Human health and medicine

Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices

BfArM (Bundesinstitut für Arzneimittel und Medizinprodukte), Germany's federal institute for drugs and medical devices in Bonn: authorizes medicines, assesses device and drug risks, monitors narcotics, works with EMA.

Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health

Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (Bundesanstalt für Arbeitsschutz und Arbeitsmedizin, BAuA): Germany's federal departmental research institute for occupational safety and health, based in Dortmund and Berlin, advising BMAS and BMUKN and operating DASA.

Federal Ministry of Health

Federal Ministry of Health (Bundesministerium für Gesundheit, BMG), Germany's supreme federal health authority in Bonn and Berlin since 1961; drafts health legislation, oversees RKI, PEI, BfArM, and BIÖG; minister Dr. Carsten Linnemann since July 29, 2026.

Federal Ministry of Social Affairs, Health, Care and Consumer Protection

The Federal Ministry of Social Affairs, Health, Care and Consumer Protection (Bundesministerium für Soziales, Gesundheit, Pflege und Konsumentenschutz) is Austria's federal ministry for health, social policy, and consumer protection.

Federal Teaching Hospital Abakaliki

Federal Teaching Hospital Abakaliki (FETHA), now Alex Ekwueme Federal University Teaching Hospital Abakaliki, is a federal tertiary hospital in Ebonyi State, Nigeria, founded in the 1930s as a WWII casualty post and upgraded to a teaching hospital in December 2011.

Federally Qualified Health Center

Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC), also called community health center: US clinic funded under Section 330 of the PHS Act serving medically underserved areas, with sliding-fee-scale care, patient-majority boards, and Medicaid/Medicare prospective payment; look-alikes meet the same rules without grants.

Federation of European Neuroscience Societies

The Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS) is the main organization for neuroscience in Europe, founded in 1998 and based in Brussels, representing 43 societies and some 20,000 scientists.

Fedratinib

Fedratinib, sold as Inrebic, is an oral kinase inhibitor targeting JAK2, approved by the FDA in August 2019 for adults with intermediate-2 or high-risk myelofibrosis.

Fee Schedules

A fee schedule is a listing of established charges for professional services that a payer uses to set reimbursement in Medicare, Medicaid, and private insurance.

Fee-for-Service Plans

Fee-for-service plans pay providers per individual service delivered; the term covers indemnity health insurance and Medicare Advantage Private Fee-for-Service (PFFS) plans, which offer broad provider choice without prior authorization.

Feeding America

Feeding America, formerly Second Harvest, is the largest US hunger-relief nonprofit: a Chicago-based 501(c)(3) network of over 250 food banks and 60,000 meal programs distributing 5.9 billion meals annually and running the Map the Meal Gap study.

Feeding Behavior

Feeding behavior (eating behavior, food habits) is the manner, rhythmic pattern, and timing of eating in humans and animals, MeSH D005247, governed by homeostatic, hedonic, circadian, genetic, and developmental factors.

Feeding difficulties

Feeding difficulties are problems with eating or drinking, ranging from picky eating to pediatric feeding disorder; in adults, the equivalent problem is usually dysphagia, a swallowing disorder.

Feeding Methods

Feeding Methods (MeSH D005248) covers ways of giving food to humans or animals: oral nutrition support, enteral tube feeding, and parenteral (intravenous) nutrition, with routes, tube access, delivery schedules, and history from ancient rectal enemas to modern formulas.

Feeding problems of newborn

Feeding problems of newborn (ICD-11 KD32) covers neonatal slow feeding, underfeeding, overfeeding, breast-feeding difficulty, and failure to thrive, arising from immature suck-swallow-breathe coordination, dysphagia, or prematurity.

Feeding tube

Feeding tube: medical device delivering enteral nutrition into the stomach or intestine (nasogastric, PEG, jejunostomy) for patients unable to eat; history from ancient Egyptian rectal enemas to Sédillot's 1845 gastrostomy and the 1980 PEG technique.

Feel4Diabetes trial

The Feel4Diabetes trial was an EU-funded, cluster-randomized trial that gave vulnerable families in six European countries school- and community-based counseling and text messages to prevent type 2 diabetes.

Feeling ill

Feeling ill (malaise), ICD-11 code MG25, is a non-specific sensation of being unwell. Acute sickness behavior is cytokine-driven (IL-1β, IL-6, TNFα) and adaptive; it differs from chronic ME/CFS.

Feeling of incomplete bladder emptying

Feeling of incomplete bladder emptying (残尿感), an ICS-defined lower urinary tract symptom and ICD-11 code MF50.64: a complaint the bladder does not feel empty after urination, often but not always linked to high postvoid residual urine.

Fees and Charges

Fees and Charges is a MeSH descriptor (D005249, introduced 1968) covering amounts charged to patients as payers for health care services, with child terms for capitation, fee-for-service, hospital, dental, medical, and pharmaceutical charges.

Feingold syndrome

Feingold syndrome (FGLDS, ODED syndrome) is a rare autosomal dominant congenital malformation disorder with microcephaly, digital anomalies, and learning deficit; type 1 from MYCN variants includes gastrointestinal atresia, type 2 from MIR17HG deletion does not.

Feladilimab

Feladilimab (GSK3359609) is GSK's humanized ICOS agonist IgG4 antibody for solid tumors; first-in-human in INDUCE-1, its INDUCE-3 head and neck trial failed and development was discontinued.

Felbamate

Felbamate (Felbatol), a second-generation antiepileptic drug approved by the FDA in 1993 for Lennox-Gastaut syndrome and partial seizures, acts on NMDA and GABA receptors but is restricted by boxed warnings for aplastic anemia and hepatic failure.

Felbinac

Felbinac (フェルビナク), 4-biphenylacetic acid, is a topical NSAID (ATC M02AA08) sold as gels, tapes, and paps, chiefly in Japan since 1986, with NNT 3.0 for acute musculoskeletal pain.

Feline viral rhinotracheitis

Feline viral rhinotracheitis (FVR), also called feline herpesvirus 1 or felid alphaherpesvirus 1 infection, is an acute upper respiratory and ocular disease of cats; it causes about half of feline viral URIs, becomes latent for life, and is not zoonotic.

Fellatio

Fellatio, oral stimulation of the penis, is one of three types of oral sex with cunnilingus and anilingus. Practiced by over 85% of US adults 18-44; transmits STIs including gonorrhea, syphilis, HPV, and herpes, with low HIV risk.

Fellowship (medicine)

Fellowship (medicine): post-residency subspecialty training in graduate medical education, also called advanced GME. ACGME-accredited, typically 1-3 years, entered via the NRMP fellowship match, leading to ABMS subspecialty certification.

Felty's syndrome

Felty's syndrome (Chauffard-Still-Felty syndrome): rare triad of seropositive rheumatoid arthritis, splenomegaly, and neutropenia (ANC under 1500/mm3), described by Augustus Roi Felty in 1924, overlapping with T-LGL leukemia.

Felzartamab

Felzartamab (MOR202, TJ202) is a fully human anti-CD38 IgG1 monoclonal antibody by Biogen that depletes plasma cells and NK cells; in phase 2 trials it resolved antibody-mediated kidney-transplant rejection and reduced proteinuria in membranous nephropathy and IgA nephropathy.