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Non-Hodgkin lymphoma is a type of cancer. Learn about how it forms and treatment choices.

Learn what the pancreas does, how pancreatic cancer forms, and what the treatment choices are.

Human bites can be more serious than animal bites because they often become infected.

Your spine stretches from the base of your skull to your tailbone. It's composed of 33 bones (vertebrae) stacked on top of one another.

Collarbone breaks are common, and are often due to a blow or fall. Shoulder blade fractures are less common. Both injuries need treatment.

Sepsis is a medical emergency. It happens when your body responds with widespread inflammation to a bad infection, or to bacteria in your bloodstream.

Treatment for an SCI starts right away, at the accident scene. You will then stay in a hospital or treatment center for rehabilitation.

A subungual hematoma is a pool of blood that collects under a nail after an injury. In most cases, a nail hematoma isn't serious, but it can be very painful.

You have an arteriovenous malformation (AVM). An AVM is an abnormal tangle of blood vessels in the brain. Some AVMs never burst (rupture). But some things can lead to a rupture. If you have an AVM, you were likely born with it. But most people don't know they have one until a problem develops.