March 2022
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Most infants are screened for hearing loss before they leave the hospital. This helps doctors detect any hearing problems early and start treatment. Children with hearing loss who get...
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What is IC?
Interstitial cystitis (IC), also called bladder pain syndrome, is a chronic, or long-lasting, condition that causes painful urinary symptoms. Symptoms of IC may be different from...
How do health care professionals diagnose IC?
Health care professionals will use your medical history, a physical exam, and lab tests to diagnose IC.
A health care professional will ask if you...
What kind of training, licensing, or certifications do qigong instructors need to practice?Qigong instructors don’t have to be licensed, and the practice isn't regulated by the Federal Government or individual states. There’s no national standard for qigong certification....
Black or African American is defined by the Office of Management and Budget as “a person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa.”1 There were over 40 million African Americans in the United States...
Gender identity—a person’s internal sense of being a boy, girl, neither, or both—begins to develop in early childhood around age 2-4 years and may evolve over time, with a more developed sense of gender identity usually emerging in...
Osteoporosis refers to weak bones. Osteopenia is another term, sometimes used to describe a less severe condition of weaker bones. Both are “silent” diseases because bone loss often occurs without you knowing it. As a result, bones become...
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When newborn babies are unable to make enough thyroid hormone, it is a condition referred to as congenital hypothyroidism, meaning they are born with an underactive or absent thyroid gland. About 1 in every 2,000 to 4,000...
