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Medical Specialties

Medical Specialties are for sites that pertain to information, practitioners, clinics and resources on the listed medical speciality. In turn, each sub-category of the Medical Speciality is broken down into areas related to that sub-category such as: Clinics and Hospitals, Journals, and Professional Organizations.

Medical Specialties are for sites that pertain to information, practitioners, clinics and resources on the listed medical speciality.

NOTICE - No sites will be accepted to the main Health/Medicine/Medical Specialties/ category - please find a sub-category which suits your site better. ABSOLUTELY NO SITES WILL BE LISTED AT THIS LEVEL.

Aerospace Medicine

Aerospace Medicine is a branch of preventive medicine that is concerned with the physiological and psychological stresses on the human body in flight. (Encarta Reference)

Aesthetic Medicine

Aesthetic Medicine is the field of non-surgical cosmetic procedures such as botox, laser resurfacing, hair transplantation, dermal filling, medical weight loss, and other beauty treatments which require a medically-trained physician to administer or perform them.

Allergist

Sites listed here will represent individual medical practitioners and medical clinics which specialize in the diagnosis and management of allergies.

Note that sites about allergies and their management do not belong here, but in one of the other categories found under Health/Conditions_and_Diseases/Allergies/. Sites about alternative medicine and its practitioners belong under Health/Alternative .

Andrology

Andrology is defined as the branches of science and medicine dealing with reproductive functions of the male under physiological and pathological conditions.

Please submit only sites with information about andrology.

Anesthesiology

World wide web sites concerned with anesthesiology, the practice of this medical specialty and related areas.

Behavioral Medicine

Behavior is a major factor in health and quality of life. Exercise, smoking, diet, ways of handling stress, are all behaviors, and all have huge impacts on health; to promote or damage health. Behavioral medicine uses training, biofeedback, and self-management to treat diseases and to develop healthy behaviors. An emphasis of behavioral medicine is putting the individual in control, by showing how to get control of your own behavior. An additional area of research and treatment: the connection between individual attitude and the immune system. You can actually improve your immune system by improving how you deal with and feel about your life.

Cardiology

Cardiology is the medical specialty dealing with diseases and disorders of the heart and the circulatory system. It is considered a subspecialty of internal medicine.

Sites listed here will be concerned with the medical aspects of cardiology, and the focus will be on information for health professionals.

If the focus is more on a disease itself than the process, your site may be more appropriately listed in Conditions and Diseases.

If your site is related to teaching, please consider sending it to Medical Education.

Critical Care

Critical care evolved from an historical recognition that the needs of patients with acute, life-threatening illness or injury could be better treated if they were grouped into specific areas of the hospital. Thus evolved the ICU, Intensive Care Units.

Care in these ICU's is provided by multidisciplinary teams of health care professionals who are organized by a qualified critical care physician. These physicians (intensivists) specialize in total patient care and understand the effects of treatments on each organ system in the body.

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When writing your site''s title please ensure it is the same as your organization.

When writing your site''s description, please tell what your site offers in a clear and concise statement without hype or promotional language.

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Dermatology

This category features web sites about general dermatology issues. Dermatology is a medical specialty concerned with the skin, its structure, functions, diseases, and treatment. The subcategory listings include more detail about popular dermatology procedures.

Diving Medicine

Diving Medicine is a specialized area of medical science dealing with the biological effects of the undersea environment on health and safety. - Edmond Kay, M.D., Dive Physician for the University of Washington Diving Safety Program.

Emergency Medicine

Emergency Medicine is the medical specialty that focuses on the immediate decision making and action necessary to prevent death or any further disability. It is primarily hospital emergency department based, but with extensive pre-hospital responsibilities for emergency medical systems. The emergency physician provides immediate initial recognition, evaluation, care and disposition of a generally undifferentiated population of patients in response to acute illness and injury. The care provided by the emergency physician is episodic in nature and involves a full spectrum of physical and behavioral conditions. from American Board of Emergency Medicine, http://www.abem.org/def.htm

Endocrinology

A subspecialty of internal medicine concerned with the metabolism, physiology, and disorders of the endocrine system including all endocrine glands (ductless, hormone-producing glands), such as the thyroid, parathyroid, adrenal, pancreatic and pituitary glands.

Submit sites that pertain to Endocrinology related facilities, clinics, or hospitals.

Sites submitted to this area must be in the English language.

Non-English sites need to be sent to a proper World category instead.

Family Medicine

Family Medicine is the medical specialty concerned with the total health care of the individual and family. Family Medicine encompasses all ages, both sexes, each organ system and every disease entity. It integrates the biological, clinical, and behavioral sciences. It takes into account not just individuals, but also the community in which they belong. Other names for Family Medicine are 'General Practice' or 'Primary Care'. Doctors who practise family medicine may be known as Family Doctors, Family Physicians, General Practitioners or Primary Care Physicians.

