Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/5/Biology and health sciences/Health
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Class | #Articles |
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FA | 16 |
FL | 1 |
GA | 77 |
FFA | 21 |
DGA | 23 |
Medical basics
[edit]This section contains 259 articles. See also "Anatomy and morphology" for general anatomy and physiology.
General concepts
[edit]This section contains 39 articles.
- Medicine
- Medical ethics
- Medical device
- Medical emergency
- Medicalization
- Emergency medical services
- Germ theory of disease
- Healthcare industry
- Coma
- Search and rescue
- Triage
- White coat
Health professionals
[edit]This section contains 11 articles.
- Health professional
- Emergency medical technician
- Nursing
- Paramedic
- Pharmacist
- Physician
- Surgeon
- Veterinarian
Health facilities
[edit]This section contains 12 articles.
Medical procedures
[edit]This section contains 80 articles. See also "Wikipedia:Vital_articles/Level/5/Technology#Medical_technology" for medical devices and equipment.
Medical procedures: General
[edit]This section contains 10 articles.
Diagnostics
[edit]This section contains 30 articles.
- Medical diagnosis
- Physical examination
- Screening (medicine)
- Auscultation
- Autopsy
- Biopsy
- Blood test
- Diagnostic microbiology
- Eye examination
- Lumbar puncture
- Palpation
- Pap test
- Percussion (medicine)
- Reflex
- Telehealth
- Urine test
- Vital signs
Treatments
[edit]This section contains 40 articles.
- Blood transfusion
- Cardiopulmonary resuscitation
- Cauterization
- Cure
- Defibrillation
- Mouth-to-mouth resuscitation
- Oxygen therapy
- Speculum (medicine)
- Symptomatic treatment
- Tracheal intubation
Dental treatments
[edit]This section contains 7 articles.
- Crown (dental restoration)
- Dental braces
- Dental extraction
- Dental implant
- Dental restoration
- Root canal treatment
- Impacted wisdom teeth
Surgery
[edit]This section contains 11 articles.
- Surgery
- Amputation
- Angioplasty
- Caesarean section
- Debridement
- Incision and drainage
- LASIK
- Neurosurgery
- Organ transplantation
- Plastic surgery
- Reduction (orthopedic surgery)
Therapy
[edit]This section contains 12 articles.
Human anatomy
[edit]This section contains 61 articles.
Fields of medicine
[edit]This section contains 79 articles.
- Medical specialty
- Allied health professions
- Alternative medicine
- Anesthesiology
- Angiology
- Audiology
- Cardiology
- Dentistry
- Dermatology
- Endocrinology
- Emergency medicine
- Family medicine
- Gastroenterology
- Geriatrics
- Hematology
- Hepatology
- Immunology
- Infectious diseases (medical specialty)
- Internal medicine
- Intensive care medicine
- Life extension
- Medical genetics
- Medical microbiology
- Nephrology
- Neurology
- Nuclear medicine
- Occupational medicine
- Oncology
- Ophthalmology
- Optometry
- Orthopedic surgery
- Orthotics
- Otorhinolaryngology
- Pathology
- Pediatrics
- Pharmacology
- Podiatry
- Psychiatry
- Public health
- Pulmonology
- Radiology
- Reproductive medicine
- Rheumatology
- Sports medicine
- Toxicology
- Traditional medicine
- Traumatology
- Urology
- Vaccination
- Veterinary medicine
Drugs and medication
[edit]This section contains 140 articles.
General concepts
[edit]This section contains 25 articles.
- Drug
- Adverse effect
- Drug class
- Drug interaction
- Medication
- Placebo
- Psychoactive drug
- Drug delivery
- Drug discovery
- Side effect
- WHO Model List of Essential Medicines
Specific drugs
[edit]This section contains 115 articles.
- Amphetamine (Level 4)
- Bronchodilator
- Calamine
- Ephedrine
- Epinephrine (medication)
- Heparin
- Hydrocortisone
- Insulin (medication)
- Loperamide
- Propranolol
- Sildenafil
- Warfarin
Anesthetics
[edit]This section contains 14 articles.
Antihistamines
[edit]This section contains 6 articles.
