Stage 6: Diseases and Disorders

Inflammation, infection, cancer, diabetes and other common conditions.

Introduction to Disease

What disease means, how conditions develop, and the difference between acute and chronic.

How Disease Develops: From Cause to Consequence (coming soon)
Acute vs Chronic: Two Different Shapes of Disease (coming soon)
The Natural History of Disease: Why So Much Happens Before You Notice (coming soon)

Bacteria, viruses, antibiotics, resistance and how vaccines protect populations.

Infection: When Something Else Gets Inside (coming soon)
Antibiotic Resistance: How Bacteria Stop Responding to Treatment (coming soon)
Vaccines: Teaching the Immune Response in Advance (coming soon)
Sepsis: When Infection Causes Life-Threatening Organ Dysfunction (coming soon)
Pneumonia: Infection in the Lungs (coming soon)
Urinary Tract Infection and Pyelonephritis: Infection from Bladder to Kidney (coming soon)
Meningitis and Encephalitis: Infection Around or Within the Brain (coming soon)
Infectious Gastroenteritis: Infection of the Stomach and Bowel (coming soon)
Tuberculosis: A Persistent Bacterial Infection (coming soon)
HIV: How a Virus Weakens Immune Defence (coming soon)
Influenza and COVID-19: Two Viral Respiratory Diseases (coming soon)
Pelvic Inflammatory Disease: Infection of the Upper Reproductive Tract (coming soon)

When the immune system attacks the body — and what inflammation really is.

Inflammation: The Body's Repair Response, and What Happens When It Persists (coming soon)
Autoimmune Disease: When Defence Turns Inward (coming soon)
Rheumatoid Arthritis: Autoimmune Inflammation of the Joints (coming soon)
Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: An Autoimmune Disease with Many Patterns (coming soon)
Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis: Two Forms of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (coming soon)
Coeliac Disease: An Immune Reaction to Gluten (coming soon)
Multiple Sclerosis: When the Immune System Attacks Nerve Insulation (coming soon)

What cancer is, how it grows, spreads and is treated — in plain English.

Diabetes, high blood pressure, asthma, kidney disease, mental health and more.

Diabetes and Metabolic Disease: Why One Ongoing Disturbance Affects So Much (coming soon)
High Blood Pressure: The Long-Term Condition That Rarely Announces Itself (coming soon)
Asthma and COPD: Two Different Ways the Airways Can Narrow (coming soon)
Chronic Kidney Disease: Why So Much Function Can Be Lost Before It Shows (coming soon)
Chronic Pain: When Pain Itself Becomes the Condition (coming soon)
Mental Health Conditions: Genuine Illness, Not a Character Trait (coming soon)
Monitoring Long-Term Conditions: Why the Same Pattern Keeps Appearing (coming soon)

Genetic conditions, multi-system disorders and how rare disease medicine works.

What Makes a Condition Rare, and Why That Changes Everything About Finding It (coming soon)
Genetic Conditions in Plain English: Having a Gene Change Is Not the Same as Having the Condition (coming soon)
Multi-System Disorders: When One Underlying Process Explains Many Different Symptoms (coming soon)

Coronary Heart Disease and Angina: Reduced Blood Flow to Heart Muscle (coming soon)
Heart Attack: Sudden Injury to Heart Muscle (coming soon)
Heart Failure: When the Heart Cannot Pump Enough (coming soon)
Atrial Fibrillation: An Irregular Heart Rhythm (coming soon)
Stroke and Transient Ischaemic Attack: When Brain Blood Flow Is Disrupted (coming soon)

Bronchiectasis: Permanently Widened and Damaged Airways (coming soon)
Pulmonary Fibrosis: Scarring of the Lungs (coming soon)
Pneumothorax: Air Around the Lung Causing Partial or Complete Collapse (coming soon)
Obstructive Sleep Apnoea: Repeated Airway Closure During Sleep (coming soon)

Acid-Related Disorders: Gastro-Oesophageal Reflux Disease and Peptic Ulcer Disease (coming soon)
Irritable Bowel Syndrome (coming soon)
Diverticular Disease and Diverticulitis (coming soon)
Chronic Liver Disease and Cirrhosis (coming soon)

Anaemia (coming soon)
Sickle Cell Disease and Thalassaemia (coming soon)
Venous Thromboembolism: Deep Vein Thrombosis and Pulmonary Embolism (coming soon)
Bleeding and Clotting Disorders: Haemophilia and Von Willebrand Disease (coming soon)

Atopic Eczema: A Relapsing Inflammatory Skin Disorder (coming soon)
Psoriasis: Immune-Mediated Skin Disease (coming soon)
Acne Vulgaris: Inflammation of Hair Follicles and Sebaceous Glands (coming soon)

Depression: A Disorder Affecting Mood, Thought and Function (coming soon)
Generalised Anxiety Disorder: Persistent Anxiety Beyond Immediate Threat (coming soon)
Bipolar Disorder: Episodes of Depression and Abnormally Elevated Mood (coming soon)
Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders: Changes in Perception, Thought and Reality Testing (coming soon)

Endometriosis: Tissue Similar to the Womb Lining Growing Elsewhere (coming soon)
Uterine Fibroids: Non-Cancerous Growths of the Womb (coming soon)
Polycystic Ovary Syndrome: A Hormonal and Metabolic Disorder (coming soon)
Benign Prostatic Enlargement: Non-Cancerous Growth of the Prostate (coming soon)