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United States Department of Health and Human Services, Radiation Emergency Medical Management
A group of people with similar disease who meet to discuss how better to cope with their disease and treatment.
Industry:Health care
A term used to describe the process by which the results of research done in the laboratory are used to develop new ways to diagnose and treat disease.
Industry:Health care
In Chinese philosophy, yin and yang are opposite forces that form a whole. Everything contains both yin and yang in a balance that is always changing, such as hot and cold, day and night, and health and disease. In traditional Chinese medicine, disease is diagnosed and treated based on the balance of yin and yang.
Industry:Health care
A substance being studied in the treatment of some types of cancer. Canertinib dihydrochloride blocks the action of proteins called epidermal growth factor receptors, and may cause cancer cells to die. It is a type of tyrosine kinase inhibitor. Also called canertinib and CI-1033.
Industry:Health care
The act of following a medical regimen or schedule correctly and consistently, including taking medicines or following a diet.
Industry:Health care
To widen or enlarge an opening or hollow structure beyond its usual size, such as the pupil of the eye or a blood vessel.
Industry:Health care
Cancer of the blood-forming tissues in which large numbers of immature, abnormal red blood cells are found in the blood and bone marrow.
Industry:Health care
The place where the esophagus is connected to the stomach.
Industry:Health care
When radioactive material is used to examine the thyroid with a scanner, nodules that collect more radioactive material than the surrounding thyroid tissue are considered "hot." Hot nodules are rarely malignant. Hot nodules are sometimes called hyperfunctioning nodules.
Industry:Health care
