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• Alternative Medicine
  Pain Control
  Personalized Medicine
  Attention Deficit Disorder
  Sports Medicine
  Diseases and Conditions
   
  

  Alternative medicine

  Alternative medicine describes practices used in place of conventional medical treatments. Complementary medicine describes alternative medicine used in conjunction with conventional medicine. The ... > more
• Healthy Aging
  Attention Deficit Disorder
  Sports Medicine
  Foodborne Illness
  Gastrointestinal Problems
  Colitis
   

  Gastroenteritis

  Gastroenteritis involves diarrhea or vomitting, with noninflammatory infection of the upper small bowel, or inflammatory infection of the colon, both part of the gastrointestinal tract. Usually this ... > more
• Mad Cow Disease
  Healthy Aging
  Diseases and Conditions
  Disorders and Syndromes
  Sports Medicine
  Chronic Illness
   

  Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy

  Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs, also known as prion diseases) are a group of progressive conditions that affect the brain and nervous system of humans and animals and are transmitted ... > more
• Insects (including Butterflies)
  Agriculture and Food
  Invasive Species
  Mating and Breeding
  Healthy Aging
  Food and Agriculture
   

  Africanized bee

  Africanized bees, also known as killer bees, are hybrids of the African honeybee with various European honeybees descended from 26 Tanzanian queen bees accidentally released in 1957 in Southern ... > more
• Vaccines
  Infectious Diseases
  Viruses
  Healthy Aging
  Diseases and Conditions
  Sports Medicine
   
  

  Chickenpox

  Chickenpox, also spelled chicken pox, is the common name for varicella simplex, classically one of the childhood infectious diseases caught and survived by most children. Chickenpox is caused by the ... > more
• Molecular Biology
  Genetics
  Cell Biology
  Genes
  Biotechnology
  Healthy Aging
   
  

  Protein structure

  Proteins, similar to carbohydrates and lipids, are made up of such elements as carbon, hydrogen and oxygen. They are amino acid chains, made up from 20 different L-alpha-amino acids, also referred to ... > more
• Healthy Aging
  Asthma
  Sports Medicine
  Lung Disease
  Allergy
  Diseases and Conditions
   

  Hiccup

  A hiccup or hiccough is an involuntary spasm of the diaphragm; typically this repeats several times a minute. The sudden rush of air into the lungs causes the glottis to close, creating the "hic" ... > more
• Healthy Aging
  Attention Deficit Disorder
  Sports Medicine
  Hormone Disorders
  Nervous System
  Leukemia
   
  

  Salivary gland

  The salivary glands produce saliva, which keeps the mouth and other parts of the digestive system moist. It also helps break down carbohydrates (with salivary amylase, formerly known as ptyalin) and ... > more
• Telecommunications
  Workplace Health
  Technology
  Health Policy
  Diseases and Conditions
  Today's Healthcare
   
  

  Mobile phone radiation and health

  Mobile phone radiation and health concerns have been raised following the enormous increase in the use of wireless mobile telephony throughout the world (as of August 2005, there were more than 2 ... > more
• Pregnancy and Childbirth
  Infant's Health
  Birth Defects
  Sports Medicine
  Healthy Aging
  Attention Deficit Disorder
   

  Stillbirth

  A stillbirth occurs when a fetus, of mid-second trimester to full term gestational age, which has died in the womb or during labour or delivery, exits the maternal ... > more

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