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What is a Bicarbonate Blood Test?

Bicarbonate belongs to a group of electrolytes, which help keep your body hydrated and make sure your blood has the right amount of acidity. A bica...

Bacterial and Viral Infections

Also unlike bacteria, most viruses do cause disease, and they're quite specific about the cells they attack. Antibiotics are not effective against ...

What are Autoimmune Disorders?

Immune system disorders cause abnormally low activity or over activity of the immune system.

What is Aplastic Anemia?

When you have the rare but treatable disorder known as aplastic anemia, your marrow -- the spongy stuff inside your bones -- stops making new blood...

Abscess

A skin abscess is a tender mass generally surrounded by a colored area from pink to deep red. Other risk factors for abscess include exposure to di...

What is Chronic Fatigue Syndrome?

Everyone feels fatigued sometimes, and many people feel fatigued a lot of the time. they have identified different underlying abnormalities in peop...

Zika Virus: what You Should Know

Call your doctor if you develop symptoms and you live in or have visited an area where Zika is spreading, the CDC says -- especially if you are pre...

Yellow Fever

For some people, yellow fever has no initial symptoms, while for others, the first symptoms appear from three to six days after exposure to the vir...

What is Tularemia?

The way you become infected with the disease influences the type of symptoms you’ll have and how severe they may be. But just because you’re expose...

Thalassemia

Thalassemia is an inherited blood condition. If you inherit two or more copies of abnormal genes from your parents, you may get mild to severe thal...

Rubella

Rubella is caused by a virus. Rubella spreads when someone who is infected coughs or sneezes tiny germ- filled droplets into the air and onto surfa...

What is Rabies?

Rabies is a virus that attacks the central nervous system. If you’ve been exposed to rabies in the past few months, they’ll likely run a number of ...