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Cytokines in Human Health: Immunotoxicology, Pathology, and Therapeutic Applications (Methods in Pharmacology and Toxicology)

Humana Press, 2007

Over the past three decades the field of immunotoxicology, the study of the effects of exposure to drugs, chemicals, or physical/environmental agents on the structure and function of the immune system has benefited from an increasingly detailed understanding of the cellular and molecular basis of innate and acquired immunity....

Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation

Springer, 2007

Over the past decades the medical care of the patient with cardiovascular disease (CVD) has shown an impressive development, with marked positive consequences for mortality, morbidity, and the quality of life of coronary patients. This improvement has profoundly changed the arena in which cardiac rehabilitation (CR) has been acting...

Visual Prosthesis and Ophthalmic Devices: New Hope in Sight (Ophthalmology Research)

Humana Press, 2007

The history of medicine has been substantially defined by a small number of monumental discoveries. Most of these breakthroughs have emerged from the biological sciences. One of the first great breakthroughs was the recognition by Koch in 1884 that pathogens could be transmitted from one living organism to another to cause disease....

Travel Medicine: Tales Behind the Science (Advances in Tourism Research)

Routledge, 2007

Travel to exotic places is fascinating, and equally so are infections and other dangers of exotic travel. Moreover, one need not be traveling to suffer these maladies; sometimes they travel to you. The enormous global mobility demands a public health response. The result is the concept of ‘travel medicine’ as a separate...

Comprehensive Textbook of Genitourinary Oncology

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2005

Thoroughly revised for its Third Edition, this volume is the most comprehensive, multidisciplinary text on genitourinary cancers. This edition has two new editors—Frans M.J. Debruyne and W. Marston Linehan—and more than 50% new contributors. Seventeen new chapters cover familial prostate cancer, biology of bone...

Streptomyces in Nature and Medicine: The Antibiotic Makers

Oxford University Press, 2007

This is an insiders account of 50 years of genetic studies of the soil-inhabiting microbes that produce most of the antibiotics used to treat infections, as well as anti-cancer, anti-parasitic and immunosuppressant drugs. The book begins by describing how these microbes the actinomycetes were discovered in the latter part of the nineteenth...

Classifications and Scores of the Shoulder

Springer, 2006

This is the first single reference of classifications and scores of the shoulder. It gives a clearly structured, well-defined compendium of classifications and scores of the shoulder for use in everyday clinical life to improve and simplify the communication between physicians and physiotherapists. It is the first single reference of...

Radiation Dose from Adult and Pediatric Multidetector Computed Tomography (Medical Radiology / Diagnostic Imaging)

Springer, 2007

The use of computed tomography (CT) has seen enormous growth over the past decade. In the US, approximately 63 million examinations were performed in 2005 (Niagara Health Quality Coalition 2004) compared to 35 million in 2000. The increased number of clinical applications (e.g., in emergency and trauma, paediatric, cardiac, and...

Molecular Pathology (Modules in Life Sciences)

Taylor & Francis, 1997

Written by an acknowledged expert in the field, this book is an invaluable introductory guide for students studying chemistry, biochemistry and medicine. Provides a simple description of how aspects of molecular patholgy affect diseases.

It is my pleasure to acknowledge the enthusiasm and expertise of the chapter authors who...

All the Mathematics You Missed: But Need to Know for Graduate School

Cambridge University Press, 2001

Math is Exciting. We are living in the greatest age of mathematics ever seen. In the 1930s, there were some people who feared that the rising abstractions of the early twentieth century would either lead to mathematicians working on sterile, silly intellectual exercises or to mathematics splitting into sharply distinct...

Emerging Technologies in Surgery

Springer, 2007

Tremendous acceleration and changes in our daily medical practice are occurring. Both as doctors and ordinary citizens, we are aware of living in a world more and more inuenced by information technology. In surgery, this revolution has brought about a dramatic acceleration of the introduction of new devices,...

General ultrasound in the critically ill

Springer, 2004

Written by an intensivist familiar with ultrasound, this book describes a new clinical tool: ultrasound for the intensive care and emergency physician. It specifically details findings of immediate clinical relevance throughout its pages. This volume is not only an exhaustive atlas dealing with the most variable aspects of the critically ill...

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