Lacking in nutritive value.  

Type of artificial heart used, with variable success, in recent human implantations.  

Sensation of being strange or unfamiliar with a person or surroundings that actually are familiar. It can occur in normal...

Covering, as of plaster of Paris, leather, or other material, placed over the torso to provide support or help correct...

A business arrangement between two or more parties to share profits, losses, and control. In health care, the term usually...

A hospital committee with members from the governing body, the medical staff, and the hospital management (administration). Its purpose is...

A common pronunciation of the acronym JCAHO.  

Remaining in employment for fear of losing one's health insurance coverage. This is caused by waiting periods for pre-existing conditions,...

An informal "think tank" founded by Paul Elwood, MD, President of Interstudy, in the early 1970s. Elwood convenes a small...

The type of court that handles most cases involving minors. Juveniles involved in criminal cases generally appear in juvenile court...