We do not have the resources to maintain these! Whilst most human diseases are represented in one or more mammals, there are thousands of disorders affecting other mammals which do not afflict humans. Diseases of non-human animals that may be transmitted to or from man (Zoonoses) are of course included. Arguably each species warrants its own Diseases Database 'subset'.

The web application of the Diseases Database is intended as an 'aide memoir' and World Wide Web springboard for medically qualified health professionals and medical students. The Database itself provides A classification of medical concepts along clinical axes (e.g. cause-effect, risk factors, interactions etc) rather than hierarchies of anatomical, physiological or pathological systems.

Scientific publications use generic names in preference to proprietary names. Most medical education resources do likewise (other than those provided by the pharmaceutical industry). Potential confusion with brand names is exacerbated by the fact that the same proprietary name may be used for entirely different drugs in different countries. There are too many proprietary names for us to maintain: e.g.

Most animal diseases do not pose much of a risk to humans or other animals. Like us, many animals will suffer from a wide range of illnesses. Diseases such as Anthrax, Foot and Mouth, Newcastle Disease and Avian Flu (the latter two being bird diseases) are rare. However, they are taken very seriously. Diseases that can be transmitted between animals or poultry to man are known as being zoonotic. These include Avian Flu (only certain strains), Rabies and Anthrax.

Synonyms: any single item on the Diseases Database can have many 'names'. Thus you will find chronic obstructive pulmonary disease if you search for it as COAD, COPD or chronic obstructive airways disease. Equivalents: e.g. hyperbilirubinaemia and jaundice. One is a physical sign , the other a biochemical abnormality. The threshold for clinically observable jaundice is higher than the upper limit of normal for serum bilirubin.

The list of plant names is available here: http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/select_lists/plant_taxon_list.txt It includes over 6,000 scientific names along with the number of photos we have for that species. This text file is in delimited format so that it can be parsed by a program or loaded into a speadsheet or database. It is updated nightly.

We do not have staff at CalPhotos that can identify plants and animals, but we do keep a list of resources that might be helpful. Please see Identifying Plants and Animals for resources you can use to identify plants, insects, and other creatures.

Blood does its job best when it is inside its owner. Some people have been known to use a drop or two of their own blood in a ritual to demonstrate sincerity when the need was very great, but another's blood is not ours to give. None of our deities require blood sacrifices. We would earnestly suggest that anyone wishing to make a ritual gift of blood do so by visiting the local blood bank. In this way you are helping others at the same time.

To some extent the 'Suggested Links' and/or UMLS Textual Definitions attached to most items provide references. It would take several lifetimes to find the original sources for each of the 30,000 plus assertions in this database. (Evidence based medicine enthusiasts are encouraged to volunteer for this project). Most of the raw information is entirely non-esoteric and comes from the core medical knowledge base.

Like a textbook this database can never be totally accurate or comprehensive. Unlike a textbook it can be updated in seconds. Please tell us what is missing or in error and it will improve. Please also read the rest of this page.

Errors of commission are removed rapidly from the live site as are minor technical bugs. We try to check e-mail and feedback once every weekday. We aspire to next working day removal of simple errors but this cannot be guaranteed. Geographic, bandwidth and personnel restrictions make it impractical to add new content to the live site more than once a month. Each item on the database is represented by a unique number. As new items are added they get the next available number (n+1).

This information is available at the California Department of Food and Agriculture website. Their URL is: http://www.cdfa.ca.gov. The California Highway Patrol has received many inquiries from people who have seen this message on the Internet. The simple answer is, it is not true. Of course, as a law enforcement agency we would caution people not to do anything in their vehicles which could anger or upset other drivers. But to our knowledge, nothing of this sort has taken place.

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A major function of the category information in the Diseases Database is to structure lists: "there are acquired causes and congenital causes..." any item classed as (say) 'bacterial' is automatically classed as an 'infection'; an item classed as having (say) 'sex linked inheritance' is automatically classed as 'Mendelian' and thence to 'inherited' One may wish an item to belong to several categories at the same time.

In parlance these expressions are often used interchangeably, but they are applied with more precision in the Diseases Database.

The absence of a clinical finding or a negative investigation result is often crucial to the diagnostic process. This information could be represented in the database but there are good reasons not to do this. Firstly there is the issue of deciding which negatives to include: the significance of a negative finding is entirely dependent on the clinical context and differential diagnoses being considered.

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It is an offence to release into the wild a bird or animal that is of a kind not normally resident in Great Britain, unless you obtain a licence to do so. This ban extends to many foreign animals that have become established here, such as the grey squirrel, and also to some native species, such as the barn owl. It is also an offence to sell or release to the wild a short list of highly invasive plants.

If you know the common name of the plant, animal or bird, simply use the quick search button from the MountainNature.com home page. This will quickly bring you to a drop-down list allowing you to select the desired name. A quick click will bring you the the species page. Each section has numerous other key methods, so for more detailed keying head to the relevant sections home page.

years of field experiments in developed and developing countries were conducted by the FAO/WHO Joint Experts Committee on Food Additives (JECFA).

NCDs are diseases which are long-lasting (years, as opposed to weeks or months) and typically not due to infection. They are often preventable and controllable, but not curable. In many cases, the exact cause of the disease is unknown, but risk factors such as smoking, lack of exercise, improper diet and high blood cholesterol can contribute to their development and manifestation of symptoms and signs of the disease.

No, some nematodes in the soil are not plant-parasites. Some merely feed on fungi or bacteria, or on rotting dead plant tissue, so they act as recyclers. Some nematodes also are internal parasites of the soil-inhabiting juvenile stages of various insects, including some insects like cutworms or weevil larvae. So like most other creatures, there are desirable nematodes as well as undesirable. Some nematodes even prey on other nematodes, helping to keep the overall population in balance.

This facility could be provided naïvely albeit selecting multiple items prior to the search using a web browser would be tedious. However the underlying question is usually "can the database return lists of differential diagnoses based on combinations of findings?" The answer is no. This database is not an artificially intelligent diagnostic tool! The database neither knows the patient you have in mind nor the probabilities of causal relationships.

This information could be accommodated within the database. However all clinical workers will have seen MI's presenting with pleuritic chest pain, appendicitis with right upper quadrant 'colicky' abdominal pain etc. The editorial decision is that documenting more qualitative or subjective items may represent reductio ad absurdum and potentially mislead.

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Were there an index, you might not read this whole faq but instead click on only the questions you wanted answered. There isn't an index for this FAQ because I expect you to read this entire FAQ before E-mailing me.

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