Dr. Bob Arnot, the bestselling author of The Aztec Diet, shows you how to use the power of America’s favorite drink—coffee—to achieve improved health, longevity,...

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• Reorganized into more accessible chapters better suited to semester-long courses, with new sections covering development,...

About half of the global burden of disease is due to chronic noncommunicable diseases such as obesity, metabolic disorders, cardiovascular diseases and cancer, which are all related to modifiable risk factors such as unbalanced diet and malnutrition as well as determinants such as behavior and lifestyle. Dietary patterns during the last few...

The field of bacterial diagnostics has seen unprecedented advances in recent years. The increased need for accurate detection and identification of bacteria in human, animal, food, and environmental samples has fueled the development of new techniques. The field has seen extensive research aided by the information from bacterial genome...

The purpose of this title is to address some of the complex and controversial issues posed by pharmaceutical marketing. Specifically, articles in this work will address the impact of direct-to-consumer advertising of drugs, the marketing of drugs over the Internet, pharmaceutical companies' marketing policies, and the marketing of herbal...

For the generation that reached sexual maturity in the 1960s, the “pill” became synonymous with sexual freedom and started a sexual revolution. For women it meant freedom from the fear of pregnancy, and for men enhanced sexual opportunity. The new era of the pill has nothing to do with fertility, but everything to do with sex. The...

This issue is intended aid the physician’s understanding of common allergic and immunologic diseases seen in a primary care practice and also to present the latest information about these problems. In addition to asthma, the issue includes discussions of allergic rhinitis―one of the most common chronic diseases―and urticaria,...