Psychosomatic Medicine is the study of the interactions between psychological processes and physiological states.

Sports Medicine is the branch of medicine concerned with injuries sustained in athletics, including their prevention, diagnosis, and treatment.

Nuclear Medicine is the branch of medicine concerned with the use of radionuclides in the diagnosis and treatment of disease.

Neurology is a branch of medicine dealing with disorders of the nervous system. Physicians specializing in the field of neurology are called...

Ethnomedicine is the comparative study of how different cultures view disease and how they treat or prevent it. It is also the medical beliefs and...

Orthomolekulare Medizin ist die Erhaltung der Gesundheit und die Behandlung von Krankheiten durch Veränderung der Konzentration von...

Early Hindu medicine belongs to the Brahman period (800 BC-AD 1000). The people of Indus Valley Civilization, even from the early Harappan periods...

As populations during medieval times increased, hygienic conditions worsened, leading to a vast array of health problems. Medical knowledge was...

Mesopotamian medicine has been relatively inaccessible to historians of medicine as there are so few editions of the medical texts. As a result...

Nanotechnology is the development and application of microscopic particles measured in nanometers. Nanoparticles are very small - they're...

Traditional Chinese Medicine  

Oriental Medicine is a collection of different therapies including acupuncture, acupressure, herbs, bodywork, exercise and diet.

Integrative Medicine is a new term that emphasizes the combination of both conventional and alternative approaches to address the biological,...

Western or Allopathic Medicine is the standard Western conventional or mainstream healthcare system that treats disease using surgery and...

Ancient Greek Medicine In Ancient Greek culture there was a high priority placed upon healthy lifestyles, and this helped to make medicine very...

Ayurveda is India's traditional health system. Dating back more than 5000 years, it is based on the theory of constitutional body types, or doshas....

History of Egyptian Medicine There has been debate over which civilization produced the earliest practice of medicine. With the advance of...

Herbal Medicine, also known as Herbalism and Phytotherapy, is folk and traditional medicinal practice based on the use of plants and plant...

Naturopathic medicine (or naturopathy) is a school of medical philosophy and practice that seeks to improve health and treat disease chiefly by...