Public health and healthcare

Anne Laude

Anne Laude, born in 1961, is a French health-law scholar, professor at Université Paris Cité, dean of its law faculty, and a US National Academy of Medicine member.

Anne R. Somers

Anne R. Somers, also known as Anne Ramsey Somers, was an American health policy analyst and long-term care scholar who helped shape the 1965 Medicare legislation.

Anonymous testing: testing in which the person or specimen source is not individually identified, used chiefly for HIV testing and surveillance; a coded identifier links results, raising uptake versus confidential name-based testing.

ANSWER study

ANSWER Program (American Norditropin Studies: Web-Enabled Research), NCT01009905, a 2002-2016 US observational registry of 19,847 Novo Nordisk Norditropin growth hormone patients, paired with Europe's NordiNet IOS.

Antonine Plague

Antonine Plague (Plague of Galen), 165–180 CE epidemic of the Roman Empire under Marcus Aurelius, spread by soldiers from the Parthian War; pathogen debated (possibly smallpox), mortality estimated 10–30 percent, possibly history's first pandemic.

Apollo Hospitals

Apollo Hospitals (Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Limited, APOLLOHOSP) is India's first corporate hospital chain, founded 1983 in Chennai by Dr. Prathap C. Reddy; 77+ hospitals, 11,000+ beds, pharmacies, diagnostics, and telemedicine nationwide.

APSALS study

APSALS (Australian Parental Supply of Alcohol Longitudinal Study), a 2010 UNSW NDARC prospective cohort of 1,927 parent-child dyads followed annually, finding parental alcohol supply increases adolescent binge drinking, harms, and alcohol use disorder risk.

ARCADIA trial (NCT03824691)

ARCADIA (NCT03824691) is a phase 2, single-arm Italian trial of cabozantinib plus durvalumab in platinum-treated advanced urothelial carcinoma and variant histologies; interim ORR 35.5%, median OS 13.1 months.

Archives de pédiatrie : organe officiel de la Sociéte française de pédiatrie

Archives de pédiatrie (Arch Pediatr, ISSN 0929-693X) is the official English-language pediatrics journal of the Société Française de Pédiatrie, published by Elsevier since 1994 from the merger of Pédiatrie and Archives françaises de pédiatrie; eight issues yearly, editor Régis Coutant.

Arnold S. Milstein

Arnold S. Milstein is an American physician and health services researcher who directs Stanford's Clinical Excellence Research Center and is known for the 'American medical home runs' study.

Arthur Garson Jr.

Arthur Garson Jr. is an American pediatric cardiologist and health policy leader, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2007 and known for the Grand-Aides program.

Arthur H. Rubenstein

Arthur H. Rubenstein is a South African–trained endocrinologist known for insulin research with Donald Steiner and for deaning Penn's medical school from 2001 to 2011.

Arthur Kaufman

Arthur Kaufman is an American family physician and medical educator at the University of New Mexico, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2015.

Ashworth Hospital

Ashworth Hospital (Ashworth High Secure Hospital), Maghull, Liverpool: one of three high secure psychiatric hospitals in England and Wales, run by Mersey Care NHS Trust, 13 wards, 210 beds, formed 1989 from Moss Side and Park Lane hospitals.

ASPREE study

ASPREE (ASPirin in Reducing Events in the Elderly) was a 19,114-partner placebo-controlled trial of 100 mg daily aspirin in healthy adults 70 and older in Australia and the US; it found no disability-free survival benefit, more bleeding, and higher mortality.

Assistance Publique – Hôpitaux de Paris

Assistance Publique – Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), the public university hospital center (CHU) of Île-de-France: 38 hospitals, about 8 million patients yearly, 100,000 staff, six GHU groups, founded 1849, Europe's largest CHU.

Assisted living

Assisted living: residential long-term care offering housing, help with daily activities, and some health care for seniors and people with disabilities; state-regulated, no federal rules, 44,638 US facilities, Medicaid covers services in 44 states.

Asymptomatic carrier

Asymptomatic carrier: a person harboring an infectious agent without symptoms who can transmit it. Covers carrier types, Typhoid Mary, and SARS-CoV-2 evidence showing lower but real carrier transmission.

Atencion primaria

Atencion primaria (Atención Primaria) is a Spanish peer-reviewed family medicine journal, ISSN 0212-6567/1578-1275, founded 1983, published by Elsevier España for semFYC and indexed in MEDLINE and Scopus.

ATP study

ATP study (ATP Project, Asthma afTer Polypectomy), NCT02427503: a completed Spanish observational cohort study of 106 adults with persistent asthma and grade II-III nasal polyposis, measuring eosinophils, FEV1, FeNO, and asthma control for 12 months after endoscopic sinus surgery.

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW): independent statutory Australian Government agency, established 1987, renamed 1992, producing national health and welfare statistics, data collections, and accredited data linkage services.

Awele Elumelu

Awele Vivien Elumelu (born 1970, Lagos) is a Nigerian physician and healthcare entrepreneur, chair of Avon Healthcare and Avon Medical Practice, Tony Elumelu Foundation co-founder, OFR 2023, and Transcorp Hotels board chair from January 2026.

Ayushman Bharat Yojana

Ayushman Bharat Yojana (PM-JAY, Ayushman Arogya Mandirs) is India's 2018 universal health coverage initiative: ₹5 lakh per family annual hospitalization cover for the bottom 40%, expanded in 2024 to all citizens aged 70+, plus 150,000 primary care centres.

Azizi Seixas

Azizi Seixas is an American sleep and informatics scientist at the University of Miami, recipient of the 2025 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.

B. Price Kerfoot

B. Price Kerfoot is a physician and education researcher, an associate professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School and staff urologist at VA Boston, known for online spaced education.

BABEL trial

BABEL trial (Better tArgeting, Better outcomes for frail ELderly patients), NCT03649191: Canadian cluster randomized trial of structured advance care planning in 29 nursing homes, 713 frail residents, 2018–2020, improving ACP comprehensiveness and reducing antibiotics.

BabySTEPS study

BabySTEPS (STudy of Eye imaging in Preterm infantS), NCT02887157, is Duke University's NIH-funded prospective observational study imaging preterm infants' retinas with handheld swept-source OCT to track RNFL, choroidal, and visual development and ROP biomarkers; distinct from the Easter Seals Baby Steps screening program.