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| x Oncology | Cancer | Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center |
Oncology is the branch of medicine dealing with tumors (cancer). A medical professional who practices oncology is an oncologist. The term originates from the Greek onkos (ονκος), meaning bulk, mass, or tumor, and the suffix -logy, meaning "study of"...
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| Bladder cancer | H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute | ||||
| Breast cancer | Roswell Park Cancer Institute | ||||
| Colorectal cancer | City of Hope National Medical Center | ||||
| Skin cancer | Karmanos Cancer Center | ||||
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| x Cardiology |
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Karel Frederik Wenckebach | Myocardial infarction | Bakersfield Heart Hospital |
"Cardiovascular Internal Medicine" redirects here.
Cardiology (from Greek καρδίᾱ, kardiā, "heart"; and -λογία, -logia) is a specialty dealing with disorders of the heart and blood vessels. The field includes diagnosis and treatment of congenital...
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| Albert Pacifico | Cardiac arrest | St. Francis Hospital | |||
| Edgar Van Nuys Allen | Myocardial ischaemia | Banner Baywood Heart Hospital | |||
| Amit Patel | Myocarditis | Veterans Affairs Medical Center | |||
| Peter B. Berger | Dressler's syndrome | Arizona Heart Hospital | |||
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| x Neurology |
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Motor neuron disease | LifeCare Hospitals of San Antonio |
Neurology (from Greek νεῦρον, neuron, "nerve"; and -λογία, -logia) is a medical specialty dealing with disorders of the nervous system. Specifically, it deals with the diagnosis and treatment of all categories of disease involving the central,...
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| Alzheimer's disease | King's College Hospital | ||||
| Dementia | National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery | ||||
| Huntington's disease | Royal Adelaide Hospital | ||||
| Parkinson's disease | Montreal Neurological Institute | ||||
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| x Radiology |
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Antoine Béclère |
Radiology is the branch or speciality of medicine that deals with the study and application of imaging technology like x-ray and radiation to diagnosing and treating disease.
Radiologists direct an array of imaging technologies (such as ultrasound,...
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| x Dermatology | Skin cancer |
Dermatology is the branch of medicine dealing with the skin and its diseases, a unique specialty with both medical and surgical aspects. The name of this specialty originated in the form of the (semantically wrong) words dermologie (in French, 1764...
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| Molluscum contagiosum | |||||
| Jock itch | |||||
| Kaposi's sarcoma | |||||
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| x Internal medicine | Peter Agre | Hepatitis B | Antelope Valley Hospital Medical Center |
Internal medicine is the medical specialty concerned with the diagnosis, management and nonsurgical treatment of unusual or serious diseases. According to some sources, an emphasis on internal structures is implied. In North America, specialists in...
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| St. Vincent's Hospital | |||||
| Morton Hospital and Medical Center | |||||
| Michael Reese Hospital | |||||
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| x Medical genetics | Down syndrome |
Medical genetics is the specialty of medicine that involves the diagnosis and management of hereditary disorders. Medical genetics differs from Human genetics in that human genetics is a field of scientific research that may or may not apply to...
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| Coeliac disease | |||||
| Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease | |||||
| Canavan disease | |||||
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| x Ophthalmology |
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Selig Percy Amoils | Glaucoma | Moorfields Eye Hospital |
Ophthalmology is the branch of medicine which deals with the diseases and surgery of the visual pathways, including the eye, brain, and areas surrounding the eye, such as the lacrimal system and eyelids. By convention the term ophthalmologist is...
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| Herpes simplex | Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary | ||||
| Uveitis | UCSF Francis I. Proctor Foundation | ||||
| Corneal ulcer | Aditya Jyot Eye Hospital | ||||
| Myopia | |||||
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| x Obstetrics and gynaecology | Ogino Ginko | Endometrial cancer | Baptist Memorial Hospital for Women |
Obstetrics and gynecology (often abbreviated to OB/GYN, O&G; or Obs & Gynae) are the two surgical specialties dealing with the female reproductive organs, and as such are often combined to form a single medical specialty and postgraduate training...
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| Ovarian cancer | Johnson City Specialty Hospital | ||||
| Cervical cancer | Bellevue Woman's Hospital | ||||
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| x Obstetrics |
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St Mary's Hospital, Manchester |
Obstetrics (from the Latin obstare, "to stand by") is the surgical specialty dealing with the care of women and their children during pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium. Midwifery is the non-medical equivalent. Veterinary obstetrics is the...
