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Obstetrics in Family Medicine: A Practical Guide (Current Clinical Practice)

Humana Press, 2006

A few years ago, a medical student who was working with me was struck by a car while crossing the street during her lunch hour. Because she could not walk after the accident, she was taken to the emergency department for evaluation, which included an x-ray of her leg. I met her there just as the radiologist was informing her...

Male Sexual Function: A Guide to Clinical Management (Current Clinical Urology)

Humana Press, 2006

Male Sexual Function: A Guide to Clinical Management, Second Edition, completely updates and reviews newer developments, including linking erectile dysfunction (ED) with lower urinary tract systems, advances in erectile physiology, and the appreciation of ED as a form of endothelial dysfunction and a harbinger of other potentially lethal...

The Principles of Clinical Cytogenetics

Humana Press, 2004

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.

This meeting was not open to the general public; one had to...

A Physician's Guide to Clinical Forensic Medicine (Forensic Science)

Humana Press, 2000

Clinical Forensic Medicine, a term now commonly used to refer to that branch of medicine involving an interaction among the law, the judiciary, and the police, and usually concerning living persons, is emerging as a speciality in its own right. There have been enormous developments in the subject in the last decade, with an increasing amount...

COX-2 Blockade in Cancer Prevention and Therapy (Cancer Drug Discovery and Development)

Humana Press, 2003

The revelation that aspirin and aspirin-like compounds have notable antineoplastic properties has revolutionized cancer research. COX-2 Blockade in Cancer Prevention and Therapy chronicles the evidence and presents exciting new opportunities for the use of cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) blockade in the prevention and treatment of cancer. The text...

Freedom from Addiction: The Secret Behind Successful Addiction Busting

Humana Press, 2005

IF YOU are becoming worried about an aspect of your own behaviour - maybe you no longer feel totally in control of it, or are concerned about the health implications, or the fact that it takes up so much of your time and money - and you've decided that you want to do something about it, this book will help you.

You might...

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....

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....

Nuclear Cardiology, The Basics: How to Set Up and Maintain a Laboratory (Contemporary Cardiology)

Humana Press, 2007

The purpose of this book is to provide the outline for the "nuts and bolts" establishment and operation of a nuclear cardiology laboratory. In so doing, the authors have attempted to deal with the relevant issues that a laboratory director must address in either setting up the laboratory or maintaining its competitive edge and...

Essentials of Apoptosis: A Guide for Basic and Clinical Research

Humana Press, 2003

Life and death are topics that no one takes lightly. In the cell, death by apoptosis is just as fundamental as proliferation for the maintenance of normal tissue homeostasis. Too much or too little apoptosis can lead to developmental abnormality, degenerative diseases, or cancers. Although apoptosis, or programmed cell death (PCD),...

Microarrays in Clinical Diagnostics (Methods in Molecular Medicine)

Humana Press, 2005

Within the last decade, microarray technology has evolved from an emerging technology developed and used by a few laboratories into a well-established technology used in laboratories all over the world. In fact, the need to characterize genetic alterations is one of the highest priorities for the future of medicine and the...

Pocket Guide to Critical Care Pharmacotherapy

Humana Press, 2007

Critical care medicine is a cutting-edge medical field that is highly evidence-based. Studies are continuously published that alter the approach to patient care. As a critical care clinician, I am aware of the tremendous commitment required to provide optimal evidence-based care. Pocket Guide to Critical Care...

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