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Womenshealth.gov is a service of the Office on Women’s Health (OWH) in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Its mission is to provide leadership to promote health equity for women and girls through sex/gender-specific approaches. The strategy OWH uses to achieve its mission and vision ...
Blood vessels that carry oxygen and blood to the heart, brain and other parts of the body.
Industry:Health care
Body temperature is raised above normal and is usually a sign of infection or illness.
Industry:Health care
Body tissue that produces and releases one or more substances for use in the body. Some glands produce fluids that affect tissues or organs. Others produce hormones or participate in blood production. In the breast, glandular tissue is involved in the production of milk.
Industry:Health care
Breathing with difficulty, with a whistling noise. Wheezing is a symptom of asthma.
Industry:Health care
Cancer in the inner lining of the colon. The colon is the part of the digestive tract that removes water from feces before the feces leaves the body through the anus. Most colon cancers start as noncancerous growths called polyps.
Industry:Health care
Cancer of the colon or rectum is also called colorectal cancer. See colon cancer.
Industry:Health care
Cancer of the colon or rectum is also called rectal cancer. See colon cancer.
Industry:Health care
Cancer of the ovary or ovaries, which are organs in the female reproductive system that make eggs and hormones. Most ovarian cancers develop from the cells that cover the outer surface of the ovary, called epithelial cells.
Industry:Health care
