Medical research

Medical research

Basic, applied or translational research conducted to aid and support the study in the field of medicine.

Contributors in Medical research

Medical research

The process of determining health status and the factors responsible for producing it; it may be applied to an individual, family, group or community. The diagnosis should take into account etiology, ...

health maintenance organization (HMO)

Medical; Medical research

An organization 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 ...

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 ...

trial

Medical; Medical research

An experiment performed on human beings in order to evaluate the comparative efficacy of two or more therapies.

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.

instructions for use

Biotechnology; Biochemistry

"a manual usually accompanying a technical device and explaining how to install or operate it" Essential Requirements - Medical Device Directive 93/42/EEC - Annex I, 13.1: Each device must be ...