A new app has been created to help patients who speak Innu-aimun communicate with their English-speaking health care providers. The Innu Medical Glossary, designed by Memorial University researchers ...

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Confabulation: A memory disorder where the patient fabricates unusual thoughts about oneself or the society without any intention to cheat. Delirium: Confused thought process and loss of awareness ...

When a person first signs up for Medicare, they may come across many terms and abbreviations. Learning the definitions of these terms can help make it easier to understand and navigate Medicare.

As you learn more about the health care options available to you at Brandeis, you may come across some unfamiliar terms. Refer to the glossary below to help you make sense of these terms. You can also ...

Screening – any test that is carried out routinely among healthy individuals to identify tumors before they become symptomatic. A good example of a screening test is a mammogram to detect breast ...

A new app has been created to help patients who speak Innu-aimun communicate with their English-speaking health care providers. Madeline Benuen says a language glossary for Innu-to-English, and vice ...