Paediatric medicine

Pregnancy complicated by neurological disorders is a challenging area for both obstetricians and neurologists.

This comprehensive overview of the known literature concerning the physical and psychosocial health of children conceived by ART brings together an international panel of experts in fertility medicine, epidemiology, medical genetics, obstetrics, twin research, psychosocial development and pediatrics.

The third edition of a bestseller, this book provides insight from a wide array of international contributors in the field of pediatric nephrology.

A Practical Guide to 3D Ultrasound was conceived with the beginner in mind.

Caring for the well newborn is an essential element of everyday midwifery practice.

This was one of the first books on the market to illustrate the various clinical techniques for restoration, which is increasingly favored over extraction for primary teeth.

One in six couples around the world experience infertility.

The editors of this comprehensive third edition of the Textbook of the Neurogenic Bladder have assembled an impressive team of world specialists to develop an essential resource for physicians, continence specialists, and other health care professionals involved in the diagnosis and management of patients who have lost normal bladder function.

At one time, many children born with congenital heart disease (CHD) suffered from issues that carried fatal prognoses.

Well child care is designed to promote optimal health status for children, including school and life success.

"e;A welcome and poignant account of the intense human and political dynamics of a major children's hospital that will have a substantial impact on the way you view children and their care.

An intensely moving,frequently shocking accountof a child's life in anadult mental hospital.

As in any field of clinical or scientific endeavor, a cataloguing of the techniques and findings of behavioral pediatrics must follow shortly after the first few years of systematic work.

Comprehensive ManualS' in Pediatrics are designed to broaden the practitioner's clinical scope by providing a wide range of diagnostic and management skills ordi- narily considered to be the exclusive domain of the specialists.

One of the founders of the field of pediatric rheumatology, Dr.

Protecting Infants through Human Milk: Advancing the Scientific Evidence provides a forum in which basic scientists, clinicians, epidemiologists, and policy makers exchange the latest findings regarding the effects of human milk and breastfeeding on infant and maternal health, thereby fostering new and promising collaborations.

How will increased understanding of the human genome affect our ability to diagnose and treat disease?

An excellent reference for both students and practitioners of nuclear medicine, this text presents a thorough discussion of normal and abnormal physiology of organ function through the use of scintigraphy.

Who owns your sex organs?

Much is new in Family Medicine since the last edition of our textbook.

Every year, in the United States and the third world combined, 13.

The undertaking of the treatment of an infant born with bladder exstrophy is one of the most weighty responsibilities that can fall upon the shoulders of the reconstructive sur- geon.

Family Medicine: Principles and Practice, 5th edition is a comprehensive reference source providing crystal clear guidelines for diagnosing and managing the common acute and chronic problems regularly encountered by the Family Practitioner.

Sexual mutilation is a global problem that affects 15.

Neuromuscular disorders are diagnosed across the lifespan and create many challenges especially with infants, children and adolescents.

This book comes at a good time.

Anyone who works within children and adolescent mental health services will tell you what a challenging and complex world it is.

Anyone who works within children and adolescent mental health services will tell you what a challenging and complex world it is.

This clear and concise clinical handbook has been written to help healthcare professionals approach the initial assessment and management of paediatric cases commonly encountered by Junior Doctors, GPs, GP Specialty Trainees and allied healthcare professionals.

Virginia Howes was a mother of four doing the ironing when she had a revelation.

Despite the modern trend towards empowering patients and giving them more choice, the nuts and bolts of medical practice largely remain a mystery - a closed box.

Paediatrics and Child Health is the perfect textbook to prepare you for clinical practice - providing a comprehensive and practical guide to paediatric disorders as they present to the practitioner, and grouped together by system for easy navigation.

This book is a concise learning guide dedicated to the full scope of pediatric history-taking and clinical examination, for use in OSCEs as well as clinical life.

This book examines the continuum of bullying services, including prevention, intervention, and recovery.

TRAUMA IN PERSONALITY DISORDER A Clinicians Handbook THE MASTERSON APPROACH When trauma and personality disorder combine, it is a therapeutic test for patient and treating clinician alike.

Hyperbilirubinemia of the neonate and the related risk of brain damage with conseguent important alterations in motor development, particularly in sick preterm babies, remains a major problem in nurseries throughout the world.

Neurological signs or symptoms are present in approximately 20% of all chil- dren admitted to the hospital.

Our present understanding of the psychosocial aspects of pain in children is reviewed in this monograph by leading scientists and practitioners.

Perinatal problems in thyroid gland physiology are common but complicated and present a diagnostic dilemma for the primary clinician.

One learns medicine, including pediatrics, by first learning a set of rules and then spending the rest of his/her productive career discovering exceptions to those rules.

Over the last quarter century or so, specialization within obstetrics and gynecology, and pediatrics has resulted in the development of the disciplines of maternal-fetal medicine and neonatology, respectively.

Preterm infants grow poorly after birth and very commonly develop ex utero growth restriction (EUGR).

Preoperative imaging is increasingly being adopted for preoperative planning in plastic and reconstructive surgery.

From infancy onward, children are in danger from many sources, including parental and sibling abuse, drug abuse and mental illness in the home, parental neglect, and poverty.