Consumer health basics
Learning Center
Ventricular fibrillation
Without fast treatment, this heart rhythm problem can cause death within minutes. Learn the symptoms of VFib and what actions to take to save a life.
Ventricular tachycardia
This rapid heart rate can be a medical emergency. Know the warning symptoms and how it's treated.
Vertebral tumor
Learn about these tumors that grow in the bones of the spine, causing pain and weakening the spinal column. Find out about diagnosis and treatment.
Viral gastroenteritis (stomach flu)
This condition, often called stomach flu, is usually harmless, except for infants and people with immunosuppression. Symptoms can usually be managed.
Viral hemorrhagic fevers
Learn more about the symptoms, treatment and prevention of these sometimes deadly diseases.
Vitamin deficiency anemia
A lack of folate and vitamin B-12 can cause a type of anemia in which red blood cells become too large and can't carry oxygen properly.
Vitiligo
Learn more about this condition in which your skin loses pigment cells, resulting in very light or white patches on parts of the body.
Vocal cord paralysis
Find out more about this condition that happens when nerve signals that control the voice box are interrupted.
Voice disorders
Learn more about the causes of common voice disorders, such as laryngitis and granuloma, and how Mayo Clinic diagnoses and treats them.
Von Willebrand disease
Learn more about the symptoms, causes, diagnosis, treatment of this inherited bleeding disorder in which blood doesn't clot well.
Refine Your Search
Type
- All
- Disease
Gender
Age
- All
- 19 to 44 younger
- 45 to 64 middle
- 13 to 18 years teen
- 06 to 12 years elementary/preteen
- 03 to 5 years preschool
- 02 months to 2 years infant/toddler
- 65 to 80 older
- 00 birth to 01 month newborn
- 80 and over
- 16 months to 2 years toddler
- 11 to 12 years preteen
- 10 years
- 02 to 15 months infant
Focus
- All
- Complication (26)
- Causal Risk Factor (21)
- Symptom (reportable) (14)
- Risk factor (11)