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Hand, foot, and mouth disease
Hand, foot, and mouth disease (HFMD), also called hand-foot-and-mouth disease, is a contagious enterovirus illness (EV-A71, CV-A16, CV-A6) of children under 5, causing fever, mouth sores, and hand and foot rash; usually mild, rarely severe.
Handchirurgie, Mikrochirurgie, plastische Chirurgie : Organ der Deutschsprachigen Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Handchirurgie : Organ der Deutschsprachigen Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Mikrochirurgie der Peripheren Nerven und Gefässe : Organ der Vereinigung der Deutschen Plastischen Chirurgen
Handchirurgie, Mikrochirurgie, plastische Chirurgie (HaMiPla) is a German peer-reviewed bimonthly journal of hand, micro-, and plastic surgery, published by Thieme since 1982, organ of DAH, DGH, ÖGH, DAM, and DGPRÄC, ISSN 0722-1819.
Handedness
Handedness, or hand preference, is the tendency to favor one hand for tasks; about 10.6% of people are left-handed, with the roughly 1:10 right-left ratio shaped by evolution and moderated by culture.
Handgrip strength test
The handgrip strength test measures maximal squeezing force with a dynamometer, used as a quick bedside proxy for overall muscle function and to screen for sarcopenia and frailty.
Handjob
Handjob: slang for manual sex, hand stimulation of a partner's penis; counterpart fingering on a vulva. Slang attested from 1937; no pregnancy risk; lower STI exposure than penetrative sex; gloves and handwashing reduce risk.
HandtherRCT trial
HandtherRCT (NCT01215760) was a University of São Paulo randomized trial of early mirror-therapy sensory re-education versus delayed classic re-education after median or ulnar nerve repair; 20 analyzed patients showed no Rosen Score difference.
Hangenberg event
Hangenberg event: end-Devonian mass extinction and oceanic anoxic event at the Devonian-Carboniferous boundary (~359 Ma), killing 31% of marine genera, wiping out clymeniid ammonoids and placoderms, marked by black shales and a positive carbon isotope excursion.
Hangnail
Hangnail: torn dry skin at the edge of a fingernail (not nail), from dryness, biting, or wet work; treated by soaking and clipping, risking paronychia if ripped; from Middle English agnail.
Hangover
A hangover, also called veisalgia, is the set of mental and physical symptoms felt the day after heavy drinking, starting as blood alcohol returns to zero.
Hani Goodarzi
Hani Goodarzi is an Iranian-American molecular and computational biologist who studies RNA regulation in cancer, a professor at UCSF since 2016 and a Core Investigator at the Arc Institute.
Hani Zaher
Hani Zaher is a professor of biology at Washington University in St. Louis known for showing that the ribosome proofreads errors made during protein synthesis.
Hanlee P. Ji
Hanlee P. Ji, often published as Hanlee Ji, is a Stanford professor of medicine (oncology) known for developing DNA sequencing technologies for cancer genomics and precision oncology.
Hanna Dêbiec
Hanna Dêbiec is a French nephrology researcher, emeritus at Inserm's unit UMR S 1155 in Paris, known for identifying the antigens behind rare antenatal and childhood forms of membranous nephropathy.
Hanna E. Abboud
Hanna E. Abboud, also known as Hanna Abboud, was a Palestinian-born nephrologist who led the Division of Nephrology at UT Health San Antonio from 1990 until his death in 2015.
Hannah Augusta Valantine
Hannah Augusta Valantine is a London-trained transplant cardiologist and Stanford professor who co-invented a blood test for heart transplant rejection and became the inaugural NIH Chief Officer for Scientific Workforce Diversity.
Hannah Hauxwell
Hannah Hauxwell (1926–2018), Yorkshire Dales farmer of Low Birk Hatt Farm, Baldersdale, became a national celebrity through the 1973 documentary Too Long a Winter; farmed alone without electricity or running water, later honored by Hannah's Meadow nature reserve.
Hannah J. Gould
Hannah J. Gould is an immunologist at King's College London known for her research on IgE and IgD, the antibodies involved in allergy and asthma.
Hannah Monyer
Hannah Monyer is a Romanian-born German neuroscientist who has led the Department of Clinical Neurobiology at Heidelberg University and the German Cancer Research Center since 1999.
Hanneke C. Kluin‐Nelemans
Hanneke C. Kluin-Nelemans is a Dutch hematologist known for research on mantle cell lymphoma and systemic mastocytosis, and head of hematology at Groningen from 2001 to 2015.
Hanneke Schuitemaker
Hanneke Schuitemaker is a Dutch virologist who spent over 20 years on HIV-1 pathogenesis, led Janssen's Ad26 COVID-19 vaccine program, and joined Valneva as Chief Scientific Officer in 2024.
Hannele Ruohola-Baker
Hannele Ruohola-Baker, born in Kullaa, Finland, in 1959, is a biochemist and professor at the University of Washington known for showing that microRNAs regulate stem cell division.
Hannele Yki‐Järvinen
Hannele Yki-Järvinen is a Finnish professor of medicine at the University of Helsinki known for research linking liver fat to insulin resistance and insulin treatment in type 2 diabetes.
Hannes Ludewig
Hannes Ludewig (born 1988) is a German biochemist and structural enzymologist, an HHMI postdoctoral scientist at The Scripps Research Institute since 2024, known for macrocyclase and halogenase research.
Hanny Al‐Samkari
Hanny Al-Samkari is an American hematologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School who led major trials in hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia and pyruvate kinase deficiency.
Hanoi Medical University
Hanoi Medical University (Trường Đại học Y Hà Nội), founded 1902 as the Indochina Medical School, is Vietnam's oldest public medical university in Hanoi, offering a six-year Vietnamese-language Doctor of Medicine degree and large postgraduate training.
Hanoverian horse
Hanoverian horse (Hannoveraner), German warmblood sport horse from Lower Saxony, bred by the Hannoveraner Verband in Verden since the 1735 Celle state stud; 160–172 cm, selected via mare performance tests for dressage, jumping, eventing, and driving.
Hans Asperger
Hans Asperger (1906–1980) was an Austrian pediatrician who headed the therapeutic pedagogy ward of the Vienna University Children's Clinic and described "autistic psychopathy" in 1944, giving Asperger syndrome its name.
Hans Bisgaard
Hans Bisgaard (1955–2022) was a Danish pediatric asthma researcher, professor of pediatrics at the University of Copenhagen from 1998, and founder of the COPSAC childhood asthma birth-cohort study at Gentofte Hospital.
Hans C. Oettgen
Hans C. Oettgen, born in Cologne, Germany in 1958, is a physician-scientist at Boston Children's Hospital whose research on IgE and mast cells shaped food allergy treatment.
Hans Christian Hagedorn
Hans Christian Hagedorn (1888–1971) was a Danish physician who co-founded Danish insulin production in 1923 and invented protamine insulin, the principle behind NPH insulin, still the most used intermediate-acting insulin.