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| Jessop Hospital | |||||
| Lucile Packard Children's Hospital | |||||
| x Otolaryngology | Oral cancer | New York Eye and Ear Infirmary |
Otolaryngology is the branch of medicine that specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of ear, nose, throat, and head and neck disorders. The full name of the specialty is otolaryngology-head and neck surgery. Practitioners are called...
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| Thyroid cancer | Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital | ||||
| Papillary thyroid cancer | Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary | ||||
| Medullary thyroid cancer | Callahan Eye Foundation Hospital | ||||
| Follicular thyroid cancer | Bascom Palmer Eye Institute-Anne Bates Leach Eye Hospital | ||||
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| x Pathology |
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Pathology (from Greek πάθος, pathos, "fate, harm"; and -λογία, -logia) is the study and diagnosis of disease through examination of organs, tissues, bodily fluids, and whole bodies (autopsies). The term also encompasses the related scientific study...
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| x Pediatrics |
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Hans Asperger | Shriners Hospitals for Children-Chicago |
Pediatrics (or paediatrics) is a branch of medical care that deals with the medical care of infants, children, and adolescents. The upper age limit ranges from age 14 to 18, depending on the country.
A medical practitioner who specializes in this...
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| Healthbridge Children's Hospital of Houston | |||||
| All Children's Hospital | |||||
| Phoenix Children's Hospital | |||||
| Shriners Hospitals for Children, Tampa | |||||
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| x Urology | Kidney stone |
Urology is the surgical specialty that focuses on the urinary tracts of males and females, and on the reproductive system of males. Medical professionals specializing in the field of urology are called urologists and are trained to diagnose, treat,...
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| Bladder cancer | |||||
| Prostate cancer | |||||
| Gonorrhoea | |||||
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| x Thoracic surgery |
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Alexis Carrel |
Thoracic surgery is the field of medicine involved in the surgical treatment of diseases affecting organs inside the thorax (the chest). Generally treatment of conditions of the lungs, [[chest wall], and diaphragm.
Thoracic surgery is often grouped...
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| x Physical medicine and rehabilitation |
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Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago |
Physical medicine and rehabilitation (PM&R;), or physiatry (fĭz'ē-āt'rē or fĭ-zī'ə-trē), is a branch of medicine which aims to enhance and restore functional ability and quality of life to those with physical impairments or disabilities. A physician...
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| Marianjoy Rehabilitation Hospital and Clinics | |||||
| Regional Health Rehabilitation Hospital | |||||
| Bronson Vicksburg Hospital | |||||
| HEALTHSOUTH Rehabilitation Hospital of Texarkana | |||||
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| x Plastic surgery |
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Broomfield Hospital |
Plastic surgery is a medical specialty concerned with the correction or restoration of form and function. While famous for aesthetic surgery, plastic surgery also includes two main fields: cosmetic and reconstructive surgery. The word "plastic"...
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| x Preventive medicine |
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AIDS |
Preventive medicine or preventive care refers to measures taken to prevent illness or injury, rather than curing them. It can be contrasted not only with curative medicine, but also with public health methods (which work at the level of population...
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| HIV infection | |||||
| Bacterial vaginosis | |||||
| Candidiasis | |||||
| Chancroid | |||||
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| x Nuclear medicine |
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Nuclear medicine is a branch of medicine and medical imaging that uses radioactive isotopes (radionuclides) in the diagnosis and treatment of disease. Nuclear medicine thus relies on the process of radioactive decay. Molecular imaging may employ...
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| x Emergency medicine |
Emergency medicine is a medical specialty in which a physician receives practical training to provide patients with acute illnesses or injuries which require immediate medical attention. While not usually providing long-term or continuing care,...
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| x Allergy and Immunology | Hay fever |
Allergy and Immunology is a medical specialty on the diagnosis, treatment, and management of diseases and medical conditions involving the immune system. The field of Allergy and Immunology covers a wide variety of conditions, from allergies brought...
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| Asthma | |||||
| Autoimmunity | |||||
| Systemic lupus erythematosus | |||||
| Allergy | |||||
| x Nephrology |
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Acute renal failure |
Nephrology (from Greek: nephros, "kidney", combining with the suffix -logy, "the study of")) is a branch of internal medicine and pediatrics dealing with the study of the function and diseases of the kidney.
