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  2. Treatment Colchicine [ 5 ] Deficiency of the interleukin-1–receptor antagonist ( DIRA ) is an autosomal recessive , genetic autoinflammatory syndrome resulting from mutations in IL1RN , the gene encoding the interleukin 1 receptor antagonist .

  3. Medicalization - Wikipedia

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    Medicalization is the process by which human conditions and problems come to be defined and treated as medical conditions, and thus become the subject of medical study, diagnosis, prevention, or treatment. Medicalization can be driven by new evidence or hypotheses about conditions; by changing social attitudes or economic considerations; or by ...

  4. Autoinflammatory diseases - Wikipedia

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    Autoinflammatory diseases (AIDs) are a group of rare disorders caused by dysfunction of the innate immune system. These responses are characterized by periodic or chronic systemic inflammation , usually without the involvement of adaptive immunity.

  5. Autoimmune/inflammatory syndrome induced by adjuvants

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    A study of 18,000 people showed that there is no merit to the theory of autoimmune/inflammatory syndrome induced by adjuvants. [5] Shoenfeld alleges that the syndrome is caused by adjuvants such as silicone , tetramethylpentadecane , pristane , and aluminum . [ 6 ]

  6. Sociology of health and illness - Wikipedia

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    An Egyptian who lived around 2650 B.C., he was an adviser to King Zoser at a time when Egyptians were making progress in medicine. Among his contributions to medicine was a textbook on the treatment of wounds, broken bones, and even tumors. [13] Stopping the spread of infectious disease was of utmost importance for maintaining a healthy society ...

  7. Medical sociology - Wikipedia

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    Medical sociology is the sociological analysis of health, Illness, differential access to medical resources, the social organization of medicine, Health Care Delivery, the production of medical knowledge, selection of methods, the study of actions and interactions of healthcare professionals, and the social or cultural (rather than clinical or bodily) effects of medical practice. [1]

  8. Cryopyrin-associated periodic syndrome - Wikipedia

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    It encompasses a spectrum of three clinically overlapping autoinflammatory syndromes including familial cold autoinflammatory syndrome (FCAS, formerly termed familial cold-induced urticaria), the Muckle–Wells syndrome (MWS), and neonatal-onset multisystem inflammatory disease (NOMID, also called chronic infantile neurologic cutaneous and ...

  9. Ecosocial theory - Wikipedia

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    Ecosocial theory builds on these theories by incorporating biological explanations, a lifecourse perspective, and a multilevel perspective over space and time, to describe associations between exposures and disease, with an explicit focus on inequalities in health status among subjugated groups.