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INFO: Full form for CSU is Central Statistical Unit in Medical category
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INFO: Full form for CSU is Clinical Specialty Unit in Medical category
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INFO: Full form for DISA is Depression in Swedish Adolescents in Medical category
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INFO: Full form for DIL is Diagnostic Immunology Laboratory in Medical category
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Dilation (or dilatation) may refer to:

Dilation (or dilatation) may refer to:

INFO: Full form for DIL is Dangerously Ill List in Medical category
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INFO: Full form for DIL is Death In Line in Medical category
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INFO: Full form for DIL is Dimensional Inspection Laboratories in Medical category
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Commissioning support units were established in April 2013 from the remains of the primary care trusts and strategic health authorities as part of the reorganisation of the National Health Service in England following the Health and Social Care Act 2012.

Twenty five regional commissioning support units submitted outline business plans in 2012 to NHS England which hosted them. The commissioning support units were largely staffed by former employees of primary care trusts. They were intended to provide support to clinical commissioning groups by providing business intelligence, health and clinical procurement services and other back-office administrative functions, including contract management. The plan was to introduce competition into this market by making them independent businesses from 2016. By May 2014 there had been a number of amalgamations as some clinical commissioning groups brought their commissioning support services in-house.

Greater East Midlands Commissioning Support Unit was criticised by Liz Kendall MP who said it should no longer run NHS continuing healthcare services for patients with complex needs and that it only had one part-time person monitoring the quality of all its home care providers. It announced plans for a merger with NHS Arden CSU in November 2014. Between them they provide specialist support to 37 clinical commissioning groups.

North of England Commissioning Support Unit has expanded some of their services to other areas of the country such as their business intelligence tool RAIDR, which is now deployed in over 20% of GP Practices In England.

The South, South West and Central Southern Commissioning Support Units announced in January 2015 that they planned to merge into a new organisation to be called South, Central and West Commissioning Support which will span Sussex, Cornwall, Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire. The CSUs in the North West and in Yorkshire were not admitted to the NHS procurement framework in February 2015 and NHS England announced that they had no future. Services in Greater Manchester were transferred to Greater Manchester Shared Services.

On 1 April 2017, NHS South East CSU formed a partnership with NHS North and East London CSU (NEL CSU).

Eight organisations were accredited to provide CCGs with support:

in 2013/4 NHS England paid £125m for services from the 19 CSUs operational in that year. £602m of their income came from clinical commissioning groups, and £80m from “other sources” such as provider trusts and local councils.

A tendering exercise for the services supplied by the Yorkshire and Humber commissioning support unit was delayed in September 2015 because of lack of interest by potential suppliers in the contract, valued at £20 million pa. It appeared that the CCGs were planning to take a lot of the work in house, as the existing contract amounted to £85 million pa.

The North of England Commissioning Support Unit is to be converted into a community interest company owned by the 11 clinical commissioning groups covering the North East and Cumbria.

INFO: Full form for CSU is Cardiac Surveillance Unit in Medical category
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INFO: Full form for CSU is Clinical Service Unit in Medical category
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INFO: Full form for CSU is Crisis Stabilization Unit in Medical category
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INFO: Full form for CSU is Catheter Specimen of Urine in Medical category
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INFO: Full form for CSU is Casualty Staging Unit in Medical category
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The Biosafety Clearing-House is an international mechanism that exchanges information about the movement of genetically modified organisms, established under the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety. It assists Parties (i.e. governments that have ratified the Protocol) to implement the protocol’s provisions and to facilitate sharing of information on, and experience with, living modified organisms (also known as genetically modified organisms, GMOs). It further assists Parties and other stakeholders to make informed decisions regarding the importation or release of GMOs.

The Biosafety Clearing-House Central Portal is accessible through the Web. The BCH is a distributed system, and information in it is owned and updated by the users themselves through an authenticated system to ensure timeliness and accuracy.

Boston Children's Hospital formerly known as Children's Hospital Boston until 2012 is a nationally ranked, freestanding acute care children's hospital located in Boston, Massachusetts, adjacent both to its teaching affiliate, Harvard Medical School, and to Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Dana-Farber and Children's jointly operate the Dana-Farber/Boston Children's Cancer and Blood Disorders Center to deliver comprehensive care for all types of childhood cancers. The hospital is home to the largest hospital based pediatric research program in the world. The hospital features 404 pediatric beds and provides comprehensive pediatric specialties and subspecialties to infants, children, teens, and young adults aged 0–21 throughout Massachusetts, the United States, and the world. The hospital also sometimes treats adults that require pediatric care. The hospital uses the Brigham and Women's Hospital's rooftop helipad and is an ACS verified level I pediatric trauma center, 1 of 3 in Boston. The hospital features a regional pediatric intensive-care unit and an American Academy of Pediatrics verified level IV neonatal intensive care unit. Boston Children's Hospital has been ranked as best pediatric medical center by U.S. News & World Report more times than any other hospital.

The hospital is ranked as the best children's hospital in the United States.

The Boston City Hospital (1864–1996), in Boston, Massachusetts, was a public hospital, located in the South End. It was "intended for the use and comfort of poor patients, to whom medical care will be provided at the expense of the city, and ... to provide accommodations and medical treatment to others, who do not wish to be regarded as dependent on public charity." In 1996, it merged with the Boston University Medical Center Hospital to form the Boston Medical Center.

This building is currently under study for Boston Landmark status by the Boston Landmarks Commission.

INFO: Full form for BCH is Behavioral and Community Health in Medical category
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Boulder Community Hospital (BCH) was a non-profit hospital located in Boulder, Colorado and operated from 1926 to 2019.

Boulder Community Hospital (BCH) was a non-profit hospital located in Boulder, Colorado and operated from 1926 to 2019.

BC Cancer is part of the Provincial Health Services Authority in British Columbia, Canada.

BC Cancer is part of the Provincial Health Services Authority in British Columbia, Canada.

INFO: Full form for BCCA is Binational Colorectal Cancer Audit in Medical category
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INFO: Full form for BAPT is British Association for Physical Training in Medical category
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Basophils are a type of white blood cell. Basophils are the least common type of granulocyte, representing about 0.5% to 1% of circulating white blood cells. However, they are the largest type of granulocyte. They are responsible for inflammatory reactions during immune response, as well as in the formation of acute and chronic allergic diseases, including anaphylaxis, asthma, atopic dermatitis and hay fever. They also produce compounds that coordinate immune responses, including histamine and serotonin that induce inflammation, heparin that prevents blood clotting, although there are less than that found in mast cell granules. Mast cells were once thought to be basophils that migrated from blood into their resident tissues (connective tissue), but they are now known to be different types of cells.

Basophils were discovered in 1879 by German physician Paul Ehrlich, who one year earlier had found a cell type present in tissues that he termed mastzellen (now mast cells). Ehrlich received the 1908 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discoveries.

The name comes from the fact that these leukocytes are basophilic, i.e., they are susceptible to staining by basic dyes, as shown in the picture.