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Parent topics
- Healthcare economics [r]: Economic and political considerations of resource use in health care, including funding, allocation and rationing [e]
Subtopics
- Blood pressure [r]: Pressure of the blood on the arteries and other blood vessels (National Library of Medicine). [e]
- Cholesterol [r]: Principal sterol of all higher animals. [e]
- Mass screening [r]: Organized periodic procedures performed on large groups of people for the purpose of detecting disease. [e]
- Mammography [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Prostate specific antigen [r]: A protease secreted by the epithelial cells of the prostate gland, elevated in patients with benign prostatic hyperplasia and prostate cancer. [e]
- Vaccination [r]: A preventative health measure that can confer immunity to an infectious disease, without requiring that the vaccinated individual actually contract the disease. [e]
- Folic acid [r]: Nutrient required for a normal pregnancy. [e]
- Aspirin [r]: Common analgesic used for treating mild to moderate pain; protective against blood clots and heart disease when administered indefinitely in low doses [e]
