# Medicine

- kind: region

*Settled by: The trial.*

Knowledge put to work against disease. Medicine settles its questions with the controlled trial, and its record includes the only human disease ever eradicated.

## Problem spaces

- [Infectious disease](/wiki/Space:infectious-disease.md) (6 problems)
- [Chronic disease](/wiki/Space:chronic-disease.md) (5 problems)

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