BBC News Online examines what causes glaucoma and how it is treated.
Archive for January, 2004
Meningitis and septicaemia
Meningitis is an inflammation of the brain lining and is mostly found in bacteria and viruses - the bacterial form is the more life-threatening.
Asthma
This long-term condition is relatively easy to control yet it is responsible for 180,000 deaths a year.
Alzheimer’s disease
Alzheimer’s disease is a progressive, degenerative and irreversible brain disorder that causes intellectual impairment, disorientation and eventually death.