Diseases and disorders

The disability-adjusted life year (DALY) is a generic measure of health effect that can be used in cost-effectiveness analysis as an alternative to the quality-adjusted life year (QALY).

Engineering and Physical Approaches to Cancer addresses the newest research at this interface between cancer biology and the physical sciences.

Der renommierte Krebsarzt und -forscher Wolfram Gössling war Mitte vierzig, als bei ihm ein extrem seltener, extrem tödlicher Krebs diagnostiziert wurde.

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STDs in the United States: A Reference Handbook provides information about sexually transmitted diseases and infections and their impact on both an individual and a societal level.

Beyond their impact on public health, epidemics shape and are shaped by political, economic, and social forces.

Treating personality disorders can be extremely frustrating for clinicians.

Lower Gastrointestinal MalignanciesThis issue of Radiation Medicine Rounds focuses on lower gastrointestinal malignancies.

In this incisive examination of lead poisoning during the past half century, Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner focus on one of the most contentious and bitter battles in the history of public health.

Does the scientific "e;theory"e; that HIV came to North America from Haiti stem from underlying attitudes of racism and ethnocentrism in the United States rather than from hard evidence?

A story of courage and risk-taking, House on Fire tells how smallpox, a disease that killed, blinded, and scarred millions over centuries of human history, was completely eradicated in a spectacular triumph of medicine and public health.

Cholera, although it can kill an adult through dehydration in half a day, is easily treated.

Physicians are not always successful establishing a diagnosis.

The politics and science of health and disease remain contested terrain among scientists, health practitioners, policy makers, industry, communities, and the public.

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Hepatobiliary cancers have yielded to technological advances in imaging and therapy so that diagnosis of these cancers no longer carries with it a prognosis of certain death.

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This book throws light on the various methods of preparation and characterization of liposomes.

This book describes newborn screening as a public health program for the early detection of genetic disorders.

An anthology of more than 50 stories about the other side of treating diabeteswhat health care providers can learn from patients.

The last 20 years has seen a rapid increase in infectious diseases, particularly those that are termed "e;emerging diseases"e; such as SARS, "e;neglected diseases"e; such as malaria and those that are deemed biothreats such as anthrax.

Advances in Cancer Research, Volume 148, the latest release in this ongoing, well-regarded serial, provides invaluable information on the exciting and fast-moving field of cancer research.

Advances in Immunology, Volume 148 offers the latest release in a long-established and highly respected publication, presenting current developments and comprehensive reviews in immunology.

Advances in Virus Research, Volume 108, in this ongoing series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on topics including Virus infections of the developing brain, Geminivirus assembly, Flavivirus assembly, Cell-cell transmission, Archael virus assembly, Potyvirus assembly, Poxvirus assembly and exit, Mycovirus assembly, Reo/orbivirus assembly and exit, Giant virus assembly, Quasi-enveloped virus assembly/exit, and Betaherpesvirus assembly and exit.

Immunology of Endometriosis: Etiology and Management, a volume in the Reproductive Immunology series, provides updates on one of most common gynecological diseases, including basic science concepts and their clinical applications related to endometriosis immunology.

The Molecular Immunology of Neurological Diseases provides a comprehensive review of current updates in molecular immunogenetics of different neurological diseases.

Advances in Immunology, Volume 147, the latest release in a long-established and highly respected publication, presents current developments and comprehensive reviews in immunology.

Awareness among clinicians about PIDs, which consist of more than 400 different entities, plays an important role in ensuring that patients receive a timely diagnosis.

Many hereditary cancer syndromes are linked to alterations in single genes.

Advances in Immunology, Volume 152, the latest release in a long-established and highly respected publication, presents current developments and comprehensive reviews in immunology, including chapters that cover Renal diseases and the role of complement in their pathogenesis, Factor H and Properdin and their regulation, Complement in neuronal diseases, Complement and the brain.

Translational Autoimmunity: Treatment of Autoimmune Diseases, Volume Two in the Translational Immunology series, focuses on advances in therapeutic modalities in autoimmune diseases.

This book gives an overview of advanced emerging technologies for the detection of a range of waterborne pathogens.

Current Topics in Experimental Endocrinology, Volume 3 covers the relationship between the endocrine system and some types of tumors.

Some Implications of Steroid Hormones in Cancer documents the proceedings of the Workshop Conference on Some Implications of Steroid Hormones in Cancer held at the University Of Surrey, Guildford on May 8, 1970.

Surgery in Systemic Autoimmune Disease, Volume 15, describes the state-of-the-art of the use of surgery in treating the most common systemic autoimmune diseases (SADS).

Immunological Tolerance: A Reassessment of Mechanisms of the Immune Response presents the basic biological phenomena of immunological tolerance.

Recent Results in Cancer Research: Hormones and Human Breast Cancer provides information pertinent to the fundamental aspects of breast cancer and hormones.

Advances in Dopamine Research documents the proceedings of a satellite symposium to the 8th International Congress of Pharmacology held in Okayama, Japan, July 1981.

Autoimmune Neurology presents the latest information on autoimmune neurologic disease, the immune response to the body where organs run wild, causing the immune system to attack itself.

Microbiology in Clinical Practice presents the infections and syndromes caused by micro-organisms.

Mitochondrial Disorders in Neurology provides an overview of mitochondrial diseases.

Gastroenterology is based on its predecessor volume "e;"e;The Alimentary Tract"e;"e; but the content has been rewritten almost completely.

Comparative Virology provides an integrated comparison of viruses, based on their chemical and morphological characteristics.

Biological Markers in Psychiatry and Neurology is a collection of papers that details the advancement in the understanding of the biological markers that stems from psychiatric and neurological pathologies.

Recent Progress in Hormone Research, Volume 30 presents the proceedings of the 1973 Laurentian Hormone Conference held at Mont Tremblant, Province of Quebec, Canada on August 26-31, 1973.

Immunological Tolerance: Mechanisms and Potential Therapeutic Applications documents the proceedings of a conference held at Brook Lodge, Michigan, April 27-May 1, 1974.

This volume in the Handbook of Clinical Neurology series provides a complete review of the history, science and current state of neurovirology.

Diseases of the digestive system have a higher morbidity rate than any other group of disorder.

Perfect for radiation oncologists, medical physicists, and residents in both fields, Practical Radiation Oncology Physics provides a concise and practical summary of the current practice standards in therapeutic medical physics.