Medicine

Articles about health care, diseases, treatments and medical practice.

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Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital

Pitié‑Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris

Pituitary adenoma

Placebo

Placebo

Placebo: inert treatments, the placebo effect, and their role in medicine

Overview of placebos — inactive treatments used in research and sometimes care; how placebo effects arise, history, uses in trials, ethical concerns, and related phenomena such as

Plague doctor costume

Plasmodium falciparum

Plasmodium falciparum: biology, disease, and global impact

Plastic surgery

Plastic surgery: reconstructive and cosmetic procedures, techniques, and considerations

Pleurisy

Pleurisy (pleuritis): inflammation of the pleural lining

Pneumonia

Pneumonia: causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment and prevention

Pneumothorax

Poison

Poison: definition, types, mechanisms, and public health implications

Polio vaccine

Poliomyelitis

Poliomyelitis

Polymyalgia rheumatica

Polymyalgia rheumatica: causes, symptoms, diagnosis, and management

Polyp (medicine)

Polyp (medicine): types, detection, treatment and clinical importance

Porphyria

Porphyria: causes, types, symptoms, diagnosis and management

Positron emission tomography

Prader–Willi syndrome

Pre-ejaculate

Pre-ejaculate (pre-ejaculatory fluid)

Precancerous condition

Prednisone

Premature birth

Premature birth (preterm birth): causes, risks, outcomes and care

Premature ejaculation

Premature ejaculation (PE)

Prenatal diagnosis

Prenatal diagnosis

Prescription

Prevalence

Prevalence (epidemiology)

Primary care doctor

Primary care doctor (primary care physician)

Primary central nervous system lymphoma

Primary peritoneal carcinoma

Prion disease

Progeria

Progeria (Hutchinson–Gilford progeria syndrome)

Progeroid syndromes

Progeroid Syndromes: Causes, Features, and Research Significance

Prognosis

Prognosis (medical prediction of disease outcome)

Progressive muscular atrophy

Prostate

Prostate cancer

Prostatectomy

Prostatitis

Pseudoephedrine

Pseudoephedrine: clinical use, pharmacology, effects and regulatory issues

Psittacosis

Psoriasis

Psychiatrist

Psychiatrist: medical specialist in mental health diagnosis and treatment

Psychiatry

Psychiatry: the medical specialty for diagnosing and treating mental disorders

Psychoactive drug

Psychoactive drugs: effects, categories, history, uses and societal issues

Public health

Public health observatory

PubMed

PubMed: free biomedical literature search service

PubMed Central

PubMed Central (PMC): free digital archive of biomedical literature

Pulmonary edema

Pulmonary edema: causes, symptoms, diagnosis and treatment