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FINGER trial
FINGER (Finnish Geriatric Intervention Study to Prevent Cognitive Impairment and Disability) is a 2015 randomized controlled trial of 1,260 at-risk older adults showing a 2-year multidomain lifestyle intervention improved cognition, spawning the World-Wide FINGERS network.
First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University
First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University (郑州大学第一附属医院), founded 1928 in Kaifeng, a Grade III Class A teaching hospital in Zhengzhou, Henan, with four campuses, remote-medicine network, and major clinical trial and research output.
FISiM-NGS-MDS study
FISiM-NGS-MDS (NCT04212390) is an Italian prospective observational study by the Fondazione Italiana Sindromi Mielodisplastiche enrolling about 882 adults with newly diagnosed MDS across roughly 70 centers, collecting longitudinal peripheral blood NGS data to validate dynamic IPSS-M risk assessment.
FLAVOUR II trial
FLAVOUR II: 2020-2023 Chinese multicenter randomized non-inferiority trial (1,839 randomized, Lancet 2025) showing AI angiography-derived FFR-guided PCI non-inferior to IVUS guidance at 12 months with fewer stents.
Florence S. Cromwell
Florence S. Cromwell, or Florence Stevens Cromwell, was an American occupational therapist who led the AOTA and was elected to the Institute of Medicine in 1975.
Floyd J. Malveaux
Floyd J. Malveaux is an American physician-scientist in allergy and asthma who served as dean of Howard University College of Medicine and led the Merck Childhood Asthma Network.
Flu season
Flu season: the annual fall-winter period of peak influenza circulation, peaking December-February in the U.S.; tracked by CDC FluView, managed with annually updated trivalent vaccines, 40-60% effective when matched.
Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico
Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, or Policlinico di Milano, a Milan hospital founded by Duke Francesco Sforza in 1456; Italy's top-ranked public research hospital, IRCCS since 1981.
Food hygiene
Food hygiene: all conditions and measures ensuring food safety and suitability across the food chain, per Codex. Covers HACCP controls, contamination prevention, the 1963 Codex Alimentarius, and WHO's estimate of 866 million annual foodborne illness cases.
FoodPharmer
FoodPharmer, the online identity of Revant Himatsingka, is an Indian health advocate who reviews food labels, leading to regulatory changes and the launch of his clean-label brand, Only What's Needed, in 2025.
Fortis Healthcare
Fortis Healthcare Limited, an IHH Healthcare Berhad company, is a leading Indian integrated hospital and diagnostics provider: 36 facilities across 12 states, 6,150+ beds, Agilus Diagnostics, FY26 hospital revenue ₹7,773 crore.
Fox Chase Cancer Center
Fox Chase Cancer Center: NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center in Philadelphia, formed 1974 from the American Oncologic Hospital (1904) and Institute for Cancer Research; home of the Philadelphia chromosome discovery, two Nobel Prizes, and part of Temple University Health System since 2012.
Frail-LAAC study
Frail-LAAC (NCT05257954) is a prospective multicenter study of frailty in left atrial appendage closure, also called LAAC frailty assessment. It found frailty (Essential Frailty Toolset ≥3) in 22.4% of 452 patients and a 5-fold higher mortality risk.
Francisco García (physician)
Francisco García is an American physician and epidemiologist who led Pima County, Arizona's public-health response through the COVID-19 pandemic and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2023.
Franklin D. Murphy
Franklin David Murphy (1916–1994) was an American physician and university chancellor who led the University of Kansas and UCLA before chairing the Times Mirror Company, publisher of the Los Angeles Times.
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center (Fred Hutch), Seattle nonprofit formed April 1, 2022 by merging Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (founded 1975) and Seattle Cancer Care Alliance; NCI comprehensive cancer center and UW Medicine's cancer program.
Frédéric Ferrière
Frédéric-Auguste Ferrière (1848–1924) was a Swiss physician and Red Cross vice-president who founded the civilian section of the International Prisoners-of-War Agency in Geneva during World War I.
FROG-ICU study
The FROG-ICU study was a French and Belgian observational cohort study following ICU survivors for one year, finding that 21% died and that discharge biomarkers predicted the risk.
FU study
FU study (Follow-up Visit of High Risk Infants, NCT00009633): NICHD Neonatal Research Network multi-center cohort following surviving extremely low birth-weight infants with neurodevelopmental assessments at 22-26 months corrected age to identify maternal and neonatal risk factors.
Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center
Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center (复旦大学附属肿瘤医院, FUSCC), founded 1931 as the Sino-Belgian Radium Treatment Hospital, is China's earliest cancer-specialty hospital, a Grade III-A Fudan University affiliate in Shanghai ranked 3rd nationally in oncology.
FUTURE II trial
FUTURE II (NCT00092534, V501-015) is Merck's phase 3 trial of the quadrivalent HPV-6/11/16/18 vaccine in 12,167 women aged 15–26; 98% per-protocol efficacy against HPV16/18-related CIN2/3 or AIS, 100% effectiveness over 14 years. A separate coronary scaffold trial shares the name.
G. Gayle Stephens M.D.
G. Gayle Stephens (1928 to 2014) was an American family physician and medical educator who was one of the founders of family medicine in the United States.
G. Octo Barnett
G. Octo Barnett, born Guy Octo Barnett, was an American physician and medical informatics pioneer who founded the Massachusetts General Hospital Laboratory of Computer Science.
GAESRD trial
GAESRD (GADAD study), NCT06836206: open-label randomized crossover phase 1/2 trial at SEHA Kidney Care, Abu Dhabi, testing 30 g/day gum Arabic versus water for preserving residual renal function in 40 dialysis patients with ESRD.
Gaëtan Dugas
Gaétan Dugas (1953–1984), French-Canadian Air Canada flight attendant wrongly dubbed AIDS "Patient Zero"; marked Patient O (Outside of California) in a 1984 CDC cluster study; exonerated by 2016 Nature genome analysis showing HIV reached New York around 1971.
Gail L. Warden
Gail L. Warden is an American health care executive who led the Henry Ford Health System in Detroit as president and CEO from 1988 to 2003.
Gain-of-function research
Gain-of-function research deliberately modifies organisms, typically pathogens, to enhance traits like transmissibility or virulence; most such research is benign human genetics, but a small pandemic-potential subset drove the 2014 US funding pause and the 2025-2026 dangerous gain-of-function prohibition.
Gambling in Australia
Gambling in Australia is the country's legal betting, gaming, and lottery market, whose annual losses of about $32 billion are the largest per capita in the world.
GameDementia trial
GameDementia (NCT06631742) is a pilot randomized controlled trial by Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences testing 12 weeks of Dividat Senso dance exergaming versus usual care in 48 long-term care residents with major neurocognitive disorders, measuring SPPB, activity, and sleep.
Gandhi Medical College
Gandhi Medical College (गाँधी मेडिकल कॉलेज) is a government medical college in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, inaugurated in 1955 and attached to Hamidia Hospital, a 1,360-bed tertiary care teaching hospital.