List of childhood diseases

List of childhood diseases: Encyclopedia - Disease

A disease is any abnormal condition of the body or mind that causes discomfort, dysfunction, or distress to the person affected or those in contact with the person. Sometimes the term is used broadly to include injuries, disabilities, syndromes, symptoms, deviant behaviors, and atypical variations of structure and function, while in other contexts these may be considered distinguishable categories. Pathology is the study of diseases. The subject of systematic classification of diseases is referred to as nosology. The broader bo ...

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List of childhood diseases: Encyclopedia II - Disease - Other uses of the term In biology, disease refers to any abnormal condition of an organism that impairs function. The term disease is often used metaphorically for disordered, dysfunctional, or distressing conditions of other things, as in disease of society. ...

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Coeliac disease - Footnotes

List of childhood diseases: Encyclopedia - Awareness ribbon

Awareness ribbons are short pieces of ribbon folded into a loop, or representations thereof. They are used in the United States as a way for the wearer to make a subtle statement of support for a cause or issue. Some ribbons (such as the red HIV/AIDS ribbon) have also received broader international recognition. Such ribbons are pinned on a person's lapel or other part of clothing, or tied around an object, or represente ...

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List of childhood diseases: Encyclopedia - Chickenpox

Chickenpox, also spelled chicken pox, is the commonly known name for varicella disease, frequently but not exclusively contracted in childhood. Chickenpox is caused by the varicella-zoster virus (VZV), also known as human herpes virus 3 (HHV-3), one of the eight herpes viruses known to affect humans. It is characterized by a fever, followed by itchy raw pox or open sores which heal without scarring. Chickenpox - Effects. Chickenpox has a two-week incubation period and is highly contagio ...

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List of childhood diseases: Encyclopedia - Andrew Wakefield

Dr. Andrew Wakefield (born 1957 in the United Kingdom) is a Canadian trained gastroenterologist, best known as the lead author of a controversial 1998 research study, published in the Lancet, which reported bowel symptoms in a selected sample of 12 children with autistic spectrum disorders, and claimed a possible connection with MMR vaccination [1]. This claim was responsible for a slump in immunisation rates in the UK [2], but was subsequently retracted by 10 of the paper's 13 authors after it was learnt that Wakefield had been hired by ...

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List of childhood diseases: Encyclopedia - Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System

The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System is a United States program for vaccine safety, co-sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). VAERS is a post-marketing safety surveillance program, collecting information about adverse events (possible side effects) that occur after administration of vaccines. Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System - Origins. The program is an outgrowth of the 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (NCVI ...

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List of childhood diseases: Encyclopedia - Smallpox

Smallpox (also known by the Latin names Variola or Variola vera) is a highly contagious disease unique to humans. It is caused by two virus variants called Variola major and Variola minor. V. major is the more deadly form, with a typical mortality of 20-40 percent of those infected. The other type, V. minor, only kills 1% of its victims. Many survivors are left blind in one or both eyes from corneal ulcerations, and persistent skin scarring - pockmarks - is nearly universal. Smallpox was respo ...

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List of childhood diseases: Encyclopedia - Abnormal psychology

Abnormal psychology in clinical psychology studies the nature of psychopathology, its causes, and its treatments. Of course the definition of what constitutes 'abnormal' has varied across time and across cultures. Individuals also vary in what they regard as normal or abnormal behavior. Abnormal psychology - Nosology. Abnormal psychology - DSM-IV TR. In North America the 'bible' of abnormal psychology and psychiatry is the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the America ...

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List of childhood diseases: Encyclopedia - Tuberculosis

Tuberculosis (commonly shortened to TB) is an infection caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which most commonly affects the lungs (pulmonary TB) but can also affect the central nervous system (meningitis), lymphatic system, circulatory system (Miliary tuberculosis), genitourinary system, bones and joints. Tuberculosis is the most common major infectious disease today, infecting two billion people or one-third of the world's population, with nine million new cases of active disease annually, resulting in ...

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List of childhood diseases: Encyclopedia II - Disease - Social significance of disease

The identification of a condition as a disease, rather than as simply a variation of human structure or function, can have significant social or economic implications. The controversial recognitions as diseases of post-traumatic stress disorder, also known as "shell shock"; repetitive motion injury or repetitive stress injury (RSI); and Gulf War syndrome has had a number of positive and negative effects on the financial and other responsibilities of governments, corporations and institutions towards individuals, as well as on the individuals themselves. The social implication of viewing aging as a disease could be p ...

List of childhood diseases: Encyclopedia II - List of Star Wars diseases - S

List of Star Wars diseases - Scurrier Disease. This unusual disease, believed to be carried by wild scurriers, was sometimes contracted on the planet Tatooine. List of Star Wars diseases - Shadow Fever. This disease was believed to be confined to the planet Ord Cestus, where it was often fatal if left untreated. List of Star Wars diseases - Sinjaffe. This childhood disease sometimes struck young members of the Bitthaevrian race, and was almost always fatal. List ...

List of childhood diseases: Encyclopedia II - List of diseases starting with R - Re

List of diseases starting with R - Rea-Reg. Reactive airway disease Reactive arthritis Reactive attachment disorder of early childhood Reactive attachment disorder of infancy Reactive hypoglycemia Reardon Hall Slaney syndrome Reardon Wilson Cavanagh syndrome Rectal neoplasm Rectophobia Rectosigmoid neoplasm Recurrent laryngeal papillomas Recurrent peripheral facial palsy Recurrent respiratory papillom ...

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