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Familial visceral myopathy
Familial visceral myopathy, also called hereditary hollow visceral myopathy (ORPHA:2604), is a rare autosomal dominant degeneration of gastrointestinal and urinary smooth muscle causing chronic intestinal pseudo-obstruction, megaduodenum, and megacystis, often linked to ACTG2 mutations.
Family Constellations
Family Constellations (Familienstellen), a group method founded by Bert Hellinger in the late 1980s, uses representatives to portray a client's family system; evidence of effectiveness is contested, with a 2026 review finding no reliable supporting evidence.
Family Health
Family health: the health status of the family as a unit, including how one member's health and family organization affect members' health; a MeSH concept, nursing field, and measurable household property.
Family medicine
Family medicine, also known as family practice or general practice, is the medical specialty providing first-contact, continuous care for patients of all ages, recognized in the US in 1969.
Family Physicians
Family physicians: specialists in family medicine providing first-contact, continuous, comprehensive lifelong care; certified via the American Board of Family Medicine since 1969; represented by the AAFP.
Family planning
Family planning: attaining desired number and spacing of children via contraception and infertility treatment. Key figures: 164 million unmet need (WHO), 259 million (UNFPA 2024), method failure rates, ICPD 1994 policy shift.
Family planning in India
Family planning in India: the world's first national family planning programme (1952), run by MoHFW under NPP 2000 and NHP 2017; TFR 2.0, mCPR 56.5%, unmet need 9.4%, sterilization-dominated method mix, Mission Parivar Vikas, and the 1975-77 Emergency campaign legacy.
Family Planning Policy
Family planning policy: government laws, guidelines, and programs governing contraceptive access and reproductive choice, from India's 1952 national policy and the 1994 Cairo ICPD rights framework to coercion safeguards and UNFPA's 2022–2030 strategy.
Family Planning Services
Family planning services: organized health services for contraceptive counseling, provision, and infertility care. Key facts: 874 million modern contraceptive users, 164 million unmet need; US Title X (1970) and Medicaid; 1.3 million US unintended pregnancies prevented annually.
Family therapy
Family therapy (systemic therapy) is psychotherapy treating the family unit's relationships and patterns rather than an individual alone. Approaches include structural, Bowen, and multiple family therapy; evidence supports family-based treatment for adolescent eating disorders and family-focused therapy in schizophrenia.
Famine
Famine: the most severe acute food insecurity, defined by the IPC (Phase 5) with thresholds of 20% households starving, 30% child malnutrition, and excess deaths; driven mainly by conflict and government decisions.
Famitinib
Famitinib (SHR1020, Abit), a HengRui sunitinib-analogue multi-targeted TKI inhibiting c-Kit, VEGFR-2/3, PDGFR, FLT3, Ret; approved in China May 2025 with camrelizumab for cervical cancer.
Famotidine
Famotidine (Pepcid, Gaster) is a guanidinothiazole histamine H2 receptor antagonist developed by Yamanouchi and Merck, FDA-approved 1986, about 20 times more potent than cimetidine, used for ulcers, GERD, and hypersecretory conditions.
FAMPISEP trial
FAMPISEP (NCT02849782) is a completed phase 4, single-center, open-label trial at the University Hospital of Besançon (2014-2019, 89 participants) testing fampridine 10 mg twice daily in multiple sclerosis, assessing cognitive and gait outcomes.
Fanconi anemia
Fanconi anemia (FA), also called Fanconi pancytopenia, is a rare inherited DNA repair disorder causing bone marrow failure, congenital abnormalities, and high leukemia and solid tumor risk; treated by HSCT, with gene therapy trials for FANCA subtype.
Fanconi Anemia Pathway
Fanconi anemia (FA) pathway, also called the FA-BRCA pathway: a DNA repair pathway for interstrand crosslinks, activated by FANCL/UBE2T monoubiquitination of FANCD2-FANCI and coordinating nucleases, translesion synthesis, and homologous recombination.
