Medicine
This article is about the field and science of medical practice and health care .
For the substances known as medicines , see medication and pharmacology .
For other uses, see
Medicine (disambiguation) .
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Medicine is concerned with m...
Allopathic medicine
See also: Allopathy
Allopathic
medicine is term applied by homeopathists to the ordinary or traditional medical practice. Many medical dictionaries define the term allopathic
medicine as the treatment of disease using conventional medical therapies, as opposed the use of alternativ...
Bioecological medicine
Bioecological
medicine is the use of prebiotics , probiotics and synbiotics for prevention and treatment of diseases. This is an approach to maintain the health of ecoorgan thereby health of the body.
Reference
Bengmark S, Gil A. Bioecological and nutritional control of disease...
Gender-based medicine
Gender-based
medicine or simply gender
medicine is the field of
medicine that studies the biological and physiological differences between the human sexes and how that affects differences in disease. Traditionally, medical research has mostly been conducted using the male body as the basis for c...
Molecular medicine
Molecular
Medicine is a new scientific discipline in British universities . Combining contemporary medical studies with the field of biochemistry , it offers a bridge between the two subjects. At present only a handful of universities offer the course to undergraduates. With a degree in this d...
Nuclear medicine
Shown above is the bone scintigraphy of a young woman.
Nuclear
medicine is a branch of
medicine and medical imaging that uses the nuclear properties of matter in diagnosis and therapy. Many procedures in nuclear
medicine use radionuclides , or pharmaceuticals that have b...
Personalized medicine
Personalized
medicine is the use of detailed information about a patient's genotype or level of gene expression and a patient's clinical data in order to select a medication , therapy or preventative measure that is particularly suited to that patient at the time of administration. The bene...
Predictive medicine
The goal of predictive
medicine is to identify biological markers in order to enrole individuals at high risk for developing a disease in special early detection trials. Different approaches exist to develop predictive medicine, such as genomics , proteomics , and cytomics .
See also...
Sexual orientation and medicine
LGBT Portal
Medicine Portal
This is the main article for the Category:Sexual orientation and
medicine and Category:LGBT physicians .
This article discusses issues related to sexual orientation and
medicine including medical ...
Social medicine
The field of Social
Medicine seeks to: (1) understand how social and economic conditions impact health, disease and the practice of
medicine and (2) foster conditions in which this understanding can lead to a healthier society.
This type of study began formally in the early 1800's. The Industr...
Space medicine
Space
medicine is the practice of
medicine on astronauts in outer space .
Contents
1 Effects of space on the body
1.1 Gravity
2 External links
3 References
Effects of space on the body
Gravity
The ...
Unsolved problems in medicine
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Wolf Prize in Medicine
Wolf Prizes
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Past winners of the Wolf Prize in
Medicine :
1978 George D. Snell , Jean Dausset , Jon J. van Rood
1979 Roger W...
Angor animi
...imi (also referred to as angina animi [1] [2] , Gairdner's disease [2] and also angina pectoris sine dolore [2] ), is a term used in
medicine to describe a person's perception that they are in fact dying. Most cases of angor animi are found in patients suffering from acute coronary s...
Artificial induction of immunity
...h then proved to be immune to the disease.
Pasteur also isolated a crude preparation of the infectious agent for rabies . In a brave piece of rapid
medicine development, he probably saved the life of a person who had been bitten by a clearly rabid dog by performing the same inactivating process upon his ra...
Autoinoculation
...his method [2]
References
^ US National Library of
medicine . URL last accessed September 9, 2006.
^ American Family Physician .
External links
US National Library of
medicine
Diagram
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Beers Criteria
...riteria were created through consensus of a panel of experts by using the Delphi method ; they were originally published in the Archives of Internal
medicine in 1991 and were most recently updated in 2003 .
References
Updating the Beers Criteria for Potentially Inappropriate Medication Us...
Body shaping
...ht loss body contouring patients. Obesity (Silver Spring), 2006 Sep;14(9):1626-36
External links
The American Society for Bariatric
medicine website
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Biomedicine
... Biomedicine , also known as theoretical
medicine , is a term that comprises the knowledge and resea... which is more or less in common to the fields of
medicine , veterinary
medicine , odontology and fundamental biosciences such ...
Cachexia
...
External links
Manifestations of Cachexia , from Cancer
medicine
Treatment of Cachexia , from Cancer
medicine
Scientists find key to 'wasting syndrome' seen in cancer, AIDS (U.S. De...
CankerMelts
...ays.
Active ingredient Glycyrrhiza extract ( licorice ) has been used for over 4000 years as an herbal remedy, including use in Traditional Chinese
medicine as a treatment for all varieties of ulcers. CankerMelts combines this natural remedy with a new oral patch technology that allows a fully-dissolving ...
