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Yiyi Fuzi Baijiang San
薏苡附子败酱散 (Yiyi Fuzi Baijiang San), also called Fuzi Tang or Baijiang San, is a Han-dynasty three-herb formula from Zhang Zhongjing's Jingui Yaolüe for intestinal carbuncle; coix seed, aconite, and patrinia in a 10:2:5 ratio, now studied mainly for ulcerative colitis.
Yiyuan
Yiyuan (医原) is an 1861 Qing dynasty Chinese medical theory text in three volumes and twenty essays by Shi Shoutang (石寿棠), known for organizing pathology and treatment around dryness and dampness, with editions including the 1936 Zhongguo Yixue Dacheng reprint.
Yizong Jinjian
The Yi Zong Jin Jian, or Golden Mirror of the Medical Lineage, is a 90-volume Chinese medical compendium completed in 1742 under the Qianlong emperor.
YL211
YL211 (RG6648) is a c-Met-targeting antibody-drug conjugate with a topoisomerase 1 inhibitor payload, DAR 8, built on MediLink's TMALIN platform; licensed to Roche in January 2024 for up to nearly $1 billion and in Phase I trials for advanced solid tumors.
Yoga (योग)
Yoga (योग) is an Indian-origin mind-body practice of postures (asana), breathing (pranayama), and meditation; its modern postural form arose in the 19th-20th centuries, and research finds it generally as safe as exercise with modest wellness benefits.
Yoga nidra (योग निद्रा)
Yoga nidra (योग निद्रा), or yogic sleep, is a guided practice of conscious deep rest lying in Savasana, systematized by Swami Satyananda Saraswati; studied for sleep, stress, anxiety, depression, and blood pressure.
Yogaraja
Yogaraja (योगराज, "king of formulas") is a classical Ayurvedic herbo-mineral powder recorded in the Caraka Samhita and the Ayurvedic Formulary of India for anemia, cough, tuberculosis, and poisoning.
Yogaraja Guggulu
Yogaraja Guggulu (योगराज गुग्गुलु), also Yogaraj Guggulu, is a classical Ayurvedic polyherbal tablet based on Commiphora wightii resin, listed in the Ayurvedic Formulary of India at 3 g daily for amavata, agnimandya, and sandhigatavata, contraindicated in pregnancy.
Yogendra Rasa
Yogendra Rasa (Yogendra Ras), a classical Ayurvedic herbo-mineral rasa aushadhi from Bhaishajyaratnawali: Rasasindura, gold, mica, iron, pearl, tin bhasmas with Aloe vera juice; AFI dose 125-250 mg; studied in stroke and cardiac hypertrophy.
Yolk sac tumor
Yolk sac tumor (endodermal sinus tumor), a malignant germ cell tumor of ovary, testicle, or extragonadal sites; AFP-secreting, most common malignant germ cell tumor in children, curable with platinum chemotherapy.
Yongkui Sun (孙勇奎)
Yongkui Sun (孙勇奎) is a chemical engineer and pharmaceutical scientist elected a foreign member of the US National Academy of Engineering in 2016 for green pharmaceutical processes.
You're Not You
You're Not You is a 2014 drama directed by George C. Wolfe, adapted from Michelle Wildgen's 2006 novel, starring Hilary Swank as Kate, a pianist with ALS, and Emmy Rossum as her caregiver Bec; released October 10, 2014, 52% Tomatometer.
Younan Nowzaradan (یونان نوذرادان)
Younan Nowzaradan (یونان نوذرادان), known as Dr. Now, is an Iranian-born Houston bariatric and general surgeon, University of Tehran 1970, Texas Heart Institute fellow, star of TLC's My 600-lb Life since 2012, and author of The Scale Does Not Lie, People Do.
Young adult
Young adult: life stage between adolescence and full adulthood; UN youth 15-24, WHO young people 10-24, US usage 18-25/26; brain matures mid-to-late 20s; distinct from YA fiction genre.
