Medicine

Medicine is a branch of health science concerned with maintaining human health and restoring it by treating disease and injury; it is both an area of knowledge, a science of body systems and diseases and their treatment, and the applied practice of that knowledge.

See also

• Big killers
• Complementary and alternative medicine
• Health profession
• Healthcare system
• Iatrogenesis (ill health caused by medical treatment)
• List of diseases
• List of medical abbreviations
• List of medical schools
• Important publications in medicine
• Medical equipment
• Rare diseases