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Febrile infection-related epilepsy syndrome
Febrile infection-related epilepsy syndrome (FIRES), also called AERRPS or DESC, is a rare NORSE-subtype epileptic encephalopathy: super-refractory status epilepticus begins 24 hours to 2 weeks after a febrile illness in previously healthy, mostly school-aged children, leaving drug-resistant epilepsy; incidence about 1 in 1,000,000.
Febrile seizure
Febrile seizure (febrile convulsion): a seizure triggered by fever (≥38°C) in children 6–60 months without CNS infection; affects 2–5% of children, recurs in 30–50%, benign prognosis, antipyretics do not prevent it.
Febuxostat
Febuxostat (Adenuric, Uloric) is a nonpurine xanthine oxidase inhibitor for hyperuricemia in gout, FDA-approved 2009; CARES showed higher cardiovascular death versus allopurinol, FAST did not, prompting a US boxed warning.
Fecal glucocorticoid metabolites
Fecal glucocorticoid metabolites (FGMs, also fGCM) are breakdown products of the stress hormones cortisol and corticosterone excreted in droppings, widely used to measure stress in wildlife without capture.
Fecal immunochemical test
A fecal immunochemical test (FIT) is a stool-based test using antibodies against human hemoglobin to detect hidden blood for colorectal cancer screening, done at home with no preparation.
Fecal impaction
Fecal impaction (fecaloma): a compacted fecal mass at any intestinal level that cannot be evacuated spontaneously, usually from chronic constipation in elderly or neuropsychiatric patients; treated with enemas, manual disimpaction, or polyethylene glycol lavage, and complicated by perforation, obstruction, stercoral ulcer, and urinary retention.
Fecal incontinence
Fecal incontinence, or accidental bowel leakage, is uncontrolled passage of stool, affecting about 7.7 percent of adults. Causes include sphincter damage, childbirth, and neurological disease; treatment is stepwise from diet and pelvic floor training to nerve stimulation and surgery.
Fecal microbiota transplant
Fecal microbiota transplant (FMT), also called fecal bacteriotherapy or intestinal microbiota transfer, transfers screened donor stool to a recipient, mainly to prevent recurrent C. difficile infection; delivered by colonoscopy, enema, tube, or capsules, with FDA-approved products Rebyota and Vowst.
Fecal microbiota transplantation
Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) is the transfer of processed stool from a screened healthy donor into a patient's gut, curing 80–90% of recurrent C. difficile infections.
Fecal occult blood test
A fecal occult blood test (FOBT) detects hidden blood in stool, screening for colorectal cancer; the guaiac-based form has largely been replaced by the more sensitive fecal immunochemical test.
Fecal–oral route
Fecal–oral route: indirect disease transmission in which pathogens exit in feces and enter a new host by mouth via food, water, fingers, flies, fields, or fomites; drives cholera, hepatitis A, norovirus.
Feces
Feces (stool, faeces): digestive waste of animals, composed of undigested food, bacteria, cells, salts, and water; serves as food (coprophagy), fertilizer, diagnostic sample, and archaeological record.
Fecundity
Fecundity is the potential reproductive capacity of an organism or population, the number of eggs or offspring per reproductive cycle; distinct from fertility (actual births) and fecundability (per-cycle conception probability), central to demography, life-history theory, and fisheries stock assessment.
Fed-batch culture
Fed-batch culture: semi-batch bioprocess in which nutrients are fed during cultivation and products remain in the bioreactor; dominant industrial fermentation mode, higher titer than batch, lower than perfusion.
Fed-batch fermentation
Fed-batch fermentation is a semi-batch cultivation method in which nutrients are added to a bioreactor with no outflow, the most common mode in industrial fermentation.
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.
Federation of Veterinarians of Europe
Federation of Veterinarians of Europe (FVE), Brussels-based umbrella body founded 1975, representing veterinary associations from 38 European countries and over 330,000 veterinarians through sections UEVP, EASVO, UEVH, and EVERI.
Federica Sallusto
Federica Sallusto is an immunologist known for defining the two main subsets of human memory T cells and for evidence that narcolepsy is autoimmune, leading a lab in Bellinzona, Switzerland.
Federico Bussolino
Federico Bussolino, born in Turin in 1954, is an Italian physician-scientist, professor of biochemistry at the University of Turin, and a leading researcher on tumor angiogenesis.
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.