Human health and medicine

Salpingitis or oophoritis

Salpingitis or oophoritis (salpingo-oophoritis), ICD-11 GA07 / ICD-10 N70: inflammation of the fallopian tube, ovary, or both, usually from ascending gonococcal or chlamydial infection within pelvic inflammatory disease.

Salpingo-oophorectomy

Salpingo-oophorectomy is a gynecological operation removing an ovary together with its attached fallopian tube, on one or both sides, often to treat ovarian disease or reduce cancer risk in BRCA carriers.

Salpingostomy

Salpingostomy is a surgical procedure in which an incision is made into a fallopian tube to remove an ectopic pregnancy while sparing the tube for future fertility.

Salt poisoning

Salt poisoning (salt toxicity) is rare acute hypernatremia from massive short-term salt ingestion, via emetics, caregiver administration, or suicide; about 50% of documented cases were fatal, treated with careful free-water replacement.

Salt substitute

Salt substitute: a lower-sodium salt, usually sodium chloride blended with 10–50% potassium chloride (LSSS), promoted by WHO to lower blood pressure; SSaSS trial showed reduced stroke and mortality, but kidney patients risk hyperkalemia.

Salter–Harris fracture

Salter–Harris fracture: growth plate (physeal) fracture in children, classified into five types by Salter and Harris in 1963; type II is most common (about 75%), and these injuries make up 15–18% of pediatric fractures.

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.

Salvage laryngectomy

Salvage laryngectomy is the surgical removal of the larynx after radiation or chemoradiation for laryngeal cancer has failed, the standard curative option for persistent or recurrent disease.

Salvage radiotherapy

Salvage radiotherapy is radiation treatment delivered to the prostatic fossa after prostatectomy when PSA rises or remains detectable, given at 64-74 Gy and often combined with several months of hormone therapy.

Salvage surgery

Salvage surgery is the resection of persistent or recurrent primary tumors after failed radiotherapy or chemoradiation, performed with curative intent, most studied in head and neck cancer.

SaLVaRe study

SaLVaRe (Saint Luc Valve registry), NCT02974218, is a prospective single-center registry of mitral, aortic, and tricuspid valve disease at Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc, Brussels, enrolling patients since January 2000 and led by Bernhard Gerber.

Sam Berns

Sam Berns (1996–2014), American Massachusetts teenager with Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome; son of PRF founders Leslie Gordon and Scott Berns, subject of HBO's Life According to Sam and the TEDx talk My philosophy for a happy life.

Samelisant

Samelisant (SUVN-G3031) is Suven Life Sciences' histamine H3 receptor inverse agonist for narcolepsy; positive Phase 2 (2.1-point ESS reduction) led to the global Phase 3 AWAKE study begun in 2026.

SaMi-Trop study

SaMi-Trop (São Paulo–Minas Gerais Tropical Medicine Research Center) study: NIH-funded prospective Brazilian cohort of 1,959 Chagas cardiomyopathy patients in Minas Gerais; produced a 2-year mortality risk score and benznidazole outcome data.

Samidorphan

Samidorphan (ALKS 33), a naltrexone-derived mu-opioid receptor antagonist with kappa/delta partial agonist activity, is co-formulated with olanzapine as LYBALVI (US approval 2021) to mitigate olanzapine-induced weight gain in schizophrenia and bipolar I disorder.

Samirapannaga Rasa

Samirapannaga Rasa (Sameera Pannaga Rasa) is a classical Ayurvedic Kupipakwa Rasayana of purified mercury, sulphur, and arsenic minerals, listed in the Ayurvedic Formulary of India (AFI000376, dose 62.5–125 mg) and used mainly for respiratory conditions such as Tamaka Shwasa (bronchial asthma).

SAMMPRIS trial

SAMMPRIS (Stenting and Aggressive Medical Management for Preventing Recurrent Stroke in Intracranial Stenosis) was a 2011 randomized trial showing Wingspan intracranial stenting plus aggressive medical therapy caused more 30-day stroke or death (14.7% vs 5.8%) than medical therapy alone.

Sammy Basso

Sammy Basso (1995–2024), Italian molecular biologist with Hutchinson-Gilford progeria; oldest known classic progeria patient, lonafarnib trial participant, CRISPR therapy researcher, AIPROSAB co-founder, first progeria aortic valve replacement patient.

SAMP6

SAMP6 (Senescence-Accelerated Mouse Prone 6) is an inbred AKR/J-derived mouse strain from Kyoto University used as a model of senile osteoporosis, with low peak bone mass, impaired osteoblastogenesis, and shortened survival.

Samsamani Vati (afi afi-samsamanivati)

Samsamani Vati (Saṃśamanī vaṭī, Guduchi Ghana Vati) is an official Ayurvedic tablet of Tinospora cordifolia stem extract, introduced by Yadavji Trikamji in Siddhayoga Sangraha, used for fevers and weakness, AFI dose 250–500 mg, and distributed as COVID-19 prophylaxis by India's Ministry of AYUSH.

Oct 20, 2026

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.

Samter syndrome

Samter syndrome, also called Samter's triad or aspirin-exacerbated respiratory disease (AERD, NERD, Widal's syndrome), combines asthma, nasal polyps, and aspirin/NSAID respiratory reactions; treated with desensitization, surgery, and biologics.

Sep 21, 2026

Samuel Bellet

Samuel Bellet (1902–1971) was an American cardiologist in Philadelphia and a pioneer in the study of cardiac arrhythmias who wrote Clinical Disorders of the Heart Beat and left an endowed professorship at Penn.

Samuel Hahnemann

Samuel Hahnemann (Christian Friedrich Samuel Hahnemann, 1755–1843), German physician born in Meissen, MD Erlangen 1779, founder of homeopathy; author of the 1810 Organon, originator of 'like cures like' and potentized dilution.

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.

SAMURAI trial

SAMURAI (NCT02439320) was Eli Lilly's Phase 3 trial of lasmiditan 100 mg and 200 mg versus placebo for acute migraine in 2231 adults; both doses met pain-free and most-bothersome-symptom-free endpoints at 2 hours.

Oct 20, 2026

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.

Sanbi Tang

三痹汤 (Sanbi Decoction), a classical Chinese medicine formula from Chen Ziming's Song dynasty Furen Daquan Liangfang, derived from Duhuo Jisheng Decoction; 16 herbs tonifying qi and blood while dispelling wind-cold-damp for chronic bi syndromes; listed in China's second Catalog of Ancient Classic Formulas.