Medical equipment and techniques

Medicine itself is sick.

The field of Chemical Engineering and its link to computer science is in constant evolution and new engineers have a variety of tools at their disposal to tackle their everyday problems.

There is hardly an area of research developing so quickly and raising so many promises as stem cell research.

This book provides a clearly structured introduction to hydrogen biology and medicine.

This book examines the emergent and expanding role of technologies that hold both promise and possible peril for transforming the ageing process in this century.

This completely revised and updated second edition showcases the considerable progress that has taken place in this field since 2008.

This fully updated edition provides selected mouse genetic techniques and their application in modeling varieties of human diseases.

This book shows how and why quality assurance programmes should be implemented in laboratory rodent facilities to monitor animal health and genetic status.

This completely updated and expanded 2nd Edition provides all the information needed in order to understand the complex molecular, cellular and genetic mechanisms that underlie normal and abnormal cardiac rhythms.

Hybrid Frequentist/Bayesian Power and Bayesian Power in Planning Clinical Trials provides a practical introduction to unconditional approaches to planning randomised clinical trials, particularly aimed at drug development in the pharmaceutical industry.

This book discusses a multidisciplinary and multi-stakeholder collaborative approach to small population clinical trials.

Mention the words 'arthropod cuticle' to most biologists and they usually provoke a glazed expression.

JIMD Reports publishes case and short research reports in the area of inherited metabolic disorders.

Protein homeostasis, or "e;Proteostasis"e;, lies at the heart of human health and disease.

Dementia is a major health problem that becomes increasingly common with advancing age.

Market access is the fourth hurdle in the drug development process and the primary driver for global income of any new drug.

Handbook of Statistics: Advances in Survival Analysis covers all important topics in the area of Survival Analysis.

 This book presents current understanding of the importance of modern immunology in the etiopathogenesis of human diseases and explores how this understanding is impacting on diagnosis, prognosis, treatment, and prophylaxis.

This book introduces you to the basic rules and principles of statistics and shows you how straightforward statistical tests can be performed and analysed in relation to healthcare.

This volume presents advanced bio/medical sciences with a particular value for translating research achievements into daily medical practice in the framework of Predictive, Preventive and Personalised Medicine (3PM/PPPM).

Multimethod Assessment of Chronic Pain is a guidebook diagnosing chronic pain.

What makes some experiences more memorable than others?

The book provides easy-to-understand diverse specialized topics in toxicology using self- study questions and answers.

Evolutionary developmental biology or evo-devo is a field of biological research that compares the underlying mechanisms of developmental processes in different organisms to infer the ancestral condition of these processes and elucidate how they have evolved.

Over the last few years, bacterial adhesion has become a more and more important and active scientific area, but the field lacks communication and scientific exchange between medical and microbiology researchers who work with the relevant biological systems, and biochemists, structural biologists and physicists, who know and understand the physical methods best suited to investigate the phenomenon at the molecular level.

Written to satisfy a wide audience, from basic scientist to clinical researcher, this volume explores such varied concepts as: the influence of CBF in the pathotrajectory of TBI, modeling TBI as a means to understand underlying pathological states associated with brain injury victims, disrupted vasculature following head trauma and advanced imaging techniques, vasoreactive substances underlying disrupted blood flow, the role of age and sex on injury outcome, and the latest pre-clinical rationale for focusing on CBF and strategies to improve blood flow as a means to improve outcome in patients suffering the effects of TBI.

The annual cost of medical care in the U niled States is rapidly approaching a trillion dollars.

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

The third and final installment of Daniel J.

Although the means of diagnosing and treating fungal infections have improved greatly over the last decade fungi still represent a serious threat to the health of immunocompromised and immunodeficient patients.

Developments over the past few years have revealed the remarkable versatility of RNA in any compartment of the cell, tasks that had been thought to be exclusively in the realm of proteins and even beyond.

This book represents the coming together of a number of internationally renowned scholars from science, philosophy, law and social science.

In interviews with brilliant and controversial medical researchers and practitioners, David Jay Brown reveals "e;proposed solutions for what's wrong with modern medicine, ideas about reversing the aging process and suggestions that can lead to a future in which all diseases are easily curable.

Nonhuman Primates and Medical Research focuses on the contributions of nonhuman primates to biomedical research.

The world-renowned experts at JAMA(R) explain statistical analysis and the methods used in medical research Written in the language and style appropriate for clinicians and researchers, this new JAMA Guide to Statistics and Methods provides explanations and expert discussion of the statistical analytic approaches and methods used in the medical research reported in articles appearing in JAMA and the JAMA Network journals.

This book explains how to determine sample size for studies with correlated outcomes, which are widely implemented in medical, epidemiological, and behavioral studies.

Cancer is a multifaceted disease and overwhelmingly increasing experimental evidence has helped us to develop a deeper understanding of the role of signal transduction cascades in cancer development and progression.

With an increasingly aged population, eye diseases are becoming more widespread.

It is now widely recognized that research on human health requires more than a focus on human biology and disease entities.

Anwendungen von Laserstrahlung in der Medizin sollen unmittelbar der Gesundheit der Menschen zugute kommen.

Hematopathology: Genomic Mechanisms of Neoplastic Diseases will keep physicians abreast of the rapid and complex changes in genomic medicine, as exemplified by the molecular pathology of hematologic malignancies.