Allopathic medicine
... debate between practioners of homeopathic ,
and those they derisively referred to as "allopaths." ... in a deprecatory manner.
Medical dictionaries
and general usage dictionaries also give varying ... to the ordinary or traditional medical practice,
and to a certain extent in common use to distinguish ...
Ambulatory blood pressure
... pressure at regular intervals throughout the day
and night. It is believed to be able to reduce the ... to be continually monitored during sleep,
and is useful to determine whether the patient is a ... is associated with end organ damage 1
and is a much better indicator than the daytime blood ...
Acute care
... patient as soon as the patient is deemed healthy
and stable, with appropriate discharge instructions. ... of patients who are uninsured or underinsured,
and therefore unable to pay for services rendered. ... care needs. That has resulted in overcrowding
and made it increasingly difficult to focus adequate ...
Angor animi
... animi [1] [2] , Gairdner's disease [2]
and also angina pectoris sine dolore [2] ), is a ... terms which it is composed of, namely angor
and animi .
Angor (different but related to the ... [4] often accompanied by a painful constriction
and palpitations at the upper abdomen ...
American Dietetic Association
... United States ' largest organization of food
and nutrition professionals, with nearly 65,000 ... 75 % of ADA's members are registered dietitians
and about 4 % are dietetic technicians, registered. ... researchers, educators, students, clinical
and community dietetics professionals, ...
Anthrax Vaccine Immunization Program
... States government to immunize its military
and specific civilian personnel with the anthrax ... . Thereafter it ran into a few FDA
and judicial obstacles (mainly concerning the methods
and viability of the vaccine manufactured by BioPort ...
Artecoll
... is injected under the skin to plump up wrinkles
and reduce folds of skin associated with aging such ...
1 Composition
2 Potential risks
and side effects
3 U.S. Food
and Drug Administration approval
4 References ...
Blind loop syndrome
... or stopping the progress of digested food,
and thus facilitating the growth of bacteria to the ...
2 Causes
3 Symptoms
4 Signs
and tests
5 Treatment
... mediated digestion of fats, causing fatty stools
and poor absorption of ...
Anterior mediastinal mass
... germ cell tumors, lymphomas, thyroid tissue,
and parathyroid lesions.
The introduction to this ... from other tumors such as carcinoid, Hodgkin's,
and seminoma. Patients are usually asymptomatic but ... chemotherapy in addition to those in stage II
and III. For those with invasive thymoma, treatment ...
Arterial stiffness
...
Arteries stiffen as a consequence of age
and atherosclerosis . The two leading causes of death in the developed world, myocardial infarction
and stroke , are both a direct consequence of atherosclerosis
and increased arterial stiffness is associated with ...
Atransferrinemia
... .
Atransferrinemia is characterized by anemia
and hemosiderosis in the heart
and liver . The iron damage to the heart can lead to ... failure . The anemia is typically microcytic
and hypochromic (the red blood cells are abnormally ...
Artificial induction of immunity
... the development of techniques in historical
and logical sequence
and points to detailed articles on each of the main topics.
Contents
1 Variolation
and smallpox
2 Vaccination
3 Germ ...
Babies switched at birth
... by W. S. Gilbert , including in the Gilbert
and Sullivan comic operas H.M.S. Pinafore
and The Gondoliers . In both cases, well-born ... Wilson (1893), where two babies, one white
and one black, are switched at birth, resulting in ...
Breath-holding spells
... usually result in apnea , loss of consciousness,
and changes in postural tone.
Breath holding spells ... population with equal distribution between males
and females. They are most common in children between 6
and 18 ...
Bioecological medicine
... is the use of prebiotics , probiotics
and synbiotics for prevention
and treatment of diseases. This is an approach to ...
Reference
Bengmark S, Gil A. Bioecological
and nutritional control of disease: prebiotics, ...
Biotextile
... their performance depends on biocompatibility
and biostability with cells
and biological fluids . Biotextiles include ... fabrics, arterial grafts , artificial skin
and parts of artificial hearts. They were first ...
Body shaping
... Body contouring , also known as body lifting
and body shaping is a lengthy, expensive procedure ... amounts of hanging skin from the bodies of men
and women who have lost massive amounts of weight, ...
3 Body lifting
4 Potential risks
and side-effects
5 Body lifting surgical ...
Biomedicine
... medicine , is a term that comprises the knowledge
and research which is more or less in common to the ... medicine , veterinary medicine , odontology
and fundamental biosciences such as biochemistry , cell biology , genetics , zoology , botanics
and microbiology . Biomedicine is usually not ...
Cachexia
... Symptom / Sign :
Cachexia
Classifications
and external resources
ICD - 10
R64
... of weight , muscle atrophy , fatigue, weakness
and significant loss of appetite in someone who is ... diseases (e.g. tuberculosis , AIDS )
and some autoimmune disorders . Cachexia physically ...
CankerMelts
... with collagen added which may help soothe pain
and accelerate healing. CankerMelts is an all-natural ... Washington found that CankerMelts relieves pain
and reduces the healing time of canker sores from 1-2 ... Haley, J. (2007). Cankermelts Patches Reduce Pain
and Speed Resolution of Aphthous Ulcers. Journal of ...
