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Your Health

Focus on Your Health

Colorectal cancer

Colorectal cancer, cancer of the cells that line the inside of the colon and rectum, is the third most common cancer worldwide. It ranks 4th among cancer deaths, accounting for more than 10 percent of all cancer deaths.

Lung cancer

Lung cancer is a disease characterized by the uncontrolled proliferation of abnormal cells within the lung tissue.

Prostate cancer

Prostate cancer is due to the abnormal proliferation of prostatic tissue cells. It's the leading malignancy in men over the age of 50.

Breast cancer

Breast cancer is a disease characterized by an abnormal proliferation of the mammary gland cells. This is the leading cancer affecting women in western countries.
You can consult all information relating to the breast cancer: risk factors to screening and treatments.

Focus on Medicines

The focus explains different steps of how a medicine is created and makes a rapid overview of social protection systems in the world.

Diabetes

Diabetes is a chronic disease in which the body fails to produce or properly use insulin.

Respiratory infections

An allergy is an overreaction or hypersensitivity of the body's immune system to specific substances or allergens.
Respiratory tract infections are the most common community-acquired infectious disease.

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