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United States Department of Health and Human Services, Radiation Emergency Medical Management
A condition in which the body recognises its own tissues as foreign and directs an immune response against them.
Industry:Health care
A substance that is used to treat depression, and to help people quit smoking. It belongs to the family of drugs called antidepressants.
Industry:Health care
A drug used to treat anxiety disorders and panic attacks. It is being studied in the treatment of nausea and vomiting caused by some cancer treatments. It is a type of benzodiazepine. Also called Xanax.
Industry:Health care
A rare disease in which certain cells in the intestine are destroyed by a patient’s immune system. It causes severe, chronic, diarrhoea and usually occurs in children.
Industry:Health care
A plant whose seeds and root have been used in some cultures to treat certain medical problems. It may have antioxidant effects. The scientific name is Arctium lappa. Also called happy major and lappa.
Industry:Health care
A drug that is used to treat impotence (inability to have an erection) and is being studied in the treatment of sexual problems in men who have had surgery for prostate cancer. It is a type of vasodilator. Also called PGE1 and prostaglandin E1.
Industry:Health care
A condition in which the body’s immune system stops red blood cells from forming or causes them to clump together. Autoimmune hemolytic anaemia can occur in patients who have chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL). Also called immune complex hemolytic anaemia and immunohemolytic anemia.
Industry:Health care
A rare, fast-growing type of leukaemia (blood cancer) in which too many white blood cells called B lymphocytes form in the blood and bone marrow. It may start in the lymph nodes as Burkitt lymphoma and then spread to the blood and bone marrow, or it may start in the blood and bone marrow without involvement of the lymph nodes. Both Burkitt leukaemia and Burkitt lymphoma have been linked to infection with the Epstein-Barr virus.
Industry:Health care
A change resulting in something that is different from the original.
Industry:Health care
An autoimmune condition of the thyroid gland (a gland located beneath the larynx). It is caused by the formation of antibodies that attack the thyroid gland and it usually causes hypothyroidism (too little thyroid hormone). Symptoms include fatigue, weight gain, constipation, dry skin, depression, and the inability to exercise. It is more common in females and can run in families. Also called Hashimoto disease and Hashimoto thyroiditis.
Industry:Health care
