Clinical and internal medicine

Individuals with renal disease require continuing support and care throughout their lives from renal nurses and other members of the inter-professional renal team.

The third edition of 150 Practice ECGs: Interpretation and Review combines practice tracings with clinical cardiology, providing students with the practical knowledge necessary to read, interpret, and understand ECGs.

Asthma is one of the most important diseases affecting our society.

Edited by two leading orthopaedic surgeons specializing in the treatment of haemophilia, and an acclaimed haematologist, Musculoskeletal Aspects of Haemophilia draws together, within a single volume, all the information needed for the practical treatment of the musculoskeletal complications of haemophilia.

Immunization: Childhood and Travel Health provides an all-encompassing reference for all those working in primary care, secondary care paediatric wards, immunization centres and travel clinics, as well as medical students and candidates working for higher examinations.

In Chronic Physical Disorders, the most prominent figures in the field of behavioral medicine argue why a biopsychosocial perspective is crucial to reducing the tremendous personal and societal burden of chronic disease.

In recent years, catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation has become a widespread treatment modality in electrophysiology laboratories all over the world.

This brief guide to visual diagnosis helps the novice develop -- and the veteran refresh -- crucial skills that can spare the patient unnecessary testing and bring the physician one step closer to an accurate diagnosis.

If you plan to take the Vascular Medicine Board Examination, this book is essential.

This easy-to-use manual provides a practical framework for a multi-disciplinary team to deliver a successful cardiac rehabilitation programme.

Discover the history of European psychology from the region's biggest thinkers The Anthology of German Psychiatric Texts is the fourth volume in the International Anthologies of Psychiatry series, presented by the World Psychiatric Association.

Written primarily with nurses in mind, this book provides a comprehensive overview of venous thromboembolism, a condition that rears its head regardless of specialty, killing thousands of people around the world in hospital beds and in the community alike.

Health Economics and Financing Diabetic Foot Care: Case Studies in Clinical Management uses an illustrated patient case study format to demonstrate the multidisciplinary care and clinical management of patients with feet and lower limb problems as a result of diabetes.

Diagnosing Autism Spectrum Disorders The past decade has seen a tremendous increase in the number of people being diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorders and not just young children.

This book describes the current state of the art in the field of palliative care in children and adults.

This handy pocket book will help veterinary nurses with all types of calculations.

Neoplasms are common in dogs and cats and it has been estimated that 50% of dogs and cats aged over 10 years die of neoplasia.

The microenvironment in which a tumor originates plays a critical role in its initiation and progression.

This volume presents a fresh international perspective on current approaches to treating heart failure.

In recent years, there has been a growing awareness of the multiple interrelationships between depression and various physical diseases.

Some drugs which are not aimed at treating heart disease have nevertheless been found to have profound effects on heart muscle.

Explores current and emerging applications of microbes as cancer-fighting agents WILEY SERIES IN BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOENGINEERING Anurag S.

With a weight-of-the-evidence approach, cancer risk assessment indentifies hazards, determines dose-response relationships, and assesses exposure to characterize the true risk.

Personal stories show men how to make the right decisions for themselves, with medical insights from a leading Johns Hopkins authority on prostate cancer If you or someone you know has been diagnosed with prostate cancer, you want to know the facts about treatment options as well as what to expect through the process of treatment and recovery.

Oncology Book of 2011, British Medical Association's Medical Book Awards Awarded first prize in the Oncology category at the 2011 BMA Medical Book Awards, Monoclonal Antibody and Peptide-Targeted Radiotherapy of Cancer helps readers understand this hot pharmaceutical field with up-to-date developments.

This book is a unique synthesis of the major concepts and methods in bacterial population genetics in infectious disease, a field that is now about 35 yrs old.

Accessible information on the causes, health risks, and treatment of prediabetes If you or someone you love has been diagnosed with prediabetes a heightened level of glucose, and/or impaired glucose tolerance - the time to act is now.

Accessible information on the causes, health risks, and treatment of prediabetes If you or someone you love has been diagnosed with prediabetes a heightened level of glucose, and/or impaired glucose tolerance - the time to act is now.

The Right Way to Build and Sustain a Successful Hospital Medicine Program This first complete treatment of hospitalist recruitment and retention gives you all the tools and guidance needed to build a new hospital medicine program for your hospital.

HELPS YOU DEVELOP AND ASSESS PEDIGREES TO MAKE DIAGNOSES, EVALUATE RISK, AND COUNSEL PATIENTS The Second Edition of The Practical Guide to the Genetic Family History not only shows how to take a medical-family history and record a pedigree, but also explains why each bit of information gathered is important.

PROFILES POTENTIAL TREATMENT APPROACHES FOR CARDIAC ARRHYTHMIAS Cardiac arrhythmias of ventricular origin are responsible for the deaths of nearly half a million Americans each year while atrial fibrillation accounts for about 2.

An expert guide to targeting protein kinases in cancer therapy Research has shown that protein kinases can instigate the formation and spread of cancer when they transmit faulty signals inside cells.

A comprehensive resource on case studies of marketed kinase drugs and promising drug trials Since the discovery of protein kinase activity in 1954, the field of protein kinase drug discovery has advanced dramatically.

The science and applied approaches of enzyme inhibition in drug discovery and development Offering a unique approach that includes both the pharmacologic and pharmaco-kinetic aspects of enzyme inhibition, Enzyme Inhibition in Drug Discovery and Development examines the scientific concepts and experimental approaches related to enzyme inhibition as applied in drug discovery and drug development.

Much has changed since the first book Paediatric Oncology: Acute Nursing Care (1999), therefore, this new edition encompasses these changes in relation to the practice itself and the evidence that underpins it.

Written by nurses for nurses, Asthma Care in the Community emphasizes the "e;back to basics"e; approach, which is often forgotten in a high technology healthcare system.

This multi-contributed text, co-ordinated by one of the leading authorities in the field, is a unique resource to cover in depth the management of the important issue of Nosocomial Pneumonia in respiratory medicine and critical care.

Since the first edition was published in 1998, considerable advances have been made in the fields of pitch perception and speech perception.

Advances in research and the treatment of cancer mean that more patients and their carers are asking healthcare professionals about the latest treatments and how they may be of benefit.

Intravascular thrombus formation remains one of the most significant problems in cardiovascular medicine.

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is increasing rapidly worldwide and it's predicted that by 2020 it will represent the third leading cause of death.

The promotion of standards and guidelines to advance quality assurance and control is an integral part of the health care sector.

There is an urgent need to uncover new therapies that will protect against malaria, as the parasite becomes increasingly resistant to available drugs and this book offers insights into three interrelated aspects of the malaria-infected erythrocyte: * The transport of solutes into and out of the infected cell and the use of specific trafficking pathways in drug targeting * The traffic of proteins produced by the intracellular parasite as an essential process for the biogenesis of transport systems.

Both timely and topical, this book examines the most important aspects of the relationship between alcohol consumption and health.

This book brings together material on all aspects of immunological tolerance.

The use of oligonucleotides as therapeutic agents rests upon their ability to interfere, in a sequence-specific manner, with the fundamental machinery of protein synthesis either by binding to the mRNAs transcribed from a gene or by binding directly to a target gene.

Antibiotic Resistance: Origins, Evolution, Selection and SpreadChairman: Stuart B.

Asthma is a growing health problem throughout the developed world.

The molecular mechanisms and protein species associated with the mineralization of mature dental enamel are active areas of research.

The field of lymphokine research has grown in parallel to the exciting developments around the two sets of cells which defend the body.