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Medications
… Uses Benztropine is used to treat symptoms of Parkinson's disease or involuntary movements due to the side effects of … helps improve walking ability in people with Parkinson's disease. Anticholinergics can stop severe muscle spasms of … as needed. If you are using this medication for Parkinson's disease, your doctor may change the dose of your other …
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… Plant-based eating patterns can lower your risk of chronic diseases such as heart disease, type 2 diabetes and cancer. They’re also a great …
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… lowers the amount of thyroid hormone in your body. Graves' disease is the most common cause of hyperthyroidism. If your hyperthyroidism is not caused by Graves' disease, this information may not apply to you. Key points … Radioactive iodine is often recommended if you have Graves' disease and are older than 50, or if you have thyroid …
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… Glasgow RE, Mulvihill SJ (2015). Treatment of gallstone disease. In M Feldman et al., eds., Sleisenger and Fordtran's Gastrointestinal and Liver Disease , 10th ed., vol. 1, pp 1134–1138. Philadelphia: … Glasgow RE, Mulvihill SJ (2015). Treatment of gallstone disease. In M Feldman et al., eds., Sleisenger and …
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… What is whooping cough? Whooping cough (pertussis) is a disease that causes very severe coughing that may last for … Getting the pertussis vaccine can help you avoid the disease, make it less severe, and prevent you from spreading … medicines make it less likely that you will spread the disease. If you start taking antibiotics when you first get …
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… organs . Health problems in your family, such as heart disease or genetic conditions . Your general health. This … families. These include cystic fibrosis, sickle cell disease, and Tay-Sachs disease. Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) such as …
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… often the cause. Other causes include hernias and Crohn's disease , which can twist or narrow the intestine. Or a … intestine caused by diverticulitis or inflammatory bowel disease . What are the symptoms? Symptoms of a bowel … You may need a colostomy or an ileostomy after surgery. The diseased part of the intestine is removed, and the remaining …
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… treatment for pelvic cancer. A period of inflammatory bowel disease (including Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis ) or diverticulitis . A deep … talk about your symptoms and about any surgery, trauma, or disease that could have caused a fistula. For a physical …
Medications
… Uses This medication is used to treat certain types of lung disease (idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis- IPF, interstitial lung disease). Both types of lung disease scar and stiffen your lungs, making it hard to …
Medical tests
… cause of jaundice. A liver biopsy can find certain liver diseases (such as cirrhosis), infections (such as … and AST levels show liver damage and can help confirm liver disease. See how much the liver is inflamed or scarred by hepatitis or other liver diseases. See whether other liver conditions, such as …
