General practice / Family medicine

Often, information in review books can raise as many questions as it answers.

Increasingly, we hear of more and more elders falling victim to financial exploitation.

Women with chronic medical problems are at higher risk for complications during pregnancy and therefore, they are especially in need of appropriate preconception and contraception care.

This is a timely and informative updated edition for all health care providers challenged with helping patients manage weight.

Primary Care Sleep Medicine - A Practical Guide was among the first books to address sleep medicine for a primary care audience.

A substantial body of literature exists on functional gastrointestinal disorders in children and on the bio-psycho-social model of clinical practice.

Acute Care for Elders (ACE) is a model of care designed to improve functional outcomes and to improve the processes for the care of older patients.

Since the publication of the first edition, there have been advances in both the diagnosis and the management of many of the cholestatic liver diseases.

A Visual Guide to Scleroderma and Approach to Treatment offers a focused analysis of the diagnosis and management of scleroderma.

Over the past 20 years, diagnostic tests for pediatric pulmonologists have revolutionized care of children afflicted with respiratory disorders.

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With hundreds of question and answer items and bite-sized chunks of information that can be read and processed easily, reviewing for the pediatric board exams - or just brushing up in your spare time - has never been easier.

This book is written for any clinician who encounters substance abuse in a patient and wonders what to do.

In A Case-Based Guide to Clinical Endocrinology, Second Edition, a renowned group of distinguished clinicians once again provides stimulating instruction and insights into a wide variety of endocrine topics, teaching readers modern management of the conditions described and offering targeted entry into the literature.

This book provides the reader with an understanding of human nutritional and metabolic physiology and how it goes wrong in illness.

Often, information in review books can raise as many questions as it answers.

Integrative Weight Management: A Guide for Clinicians intends to educate physicians and nutritionists about the wide ranges of approaches to weight control from non-traditional sources.

As the values of integrative medicine continues to grow, alternative points of view and treatments are increasing in acceptance and prevalence.

The research on children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) is extensive and growing.

Often, information in review books can raise as many questions as it answers.

With the increased prevalence of kidney transplantation, transplant recipients are being treated in a variety of clinical settings - often beyond the transplant center.

Meeting the Needs of Older Adults with Serious Illness: Challenges and Opportunities in the Age of Health Care Reform provides an introduction to the principles of palliative care; describes current models of delivering palliative care across care settings, and examines opportunities in the setting of healthcare policy reform for palliative care to improve outcomes for patients, families and healthcare institutions.

Constipation: A Practical Approach to Diagnosis and Treatment serves as an unmet resource for physicians and other health care providers, including trainees and students, who see patients with constipation.

Refugees arrive in the United States from different parts of the world and their numbers increase every year.

Diseases of the Sinuses: A Comprehensive Textbook of Diagnosis and Treatment, 2nd Edition, offers the definitive source of information about the basic science of the sinuses and the clinical approach to sinusitis.

Clinical Problems in Dentistry 50 OSCEs and SCRs.

Many children with medical conditions fail to improve despite physicians' best efforts.

The adult patient diagnosed with or at risk for a neurogenetic disease has many questions and concerns for the genetic counselor, the neurologist, and other practitioners.

One of the paradoxes of general practice is that we emphasize on the one hand how important it is that the general practitioner learns to tolerate uncertainty, and then regret on the other hand that so few general practitioners research the uncertainties they find in their every- day work.

The importance of identifying a history of sexual abuse is now well recognized by doctors who know that the problem may lie behind a presentation of physical illness, relationship problems, unhappiness or sexual and psychological difficult- ies.

Throughout the world, scientists and the general with environmental illness.

This work, Essential Endocrinology: A Primer for Nonspecialists, is written with dual purposes in mind: first, to provide a framework of basic endocrinology and diabetology to the medical student, and second, to provide a quick, con- cise, and handy "e;guide"e; to the junior residents in their early years of training who wish to obtain a working knowledge about endocrine disorders that affect their patients.

As our population continues to age, health professionals are being called on to care for an ever-increasing number of elderly patients.

As we move into the 21st century it is becoming increasingly difficult to offer appropriate introductory clinical experiences for medical students.

The NATO-Advanced Research Workshop "e;Esterases, Lipases and Phospholipases: From Structure to Clinical Significance"e; was held at the University of Bordeaux II, France from 22nd- 24th September 1993 under the Directorship of Professor Michel Clerc of the University of Bordeaux II.

One of the fascinations of psychiatry is that it is amenable to many different approaches.

The intent of this book is to provide a practical approach to the recognition and therapy of selected outpatient problems faced by the internist, family practi- tioner, house officer, physician's assistant, and nurse.

Dermato-Venereology is an obligatory inbuilt discipline in medical undergraduate curricula worldwide, and 20-25% of patients in the office of a general practitioner relate to dermatologic problems.

The role of the clinical psychologist has traditionally been confined to psychiatry, but with the development in medicine of the importance of treating the 'whole man' it has been realized that we have neglected the psychological aspect of medical care.

NIH: An Account of Research in Its Laboratories and Clinics contains collected accounts of the Intramural Research Program, as they happened in the laboratories and clinics, in various installations of the National Institutes of Health across the U.

Operating Theatre Techniques describes the principles and techniques of operating theater nursing that correlate with different teaching programs and varied practices.

Biomedical Engineering II: Recent Developments covers some progress made in biochemical engineering, which have some useful application in dentistry, medical instrumentation, and orthopedics.

Statistical Methods in Laboratory Medicine focuses on the application of statistics in laboratory medicine.

Bioengineering: Proceedings of the Ninth Northeast Conference documents and reviews papers that cover topics related to bioengineering.