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Hot yoga
Hot yoga: yoga practiced in rooms of 95–104°F (35–40°C), including Bikram's 26-posture, 90-minute sequence created by Bikram Choudhury; covers physiology, calorie burn, safety, and pregnancy guidance.
Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal
Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal, Montreal's first hospital, founded by Jeanne Mance in 1642 and run by the Religious Hospitallers of Saint Joseph; moved to Mount Royal in 1861, merged into the CHUM in 1996, patients transferred 2017.
Hôtel-Dieu de Paris
Hôtel-Dieu de Paris, traditionally founded by Saint Landry around 651/660, is the oldest hospital site in Paris, on the Île de la Cité beside Notre-Dame; now an AP-HP university hospital being transformed into the Nouvel Hôtel-Dieu.
Hotlines
A hotline is a direct communication channel, usually telephone, kept in readiness to provide immediate crisis assistance, counseling, referrals, and information, from suicide prevention to poison control and diplomatic use.
Houge-Janssens syndrome
Houge-Janssens syndrome (HJS, Jordan's syndrome for type 1) is a spectrum of rare autosomal dominant PP2A-related neurodevelopmental disorders (types 1-4, genes PPP2R5D, PPP2R1A, PPP2CA, PPP2R5C) marked by developmental delay, hypotonia, seizures, and macrocephaly or microcephaly.
Houpo Mahuang Decoction
厚朴麻黄汤 (Houpo Mahuang Decoction), a nine-herb classical formula from Zhang Zhongjing's Jingui Yaolüe for cough with floating pulse from cold fluid retention with heat; first-batch ancient classical formula, used mainly for COPD and chronic bronchitis.
Houpo Qiwu Tang
厚朴七物汤 (Houpo Qiwu Tang), Magnolia Bark Seven-Ingredient Decoction, a Zhang Zhongjing formula from the Jin Gui Yao Lue combining Houpo Sanwu Tang with Guizhi Tang minus peony for abdominal fullness with fever.
Houpo Sanwu Tang
厚朴三物汤 (Houpo Sanwu Tang), a classic formula from the Jingui Yaolüe of magnolia bark, rhubarb, and bitter orange, heavy on magnolia bark, for abdominal fullness from qi stagnation; distinguished from Xiao Chengqi Tang and Houpo Dahuang Tang only by proportions.
House burping
House burping is the American TikTok name for German Lüften, briefly opening windows even in winter to swap stale indoor air for fresh, reducing mold, humidity, and pollutants.
House Calls
House calls (home visits) are physician or clinician visits to a patient's home for diagnosis or treatment. Once 40% of US doctor visits in 1930, they fell below 1% by 1980 and revived as home-based primary care and virtual house calls.
Housing Quality
Housing quality: physical condition of a home plus its social and physical environment (MeSH, Healthy People 2030); linked to asthma, lead, injuries; measured by self-report, expert assessment, HHSRS, OHQS.
Houston Methodist
Houston Methodist: not-for-profit, faith-based academic health system founded 1919 as The Methodist Hospital by Oscar Norsworthy; flagship Houston Methodist Hospital in the Texas Medical Center, eight acute-care hospitals, No. 1 hospital in Texas 15 years running.
Howard A. Rusk
Howard A. Rusk was an American physician known as the father of rehabilitation medicine, which he developed in World War II and at New York University.
Howard Dully
Howard Dully, American bus driver and author, lobotomized at age 12 in 1960 by Dr. Walter Freeman; told his story in the 2005 NPR documentary and 2007 memoir My Lobotomy.
Howard K. Koh
Howard K. Koh (Howard Kyongju Koh) is an American physician and Harvard public health professor who served as US Assistant Secretary for Health from 2009 to 2014.
Howard Krein
Howard Krein is an American otolaryngologist and facial plastic surgeon, Professor at Thomas Jefferson University, director of the Herbert Kean Center for Facial Aesthetics, chief medical officer of StartUp Health, and son-in-law of Joe Biden through his marriage to Ashley Biden.
Howard L. Bailit
Howard L. Bailit is an American dental public health researcher and professor at the University of Connecticut, known for studies of dental access and asthma care.
Howard University Hospital
Howard University Hospital (HUH), 2041 Georgia Ave NW, Washington, DC, is Howard University's 400-bed academic teaching hospital, opened 1975 to replace Freedmen's Hospital (1862); a new $650 million, 225-bed replacement is targeted for 2028.
Hoyeraal-Hreidarsson syndrome
Hoyeraal-Hreidarsson syndrome, or HHS, is a rare, severe X-linked variant of dyskeratosis congenita, a telomere biology disorder, marked by cerebellar hypoplasia, immune deficiency, and aplastic anemia.
HPB-ALL
HPB-ALL (HPB/ALL, CVCL_1820) is a human T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia cell line established in 1973 from a 14-year-old Japanese boy, CD4+CD8+, NOTCH1-mutant, TLX3-expressing, distributed as DSMZ ACC 483 and RIKEN RCB1935.
HPC, Cord Blood
HPC, Cord Blood is the FDA proper name for allogeneic umbilical cord blood hematopoietic progenitor cell products (Hemacord, Ducord, REGENECYTE) licensed for unrelated-donor transplantation to reconstitute blood and immunity in hematopoietic disorders.
HPV self-collection
HPV self-collection is a cervical cancer screening method in which a person collects their own vaginal sample, tested for 14 high-risk HPV types as primary screening.
HPV self-sampling
HPV self-sampling is a cervical cancer screening method in which a person collects their own vaginal specimen for high-risk HPV DNA testing, raising participation among people who decline clinician-collected sampling.
HPV testing
HPV testing, also known as the HPV DNA test, detects high-risk human papillomavirus DNA or mRNA in cervical or vaginal samples to screen for cervical cancer, the WHO-recommended primary screening method.
HPV vaccine
HPV vaccine (Gardasil 9, Cervarix, Cecolin): prophylactic vaccine against human papillomavirus, first approved 2006, preventing cervical and other cancers; CDC routine at 11-12, WHO supports 1- or 2-dose schedules.
HR-cSCC study
HR-cSCC (NCT05246228) is a prospective observational Italian study of 42 patients with high-risk cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma, testing whether post-radiotherapy lymphopenia (ALC below 500 cells/mL) predicts disease-free survival.
Hrdayarnava Rasa
Hridayarnava Rasa (Hridayarnava Ras), a Kharaliya Rasayana herbo-mineral Ayurvedic formulation of purified mercury, sulphur, and Tamra Bhasma with Triphala and Kakamachi, indicated for Hridroga, especially Kaphaja heart disease.
Hrdyavirecana Leha
Hṛdyavirecana leha (AFI000314) is an Ayurvedic avaleha confection from the Aṣṭāṅgahṛdaya, made with honey, sugar, trivṛt (Operculina turpethum), and aromatics; AFI dose 12 g, used for constipation, fever, thirst, and as a cardiotonic.
HRS-1167 (PARP1 inhibitor)
HRS-1167 (M9466) is Jiangsu Hengrui's oral, second-generation selective PARP1 inhibitor with DNA trapping activity, licensed to Merck KGaA in 2023 for EUR160 million and later discontinued by Merck; distinct from Merck & Co's MK-1167 Alzheimer's drug.
HRS-1596
HRS-1596 (Hengrui Pharma) is a phase 1-ready oral GLP-1R/GIPR dual agonist for once-weekly dosing in obesity and type 2 diabetes, licensed to Novo Nordisk on 29 September 2026 for up to $2.6 billion excluding Greater China.