Preventive medicine

A vaccine is a biological preparation that provides active acquired immunity to a particular infectious or malignant disease. The safety and effectiveness of vaccines has been widely studied and verified. A vaccine typically contains an agent that resembles a disease-causing microorganism and is often made from weakened or killed forms of the microbe, its toxins, or one of its surface proteins. The agent stimulates the immune system to recognize the agent as a threat, destroy it, and recognize further and destroy any of the microorganisms associated with that agent that it may encounter in the

measures taken for disease prevention, with anticipatory actions that can be categorized as primal, primary, secondary, tertiary, and quaternary prevention

branch of medicine

humane, supportive and practical help to fellow human beings suffering serious crisis events

Peter Attia is a Canadian-American author and former researcher known for his work in longevity medicine. He is the author of Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity.

to avoid patient overdiagnosis and overtreatment

condition of slow blood flow in the veins, usually of the legs

treating large numbers of people, particularly children, for helminthiasis and schistosomiasis

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measures to prevent the consumption and measures to health from the use of licit and illicit drug

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