Behavioral Medicine Behavior is a major factor in health and quality of life. Exercise, smoking, diet, ways of handling stress, are all behaviors, and all have huge impacts on health. Behavioral medicine uses training, biofeedback, and self-management to treat diseases and to develop healthy behaviors. An emphasis of behavioral medicine is putting the individual in control, by showing how to get control of your own behavior. You can actually improve your immune system by improving how you deal with and feel about your life.
Cardiology is considered a subspecialty of internal medicine.
Critical Care Critical care evolved from an historical recognition that the needs of patients with acute, life-threatening illness or injury could be better treated if they were grouped into specific areas of the hospital. Thus evolved the ICU, Intensive Care Units. Care in these ICU's is provided by multidisciplinary teams of health care professionals who are organized by a qualified critical care physician. This category features web sites about general dermatology issues. Dermatology is a medical specialty concerned with the skin, its structure, functions, diseases, and treatment.