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Medicine is a branch of health science concerned with maintaining human health and restoring it by treating disease and injury; it is both an area of knowledge, a science of body systems and diseases and their treatment, and the applied practice of that knowledge.

NOTE: Most of the articles pertaining to the actual work and practice of medicine are located in Category:Clinical medicine and its subcategories, such as Category:Medical diagnosis and Category:Medical treatments, along with Category:Diseases and disorders. Articles pertaining to non-conventional approaches are located in Category:Alternative medicine.

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