Fanconi syndrome
Fanconi syndrome: generalized proximal renal tubule reabsorption failure causing glucosuria, aminoaciduria, phosphaturia, and bicarbonate wasting; hereditary (cystinosis most common) or acquired (drugs, heavy metals); distinct from Fanconi anemia.
Fanconi-Bickel syndrome
Fanconi-Bickel syndrome (FBS), formerly glycogen storage disease XI, is a rare autosomal recessive disorder caused by SLC2A2 mutations, marked by hepatomegaly, short stature, rickets, and renal tubular dysfunction.
Fangji Fuling Tang
Fangji Fuling tang (防己茯苓汤) is a five-herb classical Chinese formula first recorded in Zhang Zhongjing's Jin Gui Yao Lue, known for warming yang and promoting diuresis.
Fangji Huangqi Tang
防己黄芪汤 (Fangji Huangqi Decoction), a classical Chinese formula from Zhang Zhongjing's Jin Gui Yao Lue, combining Stephania tetrandra, astragalus, atractylodes, licorice, ginger, and jujube for wind-water edema; listed in China's 2023 classic formula catalogue.
Fanregratinib
Fanregratinib (HMPL-453, ATLED, 凡瑞格拉替尼) is HUTCHMED's oral selective FGFR1/2/3 inhibitor for FGFR2-fusion intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma; its pivotal Phase II showed 42.5% ORR and 16.6-month median OS, with NMPA priority review in December 2025.
Far Eastern tick-borne encephalitis
Far Eastern tick-borne encephalitis (TBEV-FE, formerly Russian spring-summer encephalitis) is the most severe TBE virus subtype, tick-borne via Ixodes persulcatus in far-eastern Russia, China, and Japan, with case fatality around 20% or higher.
Farber disease
Farber disease (Farber lipogranulomatosis, acid ceramidase deficiency) is an ultra-rare autosomal recessive lysosomal storage disorder from ASAH1 mutations, causing ceramide buildup, painful deformed joints, subcutaneous nodules, and hoarseness, usually fatal in infancy.
Farees (Fary) Khan
Farees (Fary) Khan is an Australian rehabilitation medicine physician who directs Rehabilitation Services at the Royal Melbourne Hospital and was elected to the United States National Academy of Medicine.
Faricimab
Faricimab (Vabysmo) is a bispecific VEGF-A/Ang-2 antibody eye injection approved 2022 for wet AMD and diabetic macular edema, and 2023 for retinal vein occlusion, with dosing up to every 16 weeks.
Farid Fata
Farid Fata, Lebanese-born Michigan hematologist-oncologist, owner of Michigan Hematology Oncology; misdiagnosed 553 patients with cancer, billed $34 million in fraudulent claims, sentenced in 2015 to 45 years in federal prison.
Farletuzumab
Farletuzumab (MORAb-003) is a humanized IgG1 monoclonal antibody against folate receptor alpha for ovarian cancer; its phase III trials missed PFS endpoints, and it now anchors the ADC farletuzumab ecteribulin (MORAb-202).
Farmer lung
Farmer lung (farmer's lung disease, mouldy hay disease) is hypersensitivity pneumonitis from inhaled actinomycete and fungal spores in mouldy hay, straw, or grain; ICD-11 code CA70.0, causing dyspnoea, cough, fever, and possible chronic disability.
Farmers' Market Nutrition Program
WIC Farmers' Market Nutrition Program (FMNP), a USDA program established in 1992, gives WIC participants coupons for fresh, unprepared, locally grown fruits and vegetables at authorized farmers, farmers markets, and roadside stands; operates in 49 states.
Faropenem
Faropenem (Farom) is a synthetic oral penem beta-lactam antibiotic, first marketed in Japan in 1997, approved also in India, with broad-spectrum activity, high beta-lactamase stability, and WHO reserve classification.