The art and science of promoting, maintaining and restoring individual health, and of diagnosing and treating disease.
A preparation taken to treat a disease or condition, especially one in liquid form.
The study of diseases and how to cure or prevent them.
The study and treatment of diseases which does not involve surgery.
Drag or other substance used to treat an illness.
The science or practice of the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease.
The skills and science used by trained practitioners to prevent, diagnose, treat and research disease and its related factors.
Medicines are drugs made stable, palatable and acceptable for administration. In Britain, the Medicines Act 1968 controls the making, advertising and selling of substances used for ‘medicinal purposes’, which means diagnosing, preventing or treating disease, or altering a function of the body. Permission to market a medicine has to be obtained from the government through the medicines control agency, or from the European Commission through the European Medicines Evaluation Agency. It takes the form of a Marketing Authorization (formerly called a Product License), and the uses to which the medicine can be put are laid out in the Summary of Product Characteristics (which used to be called the Product Data Sheet).
A legal drug that helps the body fight injury, illness, or disease.
The exploration of human diseases, their origins, prevalence, treatment, and prevention is termed medicine. Additionally, “medicine” can refer to a prescribed substance used to manage an illness. In certain contexts, it denotes treatments excluding surgery.
A material used to treat illnesses or alleviate pain.
The practice or study of maintaining or improving health.