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Medicine is the branch of health science and the sector of public life concerned with maintaining or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis and treatment of disease and injury. It is both an area of knowledge — a science of body systems, their diseases and treatment — and the applied practice — an art or craft — of that knowledge. However, medicine often refers more specifically to matters dealt with by physicians and surgeons.

Medicine is both an area of knowledge (a science), and the application of that knowledge (by the medical profession and other health professionals such as nurses). The various specialized branches of the science of medicine correspond to the equally specialized medical professions dealing with particular organs or diseases. The science of medicine is the knowledge of body systems and diseases, while the profession of medicine refers to the social structure of the group of people formally trained to apply that knowledge to treat disease.

Medicine comprises various specialized sub-branches, such as cardiology, pulmonology, neurology, or other fields such as sports medicine, research or public health.

"Medicine" is also often used amongst medical professionals as shorthand for internal medicine. Veterinary medicine is the practice of health care in animal species other than human beings.

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Endoscopic foreign body retrieval refers to the removal of ingested objects from the esophagus, stomach and duodenum by endoscopic techniques. It does not involve surgery, but rather encompasses a variety of techniques employed through the gastroscope for grasping foreign bodies, manipulating them, and removing them while protecting the esophagus and trachea.

It is of particular importance with children, people with mental illness and prison inmates as these groups have a high rate of foreign body ingestion. (More...)

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A bone marrow harvest.

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• • July 5: Death toll in Arizona helicopter collision at seven as only survivor dies
  • June 30: Arizona helicopter collision kills six
  • June 30: South Korean police clamp down on protests against US beef
  • June 25: Australians getting drunker, fatter, but among the world's longest-lived

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• ...infantile pyloric stenosis is a not uncommon pediatric condition where there is a congenital narrowing of the pylorus (the opening at the lower end of the stomach)? Babies with this condition usually present within the first few weeks (usually between 2nd and 3rd) of life with poor feeding, weight loss and progressively worsening vomiting leading ultimately to projectile non-bilious vomiting.

• ...the Cotard delusion (or Cotard's syndrome, le délire de négation) is a rare disorder in which a person holds a delusional belief that he is dead, does not exist, is putrefying or has lost his blood or internal organs?

• ...the nomenclature of monoclonal antibodies is a naming scheme for assigning generic, or nonproprietary, names to a group of medicines called monoclonal antibodies. This scheme is used for both the World Health Organization’s International Nonproprietary Names and the United States Adopted Names. In general, suffixes are used to identify a class of medicines; all monoclonal antibody pharmaceuticals end with the suffix -mab. However, different infixes are used depending on the structure and function of the medicine.

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Quotes

• "… the best thing for being sad… is to learn something.” - Merlin to Arthur; The Sword in the Stone by T. H. White
• "Health is like money, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it.” - Josh Billings
• "Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.” - Mark Twain
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Medicine topics

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• Medicine: our main project!
  • Anatomy
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  • Gastroenterology: the branch of medicine dealing with diseases of stomach, intestines and related organs.
  • Medical Genetics
  • Nephrology: the branch of medicine dealing with diseases of the kidney.
  • Neurology: the branch of medicine that deals with the nervous system.
  • Ophthalmology: the branch of medicine dealing with diseases of the eye.
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• Microbiology
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  • Cell Signaling
• National Health Service
• Neuroscience
• Nursing
• Pharmacology
  • Psychedelics, Dissociatives and Deliriants
• Psychology
  • Psychopathology: aims to provide information on the science, history, philosophy and politics of mental illness.
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