Health A-Z - Conditions and treatments starting with P

Pa

• Pacemaker implantation
• Paget’s disease of the nipple
• Paget's disease of bone
• Pain
• Pain, shoulder
• Painful tongue
• Painkillers, ibuprofen
  • Children's medicines
• Painkillers, paracetamol
  • Children's medicines

• Palliative care
• Palpitations
• Pancolitis
• Pancreas transplant
• Pancreatic cancer
• Pancreatitis, acute
• Pancreatitis, chronic
• Panic disorder
• Panniculitis
• Paracetamol

• Paraesthesia
• Paralysis
• Paraphimosis
• Parkinson's disease
  • Find Parkinson's disease support services
• Paronychia (inflamed nail folds)
• Parvovirus B19
• Passive smoking
• Patau's syndrome

Pc

• PCOS

Pd

• PDT (photodynamic therapy)

Pe

• Peak flow test
• Pelvic inflammatory disease
• Pelvic organ prolapse
• Pelvic pain
• Pemphigus vulgaris
• Penicillin
• Penile cancer
• Penis health
• Peptic ulcer
• Percutaneous balloon valvuloplasty
• Perforated eardrum

• Pericarditis
• Periods
  • Bleeding or spotting between periods
  • Periods, absent
  • Periods, heavy
  • Periods, irregular
  • Periods, painful
• Peripheral arterial disease
• Peripheral neuropathy
• Peritonitis
• Peritonsillar abscess

• Permanent make-up
• Pernicious anaemia
• Peroneal muscular atrophy
• Persistent trophoblastic disease
• Persistent vegetative state
• Personality disorder
  • Antisocial personality disorder
  • Borderline personality disorder
• Pertussis
• PET scan
• Peyronie’s disease

Ph

• Phaeochromocytoma
• Phantosmia (phantom smells)
• Pharyngitis
• Phenylketonuria
• Phimosis (tight foreskin)

• Phlebitis
• Phobias
  • Agoraphobia
  • Living with a phobia
  • Panic attack

• Phonophobia
• Phosphate test
• Photodynamic therapy (PDT)
• Physiotherapy

Pi

• PID
• Piercing
• Piles (haemorrhoids)
• Pilonidal sinus

• Pins and needles
• Pinworms
• PIP implants
  • Breast implants

• PIP implants continued...
  • Cosmetic surgery
• Pityriasis rosea
• Pityriasis versicolor

Pl

• Plagiocephaly
• Plantar fasciitis
• Plasma cell myeloma

• Plasma components
• Plastic surgery
• Pleurisy

Pn

• Pneumococcal infections
  • Pneumococcal vaccination
• Pneumonia

Back to top

Po

• Poisoning
• Polio
• Polyarteritis nodosa
• Polycystic kidney disease, autosomal dominant (ADPKD)
• Polycystic kidney disease, autosomal recessive (ARPKD)
• Polycystic ovary syndrome
• Polycythaemia
• Polyhydramnios (too much amniotic fluid)
• Polymorphic light eruption
• Polymyalgia rheumatica

• Polymyositis
• Polyps, bowel
• Polyps, nose
• Pompholyx
• Popliteal cyst
• Port wine stain
• Positron emission tomography
• Possetting
• Postherpetic neuralgia
• Postmenopausal bleeding

• Post-mortem
• Postnatal depression
• Postnatal psychosis
• Postpartum psychosis
• Post-partum thyroiditis
• Post-polio syndrome
• Post-traumatic stress disorder
• Postural tachycardia syndrome (PoTS)
• Potassium test

Pr

• Prader-Willi syndrome
• Pravastatin
• Preconception
• Predictive genetic test for cancer risk genes
• Prednisolone
• Pre-eclampsia
• Pregabalin
• Pregnancy and baby guide
  • Amniocentesis
  • Chorionic villus sampling
  • Exercise in pregnancy
  • Find parenting and childcare services
  • Gestational diabetes
  • Healthy diet in pregnancy
  • Hyperemesis gravidarum
  • Miscarriage

• Pregnancy and baby guide continued...
  • Polyhydramnios (too much amniotic fluid)
  • Pregnancy due date calculator
• Premature ejaculation
• Premenstrual syndrome
• Pre-school booster
• Pressure ulcers
• Priapism
• Prickly heat
• Primary biliary cirrhosis
• Prion disease
• Probiotics
• Problems swallowing pills
• Proctalgia
• Progestogen only pill
• Progressive supranuclear palsy

• Prolapse of the uterus
• Prolapsed disc
• Proptosis (bulging eyes)
• Prosopagnosia
• Prostate cancer
• Prostate problems
  • Prostate enlargement
  • Prostatitis
  • Transurethral resection of the prostate
• Protein C, Protein S or antithrombin deficiency
• Prothrombin 20210
• Protruding eyes
• Prozac
• Pruritus
• Pruritus ani

Ps

• PSA test
• Psoriasis
• Psoriatic arthritis
• PSP

• Psychiatry
• Psychosis
• Psychosis after childbirth
• Psychotherapy

• Psychotic depression
• Psychotic episodes

Pt

• Ptosis

Pu

• Puberty
  • Early or delayed puberty
• Pubic lice

• Pudendal neuralgia
• Puerperal psychosis
• Puffy ankles

• Pulmonary embolism
• Pulmonary fibrosis (idiopathic)
• Pulmonary hypertension

Py

• Pyelonephritis
• Pyloric stenosis
• Pyoderma gangrenosum