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Find out what zinc is and what it does in your body, what foods provide it, and about zinc supplements.

Find out what vitamin K is and what it does in your body, what foods provide it, and about vitamin K supplements.

Find out what vitamin K is and what it does in your body, what foods provide it, and about vitamin K supplements.

Urodynamic tests help diagnose lower urinary tract problems by showing how well your bladder, sphincters, and urethra work together to store and release urine.

An overview of bladder infection in adults, which is a type of urinary tract infection. Describes symptoms, causes, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention.

Describes the causes, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of proctitis. Proctitis is inflammation of the lining of the rectum. Proctitis may be acute or chronic.

Learn about the causes, symptoms, and diagnosis of appendicitis, a digestive system infection treated with surgery or antibiotics.

Can you imagine a day when antibiotics don’t work anymore? It’s concerning to think that the antibiotics that we depend upon for everything from skin and ear infections to life-threatening bloodstream infections could no longer work. Unfortunately, the threat of untreatable infections is very real.

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Antibiotics are powerful tools for fighting illness and disease, but overuse of antibiotics has helped create bacteria that are outsmarting the drugs used to treat them.