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Vitamin B-12 deficiency anemia is a condition in which your body does not have enough healthy red blood cells, due to a lack (deficiency) of vitamin B-12. This vitamin is needed to make red blood cells, which carry oxygen to all parts of your body.

Hemolytic anemia is a disorder in which red blood cells are destroyed faster than they are made. Here's what you need to know.

A look at what we know about how migraine pain starts.

Muscular dystrophy is a group of inherited diseases that are characterized by weakness and wasting away of muscle tissue, with or without the breakdown of nerve tissue. Learn more about the types of muscular dystrophy and other types of neuromuscular diseases.

Horseshoe kidney is when the two kidneys join (fuse) together at the bottom. They form a U shape like a horseshoe.

Detailed information on controlling phosphorus in your child's diet.

BSE is a cattle disease, and vCJD is the equivalent disease in humans. Both are fatal brain diseases. Researchers believe that people become infected by eating beef contaminated with BSE.

Taking one or a mix of painkiller medicines daily over a long time may cause chronic kidney problems. This is called analgesic nephropathy. Painkillers that combine two or more medicines (such as aspirin and acetaminophen together) with caffeine or codeine are the most likely to harm the kidneys.

Glomerulosclerosis is scarring in the tiny blood vessels in the kidneys called the glomeruli. These are the tiny units in the kidneys that filter urine from the blood.