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Acoustic neuroma
Acoustic neuroma - Comprehensive overview covers symptoms, causes, treatment of this usually noncancerous brain tumor. Although it's frightening to learn that you have a tumor growing inside your head, it may be somewhat comforting to know that ... [... more]
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Vitamin deficiency anemia
Vitamin deficiency anemia - Comprehensive overview covers symptoms, causes, treatment of this type of anemia. Your body needs vitamins - nutrients found in most foods - for many reasons, including producing healthy red blood cells. If your body ... [... more]
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Vasculitis
Vasculitis - Comprehensive overview covers symptoms, causes, treatment of this inflammation of the blood vessels. Vasculitis is an inflammation of your blood vessels. Also called angiitis, vasculitis causes changes in the walls of your blood ... [... more]
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Viral hemorrhagic fevers
Viral hemorrhagic fevers - Comprehensive overview covers symptoms, treatment, prevention of these sometimes deadly diseases. Viral hemorrhagic fevers (VHFs) are caused by viruses from four distinct families and range in severity from relatively ... [... more]
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Vaginal atrophy
Vaginal atrophy - Comprehensive overview covers symptoms and treatment of this common postmenopausal condition. Vaginal atrophy (atrophic vaginitis) is thinning and inflammation of the vaginal walls due to a decline in estrogen. Vaginal atrophy ... [... more]
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Vaginitis - MayoClinic.com
Vaginitis - Comprehensive overview covers symptoms, treatment of this inflammation of the vagina. Vaginitis is an inflammation of the vagina that can result in discharge, itching and pain. The cause is usually a change in the normal balance of ... [... more]
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Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV)
Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo - Comprehensive overview covers symptoms, causes, treatment of intense dizziness episodes. Vertigo is the sudden sensation that you are unsteady or that your surroundings are moving. You may feel like you're ... [... more]
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Vaginal cancer
Vaginal cancer - Comprehensive overview covers symptoms, causes, risk factors of cancer of the vagina. Vaginal cancer is a rare cancer that occurs in your vagina - the muscular tube that connects your uterus with your outer genitals. Vaginal ... [... more]
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Vulvar cancer
Vulvar cancer - Comprehensive overview covers symptoms, treatment of this cancer of the female genitalia. Vulvar cancer is an uncommon cancer of the outer surface area of the female genitalia. Most vulvar cancers are squamous cell carcinomas - a ... [... more]
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Chickenpox
Chickenpox - Comprehensive overview covers symptoms, treatment, prevention of this once common childhood illness. Chickenpox was once considered a rite of passage for most children. Before the vaccine became available, about 4 million children in ... [... more]
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Vulvodynia
Vulvodynia - Comprehensive overview covers symptoms, treatment, self-care of this painful vaginal condition. The pain in your pelvic area has lasted for months. You're so uncomfortable you can hardly sit. Having sex is unthinkable. Nothing ... [... more]
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