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Professor Christobel Saunders explains breast cancer risks, signs and symptoms, screening, and how to assess your own breasts.
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Glaucoma, a group of disorders affecting the eyes, is a leading cause of blindness. Increased intraocular pressure damages eye tissues and the optic nerve.
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Supraspinatus tendinitis or painful arc syndrome is shoulder pain caused by inflammation or tears in the tendons of the shoulder joint.
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Therapeutic thoracentesis samples pleural effusion in the lungs to check for disease. Symtoms of lung disease may include shortness of breath, chest pain and cough.
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Lymphoma of the spinal cord usually occurs when cancer metastasises from other organs. The cancer is rarely caused by a primary tumour of the spinal cord.
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The walking bleach technique is used to whiten teeth that have had root canal treatments. It involves bleaching the tooth from the inside of the tooth.
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Intraventricular conduction blocks refer to obstructions of electrical signals in the heart, due to dysfunction in the fibres of the heart ventricles.
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Medical information about cause of flatulence gas and cure of flatulence commonly called farting.
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