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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.

Medicine comprises 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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A Schatzki ring or Schatzki-Gary ring is a ring found in the lower part of the esophagus that can cause difficulty swallowing. The ring is made up of mucosal tissue (which lines the esophagus) or muscular tissue.^[1] Patients with Schatzki rings can develop intermittent dysphagia or difficulty swallowing, or more seriously, with a completely blocked esophagus. The ring is named after the American physician, Richard Schatzki. (More...)

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Acromion-clavicle disjonction (left shoulder) — note that the shoulder is lower and the "piano key"; the scar on the photograph and the screws on the radiography the are ostheosynthesis material from a former trauma repair, without any connection with the present trauma

Photo credit: Christophe Dang Ngoc Chan

Medicine WikiNews

• • February 8: 12-year-old girl dies after collapsing in school in Northamptonshire, England
  • February 3: Wikinews Shorts: Feburary 3, 2010
  • January 27: Japanese company recalls two million needles in US
  • January 26: Scientists improve cancer research techniques

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• ...the general adaptation syndrome was discovered almost accidentally by Hungarian endocrinologist Hans Selye? He was searching for new hormones by injecting mice with organ homogenates, but found they all displayed an acute stress reaction.
• ...the keratolytic effects of over-the-counter salicylic acid are used to treat viral warts?
• ...in 1906, Frederick Hopkins suggested the existence of vitamins and suggests that a lack of vitamins causes scurvy and rickets? He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1929, and also discovered the amino acid tryptophan in 1901.
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Quotes

• "When you hear hoofbeats behind you, don't expect to see a zebra.” Theodore Woodward, MD PhD, University of Maryland, Baltimore, School of Medicine.
• "We should not encourage the medical student to while away his time in the labyrinths of Chemistry and Physiology.” - Harvard Medical School professor, 1871.
• "If I had my way I'd make health catching instead of disease.” - Robert Ingersoll
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