This complex disease involves having excess body fat early in life, and it can lead to health troubles later. Learn how to protect your child's health.
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Type 2 diabetes in children
More children are being diagnosed with this blood sugar condition. Learn how to help manage or prevent this chronic disease in your child.
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Epidermoid cysts
Find out more about this usually harmless, common skin bump in adults.
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Epidermolysis bullosa
Learn about a rare inherited disease that often shows up in infancy and causes fragile, blistering skin on the palms and feet. Severe disease may be fatal.
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Cold urticaria
Cold causes this allergic skin response. It most often affects young adults, with symptoms ranging from mild to serious.
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Diaper rash
Learn more about the causes, prevention and home remedies for this common condition that irritates skin under diapers.
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Frostbite
Learn how to prevent cold injury to the skin when outdoors in freezing temperatures and how to treat and recover from frostbite.
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Hair loss
This common and sometimes stressful condition may result from heredity, medications or medical conditions. Treatment may reverse or slow hair loss.
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Ingrown hair
Learn about causes, treatment and prevention of this common, painful skin condition — sometimes called razor bumps, barber's itch, shave bumps and pseudofolliculitis barbae.
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Moles
Moles, also known as nevi, are a common type of skin growth that vary in color, shape and size. While most moles are most often harmless, they rarely can become cancerous.
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Malaria
Learn about the symptoms, causes, treatment, and prevention of this infectious disease transmitted to humans through mosquito bites.
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Endocarditis
Learn what causes this infection of the inner lining of the heart chambers and valves (endocardium) and find out how to prevent and treat it.