Disease Treatments

Huntington's disease is a genetic disorder. It affects the brain and gets worse over time. This can lead to problems with moving, memory loss as well...

neurons. Other treatments for ALS are designed to make symptoms less painful and improve the quality of life for patients. "Motor neuron diseases fact sheet:...

A disease or medical condition is an unhealthy state where something bad happens to the body or mind. Diseases can cause pain, parts of the body to stop...

no treatment that cures CJD or even slows down its effects. Many experiments are being done to try to find treatments. Today, the only treatments for...

there are treatments that can help some patients with the signs and symptoms so they do not affect them as badly. There are also treatments which slow...

Parkinson's disease (or PD, sometimes simply "Parkinson's") is a disease that slowly damages the central nervous system. The central nervous system is...

medicines like Praziquantel and mebendazole. Some infectious diseases have no treatments that work well. For example, there is no medicine that works...

Lyme disease is treated with antibiotics. Depending on disease stage and antibiotic used, treatment is usually between 10 and 28 days. Fever A bulls-eye...

advanced state of gum disease, that affects the bone and is harder to treat. Gingivitis and Periodontitis Gum Disease Treatments This short article about...

outside a host cell. Prion diseases are very rare, and no treatment is available for most of them. There is no cure for prion diseases, and they will always...

called congenital heart disease. If people get heart disease later, it is called acquired heart disease. Most heart disease is acquired.[source?] The...

Disease Causes, Symptoms, Diagnosis, and Treatment". medicinenet.com. 2012. Retrieved 26 October 2012. "Addison's Disease Symptoms, Causes, Treatment...

used, as the disease is now classified by its better known causes. Cameron JS (1972). "Bright's disease today: the pathogenesis and treatment of glomerulonephritis--I"...

(December 2013). "Pelvic inflammatory disease: current concepts in pathogenesis, diagnosis and treatment". Infectious Disease Clinics of North America. 27 (4):...

A sexually transmitted disease (STD) is a disease which spreads by having sex. STDs can spread through oral sex or anal sex, or when two people's genitals...

Sickle cell anaemia is a genetic disease. It affects red blood cells. It changes the cells from flexible disks into rigid crescents. When many red cells...

There is also no specific treatment for HFMD. It goes away on its own after one or two weeks. "Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease (Coxsackie viral infection)...

Tay-Sachs disease (also called Tray-Sachs syndrome) is a disease that causes problems with the metabolism of fat. Tay-Sachs is caused by a lack of the...

artery disease, also called coronary heart disease, is a heart disease. ("Coronary" means "the blood vessels of the heart".) Coronary heart disease causes...

treat a patient's condition than the "standard" treatment already used. Compare two drugs or treatments to see which one is better able to treat a given...