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Medical research
Basic, applied or translational research conducted to aid and support the study in the field of medicine.
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Antiretroviral therapy (ART)
Medical; Medical research
Treatment that suppresses or stops a retrovirus. One of the retrovirus is the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that causes AIDS.
Flexner Report
Medical; Medical research
The report researched, written and published by Abraham Flexner (1866-1959) in 1910 for the Carnegie Foundation and entitled "Medical Education in the United States and Canada" is known today as the ...
Discipline-based approach
Medical; Medical research
Teaching of the individual classical medical disciplines such as anatomy, biochemistry, pathology, surgery or community medicine as separate educational building blocks. It is expected that this ...
Health maintenance organisation (HMO)
Medical; Medical research
An organisation that arranges a wide spectrum of health care services which commonly include hospital care, physicians' services and many other kinds of health care services with an emphasis on ...
Trial
Medical; Medical research
An experiment performed on human beings in order to evaluate the comparative efficacy of two or more therapies.
B-type natriuretic peptide
Medical; Medical research
A chemical that is gaining attention as a possible marker for heart failure. Higher BNP levels seem to correlate with worse degrees of heart failure.
High blood pressure
Medical; Medical research
A common disorder in which blood pressure remains abnormally high (a reading of 140/90 mm Hg or greater).
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