Health Conditions

The Noise in Your Ears: Facts About Tinnitus
Tinnitus is a symptom associated with many forms of hearing loss.

What is Glaucoma?
Glaucoma is a group of diseases that can damage the eye's optic nerve and result in vision loss and blindness.

Diabetes and Oral Health
People who have diabetes know the disease can harm the eyes, nerves, kidneys, heart and other important systems in the body.

Diabetes in Older People - A Disease You Can Manage
Diabetes is a serious disease. People get diabetes when their blood glucose level, sometimes called blood sugar, is too high.

Diabetes & High Blood Pressure: The Two Leading Causes of Kidney Disease
Diabetes and high blood pressure can damage your kidneys and lead to kidney disease.

Diabetes Prevention Program
The Diabetes Prevention Program was a major clinical trial, or research study, aimed at discovering whether either diet and exercise or the oral diabetes drug metformin could prevent or delay the onset of type 2 diabetes in people with impaired glucose tolerance.

Complementary and Alternative Medical Therapies for Diabetes
The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, part of the National Institutes of Health, defines complementary and alternative medicine as a "group of diverse medical and health care systems, practices, and products that are not presently considered to be part of conventional medicine.

What Is Angina?
Angina is chest pain or discomfort that occurs when an area of your heart muscle doesn't get enough oxygen-rich blood.

Variations in Genes Can Influence the Risk of Developing Age-Related Macular Degeneration and Other Disease Such as Cancer
A team of researchers has determined that variations in certain genes involved in fighting infection can successfully predict the risk of developing age-related macular degeneration, the leading cause of blindness.

Concerned About Constipation?
Nearly everyone becomes constipated at one time or another.

Vaccine Reduces Parkinson's Disease Neurodegeneration in Mice
For the first time, researchers have shown that an experimental vaccine can reduce the amount of neurodegeneration in a mouse model for Parkinson's disease. The finding suggests that a similar therapy might eventually be able to slow the devastating course of Parkinson's disease in humans.

What is Hematuria?
Hematuria is the presence of red blood cells in the urine.

A Spouse Can Help Ease the Pain of Osteoarthritisfe: Hg with Comfort and Care
With the help of a spouse, improvement can be made in the self-management of osteoarthritis.

Mourning the Death of a Spouse
When your spouse dies, your world changes. You are in mourning—feeling grief and sorrow at the loss.

What is presbycusis?
Presbycusis is the loss of hearing that gradually occurs in most individuals as they grow older.

Gene Therapy to Prevent Hearing Loss
Hearing impairment is frequently caused by the loss of hair cells in the cochlea of the inner ear.

Can We Help the Ear Repair Itself?
NIDCD-supported scientists are identifying the genes necessary for forming the ears and enabling them to detect sound.

Aging Hearts and Arteries: A Scientific Quest
Heart disease and stroke incidence rises steeply after age 65, accounting for more than 40 percent of all deaths among people age 65 to 74.

What Is Coronary Heart Disease?
Heart disease is caused by narrowing of the coronary arteries that feed the heart.

What is a Hemorrhagic Stroke?
In a healthy, functioning brain, neurons do not come into direct contact with blood.