Anti-infectives
[edit]This section contains 29 articles.
Antibiotics
[edit]This section contains 14 articles.
- Antibiotic
- Amoxicillin
- Ampicillin
- Azithromycin
- Cephalosporin
- Erythromycin
- Neomycin/polymyxin B/bacitracin
- Penicillin
- Tetracycline antibiotics
Antiviral drugs
[edit]This section contains 4 articles.
Antifungals
[edit]This section contains 3 articles.
Antiparasitic
[edit]This section contains 5 articles.
Pain treatments
[edit]This section contains 11 articles.
Psychiatric drugs
[edit]This section contains 13 articles.
Vaccines
[edit]This section contains 14 articles.
- Vaccine
- COVID-19 vaccine
- DPT vaccine
- HPV vaccine
- Influenza vaccine
- MMR vaccine
- Polio vaccine (Level 4)
- Rabies vaccine
- Smallpox vaccine
- Typhoid vaccine
- Varicella vaccine
- Yellow fever vaccine
Recreational drugs
[edit]This section contains 14 articles.
Morbidity
[edit]This section contains 493 articles.
Disease
[edit]This section contains 86 articles.
- Disease
- Abscess
- Acne (Level 4)
- Acromegaly
- Acute (medicine)
- Allergy
- Alzheimer's disease (Level 4)
- ALS
- Anemia
- Appendicitis
- Arthritis
- Arthropathy
- Asthma (Level 3)
- Atherosclerosis
- Autoimmune disease
- Bronchitis
- Cardiovascular disease
- Chronic condition
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (Level 4)
- Cirrhosis
- Dementia
- Dehydration
- Dermatitis
- Diabetes
- Diverticulitis
- Dysmenorrhea
- Epilepsy (Level 4)
- Gallstone
- Gout (Level 4)
- Genetic disorder
- Hypertension (Level 4)
- Hypotension
- Kidney failure
- Kidney stone disease
- Meningitis (Level 4)
- Migraine (Level 4)
- Multiple sclerosis (Level 4)
- Neglected tropical diseases
- Parkinson's disease (Level 4)
- Periodontal disease
- Pleural effusion
- Sexual dysfunction
- SIDS
- Thrombosis
- Tooth decay (Level 4)
Injury
[edit]This section contains 71 articles.
Injury: General
[edit]This section contains 6 articles.
Types
[edit]This section contains 65 articles.
- Abrasion (medicine)
- Aneurysm
- Asphyxia
- Avulsion injury
- Bleeding
- Blunt trauma
- Bone fracture
- Brain injury
- Bruise
- Burn (Level 4)
- Cardiac arrest
- Dental trauma
- Frostbite
- Heat illness
- Hernia
- Hypothermia
- Hypoxia (medicine)
- Joint dislocation
- Penetrating trauma
- Respiratory failure
- Scoliosis
- Shock (circulatory)
- Splinter
- Sprain
- Strain (injury)
- Stroke
- Tendinopathy
- Toxic injury
Disabilities
[edit]This section contains 29 articles.
Cancer
[edit]This section contains 25 articles.
- Brain tumor
- Bone tumor
- Cancer (Level 3)
- Carcinogen
- Cervical cancer
- Breast cancer
- Colorectal cancer
- Head and neck cancer
- Leukemia
- Liver cancer
- Lung cancer (Level 4)
- Lymphoma
- Mesothelioma
- Neoplasm
- Pancreatic cancer
- Penile cancer
- Prostate cancer (Level 4)
- Sarcoma
- Skin cancer
- Stomach cancer
- Testicular cancer
Infectious disease
[edit]This section contains 158 articles.
Concepts
[edit]This section contains 35 articles.
Specific infectious diseases
[edit]This section contains 123 articles.
Bacterial infections
[edit]This section contains 27 articles.
- Anthrax
- Brucellosis
- Botulism
- Chlamydia
- Cholera
- Diphtheria
- Erysipelas
- Gonorrhea
- Glanders
- Impetigo
- Legionnaires' disease
- Leprosy
- Leptospirosis
- Lyme disease (Level 4)
- Pathogenic Escherichia coli
- Plague (disease)
- Streptococcal pharyngitis
- Scarlet fever
- Staphylococcal infection
- Syphilis (Level 4)
- Tetanus
- Tuberculosis (Level 3)
- Typhoid fever
- Typhus
- Whooping cough
Viral diseases
[edit]This section contains 49 articles.
