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Medical University of Warsaw
Medical University of Warsaw (Warszawski Uniwersytet Medyczny, WUM), a public Polish medical university rooted in the 1809 Academic-Medical Faculty, independent since 1950, known for its University Clinical Center, transplant programs, and top national medical rankings.
Medical uses of silver
Medical uses of silver: the silver ion (Ag+) as an antimicrobial in wound dressings, silver sulfadiazine for burns, Credé's silver nitrate eye drops, and silver alloy catheters; clinical evidence is limited and colloidal silver health claims are unsupported.
Medically significant spider bites in Australia and Oceania
Medically significant spider bites in Australia and Oceania come mainly from redback spiders, which cause severe pain, and funnel-web spiders, which can be fatal but rarely are.
Medically Underserved Area
Medically Underserved Area (MUA), with Medically Underserved Population (MUP), a US HRSA designation for areas or groups lacking primary care access, scored by the Index of Medical Underservice with a 62.0 cutoff, used for community health center and rural health clinic eligibility.
Medicamina Faciei Femineae
Medicamina Faciei Femineae is a fragmentary didactic elegy by the Roman poet Ovid that gives five recipes for facial treatments, the first Latin text transmitting dermatological recipes.
Medicare (United States)
Medicare is the U.S. federal health insurance program for people 65 and older and some disabled or ESRD/ALS patients, enacted July 30, 1965, with Parts A, B, C, and D covering hospital, medical, private-plan, and drug benefits.
Medicare Advantage
Medicare Advantage (Part C): privately run Medicare plans replacing Original Medicare, renamed from Medicare+Choice by the 2003 MMA; now covers over half of beneficiaries, offering extra benefits, networks, prior authorization, and capitated CMS payment.
Medicare Part D
Medicare Part D, the optional US Medicare outpatient prescription drug benefit created by the 2003 MMA and effective 2006, run through private PDP and MA-PD plans, redesigned by the IRA with a $2,000 out-of-pocket cap from 2025.
Medicated Intrauterine Devices
Medicated intrauterine devices (hormone-releasing IUDs, LNG-IUS, Mirena) are IUDs that release contraceptive agents, copper or levonorgestrel, giving over 99 percent first-year effectiveness for 3 to 12 years.
Medication
Medication, also called medicine or pharmaceutical product, is a drug used to treat, prevent, or diagnose disease. Covers pharmacokinetics, FDA approval, WHO essential medicines (460 since 1977), adherence, and pharmacovigilance.
Medication Adherence
Patient compliance, also called medication adherence, is a patient's conformity to prescribed medication timing, dose, and frequency; distinct from persistence, it affects roughly half of patients and is measured mainly by self-report and refills.
Medication Errors
Medication errors are preventable events that lead to improper drug use or patient harm, occurring at any stage from prescribing to administration and costing an estimated $42 billion annually.
Medication reconciliation
Medication reconciliation is the formal process in which health care professionals verify and complete medication information with patients at care transitions like admission and discharge, aiming to prevent medication errors.
Medication review
A medication review is a structured evaluation of a patient's medicines to detect drug-related problems and recommend interventions, performed by pharmacists and GPs; it reduces inappropriate prescribing but shows no clear effect on mortality.
Medication therapy management
Medication therapy management (MTM) is a pharmacy service in which a pharmacist reviews a patient's complete medication regimen to optimize outcomes and reduce adverse drug events.
Medici (TV series)
Medici (2016–2019) is an Anglo-Italian historical drama, also called Masters of Florence and The Magnificent, created by Frank Spotnitz and Nicholas Meyer, starring Richard Madden, Dustin Hoffman, and Daniel Sharman, broadcast on Rai Uno and Netflix in three seasons and 24 episodes about the Medici banking dynasty of Renaissance Florence.
Medici Bank
The Medici Bank was a Florentine merchant bank founded by Giovanni di Bicci de' Medici in 1397, earning most early profit from its Court of Rome branch.
Medici Chapel
The Medici Chapel (Cappelle Medicee) is the funerary complex of the Medici family at San Lorenzo in Florence, comprising Michelangelo's New Sacristy and the Baroque Chapel of the Princes.
Medici Villas and Gardens in Tuscany
Medici Villas and Gardens in Tuscany (Ville e giardini medicei in Toscana): serial UNESCO World Heritage site, ref 175, inscribed 2013; twelve Medici villas plus Boboli and Pratolino gardens, criteria ii, iv, vi, 125.4 ha across four Tuscan provinces.
Medicina (Medicina (Kaunas))
Medicina (Medicina (Kaunas), ISSN 1648-9144) is a Lithuanian-owned peer-reviewed open access monthly medical journal founded in Kaunas in 1920, published by MDPI since 2018, indexed in MEDLINE since 2002, 2023 impact factor 4.1 (Q1).
Medicina intensiva
Medicina Intensiva (Med Intensiva), Spanish peer-reviewed critical care journal founded 1977, official journal of SEMICYUC and FEPIMCTI; Spanish print ISSN 0210-5691 and English edition ISSN 2173-5727 published by Elsevier since 2011, MEDLINE-indexed, 2025 impact factor 2.5.
Medicinal chemistry
Medicinal chemistry, also called drug design chemistry, is the discipline of designing and synthesizing biologically active molecules; it centers on structure–activity relationships, lead optimization, and now AI-guided and covalent or PROTAC modalities.
Medicinal Gardens
Medicinal Gardens: gardens dedicated to growing medicinal plants, from the first European physic garden at Pisa (1543, Luca Ghini) to India's CCRAS demonstrative gardens, NMPB-funded herbal gardens, and Odisha's Lok Bhavan and Ekamra Van gardens.
Medicinal Herb Garden
A medicinal herb garden is a garden of labeled medicinal plants, originally supplying physicians and apothecaries with authentic remedies; the first was Luca Ghini's garden in Pisa in 1543.
Medicinal Plant Collection
Medicinal plant collection: organized living gardens, herbaria, and seed banks of medicinal species, from the 1545 Padua hortus medicinus to Berlin's 230-plant body-shaped garden and Sri Lanka's 300-species Ganewatta collection.
Medicinal plants
Medicinal plants: plant species containing therapeutic substances or precursors of drugs, also called herbal medicine or phytomedicine. Over 50% of modern medicines come from natural sources; use, safety, and regulation vary worldwide.
Medicinal plants garden
Garden of Medicinal Plants (薬用植物園): a cultivated collection of drug-yielding plants for pharmacy teaching, research, and conservation. Examples include Kyoto Pharmaceutical University's garden (over 1,000 species), Takeda's Kyoto garden, and Keio's garden.
Medicine
Medicine: the science and practice of diagnosing, treating, and preventing disease. Covers the diagnostic process, Bayesian test interpretation, evidence-based medicine, drug regulation, health systems, and post-2023 AI and GLP-1 developments.
Medicine at Midnight
Medicine at Midnight is the Foo Fighters' tenth studio album, released February 5, 2021 on Roswell Records. Nine songs, 36:32, produced with Greg Kurstin, disco- and Bowie's Let's Dance-inspired; won the 2022 Grammy for Best Rock Album.
Medicine Chests
Medicine chests: portable boxed kits of medicines, bottles, scales, and manuals for lay self-medication at home, on ships, and in colonial travel, popular from the late 18th to 19th centuries.