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Health and medicine
Health and medicine are the science and practice of diagnosing, preventing and treating disease. It includes the fields of medical practice, immunology, oncology, ophthalmology, nutrition, public health and psychiatry.
This section covers:
- Human blood types
- Human diseases and conditions
- Medicine names
- Clinical trials and studies
- Health professionals.
International standards and resources
The United States National Library of Medicine hosts several medical terminology databases that provide an authoritative source for biomedical terminologies, including naming of diseases.
Note: Ignore capitalisation of terms used in these vocabularies, as this does not apply in normal writing.
The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry Compendium of terminology and nomenclature of properties in clinical laboratory sciences (‘Silver Book’) provides standardised terminology for clinical sciences, but is not available online.
Australian conventions and resources
Australian conventions generally follow international standards.
Other relevant sections
How to:
- use clear and appropriate language
- write about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
- write about evidence
- write about risk
- write about data and statistics
- cite other work.
How to present and format:
- ethnic groups
- names of diseases
- names of organisms
- numbers and units
- state and territory government departments
- titles of documents and other resources
- acronyms and initialisms
- references.
How to capitalise:
- brand names and trademarks
- conventions, treaties, protocols, codes and projects
- ethnic groups
- organisations and institutions
- proper nouns.
How to format, design and include: