Medical equipment and techniques

Oocyte cryopreservation entails important potential advantages for humanIVF, offering a less ethically disputable alternative to embryo cryopreservation,simplifying and making safer oocyte donation, and giving an opportunity forfertility preservation to women at risk of premature ovarian failure as an effectof genetic factors or chemo- or radiotherapies.

This new book, edited by internationally renowned specialists, also pools the experience of consultants from both Europe and the US.

Using state-of-the-art and evidence-based literature references and reviews, the authors present an overview of translational research that is both reliable and easily understood.

Cytogenetics, fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) and molecular tests, especially polymerase chain reaction (PCR), play an important role in the management of patients with hematologic malignancies by helping to establish the diagnosis, as well as predict prognosis, response to treatment and disease progression.

Male factor infertility is a common problem in reproductive medicine and can have a significant effect of the outcome of IVF treatment.

The field of device closure of defects of the inter-atrial septum has expanded rapidly over the past ten years, and it is likely that there will be a further sharp increase in numbers of procedures being performed in the near future.

Coronary stenting is the most commonly used method of myocardial revascularization, with approximately 2 million stents implanted in 2004 throughout the world.

A volume in the Principles and Applications in Engineering series, Clinical Engineering focuses on managing the deployment of medical technology and integrating it appropriately with desired clinical practices.

How the NIH Can Help You Get Funded takes a novel, non-formulaic approach in teaching readers how to "e;write a grant"e; -- and much more.

How the NIH Can Help You Get Funded takes a novel, non-formulaic approach in teaching readers how to "e;write a grant"e; -- and much more.

The last decade has seen sweeping changes in US health care policy.

The last decade has seen sweeping changes in US health care policy.

For all its costs, flaws, and inequities, American health care is fundamentally rooted in a belief that treatment should be based on solid scientific research.

Interesting and important ethical questions confront researchers, regulators, institutional review boards, support personnel, and research participants committed to the ethical conduct of human subjects research at all stages of research.

First published in 1986, this landmark text is the definitive guide to clinical trials, written by one of the leading experts in the field.

This book explores implicit choices made by researchers, policy makers, and funders regarding who benefits from society's investment in health research.

What does it take to be a scientist?

This book is the definitive guide to field epidemiology- the application of epidemiologic methods to unexpected health problems when a rapid, on-site investigation is necessary.

The Oxford Textbook of Clinical Research Ethics is the first comprehensive and systematic reference on clinical research ethics.

Change is constant in everyday life.

This book serves as an invaluable guide on how clinical trials are designed and run, how to interpret the results, and what to make of them in general.

The controversy over the use of primates in research admits of no easy answers.

The philosopher Henry Richardson's short book is a defense of a position on a neglected topic in medical research ethics.

The Oxford American Handbook of Clinical Examination and Practical Skills is a comprehensive pocket guide for medical, physician assistant, and nurse practitioner students.

The Oxford American Handbook of Clinical Examination and Practical Skills is a comprehensive pocket guide for medical, physician assistant, and nurse practitioner students.

Migraine is a complex neurological disorder that is characterized by a complex neurobiology, clinical features that may overlap with over 300 causes of headache, and an association with major medical illnesses and comorbid diseases.

This book describes in fascinating detail the variety of experiments sponsored by the U.

Change is constant in everyday life.

Every year, hundreds of thousands of healthy volunteers and patients worldwide undertake the journey through the maze that can be clinical trials.

Every year, hundreds of thousands of healthy volunteers and patients worldwide undertake the journey through the maze that can be clinical trials.

Millions of children suffer from diseases and illnesses that do not have adequate treatment, and many other children are harmed by medicines intended to help them.

The Handbook of Electrogastrography is the first textbook dedicated to reviewing the physiology of gastric myelectrical activity and the measurement of this electrical activity with electrodes placed on the abdominal surface - the electrogastrogram.

The public is bombarded daily with reports about risk factors, many conflicting with each other, others accepted as "e;scientific truth"e; for awhile, then scientifically disproved, yet others questionable that later prove to be true.

Palliative care is rapidly evolving as a multidimensional therapeutic model devoted to improving the quality of life of all patientswith life-threatening illness.

Evaluating the strength or persuasiveness of epidemiologic evidence is inherently challenging, both for those new to the field and for experienced researchers.

Over the last several decades, bioethicists have championed a bewildering variety of methods for understanding and resolving difficult ethical problems in medicine, including: principlism, wide reflective equilibrium, casuistry, feminism, virtue theory, narrative, and others.

The Oxford Textbook of Clinical Research Ethics is the first comprehensive and systematic reference on clinical research ethics.

The pharmaceutical industry is praised as a world leader in high technology innovation and the creator of products that increase both longevity and quality of life for people throughout the world.

Stem cell therapy is ushering in a new era of medicine in which we will be able to repair human organs and tissue at their most fundamental level- that of the cell.

This book is the definitive guide to field epidemiology- the application of epidemiologic methods to unexpected health problems when a rapid, on-site investigation is necessary.

The art of writing up a completed research project in a format suitable for submission to a social work journal is an ability separate from one's skills as a research methodologist.

What, exactly, was the Charity Organization Society?

When used in tandem, systematic reviews and meta-analysis-- two distinct but highly compatible approaches to research synthesis-- form a powerful, scientific approach to analyzing previous studies.

What does it take to be a scientist?

Green fluorescent proteins have been floating in the ocean for more than 160 million years, but it took a curious scientist, fascinated by pinpricks of green light, to begin unlocking their potential.

Green fluorescent proteins have been floating in the ocean for more than 160 million years, but it took a curious scientist, fascinated by pinpricks of green light, to begin unlocking their potential.

Drugs like Lipitor, Plavix, Taxol, and Zoloft are integral in today's medicinal world.

Drugs like Lipitor, Plavix, Taxol, and Zoloft are integral in today's medicinal world.

Genetic Counseling Research: A Practical Guide is the first text devoted to research methodology in genetic counseling.

Genetic Counseling Research: A Practical Guide is the first text devoted to research methodology in genetic counseling.