Medicine has its own unique language. Well before matriculating, the medical school applicant is bombarded with a litany of terms and acronyms. Being exposed to the nomenclature can help to ease the ...

Every day it seems a biotech company releases data for a promising new drug that it hopes will cure some dreaded disease, but has been studied only in a handful of people so far. Or a big university ...

When I was pregnant with my second child, I remember sitting in my ob-gyn's office awaiting an ultrasound and peeping at my medical chart on the table next to me. Among the scribbles were the words ...

As you learn more about the health care options available to you at Brandeis, you may come across some unfamiliar terms. Refer to the glossary below to help you make sense of these terms. You can also ...

Confabulation: A memory disorder where the patient fabricates unusual thoughts about oneself or the society without any intention to cheat. Delirium: Confused thought process and loss of awareness ...

The New South Wales government launched the Translated COVID-19 Glossary of Immunisation and Vaccine Development in multiple languages on 16 July. The glossary, launched in multiple languages ...

A report produced by 1 of NICE's independent external assessment centres that reviews the sponsor's evidence submission and may include additional analysis of the submitted evidence or new clinical ...

Med-tech firms have gnashed their teeth for decades over the use of the term “recall,” given that some recalls are mere corrections to product labels while others entail a full product withdrawal. The ...

A report produced by 1 of NICE's independent external assessment centres that reviews the sponsor's evidence submission and may include additional analysis of the submitted evidence or new clinical ...