Medications

Pill for postpartum depression shows promising results

A team of medical scientists from Sage Therapeutics and Biogen, led by Dr. Kristina Deligiannidis, with the Institute of Behavioral Science at the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research in New York, has found promising ...

Ophthalmology

AI assistant shows great promise in cataract care pathway

A new study has found that an artificial intelligence (AI) conversational agent enhances patient care after cataract surgery. The AI-powered automated voice system, called Dora, is able to call patients to ask them questions, ...

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Health care

Health care, or healthcare, refers to the treatment and management of illness, and the preservation of health through services offered by the medical, dental, pharmaceutical, clinical laboratory sciences (in vitro diagnostics), nursing, and allied health professions. Health care embraces all the goods and services designed to promote health, including “preventive, curative and palliative interventions, whether directed to individuals or to populations”.

Before the term health care became popular, English-speakers referred to medicine or to the health sector and spoke of the treatment and prevention of illness and disease.

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