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Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) is a chronic, potentially life-threatening condition caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). By damaging your immune system, HIV interferes [...]

Epilepsy is a neurological disorder in which brain activity becomes abnormal, causing seizures or periods of unusual behavior, sensations, and sometimes loss of awareness.

Chronic Pain is pain that carries on for longer than 12 weeks despite medication or treatment. Most people get back to normal after pain following an injury or operation, but sometimes the pain [...]

Chronic Nausea is when the nausea may be present all the time or it may come and go. In some cases the nausea may come on after a triggering factor, such as eating, only to improve and then come [...]

Cancer is the uncontrolled growth of abnormal cells in the body and often develops when the body’s normal control mechanisms stop working. Old cells do not die and instead grow out of control, [...]

Cachexia is a “wasting” disorder that affects people who are in the late stages of serious diseases like cancer, HIV or AIDS, COPD, kidney disease, and congestive heart failure (CHF).

The exact cause for ALS is ambiguous, but experts theorize that environmental and genetic factors may be contributing to the deterioration of motor neurons.