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United States Department of Health and Human Services, Radiation Emergency Medical Management
A type of cancer that begins in the cells that line lymph vessels.
Industry:Health care
A method of diagnostic imaging that uses very small amounts of radioactive material. The patient is injected with a liquid that contains the radioactive substance, which collects in the part of the body to be imaged. Sophisticated instruments detect the radioactive substance in the body and process that information into an image.
Industry:Health care
A type of virus that has hemagglutinin-neuraminidase proteins in the outer coat and RNA as the genetic material. Measles (rubeola) virus, mumps virus, and Newcastle disease virus are paramyxoviruses.
Industry:Health care
A drug used to treat some infections caused by viruses and several types of cancer. These include hairy cell leukemia, melanoma, and follicular lymphoma. It is a form of interferon alfa (a substance normally made by cells of the immune system) that is made in the laboratory. It is a type of biological response modifier. Also called IFN alpha-2B, interferon alfa-2b, and Intron A.
Industry:Health care
A person's behaviors, desires, and attitudes related to sex and physical intimacy with others.
Industry:Health care
A large cell-like structure formed by the joining together of two or more cells. The plural is syncytia.
Industry:Health care
Use of acupuncture to treat pain by inserting needles into trigger points on the body. Trigger points are places on the body where injury has occurred, but the pain has been sent along nerves and is felt in another place in the body.
Industry:Health care
Cancer that begins in the skin or in tissues that line or cover internal organs.
Industry:Health care
