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Integrative Medicine, 2e (Rakel, Integrative Medicine)

Saunders, 2007

Drawing on solid scientific evidence as well as extensive first-hand experience, this manual provides the practical information you need to safely and effectively integrate complementary and alternative treatment modalities into your practice. It explains how alternative therapies can help you fight diseases that do not respond readily to...

Essentials of Clinical Geriatrics

McGraw-Hill, 2003

When this book was originally conceived, geriatrics was still in its developmental phase. It was unclear then whether geriatrics would emerge as a subspecialty on its own or as a basis for educating...

The Physics of Radiation Therapy

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2003

This leading reference source devoted to radiation therapy physics is now in its Third Edition. Pertinent to the entire radiation oncology team, it is clinically oriented and presents practical aspects as well as underlying theory to clarify basic concepts. The format begins with underlying physics, then progresses to treatment planning, and...

Toxicology and Epigenetics

John Wiley & Sons, 2012

Epigenetics is the study of both heritable and non-heritable changes in the regulation of gene activity and expression that occur without an alteration in the DNA sequence. This dynamic and rapidly developing discipline is making its impact across the biomedical sciences, in particular in toxicology where epigenetic differences can...

Cardiac Drug Therapy (Contemporary Cardiology)

Humana Press, 2007

This book addresses the pharmacology and therapeutic application of drugs used to treat heart diseases and hypertension. Additions and updates to the sixth edition include six new chapters on current controversies in cardiac drug therapy such as the beta blocker issue many cardiologists are presently grappling with. The book provides...

Atlas of Intestinal Stomas

Springer, 2012

Designed to provide a highly visual reference for surgeons and other members of the patient management team, Atlas of Intestinal Stomas is based on the 1967 gold standard text, Turnbull and Weakly’s Atlas of Intestinal Stomas. Additions include chapters on anatomy and physiology, biliary stomas,...

Living Well with Parkinson's

John Wiley & Sons, 2005

Glenna Atwood shared her experiences and insights about how
she and her family coped with Parkinson’s disease in the first edition
of Living Well with Parkinson’s.

Her words were educational and inspirational to many people
affected by this intrusion in their life’s plan. Glenna, with Blaine—...

Invention of Hysteria: Charcot and the Photographic Iconography of the Salpetriere

MIT Press, 2003

In this classic of French cultural studies, Georges Didi-Huberman traces the intimate and reciprocal relationship between the disciplines of psychiatry and photography in the late nineteenth century. Focusing on the immense photographic output of the Salpetriere hospital, the notorious Parisian asylum for insane and incurable women, Didi-Huberman...

Radiation Oncology: A Physicist's-Eye View (Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering)

Springer, 2007

The papers collected in this hugely useful volume cover the principle physical and biological aspects of radiation therapy and in addition, address practical clinical considerations in the planning and delivering of that therapy. The importance of the assessment of uncertainties is emphasized. Topics include an overview of the physics of the...

Handbook of Nanophysics: Nanomedicine and Nanorobotics

CRC Press, 2010

The tools of nanodiagnostics, nanotherapy, and nanorobotics are expected to revolutionize the future of medicine, leading to presymptomatic diagnosis of disease, highly effective targeted treatment therapy, and minimum side effects. Handbook of Nanophysics: Nanomedicine and Nanorobotics presents an up-to-date overview of...

Antiangiogenic Agents in Cancer Therapy (Cancer Drug Discovery and Development)

Humana Press, 2007

This volume represents a compendium of scientific findings and approaches to the study of angiogenesis in cancer. The second edition of Antiangiogenic Agents in Cancer Therapy is intended to give a current perspective on the state-of-the-art of angiogenensis and therapy directed at this process.

Antiangiogenesis is a dynamic and...

Ocular Angiogenesis: Diseases, Mechanisms, and Therapeutics (Ophthalmology Research)

Humana Press, 2006

Angiogenesis is of fundamental importance in development, health, and disease. The study of angiogenesis in the eye, in particular, has increased exponentially in the last decade because retinal and choroidal neovascularization play an important role in the major blinding diseases of the industrialized world and represent an...

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