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When I was a medical student interested in physical medicine and
rehabilitation (PM&R), I found several excellent detailed texts for
PM&R and I also encountered a few good, quick reference materials.
What I felt was lacking was a comprehensive but high-yield, focused
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Nutrigenomics (Oxidative Stress and Disease)
Nutrition research commenced more than 200 years ago in the dawn of the chemical
revolution. The “golden age of nutrition” began in the early 1910s and continued
into the 1940s when nutritional sciences focused primarily on diseases
associated with single nutrient deficiencies. This led to the formulation of the... | | Selenium in Food and Health
Selenium is a contradictory nutrient. It has been called the essential poison—too
much of it in the diet can be toxic; too little can result in chronic, and sometimes
fatal, deficiency. Even health authorities have at times been confused. Although
today in the USA, as in most other countries, selenium appears among the trace... | | Leptin (Endocrine Updates)
The discovery of leptin by Friedman and his colleagues in
1994 was a seminal discovery in the study of metabolism, providing a
new tool to study energy expenditure and appetite regulation. Early
studies actively investigated many aspects of metabolism, obesity, and
diabetes but it was soon evident that leptin was much more than... |
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Quality of Life: Assessment, Analysis, and Interpretation
'Winner of first prize in the Basis of Medicine Category of the BMA Medical Book Competition 2001'
The One Essential Comprehensive Volume on Quality of Life Research. Quality of life studies are now an essential part of the evaluation of any treatment. Written by two authors who are well respected within this... | | ACS Surgery: Principles & Practice, 6th Edition
In recent years, the commercialization of the American health care industry has challenged medicine across the breadth of its traditional roles and responsibilities. This trend is growing, and the greater emphasis on the commercialization and secularization of medicine has generated in medical professionals a passionate desire ... | | The Principles of Clinical Cytogenetics
In the summer of 1989, one of us (SLG), along with his mentor, Dorothy Warburton,
attended the Tenth International Workshop on Human Gene Mapping. The meeting
was held at Yale University in celebration of the first such event, which also took
place there.
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