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Placenta previa
Learn about how this pregnancy complication is diagnosed and managed to reduce risks to your baby's health and your own.
Broken heart syndrome
Learn more about this temporary heart muscle condition that can mimic a heart attack. It may be triggered by stressful events, such as a loved one's death.
ARDS
With this condition, which can occur after a major illness or injury, fluid builds up in the lungs' air sacs so that less oxygen reaches the blood.
TEN
Learn more about the causes, symptoms, treatment and risks of this life-threatening, rare skin disorder, also called toxic epidermal necrolysis.
C. difficile infection
Learn more about this diarrhea-causing infection that often occurs after antibiotic use. Many, but not all, people who get it are in health care facilities.
Acute kidney injury
Learn what happens when the kidneys suddenly stop working, what causes this condition and how it's treated.
MRSA infection
MRSA infections often occur in health care settings, but they can happen anywhere. Find out about symptoms and treatment for this virulent staph infection.
Pseudomembranous colitis
This inflammatory colon condition is usually caused by the bacterium Clostridioides difficile. The use of high-dose antibiotics may let these germs grow unchecked.
Factitious disorder
Factitious disorder ? a serious mental disorder in which someone deceives others by appearing sick, by purposely getting sick or by self-injury.
Pneumonia
Pneumonia — Learn about the symptoms, causes and treatment of this serious lung infection.
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