- Disease - Wikipedia
There are four main types of disease: infectious diseases, deficiency diseases, hereditary diseases (including both genetic and non-genetic hereditary diseases), and physiological diseases Diseases can also be classified in other ways, such as communicable versus non-communicable diseases
- Medical Diseases Conditions - Mayo Clinic
Explore comprehensive guides on hundreds of common and rare diseases and conditions from the experts at Mayo Clinic
- What Is Disease? The Medical Science of Illness Explained
At first glance, the answer seems deceptively simple: disease is the presence of illness, of something going wrong within the body But the deeper we probe into this question—scientifically, philosophically, and biologically—the more elusive and complex the definition becomes
- All Diseases and Conditions | NIAMS
Osteoporosis is a bone disease that develops when the bones get weaker and less dense When a child or teen develops osteoporosis, the condition is known as juvenile osteoporosis
- Human disease - Classifications, Causes, Symptoms | Britannica
Classifications of diseases become extremely important in the compilation of statistics on causes of illness (morbidity) and causes of death (mortality) It is obviously important to know what kinds of illness and disease are prevalent in an area and how these prevalence rates vary with time
- Conditions and Diseases - Johns Hopkins Medicine
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- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | CDC
Find diseases and conditions; healthy living; workplace safety; environmental health; injury, violence and safety; global health; travelers’ health and more MMWR is a weekly epidemiological digest that provides timely, reliable, objective, and useful public health information
- What is a disease? - PMC
What counts as a disease also changes over historical time, partly as a result of increasing expectations of health, partly due to changes in diagnostic ability, but mostly for a mixture of social and economic reasons
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