Category: D

The service of providing readily accessible information about drugs, such as their properties, effects, dosage, contraindications, and drug interactions.  

A portion of the process of providing prescription drugs to patients. It involves the preparation (if not a pre-prepared product), packaging, labelling, recording, and delivery of the drug (one or more doses) to the patient, the patient’s representative, or an agent of the hospital, such as a nurse.  

Dependence on the use of drugs or chemicals which leads to interference with health and to social and economic problems. Withdrawal of the drug from a drug-dependent person leads to psychological and physical symptoms. Alcoholism is a kind of drug dependency.  

A person or organization that provides a gift of money or other item of value, such as equipment or property, to an institution.  

The source, human or animal, of biological material, blood, organs, or tissues for transplantation to or implantation in a patient.  

In the context of Medicaid financing, donations are money that is “voluntarily” donated to the state government by hospitals and other health providers who receive payments from Medicaid. The money is used by the state for matching with the federal government Medicaid funds. On the average, nearly 60% of a state’s Medicaid costs are picked…

An addressing method used by the Internet that allows words a human can recognize, like “tringa.com”, to represent a unique network address that only a machine can love, like “198.87.128.43”. These numerical addresses, fitting into a pattern ranging from 0.0.0.0 to 255.255.255.255, are referred to as “Internet Protocol (IP)” addresses. Like any computer network system,…

A foundation based in Washington, DC, established by Senator Robert Dole, to make grants to community-based nonprofit organizations for innovative programs for job-skill training and job placement for people with disabilities.    

The graduate degree (doctorate) awarded to an individual upon graduation from a school of osteopathic medicine.  

The graduate degree (doctorate) awarded to an individual upon graduation from a school of allopathic medicine (or, formerly, homeopathic medicine).