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Hepatitis C is a liver disease that is caused by the hepatitis C virus. It is redness and swelling (inflammation) of the liver that sometimes causes lasting damage. The liver isn’t able to work the way it should.

Gallstones are lumps of solid material in your gallbladder. They're formed when the digestive juice called bile gets hard like a stone. They can be as small as a grain of sand or as big as a golf ball. Your gallbladder may form one big stone, hundreds of tiny ones, or both sizes at the same time.

Detailed information on insect bites, including bee stings, flea bites, mite bites, chigger bites, spider bites, tick bites, and lyme disease.

Detailed information on burns, burn types, classification of burns, burn treatment, and burn rehabilitation

Here is a list of questions to ask your doctor about treatment for thyroid cancer.

Several rare syndromes raise the risk for colorectal cancer. These disorders include Turcot syndrome, Peutz-Jeghers . syndrome, juvenile polyposis coli, and MUTYH-associated polyposis.

The goal of pain control is to prevent pain that can be prevented, and to treat pain that cannot be prevented. It is possible that you will not have pain from chemotherapy treatments. But if you do, you can take steps to relieve it.

It can be hard to know just what to do or how to help when someone you care about is grieving. Here are some helpful ideas.

Yoga means "union"—a union of the mind, body, and spirit—and uses slow movement, precise posture, meditation, and breathing exercises to reach a state of relaxation.