Health Subcategories Index

Aging

Ageing (British and Australian English) or aging (American and Canadian English) is the accumulation of changes in an organism or object over time.
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Alternative Medicine

Alternative medicine practices are as diverse in their foundations as in their methodologies. Practices may incorporate or base themselves on traditional medicine, folk knowledge, spiritual beliefs, or newly conceived approaches to healing.
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Cancer

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 to other locations in the body via lymph or blood).
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Dental Health

Dental public health is involved in the assessment of dental health needs and improving the dental health of populations rather than individuals. One of the controversial subjects relating to dental public health is Fluoridation of drinking water.
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Diabetes

Diabetes mellitus &ndashoften simply referred to as diabetes&ndashis a condition in which a person has a high blood sugar (glucose) level as a result of the body either not producing enough insulin, or because body cells do not properly respond to the insulin that is produced.
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Eyes

Optometry is a health care profession concerned with eyes and related structures, as well as vision, visual systems, and vision information processing in humans.
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Ear, Nose and Troat

Otolaryngology or ENT (ear, nose and throat) is the branch of medicine that specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of ear, nose, throat, and head and neck disorders.
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Gastrointestinal

In an adult male human, the gastrointestinal (GI) are 5 metres (20 ft) long in a live subject, or up to 9 metres (30 ft) without the effect of muscle tone, and consists of the upper and lower GI tracts.
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