Nephrology concerns itself with the...
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| Kidney stone | |||||
| Kidney cancer | |||||
| x Endocrinology |
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Pancreatic cancer |
Endocrinology (from Greek ἔνδον, endon, "within"; κρῑνω, krīnō, "to separate"; and -λογία, -logia) is a branch of medicine dealing with disorder of the endocrine system and its specific secretions called hormones.
Hormones are molecules that act as...
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| Thyroid cancer | |||||
| Papillary thyroid cancer | |||||
| Medullary thyroid cancer | |||||
| Follicular thyroid cancer | |||||
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| x Osteopathic medicine |
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Osteopathic medicine is a branch of the medical profession in the United States, with some recognition outside the US, including most Canadian provinces. Physicians who graduate from osteopathic medical schools are sometimes known as osteopathic...
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| x Transfusion medicine |
Transfusion medicine (or transfusiology) is the branch of medicine that is concerned with the transfusion of blood and blood components. The blood bank is the section of the clinical laboratory where medical technologists process and distribute...
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| x Intensive care medicine |
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Royal Hobart Hospital |
Intensive Care Medicine or critical care medicine is a branch of medicine concerned with the provision of life support or organ support systems in patients who are critically ill and who usually require intensive monitoring.
Patients requiring...
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| x Aviation medicine |
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Aviation medicine, also called flight medicine or aerospace medicine, is a branch of preventive or occupational medicine in which the patients/subjects are pilots and aircrews. The specialty strives to treat or prevent conditions to which aircrews...
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| x Maternal-fetal medicine |
Maternal-fetal medicine (MFM) is the branch of obstetrics that focuses on the medical and surgical management of high-risk pregnancies. Management includes monitoring and treatment including comprehensive ultrasound, chorionic villus sampling,...
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| x Tropical medicine | Thomas Masterman Winterbottom | Malaria |
Tropical medicine is the branch of medicine that deals with health problems that occur uniquely, are more widespread, or prove more difficult to control in tropical and subtropical regions.
Many infections that are classified as "tropical diseases"...
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| Cholera | |||||
| Tropical sprue | |||||
| Chagas disease | |||||
| Leprosy | |||||
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| x Neurosurgery |
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Arne Torkildsen | Parkinson's disease | King's College Hospital |
Neurosurgery is the surgical discipline focused on treating those central and peripheral nervous systems and spinal column diseases amenable to surgical intervention. In the United States there are only about 3,000 neurosurgeons.
Neurosurgery is...
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| Nikolai Burdenko | Intracranial berry aneurysm | National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery | |||
| Percival Bailey | Spinal disc herniation | Royal Adelaide Hospital | |||
| Gopal Baratham | Spinal stenosis | Royal Hobart Hospital | |||
| Claude Bertrand | Normal pressure hydrocephalus | Calvary Wakefield Hospital | |||
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| x Organ transplant |
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Alexis Carrel | Toronto General Hospital |
Organ transplant is the moving of an organ from one body to another (or from a donor site on the patient's own body), for the purpose of replacing the recipient's damaged or failing organ with a working one from the donor site. Organ donors can be...
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| x Optometry |
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Gil Morgan |
Optometry is a health care profession concerned with eyes and related structures, as well as vision, visual systems, and vision information processing in humans.
Like most health professions, optometry education, certification, and practice is...
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| x Psychiatry |
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Obsessive-compulsive disorder | Florida State Hospital |
Psychiatry is a medical specialty officially devoted to the treatment, study and prevention of mental disorders. The term was first coined by the German physician Johann Christian Reil in 1808.
Psychiatric assessment typically involves a mental...
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| Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder | Central State Hospital | ||||
| Paranoid personality disorder | College Hospital | ||||
| Schizoid personality disorder | Hudson River Psychiatric Center | ||||
| Schizotypal personality disorder | Creedmoor Psychiatric Center | ||||
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| x Immunology |
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Paul A. Offit | Systemic lupus erythematosus |
Immunology is a broad branch of biomedical science that covers the study of all aspects of the immune system in all organisms. It deals with, among other things, the physiological functioning of the immune system in states of both health and disease...
