Medicine, the practice concerned with the maintenance of health and the prevention, alleviation, or cure of disease. laparoscopySurgeons performing a laparoscopy.© s4svisuals/Shutterstock.com The World Health Organization at its 1978 international conference held in the Soviet Union produced the Alma-Ata Health Declaration, which was designed to serve governments as a basis […]
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Hospital, an institution that is built, staffed, and equipped for the diagnosis of disease; for the treatment, both medical and surgical, of the sick and the injured; and for their housing during this process. The modern hospital also often serves as a centre for investigation and for teaching. hospitalRiverside campus […]