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A cough that lasts for weeks could be caused by smoking, postnasal drip, asthma, acid reflux, respiratory infections, COPD or another underlying problem.

Bladder training and avoiding bladder irritants might help with bladder control.

If you've tried lifestyle changes and you still have bladder control problems, medicine might help ease urinary symptoms.

In this condition, one or more of the flexible joints between the bone plates of a baby's skull close before the brain is fully formed.

This fungal lung infection is caused by inhaling certain mold spores. It may be serious in those with asthma or other ongoing lung diseases.

This condition involves painful swelling of a small fluid-filled sac near the knee joint. It causes pain and can limit movement.

Learn more about this stroke-related type of dementia that causes memory loss and can affect reasoning. Prevention is possible, and good heart health is key.

Learn about what causes these involuntary wrist spasms that often frustrate golfers.

Understand the symptoms and treatment of this common viral infection, which can cause serious health issues for babies and people who have weakened immune systems.

These areas in the hard surface of your teeth are tiny openings or holes due to damage from tooth decay. This can lead to pain, infection and tooth loss.

This genetic disorder is extremely rare and progressive. It causes children to age rapidly, beginning in their first two years of life.

This injury is painful but rarely needs surgery for repair. Healing can take weeks to months.

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.

Learn more about this condition in which low levels of parathyroid hormone upset the balance of calcium and phosphorus in the body.

Friendships can have a big impact on your health and well-being. Follow these tips to make lasting friendships.

Belly fat is more common after menopause. Find out why and learn how to keep it off.

This common bacterial infection is spread through contaminated food or water and affects the intestinal tract. Learn more about prevention and treatment.

Learn more about the causes of this rare disorder of the skin and mucous membranes, its early signs, and whether it's preventable.

Scarring in the bile ducts blocks the flow of bile from the liver and damages liver tissue. A liver transplant is the only known cure.

In this group of inherited disorders, the body makes little or no melanin, a pigment that determines hair, skin and eye color and vision development.