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McGraw Hill Financial, Inc. is an American publicly traded corporation headquartered in Rockefeller Center in New York City. Its primary areas of business are financial, publishing, and business services.
An allergic syndrome characterized by asthma, hay fever, and urticaria or eczema.
Industry:Health care
An altered brain state that can occur with altered brain structure. Many etiologies are associated with encephalopathy (toxins, cancer, metabolic disorders, CNS infections, increased cranial pressure, radiation, alcohol, psychotropic drugs, trauma, inadequate nutrition, decreased brain oxygen, and CNS injury). Consciousness is impaired with patients having a decreased/altered mental state and diffuse slowing of the EEG. Encephalopathy is often associated with seizures, loss of cognitive/memory, and personality changes, and can be associated with myoclonus and other neurologic impairments.
Industry:Health care
An alternate form of a gene or a genetic locus that differs from other forms in its specific sequence of nucleotides; certain alleles may affect the structure and function of the corresponding protein coded for by that gene, in turn affecting the susceptibility to a particular condition.
Industry:Health care
An analytic investigation in which subjects are sampled at a fixed point or period of time, and the associations between the concurrent presence or absence of risk factors and diseases are then investigated.
Industry:Health care
An antipsychotic medication with a mechanism of action thought to be primarily caused by the blockade of dopamine-2 (D2) receptors. D2-blockade is associated with hyperprolactinemia and extrapyramidal side effects.
Industry:Health care
An association between summary characteristics across populations without actual linkage of the characteristics within individual persons.
Industry:Health care
An element in a decision analysis that represents a point at which specified outcomes are determined on the basis of probability.
Industry:Health care
An element of a decision tree that represents a choice between two or more competing alternative management approaches.
Industry:Health care
An endogenous marker released by the body in response to inflammation.
Industry:Health care
