?
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My 17-year-old daughter has mono for the third time within 1 1/2 years. Is this common? What could be done as a possible preventive? Should we be seeing an immunologist?
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Detailed information on respiratory conditions in children, including asthma, croup, the common cold, and the flu
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Systemic lupus erythematosus is a multisystem, autoimmune, connective-tissue disorder with a broad range of clinical presentations. There is a peak age of onset in young women between their late teens and early 40s and women to men ratio of 9:1.
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Systemic lupus erythematosus (also called lupus or SLE) is a disease where a person ' s immune system attacks and injures the body ' s own organs and tissues. Almost every system of the body can be affected by SLE.
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Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a chronic, inflammatory autoimmune disorder. It may affect the skin, joints, kidneys, and other organs.
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Detailed information on systemic lupus erythematosus (lupus), including causes, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment
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Detailed information on systemic lupus erythematosus (lupus), including causes, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment
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Detailed information on systemic lupus erythematosus (lupus), including causes, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment
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The following Clinical Topic Tour provides an overview of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and was adapted from materials published by the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases.
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Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a multisystem autoimmune disease with protean clinical manifestations that may affect any organs or system. shows the 1997 revised American College of Rheumatology (ACR) criteria for the classification of SLE. The disease is characterized by flares, remissions and autoantibodies directed against several intracellular and cell-surface antigens.
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Because most therapeutic interventions in patients with SLE are associated with significant undesirable side effects, the physician must first decide whether a patient needs treatment and, if so, whether conservative management is sufficient or aggressive immunosuppression is necessary. Figure 76-1 presents an algorithm for this decision making.
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Nearly all people with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) have a positive (abnormal) ANA -- that is, the sensitivity of the ANA for SLE is quite high. That also means that it is very rare to have lupus with a negative (normal) ANA.
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My mother was diagnosed a few years ago with lupus (non-systemic). Can this turn into systemic lupus?
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Systemic lupus erythematosus (also called lupus or SLE) is a disease in which a person ' s immune system attacks and injures the body ' s own organs and tissues. Almost every system of the body can be affected.
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Detailed information on the different types of hepatitis, including viral hepatitis, hepatitis a, hepatitis b, and hepatitis c
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Detailed information on the different types of hepatitis, including viral hepatitis, hepatitis a, hepatitis b, and hepatitis c
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Detailed information on the different types of hepatitis, including viral hepatitis, hepatitis a, hepatitis b, and hepatitis c
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