Canadian Health Libraries Association
...ck Fredericksen , Sheila Swanson (then Librarian of the Toronto Academy of
medicine and the chair of the CASLIS Group), Ann Nevill (then Head of the Health ...he Committee on Medical School Libraries of the Association of Faculties of
medicine of Canada ( AFMC ) - the successor to the ACMC .
There is an article by...
Clean margin
...noma
Surgical Oncology
Pathology
References
^ a b Marc Sabatine ( 2007 ). Sabatine's Essentials of Internal
medicine .
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Computers in Medicine and Health Care
...n medicine, uses of computers in health care and importance of computers in
medicine fields. The influence of computers is universal. Computers are used in appl...r programs serve the entire population. The links included herein relate to
medicine and health care.
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Doctor-patient relationship
...al links . ( help )
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The patient-doctor relationship is considered to be essential in modern
medicine and forms one of the foundations of contemporary medical ethics. Universities teach medical students from the beginning, even before they set foot in ...
Full-body scan
...
History and overview
CT scans were first used in
medicine in the 1970s, [1] and they now play an important role in diagnosis in me... for colorectal neoplasia in asymptomatic adults.". New England Journal of
medicine 349 (23): 2191 - 2200. PMID 14657426 .
^ Lauenstein TC, Seme...
Family history (medicine)
... In
medicine , a family history consists of information about disorders that a patient's direct blood relatives have suffered from. Genealogy typically include...
Health Services Research
...stem .
Health services researchers come from a variety of backgrounds including economics , political science , epidemiology , public health ,
medicine , biostatistics , operations , and management .
References:
1. AcademyHealth, June 2000
2. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality...
Hickam's dictum
...cussing Occam's razor in contemporary medicine, doctors and philosophers of
medicine speak of diagnostic parsimony . Diagnostic parsimony advocates that when d... faculty member at Duke University in the 1950's, and was later chairman of
medicine at Indiana University.( [2] )
^ Hilliard A. A., Weinberger S. E., Ti...
Hematopathology
...- Immunofluorescence - Fluorescent in situ hybridization
Clinical pathology
Clinical chemistry - Hematopathology - Transfusion
medicine - Medical microbiology - Diagnostic immunology
Enzyme assay - Mass spectrometry - Chromatography - Flow cytometry - Blood bank - ...
Heterotopia (medicine)
... In
medicine , " heterotopia " refers to the displacement of an organ or part of an organ from its normal position, often specifically Gray Matter Heterotopia , t...
Pathology
...cation of the scientific method to the field of
medicine , a development which occurred in Western Europe ...c practice. However, as with other specialties in
medicine , most modern physician-pathologists are employed ...
Clinical pathology , also known as laboratory
medicine , is the medical specialty concerned with diagnosi...
Medical Scientist Training Program
... ] Many MD/PhD graduates also practice clinical
medicine in their field of expertise. [2]
Developed by...chnology , the University of Pittsburgh School of
medicine and Carnegie Mellon University , the University of California, San Francisco School of
medicine and the University of California, Berkeley , and ...
Neuropsychiatry
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Neuropsychiatry is the branch of
medicine dealing with mental disorders attributable to diseases of the nervous s...i: Negotiating Body Image and Identity During Rapid Social Change. Culture,
medicine and Psychiatry, 28(4): 533–559.
Bell, V., Halligan, P.W., Ellis, H.D. (20...
NeuroArm
...tics, titanium and other non-conductive material. [1] . NeuroArm is a tool that aims to revolutionize neurosurgery and other branches of operative
medicine by reducing the constraints of the human hand while maintaining the tactile feedback important to the surgeons. [2] The machine uses something call...
Ocular oncology
...
Eye cancer
Classification & external resources
ICD - 10
C 69.
ICD - 9
190
Ocular oncology is the branch of
medicine dealing with tumors relating to the eye and its adnexa . Eye cancer can affect all parts of the eye .
Contents
1 Eye canc...
Pharmaconomist
...gy , molecular biology , genetics , cytology ,
medicine , veterinary
medicine , zoology , diagnosis , medical prescription , ...bout medical prescriptions and about prescription
medicine and over-the-counter...
Photomedicine
... Photomedicine is an interdisciplinary branch of
medicine that involves the study and application of light with respect to health an... disease. Photomedicine may be related to the practice of various fields of
medicine including dermatology, surgery, dentistry, optical diagnostics, cardiology,...
Ramón Carrillo
...urgery and neurobiology
2 Career in social
medicine
3 Short biography
4 Sources
...s Chair of Neurosurgery.
Career in social
medicine
Then, in a sudden professional change, Carrillo...or the previous injustices and the ideas of social
medicine steering his work became republished.
Sho...
Polysomnographic technician
...r-soluble glue) that improves the body's electrical impedances, thus giving the computer a better readout.
One of the largest growing areas in sleep
medicine is in the area of sleep-disordered breathing, especially Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome (OSAS), sometimes referred to as Obstructive Sleep Apnea/H...