- Industry: Insurance
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Aetna, Inc. is an American diversified health insurance company, providing a range of traditional and consumer directed health care insurance products and related services, including medical, pharmaceutical, dental, behavioral health, group life, long-term care, and disability plans, and medical ...
This is a place that offers medical care. Patients can stay overnight for care. Or they can be treated and leave the same day. All hospitals must meet set standards of care. They can offer general or acute care. They can also offer service in one area, like rehabilitation.
Industry:Health care
This is care given to help improve part of the body. It helps ease pain and promote healing. It can also help prevent disability. It is used to limit the effects of disease. It is also used after illness, injury or surgery.
Industry:Health care
This is a substance that has no medicine it. It is also called a “sugar pill.” It can be given to help people expect to feel better. It is usually used during tests to find out how potential new drugs and treatments will work.
Industry:Health care
Buying this means your loved ones can get money when you die. You may be able to choose the benefit amount. A premium must be paid to keep this policy active every year. You also choose a beneficiary. This is person you would like the money to go to after your death. Employers may offer this as a benefit to their workers. You can also buy it on your own. There are many kinds of life insurance: term life, whole life, group universal life and others.
Industry:Health care
This is a word to describe a tumor. It means the tumor is cancerous. It is cancer. It can grow and spread in the body. (See also metastatic or metastasize.)
Industry:Health care
This is a treatment used to fight cancer. High-energy rays damage cancer cells so they stop growing.
Industry:Health care
This is a type of filling made up of several different metals. It is silver in color and is mainly used on back teeth.
Industry:Health care
This is a drug a person takes. It can be a prescription drug or an over-the-counter drug.
Industry:Health care
This is a thin, flexible layer of tissue. It covers or connects a part or area of the body.
Industry:Health care