- Chickenpox
- Chikungunya
- Classical swine fever
- Common cold (Level 3)
- COVID-19
- Cowpox
- Croup
- Dengue fever (Level 4)
- Ebola
- Hand, foot, and mouth disease
- Hepatitis
- Herpes (Level 4)
- HIV/AIDS (Level 3)
- Human papillomavirus infection
- Infectious mononucleosis
- Influenza (Level 3)
- Japanese encephalitis
- Measles (Level 4)
- Mpox
- Mumps
- Nipah virus infection
- Polio (Level 4)
- Rabies (Level 4)
- Rift Valley fever
- Rinderpest
- Rubella
- SARS (Level 4)
- Smallpox (Level 3)
- West Nile fever
- Yellow fever (Level 4)
- Zika fever
Specific viruses
[edit]This section contains 14 articles.
- African swine fever virus
- Coronavirus
- Hepatitis C virus
- Herpesviridae
- HIV
- Influenza A virus
- Influenza B virus
- Norovirus
- Orthomyxoviridae
- SARS-CoV-2
- Tobacco mosaic virus
Fungal infections
[edit]This section contains 4 articles.
Parasitic infections
[edit]This section contains 18 articles.
- African trypanosomiasis
- Amoebiasis
- Ascariasis
- Cysticercosis
- Chagas disease
- Dracunculiasis
- Giardiasis
- Infestation
- Leishmaniasis
- Malaria (Level 3)
- Onchocerciasis
- Schistosomiasis
- Taeniasis
- Toxocariasis
- Toxoplasmosis
Prion diseases
[edit]This section contains 4 articles.
Mental disorders
[edit]This section contains 66 articles. For psychology generally, see Society and social sciences.
- Mental disorder
- Anxiety disorder
- Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (Level 4)
- Autism
- Dissociative disorders
- Catatonia
- Conduct disorder
- Eating disorder
- Hoarding disorder
- Kleptomania
- Mass psychogenic illness
- Mood disorder
- Obsessive–compulsive disorder
- Oppositional defiant disorder
- Paranoia
- Pedophilia
- Personality disorder
- Antisocial personality disorder
- Avoidant personality disorder
- Borderline personality disorder
- Dependent personality disorder
- Depressive personality disorder
- Histrionic personality disorder
- Narcissistic personality disorder
- Obsessive–compulsive personality disorder
- Paranoid personality disorder
- Psychopathy
- Schizoid personality disorder
- Schizotypal personality disorder
- Pyromania
- Schizophrenia (Level 4)
- Sleep disorder
- Somatic symptom disorder
- Tourette syndrome
Outdated disorders
[edit]This section contains 2 articles.
Symptoms and signs
[edit]This section contains 58 articles.
- Signs and symptoms
- Syndrome
- Abdominal pain
- Ageusia
- Anosmia
- Ataxia
- Aura (symptom)
- Blurred vision
- Comedo
- Constipation
- Cough
- Cramp
- Cyanosis
- Diarrhea
- Dizziness
- Fatigue
- Fever
- Headache
- Heartburn
- Heart failure
- Heart rate
- Hives
- Hypoesthesia
- Inflammation
- Itch
- Jaundice
- Myalgia
- Myoclonus
- Nausea
- Nevus
- Phonophobia
- Photophobia
- Psychosis (Level 4)
- Rash
- Rhinorrhea
- Seizure
- Sepsis
- Sleep deprivation
- Sneeze
- Sore throat
- Syncope (medicine)
- Tinnitus
- Toothache (Level 4)
- Vomiting
- Wart
Health and fitness
[edit]This section contains 114 articles.
Health and fitness: General
[edit]This section contains 58 articles.
Vitamins
[edit]This section contains 16 articles.
Hygiene and grooming
[edit]This section contains 40 articles.
Hygiene and grooming: General
[edit]This section contains 13 articles.
Hygiene products
[edit]This section contains 27 articles.