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Diseases and Conditions

One of Health Canada's mandates is to reduce the incidence of disease and conditions among Canadians. Many science and health experts research and monitor diseases and you'll find many of their reports and publications in this section.

You'll find information about many diseases and conditions, including their symptoms and treatments. Because healthy lifestyle choices reduce the risk of many diseases, this section provides tips on the choices you can make to stay healthy.

If you work in the health industry, you can use this section as a resource for current research and surveillance. In addition to reports and other publications, you'll find links to information on the programs supported by the Next link will open in a new window Public Health Agency of Canada.

Looking for current, reliable and easy-to-understand articles on the topic of diseases? There are over 100 It's Your Health articles on various topics you can download or print for free. See the complete list of It's Your Health articles.

Illness or sickness often characterized by typical patient problems (symptoms) and physical findings (signs). Disruption sequence: The events that occur when a fetus that is developing normally is subjected to a destructive agent such as the rubella (German measles) virus.

The term "condition" has a number of biomedical meanings including the following:

1. An unhealthy state, such as in "this is a progressive condition."

2. A state of fitness, such as "getting into condition."

3. Something that is essential to the occurrence of something else; essentially a "precondition."

4. As a verb: to cause a change in something so that a response that was previously associated with a certain stimulus becomes associated with another stimulus; to condition a person, as in behavioral conditioning.