Gastroenterology
Gastroenterology is the medical specialty focused on the digestive system, including the esophagus, stomach, intestines, liver, pancreas, gallbladder, symptoms, testing, treatment, and prevention.
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Pulmonology
Pulmonology is the medical specialty focused on the lungs, airways, breathing, oxygen exchange, respiratory diseases, lung testing, prevention, and long-term respiratory care.
Cardiology
Cardiology is the medical specialty focused on the heart and blood vessels, including diagnosis, prevention, treatment, imaging, rhythm problems, and long-term cardiovascular care.
Intensive care
Intensive care is specialized hospital care for people with life-threatening illness or injury who need close monitoring, organ support, and coordinated critical-care teams.
Emergency medicine
Emergency medicine is the medical specialty focused on rapid assessment, stabilization, diagnosis, and treatment of sudden illness, injury, trauma, and life-threatening conditions.
Anesthesiology
Anesthesiology is the medical specialty focused on anesthesia, pain control, sedation, airway management, physiology, monitoring, and patient safety before, during, and after procedures.
Surgery
Surgery is medical treatment that uses operative techniques to diagnose, repair, remove, replace, reconstruct, or relieve problems in the body.
Radiology
Radiology is the medical specialty that uses imaging technologies to see inside the body, diagnose disease, guide treatment, monitor change, and support safer clinical decisions.
Pathology
Pathology is the medical science of disease, studying causes, tissue changes, laboratory findings, diagnosis, progression, and the evidence that connects symptoms to underlying processes.
Epidemiology
Epidemiology is the study of how health conditions, diseases, injuries, and risks are distributed in populations and how that knowledge guides prevention and public health action.
Dentistry
Dentistry is the health profession focused on the teeth, gums, mouth, jaws, prevention, diagnosis, treatment, restoration, pain relief, and oral health across life.
Nutrition
Nutrition is the study and practice of how food and drink provide energy, nutrients, growth, repair, health, and disease prevention across daily life and populations.
Pharmacy
Pharmacy is the health profession and practice concerned with medicines: preparing, dispensing, reviewing, counseling about, monitoring, and helping people use drugs safely and effectively.
Nursing
Nursing is a health profession focused on patient care, assessment, education, advocacy, safety, coordination, prevention, and support across illness, recovery, and daily life.
Medicine
Medicine is the science and practice of preventing, diagnosing, treating, and managing illness and injury while supporting health, function, comfort, and informed care.
Polio
Polio is a vaccine-preventable disease caused by poliovirus that usually causes no symptoms but can invade the nervous system and cause irreversible paralysis.
Smallpox
Smallpox was a deadly infectious disease caused by variola virus and remains the only human disease eradicated worldwide through vaccination and public-health action.
Mpox
Mpox is an infectious disease caused by monkeypox virus that can produce fever, swollen lymph nodes, and a painful rash or lesions, and it spreads mainly through close contact.
Long COVID
Long COVID is a group of new, returning, or ongoing health problems that can appear after SARS-CoV-2 infection and affect daily life for weeks, months, or longer.
COVID-19
COVID-19 is an infectious disease caused by SARS-CoV-2 that can range from a mild respiratory illness to severe pneumonia, organ injury, long COVID, or death.
Sepsis
Sepsis is a life-threatening medical emergency that happens when the body's response to infection injures its own organs and can progress to shock or death.
Meningococcal disease
Meningococcal disease is an uncommon but dangerous bacterial infection that can cause meningitis, bloodstream infection, sepsis, long-term disability, or death within hours.
Pneumococcal disease
Pneumococcal disease is a group of infections caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae, ranging from ear infections to life-threatening pneumonia, meningitis, and bloodstream infection.
Pertussis
Pertussis, also called whooping cough, is a highly contagious bacterial respiratory infection that can cause severe coughing fits and is most dangerous for babies.