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| Peter Heeger | Allergy | ||||
| AIDS | |||||
| HIV infection | |||||
| Kaposi's sarcoma | |||||
| x Infectious disease |
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Julie Gerberding | Coxsackie A virus |
An infectious disease is a clinically evident disease resulting from the presence of pathogenic microbial agents, including pathogenic viruses, pathogenic bacteria, fungi, protozoa, multicellular parasites, and aberrant proteins known as prions....
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| Emil Adolf von Behring | AIDS | ||||
| Candidiasis | |||||
| Chancroid | |||||
| Donovanosis | |||||
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| x Virology | Thomas Francis, Jr. | AIDS |
Virology is the study of viruses and virus-like agents: their structure, classification and evolution, their ways to infect and exploit cells for virus reproduction, the diseases they cause, the techniques to isolate and culture them, and their use...
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| Paul A. Offit | AIDS-related complex | ||||
| Chickenpox | |||||
| Common cold | |||||
| Cytomegalovirus | |||||
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| x Surgery |
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Mary Edwards Walker | Mary Shiels Hospital |
Surgery (from the Greek: χειρουργική cheirourgikē, via Latin: chirurgiae, meaning "hand work") is a medical specialty that uses operative manual and instrumental techniques on a patient to investigate and/or treat a pathological condition such as...
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| Joseph Murray | Southwest Surgical Hospital | ||||
| Theodor Billroth | Baylor Medical Center at Trophy Club | ||||
| Edoardo Bassini | Southeast Michigan Surgical Hospital | ||||
| First Street Hospital | |||||
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| x Vaccinology | Maurice Hilleman |
Vaccinology is the scientific discipline of vaccine research.
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| x Orthopedic surgery |
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New England Baptist Hospital |
Orthopedic surgery or orthopedics (also spelled orthopaedics) is the branch of surgery concerned with conditions involving the musculoskeletal system. Orthopedic surgeons use both surgical and non-surgical means to treat musculoskeletal trauma,...
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| Hospital for Special Surgery | |||||
| Arizona Spine and Joint Hospital | |||||
| Presbyterian-Orthopaedic Hospital | |||||
| Hughston Orthopedic Hospital | |||||
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| x Cancer |
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The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center |
Cancer (medical term: malignant neoplasm) is a class of diseases in which a group of cells display uncontrolled growth (division beyond the normal limits), invasion (intrusion on and destruction of adjacent tissues), and sometimes metastasis (spread...
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| UNC Hospitals | |||||
| John Wayne Cancer Institute | |||||
| Hôtel-Dieu de Québec | |||||
| x Respiratory disease | Barlow Respiratory Hospital |
Respiratory Disease is the term for diseases of the respiratory system. These include diseases of the lung, pleural cavity, bronchial tubes, trachea, upper respiratory tract and of the nerves and muscles of breathing. Respiratory diseases range from...
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| Sage Memorial Hospital | |||||
| Barlow Respiratory Hospital | |||||
| Barlow Respiratory Hospital | |||||
| Barlow Respiratory Hospital | |||||
| x Acute care | Sparrow Specialty Hospital |
Acute care is necessary treatment of a disease for only a short period of time in which a patient is treated for a brief but severe episode of illness. Many hospitals are acute care facilities with the goal of discharging the patient as soon as the...
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| Cornerstone Hospital of SouthEast Arizona | |||||
| Continuecare Hospital of Southeast Texas | |||||
| LifeCare Hospitals of South Texas | |||||
| Cornerstone Hosp of Central Texas | |||||
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| x Alcoholism and other chemical dependency | Brighton Hospital | ||||
| Julian F. Keith Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment Center | |||||
| Bradford Health Services at Birmingham Lodge | |||||
| Sierra Tucson | |||||
| Cornerstone of Medical Arts Center Hospital | |||||
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| x Pulmonology |
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Pneumothorax | Royal Adelaide Hospital |
In medicine, pulmonology (aka pneumology) is the specialty that deals with diseases of the lungs and the respiratory tract. It is called chest medicine and respiratory medicine in some countries and areas. Pulmonology is generally considered a...
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| Lung cancer | |||||
| Small Cell Lung Carcinoma | |||||
| Non-Small Cell Lung Carcinoma | |||||
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McLean Hospital |
Neuroscience is the scientific study of the nervous system. Such studies span the structure, function, evolutionary history, development, genetics, biochemistry, physiology, pharmacology, informatics, computational neuroscience and pathology of the...
