Unlike many medicines, insulin cannot be taken orally at the present time. Like nearly all other proteins introduced into the gastrointestinal tract, it is reduced to fragments (even single amino a...
Cancer Listeni/ˈkænsər/, also known as a malignant tumor or malignant neoplasm, is a group of diseases involving abnormal cell growth with the potential to invade or spread to other parts of the bo...
Birth control, also known as contraception and fertility control, are methods or devices used to prevent pregnancy.[1] Planning, provision and use of birth control is called family planning.[2][3] ...
Calcium channel blockers (CCB), calcium channel antagonists or calcium antagonists[1] are several medications that disrupt the movement of calcium (Ca2+ ) through calcium channels.[2] Calcium chan...
Evaluating blood hemostatic function
Brachytherapy (from the Greek word βραχύς brachys, meaning "short-distance"), also known as internal radiotherapy, sealed source radiotherapy, curietherapy or endocurietherapy, is a form of radioth...
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), nuclear magnetic resonance imaging (NMRI), or magnetic resonance tomography (MRT) is a medical imaging technique used in radiology to investigate the anatomy and p...
Determining access needle location
A cancer biomarker refers to a substance or process that is indicative of the presence of cancer in the body. A biomarker may be a molecule secreted by a tumor or a specific response of the body to...
Lattice truss structures
Addiction is a state characterized by compulsive engagement in rewarding stimuli, despite adverse consequences.[4] It can be thought of as a disease or biological process leading to such behaviors.
An antimicrobial is an agent that kills microorganisms or inhibits their growth.[1] Antimicrobial medicines can be grouped according to the microorganisms they act primarily against. For example, a...
Access needle pressure sensor device
A field-programmable gate array (FPGA) is an integrated circuit designed to be configured by a customer or a designer after manufacturing – hence "field-programmable". The FPGA configuration is gen...
Thermal management system
Laser surface texturing
Ultrasound for locating anatomy/probe guidance
An immune disorder is a dysfunction of the immune system. These disorders can be characterized in several different ways: By the component(s) of the immune system affected By whether the immune...
Magnetoresistive random-access memory (MRAM) is a non-volatile random-access memory technology under development since the 1990s. Continued increases in density of existing memory technologies – no...
