Medical equipment and techniques

Orthodontic Applications of Biomaterials: A Clinical Guide reviews the applications of biomaterials and their effects on enamel preparation, bonding, bracket and archwire ligation, mechanotherapy, debonding, and long-term enamel structural, color, and surface effects.

Palliative care is an essential element of our health care system and is becoming increasingly significant amidst an aging society and organizations struggling to provide both compassionate and cost-effective care.

This book will describe current research on drug delivery systems that encompass four broad categories, namely: routes of delivery, delivery vehicles, payload, and targeting strategies.

It is a distinct pleasure to be invited to prepare a short Foreword to Biomedical Research: How to plan, publish and present it, by William F.

This practical book is written specifically for junior doctors by a team of highly experienced authors, as an introductory guide to clinical research.

Nanomedicine is clinical medicine with the application of nanobiotechnology, which is currently being used to research the pathomechanism of disease, refine molecular diagnostics, and aid in the discovery, development and delivery of drugs.

Focus, Organization, and Content This book, like the first edition, deals with the mass transport processes that take place in living systems, with a focus on the normal behavior of eukaryotic cells and the - ganisms they constitute, in their normal physiological environment.

Unmet healthcare needs of young populations and individuals in suboptimal health conditions are the key issue of currently observed epidemics of non-communicable disorders.

This volume explores the myriad of techniques and methodological approaches that are being used in breast cancer research.

This book examines the sequence of events and methodology in the industrial clinical research process; a reference for multidisciplinary personnel.

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.

One week, red wine is good for the heart.

Not since this author's bestselling Manual of Pharmacologic Calculation has there been an available reference for drug data analysis.

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have emerged as novel carbon-based nanomaterials with unique physicochemical properties for pharmaceutical and biomedical applications.

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

Over the past decade, the tumor microenvironment has become one of the most important research areas in cancer biology, as cells within the tumor microenvironment, despite being outnumbered by healthy cells, are able to evade surveillance and immune-mediated destruction.

The diversity of RNAs inside living cells is amazing.

In a clear and concise style, the extensively revised Putting Your Patients on the Pump offers physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, clinicians, and educators experience and practical guidance on how to help patients successfully manage their diabetes using an insulin pump.

Healing Plants of Nigeria: Ethnomedicine and Therapeutic Applications offers comprehensive information on the use of herbal medicines in West Africa.

A complete guide to understanding cluster randomised trials Written by two researchers with extensive experience in the field, this book presents a complete guide to the design, analysis and reporting of cluster randomised trials.

A State-of-the-Art Guide to Biomedical Engineering and Design Fundamentals and ApplicationsThe two-volume Biomedical Engineering and Design Handbook, Second Edition, offers unsurpassed coverage of the entire biomedical engineering field, including fundamental concepts, design and development processes, and applications.

Covering all major arthropods of medical importance worldwide, this award-winning resource has established itself as a standard reference for almost 25 years.

New and unpredicted technologies are emerging at an unprecedented pace around the world.

This book focuses on associative memory cells and their working principles, which can be applied to associative memories and memory-relevant cognitions.

By presenting the latest technological advances and growing national and international regulation, this new book explores state-of-the-art developments in the challenging field of tissue and cell processing.

This innovative care program blends nursing care and meaningful activities to promote peaceful and relaxing end-of-life experiences for older adults with late-stage dementia.

The world we live in is hugely unequal.

After reviewing the history of cancer and its impact on the population, Dr.

For a virus to invade a host cell it needs to penetrate the physical barrier imposed by the plasma membrane.

In the past decade, we have experienced an explosion of new information about cancer therapeutic targets.

Lead Molecules from Natural Products: Discovery and New Trends provides the reader with a thorough overview of current discoveries and trends in Natural Products research.

This book addresses the background and significance of the factors potentially influencing the clinical and biological outcomes of metal-on-metal hip implants.

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

This book is a joint package of a practical manual on how to undertake meta-analysis in medicine together with an accompanying CD-ROM.

Volume 54 in the internationally acclaimed Advances in Clinical Chemistry contains chapters submitted from leading experts from academia and clinical laboratory science.

Cardiovascular disease is one of the leading causes of death in the world today.

With the critical role of statistics in the design, conduct, analysis and reporting of clinical trials or observational studies intended for regulatory purposes, numerous guidelines have been issued by regulatory authorities around the world focusing on statistical issues related to drug development.

For patients and family caregivers the journey through illness and transitions of care is characterized by a series of progressive physical and emotional losses.

The pharmaceutical industry relies on numerous well-designed experiments involving high-throughput techniques and in silico approaches to analyze potential drug targets.

Despite remarkable progress in genome science, we are still far from a clear understanding of how genomic DNA is packaged without entanglement into a nucleus, how genes are wrapped up in chromatin, how chromatin structure is faithfully inherited from mother to daughter cells, and how the differential expression of genes is enabled in a given cell type.

This guide provides a framework, starting from simple statements, for writing papers for submission to peer-reviewed journals.

This is a practical, accessible guide for nurses on the management and care of the dying and deceased patient.

Microdialysis is currently one of the most important in vivo sampling methods in physiology and pharmacology.

Mitochondrial diseases are often hard to diagnose.

Do statistics-heavy research papers give you a headache?

Myosins are molecular motors that use the energy from ATP hydrolysis to move and exert tension on actin filaments.

Molecular biology has rapidly advanced since the discovery of the basic flow of information in life, from DNA to RNA to proteins.

Biomaterials: From Molecules to Engineered Tissue gives examples of the application areas of biomaterials involving molecules at one end of the spectrum and finished devices in the other.