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Infant iron supplementation
Iron is included in most infant formulas. Therefore, there is no evidence that iron supplementation is necessary for healthy formula-fed, full-term infants. In the past it was recommended that infants from birth to 4 months of age could…
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Show more- SIDDT Sudden infant death with dysgenesis of testes. SIDDT was first identified in an Old Order Amish community in…
- Breast pain Pain in the breast or mammary gland, known medically as mastalgia. From the Greek masto-, breast + algos, pain
- Fredrickson See: Fredrickson, Donald
- Supportive care Treatment given to prevent, control, or relieve complications and side effects and to improve the patient's…
- Contraction The tightening and shortening of a muscle
- Fever, five-day Fever, five-day: Also called trench fever, this is a disease borne by body lice that was first recognized in…
- Homozygote A person who has two identical forms of a particular gene, one inherited from each parent. For example, a…
- Paraskevidekatriaphobia Fear of Friday the 13th. The word 'paraskevidekatriaphobia' was devised by Dr. Donald Dossey who told his…
- Intubate To put a tube into a hollow organ or passageway, often into the airway. The opposite of intubate is extubate.
- Stickler syndrome, type I See: Stickler syndrome
- Conformational radiation therapy A procedure that uses computers to create a 3-dimensional picture of the tumor in order to target the tumor…
- HSP Henoch-Schonlein purpura. See: Schonlein-Henoch purpura