Please do not submit websites for individual doctors, clinics, or practitioners. They will not be listed here. Find the appropriate geographic location in Regional (usually this will be the locality) and submit there.

Forensic Medicine

Gastroenterology

A subspecialty of internal medicine concerned with the study of the physiology and diseases of the digestive system and related structures (esophagus, liver, gallbladder, and pancreas). - National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Headings 2000

Please submit only sites related to gastroenterology and which provide information about endoscopy, and discuss new developments in endoscopy. Sites focused on clinics and endoscopic centers are better suited to: Gastroenterology/Clinics_and_Physicians. Sites of companies which manufacture endoscopes can be placed in the Products & Services.

Geriatrics

Geriatric Medicine is a branch of general medicine concerned with the clinical, preventive, remedial and social aspects of illness in older people. - British Geriatrics Society - http://www.bgs.org.uk/

Hematology

A subspecialty of internal medicine concerned with morphology, physiology, and pathology of the blood and blood-forming tissues.

Sites listed here will provide non-commercial information about the medical specialty of hematology. Sites about blood banks and cord blood registries should be submitted to those specific subcategories.

Sites about companies associated with the collection or analysis of blood products belong in Business/Healthcare/Products_and_Services/Blood_Products/ and will not be listed here.

Sites relating to the normal physiology of blood circulation belong in Science/Biology/Physiology/Blood_Circulation/ and sites about related diseases belong in Health/Conditions_and_Diseases/Blood_Disorders/ .

Infectious Diseases

This is a sub-specialty of Internal Medicine, and involves further training beyond that of a general physician.

Sites listed here will relate to the medical specialty of Infectious Diseases, and will be of interest primarily to practitioners in that field.

NB Sites about infectious diseases themselves belong in Health/Conditions_and_Diseases/Infectious_Diseases , and sites about the causative agents belong in Science/Biology/Microbiology.
Sites with a focus on tropical diseases belong in Health/Public_Health_and_Safety/Tropical_Health/.

Internal Medicine

A medical specialty concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the internal organ systems of adults. Subspecialities include: Cardiology, Endocrinology, Gastroenterology, Hematology, Medical Oncology, Nephrology, Pulmonary Medicine, and Rheumatology.

Nephrology

A subspecialty of internal medicine concerned with the anatomy, physiology, and pathology of the kidney.

Please submit clinical and university Nephrology practices, as well as dialysis units to this category.

Neurology

The study of nervous system. The branch of medicine that deals with the structure and function of the nervous system and the treatment of the diseases and disorders that affect it. [Encarta® World English Dictionary [North American Edition]

Nuclear Medicine

Nuclear medicine documents organ function and structure, in contrast to diagnostic radiology, which is based upon anatomy. It is used in the diagnosis, management, treatment, and prevention of serious disease. (From the SNM - Society of Nuclear Medicine)

This category is dedicated primarily to sites covering the professional, medical and therapeutic aspects of nuclear imaging.

Sites belong in one of the related categories instead if they are mainly concerned with:

Technical aspects of nuclear medicine

Commercial products/equipment sales/product specifications

Radiology in general

Consultancies

Sites with content mainly about nuclear medicine services for a particular region belong in the appropriate Regional subcategory.

Obstetrics and Gynecology

The branch of medicine that deals with obstetrics and gynecology.

The Ob/Gyn category is for sites that pertain to information, practitioners, clinics and resources on the these medical specialities.

Ob/Gyn is further broken down into separate sub-categories of: Obstetrics Gynecology

In turn, each sub-category of Obstetrics and Gynecology is broken down into areas related to that sub-category.

Occupational Medicine

Medical specialty concerned with the promotion and maintenance of the physical and mental health of employees in occupational settings. A subspeciality of Preventive Medicine. Also known as Industrial Medicine. National Library of Medicine - Medical Subject Headings - 2000 MeSH

Oncology

A subspecialty of internal medicine concerned with the study of neoplasms (tumors).

Submit sites pertaining to professional organizations, associations, or societies associated with oncology.

Ophthalmology

Welcome to Ophthalmology

"The branch of medicine that deals with the anatomy, functions, pathology, and treatment of the eye."

Please submit your sites in the appropriate subcategory in Ophthalmology. If your site is non-english, submit in the appropriate World/ category.

If your site is for a clinic or physician, please submit it directly to the appropriate section of the Clinics_and_Physicians subcategory. It will not be listed here and submission to an inappropriate category will only slow the processing of your site.

