Diseases and disorders

In many ways, the field of lung cancer research is leading the way in personalized oncologic care, with numerous new treatment strategies moving from clinical trials to standard clinical practice within the past 10 years; and, there are no indications of bench-to-bedside innovations slowing down.

The inspiring true story of a boy who turned his struggle with cancer into a public health crusade that went all the way to Washington, DC.

Allergens in food and their detection, management and elimination constitute a key issue for food manufacturers, especially in terms of safety.

There are many recoverable aspects and indications concerning medicine and healing in the ancient past – from the archaeological evidence of skeletal remains, grave-goods comprising medical and/or surgical equipment and visual representations in tombs and other monuments thorough to epigraphic and literary sources.

In 2013, 200 million people were infected with malaria, resulting in over 584,000 deaths, with the potential to affect over half the world's population.

This book provides a practically directed basis for carrying out immunocytochemical methods with enough theoretical information to allow a newcomer to understand the whys and wherefores of the technique.

In this book, Lee Majewski and Ananda Bhavanani define yoga and yoga therapy as a whole person practice, demonstrating how it can help the individual to heal through their own mechanisms.

This book takes the reader on a journey through past and current research on the Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC/HLA).

This book provides a practically directed basis for carrying out immunocytochemical methods with enough theoretical information to allow a newcomer to understand the whys and wherefores of the technique.

The physical effects of a stroke are often the most obvious, and hospitals can offer medication and therapy to help alleviate them.

Thoracic Malignancies:Thoracic Malignancies is the first title in Radiation Medicine Rounds.

Computational pre-screening of antigens is now routinely applied to the discovery of vaccine candidates.

Guidance, organization, and timely iinsideri tips to help your breast cancer treatment and recovery go as smoothly and successfully as possible.

Using an evidence-based, critical, population health approach, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of the key errors and most effective interventions to contain the COVID-19 pandemic.

Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in women in the United States.

Breast Cancer:Over the course of the last decade, the treatment of breast cancer has evolved quite rapidly.

This authoritative and comprehensive book makes the reader familiar with the processes of bringing orphan drugs to the global market.

This book presents muscular dystrophy (MD) as a group of genetic diseases with a worldwide occurrence of about 1 in 3,500 births that causes muscle wasting and weakening.

This issue of Emerging Cancer Therapeutics provides a comprehensive review for practitioners on the current status of leukemia treatment.

Vaccinations provide an effective way to prevent fatal diseases or reduce their symptoms.

Biliary Tract and Gallbladder Cancer: Diagnosis and Therapy is a comprehensive and definitive discussion of all aspects of the treatment of malignant tumors of the gallbladder and biliary tract.

Gastrointestinal Malignancies Gastrointestinal (GI) cancers are common diseases worldwide.

A Doody's Core Title 2012Emerging Cancer Therapeutics is a trinary, hard cover, periodical that is designed to provide an up-to-date evidence-based review of a dedicated emerging cancer therapy topic of interest to clinicians and scientists who are involved in the care of patients receiving cancer treatment.

Multiple Myeloma: The second issue of Emerging Cancer Therapeutics focuses on multiple myelomas also known as plasma cell myeloma, KahlerIs Disease and myelomatosis.

Globally, HIV-associated tuberculosis is one of the most important causes of infection-related death, accounting for one in every three HIV deaths and over 300,000 in 2017 alone.

In this book, leading experts examine the clinical and biological aspects of viruses known to play a role in the oncogenesis of AIDS-associated cancers and non-AIDS-defining malignancies more commonly observed in HIV-infected individuals.

An Economist Best Book of 2025"e;Fair Dosesis an unflinching insider account of how science, politics, and human nature collided in the battle to vaccinate the world.

This book provides the busy clinician with a quick, symptom-based guide to the clinical presentation, diagnosis, work-up, and management of the most common types of movement disorders encountered in clinical practice, including Parkinson's disease, chorea, dystonia, myoclonus, and ataxia.

This book reviews the recent advances in rabies research and rabies vaccine development.

This book, now in its third edition, examines the current treatment options for first-line, relapsed, and refractory Hodgkin lymphoma and the appropriate management in special clinical circumstances, including in the elderly, pregnant women, and those with nodular lymphocyte-predominant disease (NLPHL).

This book is a comprehensive guide to contrast-enhanced mammography (CEM), a novel advanced mammography technique using dual-energy mammography in combination with intravenous contrast administration in order to increase the diagnostic performance of digital mammography.

This atlas, containing a wealth of clear operative images, is designed to enable trainee surgeons to visualise the surgical field for procedures specific to laparoscopic colorectal surgery, thereby facilitating understanding and learning of surgical techniques and avoidance of intra- and postoperative complications.

This book provides a comprehensive summary of the cutting edge scientific evidence regarding the role of immune system in the pathogenesis and treatment of schizophrenia and related psychotic disorders.

This volume of the series Springer Briefs in Space Life Sciences explains the physics and biology of radiation in space, defines various forms of cosmic radiation and their dosimetry, and presents a range of exposure scenarios.

Gastrointestinal (GI) malignancies account for a large portion of cancers worldwide.

This book deals with the noteworthy advancement in the production of bioactive metabolites from microbes and their pharmacological significance.

This book, conceived as an atlas with emphasis in diagnostic images, presents some tumors displaying expected clinical, histological or biological behavior but in most of them that differs from that usual morphology or clinical behaviour.

This updated and revised second edition of "e;Alcohol and Tobacco"e; reflects the new ICD 11 and DSM V classifications and provides comprehensive descriptions of new therapeutic approaches, outlining the different interactions between personality, environment and the effects of the respective substance.

This text provides a concise yet comprehensive review of GI tract complications of HIV infection.

This book is a comprehensive guide to breast toxicity.

Targeted therapies were initially developed to exploit the upregulation and dependence on key oncogenic pathways critical to cancer progression.

This first volume of an exciting new book series offers a comprehensive and logically organized introduction to clinical pharmacy as applied to renal medicine.

This second volume of a two-volume set focuses on specific pathogens and their mechanisms of pathogenesis as well as diagnostics, therapeutics and various strategies in the event of biological attacks.

Global Virology, Volume III: Virology in the 21st Century examines work that has been undertaken, or is planned, in several fields of virology, in an effort to promote current and future work, research, and health.

This book provides a comprehensive, up-to-date review of the field of diagnostic histopathology of sinonasal tumors and tumor-like lesions.

This volume - for pharmacologists, systems biologists, philosophers and historians of medicine - points to investigate new avenues in pharmacology research, by providing a full assessment of the premises underlying a radical shift in the pharmacology paradigm.

This book, written by global experts in the field, provides a thorough overview on fertility and pregnancy challenges and solutions in women who are being or have been treated for cancer.

This book provides a practical guide to the clinical decision-making process used in the management of skin cancers with the use of dermoscopy.

This book provides a unique tool for approaching cranio-vertebral junction (CVJ) surgery.

Now in a revised and expanded second edition, this unique text presents topics related to insulin resistance in youth and its consequences across the lifespan.