Clinical and internal medicine

Diet and Health examines the many complex issues concerning diet and its role in increasing or decreasing the risk of chronic disease.

'I couldn't imagine a better guidebook for making sense of a tragic and momentous time in our lives.

The Power of ColleaguesWhat happens when primary care clinicians meet together on set aside time in their practice settings to talk about their own patients?

How the Immune System Works has helped thousands of students understand what's in their hefty immunology textbooks.

Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men in the UK and US and the second most common worldwide.

This thoroughly revised second edition is an up-to-date overview of the current knowledge of Notch and Notch signaling in embryology and cancer.

A clear, four-step plan to overcoming fibromyalgiaFibromyalgia is a widespread musculoskeletal pain and fatigue disorder that afflicts nearly 10 million Americans--mostly women.

Endocrine Problems in Cancer: Molecular Basis and Clinical Management reviews endocrine and metabolic problems that can be attributed to the production of hormones by neoplastic cells, or by the interference of normal physiological systems by malignant cells.

The book comprehensively discusses the mechanisms of pathogenesis and drug resistance; current diagnostics landscape of four key human pathogens; bacterial, fungal, protozoans and viral which are the causes of major infectious diseases.

Durch den molekularbiologischen Erkenntnisfortschritt und die damit zusammenhängenden Methodenentwicklungen sowie die kürzlich gelungene Entschlüsselung des menschlichen Genoms ergeben sich auch für die Krebsforschung und insbesondere für die Früherkennung hereditärer Tumore durch eine umfassende Gendiagnostik neue Möglichkeiten für die Erfassung von genetischen Risikofaktoren, die zur Krebsentstehung prädisponieren.

This reference book compiles together different animal models in cancer research.

This book describes step by step how to operate on the patient with diabetic retinopathy.

This book explains how medical photography is part of the workflow in many specialties: it is needed for registries, to preserve information, for follow up, second opinion and teaching, among others.

In this book, Stefan Pieper supports doctors and therapists in easily diagnosing FQAD and in better and more adequately dealing with FQAD patients.

This book offers a practical approach to the histologic analysis of a wide range of melanocytic skin lesions, including various nevi and different forms of melanoma, as well as pigmented non-melanocytic lesions.

This comprehensive guide describes the aftercare that is appropriate in young cancer patients and discusses in detail the risk and detection of treatment sequelae.

Although lymphoscintigraphy was originally introduced into clinical routine for identification of the cause of peripheral edema, more recently it has been widely applied for radioguided biopsy of the sentinel lymph node in patients with solid cancers.

Stem cell transplantation may be complicated by treatment-related mortality and like the immune system that it regenerates has equal potential to either create and preserve or destroy.

A considerable number of journal publications using a range of qualitative synthesis approaches has been published.

This book is a comprehensive overview of heart failure and cardiac transplantation and integrates scientific and clinical information about the physiology, pathophysiology, diagnosis, and treatment of this disorder.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

Cytokines and cytokine receptors remain an area of great interest for the development of targeted therapies for cutaneous inflammatory diseases.

Until recently COPD was largely neglected by health professionals and viewed as the Cinderella of respiratory conditions.

This volume presents methods and protocols on modern analysis of steroid receptor and prostate cancer function.

Diabetes Digital Health and Telehealth explains, from technologic, economic and sociologic standpoints how digital health and telehealth have come to dominate the management of diabetes.

Survival rates in cases of uveal melanoma and retinoblastoma - the leading intraocular malignancies in adults and children - may be high, but means of earlier diagnosis and improved treatment options are needed to preserve vision and prevent metastasis.

Medical Sciences at a Glance The market-leading at a Glance series is used world-wide by medical students, residents, junior doctors and health professionals for its concise and clear approach and superb illustrations.

Obesity has become the most common chronic disease of the present day, with significant increases in prevalence in populations across the world and all age groups.

Understanding Signed Languages provides a broad and accessible introduction to the science of language, with evidence drawn from signed languages around the world.

This book is primarily for pediatric and adult emergency room physicians, primary care providers, hospitalists, and nurses.

Almost every effort in the care of patients with heart disease begins with some description of disordered physiologic performance or mor- phologic anatomy.

In recent years, our understanding of the unified airway concept has become paramount in the diagnosis, treatment, and management of sinonasal, airway, and respiratory disorders.

- Manual elaborado por la Sociedad Española de Retina y Vítreo (SERV) que sigue siendo una guía de referencia, tanto para residentes como especialistas, en todos aquellos temas relacionados con la patología de la retina.

Age-related macular degeneration (ARMD) is a frequent disease of the elderly and the most common cause of blindness.

Nutrition and Diet in Menopause is a single comprehensive source that will provide readers with an understanding of menopause.

This book gives a comprehensive overview to all aspects of global molecular vaccine research.

This comprehensive volume provides exhaustive interpretations of surgery for gynecologic cancer.

Catching Cancer introduces readers to the investigators who created a medical revolutiona new way of looking at cancer and its causes.

Genetics and Neurology focuses on disorders that affect the nervous system, including atrophies, neuropathies, and tumors.

ICD therapy has become the standard form of treatment for ventricular tachyarrhythmias.

HOFFBRAND S ESSENTIAL HAEMATOLOGY The Essentials is an international, best-selling series of textbooks, all of which are designed to support lecture series or themes on core topics within the health sciences.

Recent advances in cytotoxins and immunotoxins are accelerating our understanding of cancer and leading to more effective therapeutic treatments.