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| Toronto Western Hospital | |||||
| x Hematology |
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Iron deficiency anemia |
Hematology, also spelled haematology, is the branch of biology (physiology), pathology, clinical laboratory, internal medicine, and pediatrics that is concerned with the study of blood, the blood-forming organs, and blood diseases. Hematology...
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| Leukemia | |||||
| Non-Hodgkin lymphoma | |||||
| Chronic myelogenous leukemia | |||||
| Chronic lymphocytic leukemia | |||||
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| x Sleep medicine |
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William C. Dement | Delayed sleep phase syndrome |
Sleep medicine is a medical subspecialty devoted to the diagnosis and therapy of sleep disturbances and disorders. From the middle of the 20th century, research has provided increasing knowledge and answered many questions about sleep-wake...
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| Sleep disorder | |||||
| x Abdominal surgery | Theodor Billroth |
The term abdominal surgery broadly covers surgical procedures that involve opening the abdomen. Surgery of each abdominal organ is dealt with separately in connection with the description of that organ (see stomach, kidney, liver, etc.) Diseases...
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| x Drug rehabilitation | Brattleboro Retreat |
Drug rehabilitation (often drug rehab or just rehab) is an umbrella term for the processes of medical and/or psychotherapeutic treatment, for dependency on psychoactive substances such as alcohol, prescription drugs, and so-called street drugs such...
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| x Gastroenterology |
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Colorectal cancer |
Gastroenterology (MeSH heading) is the branch of medicine whereby the digestive system and its disorders are studied. Etymologically, the name is a combination of three Ancient Greek words gastros (stomach), enteron (intestine), and logos (reason)....
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| Pancreatic cancer | |||||
| Esophageal cancer | |||||
| Hepatitis B | |||||
| x Dentistry |
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Doc Holliday | Dental caries | King's College Hospital |
Dentistry is the known evaluation, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of diseases, disorders and conditions of the soft and hard tissues of the jaw (mandible), the oral cavity, maxillofacial area and the adjacent and associated structures and...
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| x Hepatology |
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Liver cancer |
Hepatology is the branch of medicine that incorporates study of liver, gallbladder, biliary tree and pancreas as well as management of their disorders. Etymologically the word Hepatology is formed of ancient Greek hepar(ηπαρ) or hepato-(ηπατο-)...
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| Hepatitis B | |||||
| x Gynaecology |
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Cervical cancer | St Mary's Hospital, Manchester |
Gynaecology or gynecology (see spelling differences) refers to the surgical specialty dealing with health of the female reproductive system (uterus, vagina and ovaries). Literally, outside medicine, it means "the science of women". Almost all modern...
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| Endometrial cancer | Jessop Hospital | ||||
| Ovarian cancer | |||||
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| x NCI-designated Cancer Center | Fletcher Allen Health Care |
NCI-designated Cancer Centers are a group of approximately 60 cancer research institutions in the United States supported by the National Cancer Institute.
Two designations are recognized: Comprehensive Cancer Centers and Cancer Centers. As of 2008,...
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| x Xenotransplantation | John R. Brinkley |
Xenotransplantation (xeno- from the Greek meaning "foreign") is the transplantation of living cells, tissues or organs from one species to another such as from pigs to humans (see Medical grafting). Such cells, tissues or organs are called...
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| x Erectile dysfunction |
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John R. Brinkley |
Erectile dysfunction (ED or "male impotence") is a sexual dysfunction characterized by the inability to develop or maintain an erection of the penis sufficient for satisfactory sexual performance.
An erection occurs as a hydraulic effect due to...
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| x Family medicine | AIDS |
Family medicine doctors may hold one of the following medical degrees, either (M.D.), MBBS, MBChB, etc) or (D.O.) degree. Physicians who specialize in family medicine (also known as a family physician), however, must complete a three-year family...
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| Bacterial vaginosis | |||||
| Candidiasis | |||||
| Chancroid | |||||
| Chlamydia | |||||
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| x HIV infection |
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Tony Mills |
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a lentivirus (a member of the retrovirus family) that can lead to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), a condition in humans in which the immune system begins to fail, leading to life-threatening...
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| x Clinical engineering | Cardiologist | Cardiovascular pathology | Hospital Clínic metro station |
Clinical engineering is a specialty within Biomedical engineering responsible primarily for applying and implementing medical technology to optimize healthcare delivery. Roles of clinical engineers include training and supervising biomedical...
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