- Industry: Government; Health care
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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 ...
Small milk ducts in the breast leading to the mammary or lactiferous ducts.
Industry:Health care
Solid material that forms in the gallbladder or common bile duct. Gallstones are made of cholesterol or other substances found in the gallbladder. They may occur as one large stone or as many small ones, and they may vary from the size of a grain of sand to a golf ball.
Industry:Health care
Spina bifida is the most common of all birth defects. Its name means "clef spine," or a failure of a fetal spine to close the right way when it is developing before birth. It occurs very early in pregnancy, roughly three to four weeks after conception, before most women know that they are pregnant. Any woman can have an affected pregnancy. Most women who bear a child with Spina bifida have no family history of it.
Industry:Health care
Stoppage of blood flow to an area of the brain, causing permanent damage to nerve cells in that region. A stroke can occur either because an artery is clogged by a blood clot (called ischemic stroke) or an artery tears and bleeds into the brain. A stroke can cause symptoms such as loss of consciousness, problems with movement, and loss of speech.
Industry:Health care
Substance produced by one tissue and conveyed by the bloodstream to another to effect a function of the body, such as growth or metabolism.
Industry:Health care
Surgery to remove the breast, or as much of the breast tissue as possible.
Industry:Health care
Swelling, redness, warmth, and pain of the joints, the places where two bones meet, such as the elbow or knee. There are more than 100 types of arthritis. The two most common types of arthritis are osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis.
Industry:Health care
Technology that involves procedures that handle a woman's eggs and a man's sperm to help infertile couples conceive a child.
Industry:Health care
Term used to describe an emotional state involving sadness, lack of energy and low self-esteem.
Industry:Health care
