Incurable diseases

Incurable diseases

Incurable Diseases are those ones in which the cause of the disease is not known, the treatment is not defined and high risks of leaving subsquent complications.

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Incurable diseases

Diabetes

Health care; Incurable diseases

Diabetes is a disorder of carbohydrate metabolism characterised by impaired ability of the body to produce or respond to insulin and thereby maintain proper levels of sugar (glucose) in the ...

Polio

Health care; Incurable diseases

Polio is known in full as poliomyelitis - also called infantile paralysis. It is an acute viral infectious disease of the nervous system that usually begins with general symptoms such as fever, ...

Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease

Health care; Incurable diseases

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is a rare fatal degenerative disease of the central nervous system. Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease occurs throughout the world at an incidence of one person in a million; ...

Cancer

Health care; Incurable diseases

Cancer refers to a group of more than 100 distinct diseases characterised by the uncontrolled growth of abnormal cells in the body. Cancer affects one in every three persons born in developed ...

Asthma

Health care; Incurable diseases

Asthma is a chronic disorder of the lungs in which inflamed airways are prone to constrict, causing episodes of breathlessness, wheezing, coughing, and chest tightness that range in severity from ...

It is an autosomal recessive genetic disorder. In its most common variant, known as infantile Tay–Sachs disease, it causes a relentless deterioration of mental and physical abilities that commences ...

Alzheimer

Health care; Incurable diseases

It is the most common form of dementia. There is no cure for the disease, which worsens as it progresses, and eventually leads to death. It was first described by German psychiatrist and ...