Public health and healthcare

SAAS study

Seinäjoki Adult Asthma Study (SAAS), a Finnish single-center 12-year follow-up cohort of 257 adults with new-onset asthma diagnosed 1999–2002; 203 followed, showing 3% remission and predictors of poor control.

SAFE-VT study

SAFE-VT (NCT06195475) is a completed multicenter retrospective cohort study from Sanatorio Anchorena San Martín, Buenos Aires, testing whether tidal volume above 8 ml/kg predicted body weight during pressure support ventilation raises ICU mortality in 2,607 ventilated adults.

SAFES Cohort study

SAFES cohort (Sujet Âgé Fragile : Évaluation et Suivi), NCT02834728: French prospective multicenter cohort of 1,306 patients aged 75+ hospitalized via emergency departments in nine hospitals, 2001–2002, studying mortality, institutionalization, and frailty outcomes.

Safethrow study

Safethrow study (NCT01065181, Youth Throwers Respond to Stretching), Charles Metzger MD's observational cohort of 1,261 male youth baseball players ages 8-15, testing whether posterior capsular stretch instruction reduces glenohumeral internal rotation deficit (GIRD).

Safety net hospital

Safety net hospitals serve disproportionate numbers of uninsured, Medicaid, and vulnerable patients, supported by DSH payments; quality comparisons show broadly similar Medicare outcomes but longer surgical cancer treatment intervals.

Sahlgrenska University Hospital

Sahlgrenska University Hospital (Sahlgrenska universitetssjukhuset), Sweden's largest hospital in Gothenburg and Mölndal, formed 1997 by merging Sahlgrenska, Östra, and Mölndal hospitals; founded on Niclas Sahlgren's 1772 donation, first opened 1782, about 17,000 staff.

SALICE study

SALICE (NCT07624370), an Italian observational study by ASST Ovest Milanese, Ospedale di Legnano, on frailty and sarcopenia in elderly oncological and oncohematological patients, enrolling 160 participants since March 2025.

Sally C. Davies

Dame Sally C. Davies is a British physician who served as Chief Medical Officer for England from 2011 to 2019, the first woman to hold the post.

Salud colectiva

Salud colectiva (Collective Health) is an open-access, peer-reviewed quarterly journal founded in April 2005 by the Universidad Nacional de Lanús, Argentina (ISSN 1669-2381, English ed. 2250-5334), publishing critical Latin American public health, epidemiology, and medical anthropology research in Spanish and English.

Samsung Medical Center

Samsung Medical Center (삼성서울병원), opened 1994 in Gangnam, Seoul, is a leading Korean tertiary teaching hospital of Sungkyunkwan University, with about 1,766 beds, ranked first in Korea in Newsweek's World's Best Hospitals 2026.

Samuel P. Asper

Samuel P. Asper (1916–1999) was an American endocrinologist at Johns Hopkins who introduced radioactive iodine thyroid treatment and led a Beirut hospital during the Lebanese civil war.

San Francisco General Hospital

San Francisco General Hospital, today formally the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center, is San Francisco's public safety-net hospital, opened in 1872 and the city's only Level 1 trauma center.

Sanatorium

Sanatorium: residential institution for tuberculosis treatment based on rest, diet, fresh air, and isolation. Founded by Hermann Brehmer at Göbersdorf (1854/1859); modeled worldwide after Trudeau's Saranac Lake (1884); declined after streptomycin and isoniazid in the 1940s-1950s.

Sandral Hullett

Sandral Hullett (died 2024) was an American family physician and hospital executive who was the first African American female hospital CEO in Alabama, leading Cooper Green Mercy Hospital in Birmingham.

Sanitary Engineering

Sanitary engineering, also known as public health or wastewater engineering, plans, builds, and maintains water supply and waste disposal infrastructure, with infant mortality falling 10 to 30 percent after clean water and sanitation.

Sanitation

Sanitation: provision of facilities and services for safe disposal of human excreta, measured by the WHO/UNICEF JMP five-rung ladder from open defecation to safely managed; 58% global coverage in 2024, 3.4 billion lacking safely managed services.

SANS-PVC trial

SANS-PVC (NCT07093034) is a UC San Diego early feasibility trial of prolonged, nocturnal, non-invasive auricular vagus nerve stimulation with the Parasym device in 16 patients with ≥5% PVC burden, assessing safety, tolerability, feasibility, and PVC burden over 10 weeks.

Sarah Jane Halton

Jane Halton is an Australian public servant who was Secretary of the Department of Health and Ageing from 2002 to 2014 and now chairs CEPI.

Sarah Knauss

Sarah DeRemer Knauss (1880-1999), American supercentenarian of Allentown, Pennsylvania; lived 119 years 97 days, second-oldest validated person ever after Jeanne Calment and oldest validated American, world's oldest person 1998-1999.

Saskatchewan Health

Saskatchewan Health is the publicly funded health care system of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, which pioneered publicly funded medical insurance in 1962 amid a province-wide doctors' strike.

SCAN-B study

SCAN-B (Sweden Cancerome Analysis Network - Breast), NCT02306096, is a population-based prospective Swedish breast cancer study started in 2010 in Lund, using RNA sequencing of tumors from over 20,000 enrolled patients, with molecular subtyping clinically implemented in Skåne.

SCCSS study

SCCSS (Swiss Childhood Cancer Survivor Study), launched 2007, NCT03297034: Swiss national cohort of 5-year childhood cancer survivors registered since 1976, with 4,135 baseline respondents, sibling controls, and studies of late effects.

School of Tropical Medicine

School of Tropical Medicine (Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine), Kolkata, India: government tropical disease institution founded 1914 by Leonard Rogers, with Carmichael Hospital, MD/DM/BMLT courses, and major kala-azar and HIV research.

Scott Atlas

Scott W. Atlas, Stanford neuroradiologist and Hoover Institution fellow, was Trump's Special COVID-19 Advisor (August–December 2020), advocated focused protection over lockdowns, and was censured by Stanford's Faculty Senate.

Scott Gottlieb

Scott Gottlieb (born 1972) is an American physician and investor, 23rd FDA Commissioner (May 2017 to April 2019), later a Pfizer and Illumina board member, AEI senior fellow, and author of Uncontrolled Spread.

SCOUT trial (NCT02637687)

SCOUT (NCT02637687, LOXO-TRK-15003) is Bayer/Loxo's phase 1/2 trial of larotrectinib in children up to 21 years with advanced solid or primary CNS tumors; phase 1 showed 93% response in NTRK fusion-positive tumors.

Screening (medicine)

Screening, also known as a screening test or health screening, is the testing of apparently healthy, asymptomatic people to detect unrecognized disease early, as in cancer or newborn screening.

SDM-IBD trial

The SDM-IBD trial is a planned pilot study at Children's Hospital in London, Ontario, testing shared decision making for children with inflammatory bowel disease starting biologic therapy.

SEACAP trial

SEACAP (Study of the Effectiveness of a Collaborative Approach to Pain), ClinicalTrials.gov NCT00129480, was a 2006-2008 VA cluster randomized trial of the Assistance with Pain Treatment collaborative care intervention versus usual care in 401 chronic pain patients, showing modest improvements in disability, pain intensity, and depression.