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Hypertension Primer: The Essentials of High Blood Pressure

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2003

We are delighted to bring you the Hypertension Primer, Third Edition, a decade after the First Edition was launched. Given the breadth and depth of information available in the continuously expanding field of hypertension, our Primer remains a...

Human Retroviral Infections: Immunological and Therapeutic Control

Springer, 2000

The mechanisms of disease production by infectious agents are presently the focus of an unprecedented flowering of studies. The field has undoubtedly received impetus from the considerable advances recently made in the understanding of the structure, biochemistry, and biology of viruses, bacteria, fungi, and other parasites....

Outcome Prediction in Cancer

Elsevier Limited, 2007

This book is organized into 4 sections, each looking at the question of outcome prediction in cancer from a different angle. The first section describes the clinical problem and some of the predicaments that clinicians face in dealing with cancer. Amongst issues discussed in this section are the TNM staging, accepted methods for survival...

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Parasites

Academic Press, 1995

The study of parasitic organisms at the molecular level has yielded fascinating new insights of great medical, social, and economical importance, and has pointed the way for the treatment and prevention of the diseases they cause. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Parasites presents an up-to-date account of this modern scientific...

Rabies

Academic Press, 2002

Rabies offers a complete account of one of the oldest known diseases threatening public health today. Unlike most research-oriented descriptions of rabies, this book provides a narrative about the disease and its etiologic agent, encompassing the historical background to recent developments. The emphasis on the basic biology and...

The Vascular Endothelium I (Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology) (v. 1)

Springer, 2006

It was with great pleasure that I accepted the invitation of Springer to edit this book.My association with the vascular endothelium covers a large part of my scientific career and, as with any good long-standing relationship, it has had moments of great excitement and periods of laborious construction. It has sometimes been...

Selenium in Food and Health

Springer, 2006

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...

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Cataract and Refractive Surgery (Essentials in Ophthalmology)

Springer, 2004

The topic of the second volume of the series in "Essentials in Ophthalmology" is cataract and refractive surgery, a realm of ophthalmic care that has undergone revolutionary changes in the past 10 years. Worldwide, the removal of the opaque crystalline lens is the most frequently performed surgical intervention in the human body,...

Pediatric Infectious Diseases Revisited (Birkh?user Advances in Infectious Diseases)

Birkhauser, 2007

In both industrialized and developing countries, childhood immunization has become one of the most important and cost-effective public health interventions. National immunization programs have prevented millions of deaths since WHO initiated the ‘Expanded Program on Immunization’ in 1974. Smallpox was eradicated in 1979,...

Tea: Bioactivity and Therapeutic Potential (Medicinal and Aromatic Plants - Industrial Profiles)

CRC Press, 2002

The tea plant, Camellia sinensis, is of particular importance to humans, and the consumption of tea has a long history of over 2000 years. Currently, tea is one of the most popular beverages worldwide. In recent years the subject of tea has attracted a great deal of attention. As well as the use of tea in traditional medicine, modern...

Coronary Microvascular Dysfunction

Springer, 2013

In the past two decades a number of studies have shown that abnormalities in the function and structure of coronary microcirculation can be detected in several cardiovascular diseases. On the basis of the clinical setting in which it occurs, coronary microvascular dysfunction (CMD) can be classified into four types: CMD in the absence of...

Ascites and Renal Dysfunction in Liver Disease: Pathogenesis, Diagnosis, and Treatment

John Wiley & Sons, 2005

It has been six years since we published the fi rst edition of Ascites and Renal Dysfunction in Liver Disease. Since then, signifi cant advances have been made in the pathogenesis of circulatory and renal dysfunction that occur in the setting of chronic liver diseases, particularly cirrhosis.

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