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Pediatrics
'Pediatrics is concerned with the health of infants, children and adolescents, their growth and development, and their opportunity to achieve full potential as adults.' (Richard E.Behrman in Nelson's Textbook of Pediatrics) Pediatrics…
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Show more- Coronary angiography The most accurate method (the 'gold standard') for evaluating and defining coronary artery disease (CAD)…
- Dr. Andrew Weil Dr. Andrew Weil is a physician and proponent of alternative medicine. Dr. Weil is the Director and founder of…
- Midwife, empirical See: Empirical midwife.
- Pacing, diaphragm See: Diaphragm pacing
- Mediterranean diet >High consumption of fruits, vegetables, bread and other cereals, potatoes, beans, nuts and seeds; >Olive oil…
- Psychiatrist A physician (an M.D.) who specializes in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of mental illness…
- PARK11 Familial Parkinson disease type 11
- Disease, Jakob-Creutzfeldt A transmissible degenerative brain disorder technically termed spongiform encephalopathy. Eating 'mad cow'…
- Guasha See: Gua-sha
- Fowl plague See: Avian influenza
- Factor VIII Factor eight, a key factor in the process of blood coagulation (clotting). Lack of normal factor VIII causes…
- Deficiency, FAO Also known as the Sjogren-Larsson syndrome, this is a genetic (inherited) disease usually characterized by a…