Young Living
Young Living: Utah-based multi-level marketing company founded 1994 by D. Gary and Mary Young, selling essential oils and oil-infused products via its Seed to Seal program; subject of FDA warning letters and a $5 million class action settlement.
Young Mania Rating Scale
The Young Mania Rating Scale is an 11-item clinician-rated scale scoring manic symptom severity in bipolar disorder, introduced in 1978 and the most used mania outcome measure in trials.
Young syndrome
Young syndrome (sinusitis-infertility syndrome, ORPHA:3471) is a rare male disorder combining bronchiectasis, chronic sinusitis, and obstructive azoospermia from thick mucus; cilia and sweat glands are normal, and mercury exposure is a proposed cause.
Young-onset Parkinson disease
Young-onset Parkinson disease (YOPD), also called early-onset Parkinson's disease, is Parkinson's disease beginning between ages 21 and 40, with stronger genetic contribution, slower progression, and earlier levodopa-induced dyskinesia than late-onset PD.
Youth Risk Behavior Survey
The Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) is a biennial, anonymous CDC survey measuring health-risk behaviors among students in grades 9 to 12 in US public and private schools.
YS2302018
YS2302018 is CSPC Pharmaceutical's preclinical oral small-molecule lipoprotein(a) inhibitor, discovered by its AI drug design platform and exclusively licensed to AstraZeneca in October 2024 for $100 million upfront plus up to $1.92 billion in milestones.
Yu-Mei Y. Chao
Yu-Mei Y. Chao is a Taiwanese nursing scientist at National Taiwan University who became Taiwan's first holder of a nursing PhD in 1979 and won the 2008 Princess Srinagarindra Award.
Yuanji Qiwei
原机启微 (原機啟微, Yuanji Qiwei) is a 1370 two-volume Chinese ophthalmology treatise by Yuan physician Ni Weide, organizing eye disease into 18 cause-based patterns; transmitted via Xue Ji's edition and reprinted in Japan in 1654.
Yuebi Decoction
越婢汤 (Yuebi Decoction), a classical Chinese medicine formula from Zhang Zhongjing's Jin Gui Yao Lue, combines ephedra, gypsum, ginger, licorice, and jujube to release the exterior and drain water, chiefly for wind-water edema (风水证) and modern nephritis and edema conditions.
Yulun Wang
Yulun Wang is an engineer and entrepreneur in medical robotics and telemedicine who founded Computer Motion, maker of the first FDA-cleared surgical robot, and InTouch Health, sold to Teladoc for $1.1 billion in 2020.
Yunis-Varon syndrome
Yunis-Varon syndrome, also called Yunis-Varón syndrome (YVS, OMIM 216340), is a severe autosomal-recessive disorder from biallelic FIG4 or VAC4 mutations, causing cleidocranial dysplasia, absent thumbs and halluces, neuronal vacuoles, and early death.
Yuriy Drohobych
Yuriy Drohobych (Юрій Дрогобич), born Yurii Kotermak, was a 15th-century Ukrainian physician, astronomer, and humanist, rector of Bologna and author of the first printed book by a Ukrainian writer.
YY003
YY003 is an investigational recombinant botulinum toxin type A, made in E. coli and supplied as a ready-to-use liquid in a prefilled syringe, licensed to Revelyx Bio outside Greater China.
Z-138
Z-138 (Z138, CVCL_B077, ATCC CRL-3001) is a human mantle cell lymphoma cell line with blastoid features, derived in 1990 from a CLL patient; it carries t(11;14), overexpresses cyclin D1, has wild-type TP53, and is ibrutinib-insensitive.
Z-plasty
Z-plasty is a plastic surgery technique in which two triangular skin flaps are transposed in a Z-shaped incision to lengthen scars and contractures, used widely in reconstructive and burn surgery.
Zabofloxacin
Zabofloxacin (DW-224a, Zabolante, PB-101) is a fluoronaphthyridone fluoroquinolone antibiotic by Dong Wha Pharmaceutical, approved in South Korea in 2015 for acute bacterial COPD exacerbation, with dual DNA gyrase and topoisomerase IV targeting.