Pain Management

What is Pain Management? (i) the systematic study of clinical and basic science and its application for the reduction of pain and suffering; (ii) the blending of tools, techniques and principles taken from the discrete healing art disciplines and reformulated as a holistic application for the reduction of pain and suffering; and (iii) a newly emerging discipline emphasizing an interdisciplinary approach with a goal of reduction of pain and suffering. -American Academy of Pain Management

Submit sites about managing pain in children.

Palliative Care

Palliative care is the active total care of patients whose disease is not responsive to curative treatment. This category deals with sites that promote, educate and inform the public about palliative care in general.

Please submit sites relating to specific hospices to Health/Medicine/Hospitals/Hospice

Pathology

Pathology is the term used for disease processes, the scientific study of them, and/or their detection using various tests and equipment.

If the focus is more on a disease itself than the process, your site may be more appropriately listed in Conditions and Diseases.

If your site is related to teaching, please consider sending it to Medical Education.

Pediatrics

Pediatrics is the branch of medicine concerned with the care and development of children and with the prevention and treatment of children's diseases. [Encarta® World English Dictionary [North American Edition]

Sites listed here will be concerned with the medical aspects of children''s diseases and treatment, and the focus will be on information for health professionals.

If the focus is more on consumer information, your site may be more appropriately listed in Child Health.

Perinatology

This is a subspecialty of obstetrics and neonatology concerned with the care of the mother and fetus when there are increased risks of complications. Definitions vary, but the perinatal period begins approximately after 25th week of pregnancy and ends in the first month after birth.

A high-risk baby might be cared for by a perinatologist before and during birth, and by a neonatologist after birth, although at the time of delivery, both specialists are likely to be in attendance.

Sites listed here will be concerned with the medical aspects of perinatal care, and the focus will be on information for health professionals.

If the site provides mainly parent information, it may be more appropriately listed in one of the subcategories of Pregnancy and Birth.

Podiatry

Podiatry is the branch of medicine concerned with the treatment and care of the feet. Also called chiropody in the United Kingdom. [Adapted from Encarta® World English Dictionary [North American Edition]

If your site is for a practice, clinic or physician, please submit it to the Clinics and Practitioners subcategory. It will not get listed in the main Podiatry category and submitting here will only slow the processing of your submission.

Psychiatry

Psychiatry is a medical specialty practiced by physicians with an M.D. or D.O. degree. Psychiatrists treat patients with mental, emotional, or behavioral disorders. Psychiatrists may use therapy, medication, hospitalization, or a combination of these treatment options in the care of their patients. Psychology is not a medical specialty and should not be confused with psychiatry.

Please submit only sites relating to Psychiatry.

Sites dealing with Psychology(non medical)should be listed under Science: Social Sciences: Psychology.

Sites which are not primarily written in English should be submitted to the appropriate Regional or World category.

Pulmonary Medicine

A subspecialty of internal medicine concerned with the study of the respiratory system. It is especially concerned with diagnosis and treatment of diseases and defects of the lungs and bronchial tree.

Radiology

This category is for information, organizations, groups, medical concerns and any other information dealing with Radiology/Diagnostic Imaging such as x-ray, MRI and Ultrasound.

Please submit only sites that are specific to radiology employment. Resources that cover healthcare in general should be listed under Health: Medicine: Employment. No re-direct pages will be accepted.

Rehabilitation Medicine

A branch of medicine concerned with the diagnosis, treatment and help for recovery for somebody who has survived a serious injury or illness or an addiction, that will enable him or her to live a healthy and productive life. Programs and services can consist of: physical or physiotherapies, speech therapy and occupational training. [Adapted from Encarta® World English Dictionary [North American Edition] PRM is an independent medical specialty concerned with the promotion of physical and cognitive functioning, activities (including behaviour), participation (including quality of life) and modifying personal and environmental factors. It is thus responsible for the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation management of people with disabling medical conditions and comorbidity across all ages. [European definition of Physical and Rehabilitation Mιdicine, UEMS PRM Section General Assembly, Antalya OCT 2003]

Rheumatology

A subspecialty of internal medicine concerned with the study of inflammatory or degenerative processes and metabolic derangement of connective tissue structures which pertain to a variety of musculoskeletal disorders, such as arthritis. - National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Headings 2000

Sports Medicine

Thank you for your submission. Provided that your site adheres to the criteria for this category it will be listed as soon as possible. Please include a city and state/country in your description, including the state in full, e.g. Texas instead of TX.

Toxicology

Toxicology is the scientific study of poisons, especially their effects on the body and their antidotes. [Encarta® World English Dictionary [North American Edition]

Wilderness Medicine

Sites listed here will relate specifically to the medical specialty of Wilderness Medicine.

Sites about expeditions, first aid, equipment and rescue belong in other categories.