Canadian Health Libraries Association
... librarians to governments, the health community
and fellow librarians.
Background
The ... having been founded the year before) on June 2
and established an “Ad hoc committee to study the ... The ACMC group had been officially formed in 1967
and first met in 1968 but was actually the successor ...
Central tolerance
... the mechanism by which newly developing T cells
and B cells are rendered non-reactive to self. [1] ... receptor specificities that occurs during T cell
and B cell differentiation, whereby a proportion of ... occurs in the thymus (T cells) [2] [3]
and bone marrow (B cells), when maturing ...
Depolarization-induced suppression of inhibition
... suppression of inhibition (DSI) is the classical
and original electrophysiological example of ... a 300-400 µm slice of brain, with intact axons
and synapses) where a single neuron is "depolarized" ... neuron which diffuses to nearby neurons,
and ...
Computers in Medicine and Health Care
... in medicine, uses of computers in health care
and importance of computers in medicine fields. The ... from running a farm, diagnosing a disease,
and designing to constructing
and launching a space vehicle. Because the ...
Cryostasis (clathrate hydrates)
... of cryopreservation of legally dead people
and pets.
Cryostasis was a plot in many famous science fiction novels
and movies. At present, there is no any effective reversible cryopreservation procedure for live humans
and mammals.
The new technology of cryostasis for ...
Doctor-patient relationship
... this article , especially its section layout ,
and relevant internal links . ( help )
This ... is considered to be essential in modern medicine
and forms one of the foundations of contemporary ... rapport with patients, uphold patients’ dignity,
and respect their privacy.
The relationship is ...
Craniofacial prosthesis
... (mostly progressed forms of skin cancer ,
and head
and neck cancer ), trauma (outer ear trauma , eye ... nose or eye / eyelids . An ocular prosthesis
and hair prosthesis can also be classified as ...
Episodic memory
... , times , places , associated emotions ,
and other conception-based knowledge in relation to an experience. Semantic
and episodic memory together make up the category of ... in episodic memory performance
5 Emotion
and episodic memory
6 Episodic memory damage ...
European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition
... European Prospective Investigation into Cancer
and Nutrition (EPIC) study is a Europe -wide ... cohort study of the relationships between diet
and cancer , as well as other chronic diseases, such ... participants, it is the largest study of diet
and disease to be undertaken.
EPIC is coordinated ...
Fat transfer
...
5 Results
6 Potential Risks
and Side Effects
7 Non-Injected Fat Grafting ... development allowed more plastic, dermatological
and cosmetic surgeons to offer their patients fat ... hence, not subject to rejection by the body
and because most dermal fillers are absorbed by the ...
Full-body scan
... patient's entire body to support the diagnosis
and treatment of specific illnesses.
Contents
1 History
and overview
2 Other scans
3 In ... 4 References
History
and overview
CT scans were first used in medicine ...
Excoriation
... neurotic excoriations should try to avoid picking
and scratching their skin. Because of this, another ... Damage is common on the face , neck , back,
and extremities ,
and damage to the skin is generally caused by ...
Extracorporeal shockwave therapy
... of plantar heel spurs, plantar fasciitis
and tennis elbow. In the future approval may be given ... tendinitis, pseudoarthrosis, stress fractures
and shoulder calcification. There is also an FDA ... pain, the brain has "forgotten" about the pain
and is doing nothing to heal the area. By having ...
Forehead lift
... lift procedure is used in plastic surgery
and cosmetic surgery to remove the deep “worry” lines that run across the forehead
and may portray to others:
Anger
Sternness
... area is large enough to comprise the major focal
and expression point of the upper face , the eyes ...
Gender-based medicine
... the field of medicine that studies the biological
and physiological differences between the human sexes
and how that affects differences in disease. ... studies have often been applied across the sexes
and healthcare providers have assumed a uniform ...
Health Services Research
... , financing systems, organizational structures
and processes, health technologies ,
and personal behaviors affect access to health care, the quality
and cost of health care ...
Gastric lavage
... stomach, followed by sequential administration
and removal of small volumes of liquid. The placement ... amounts of warm water or saline are administered
and via a siphoning action removed again. In ... lavage is used infrequently in modern poisonings
and some authorities have suggested that it not be ...
Galactogogue
... to increase the production of milk in humans
and other animals. It may be synthetic , ... (synthetic), sweet potato , silymarin ,
and fenugreek (plant-derived),
and prolactin (endogenous).
...
Ganglion cyst
... swelling that often appears on or around joints
and tendons in the hand (or sometimes feet). The ... It is most frequently located around the wrist
and on the fingers.
Contents
1 ... They occur most often in the 20–60 age group
and are three times more common in females 1 . They ...
Hickam's dictum
... Occam's razor in contemporary medicine, doctors
and philosophers of medicine speak of diagnostic ... a patient is a continuous flow of hypothesis
and testing of that hypothesis, then modifying the hypothesis,
and so on. In the context of this method, the ...