Internal Medicine

The International Skeletal Society is now fifteen years old and as measured in human terms has outgrown its childhood. During this time the ISS has earned worldwide respect and praise for successful work. The International Skeletal Society is an...

Hormone Therapy: A Clinical Handbook provides a comprehensive overview on hormone replacement therapy, with a range of key features that differentiate it from other titles on the topic. This concise, handy title presents an interdisciplinary approach to...

An up-to-date overview of acute and chronic pancreatitis. The two authors with special interests in this field deal with the aetiology, pathophysiology, and clinical features of these diseases, as well as complications, treatment strategies, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789400988804Author M. VerstraeteFormat PaperbackPage Count 423Imprint SpringerPublisher SpringerWeight(grams) 734g

In this book on diabetes mellitus both the pathogenesis and treat- ment of the disease will be discussed. Pathogenetic studies have led to the distinction between type I and type II diabetes. In type I hyperglycaemia is due predominantly to insulin...

This was an important Symposium in a rapidly developing field of interest. It was designed to draw attention to areas which have been neglected in standard hepatology textbooks and to review areas of controversy. It was also meant to help bridge the...

Teach us to live that we may dread Unnecessary time in bed Get people up and we may save Our patients from an early grave. A most revealing paraphrase by Asher* of a verse by Bishop Thomas Ken more than adequately summarizes the plight of the immobilized...

The 19th annual meeting of the European Environmental Mutagen Society was held in Rhodes, Greece, from October 21st to 26th, 1989. The programme was chosen to explore what is currently known about the mechanisms of mutagenesis and carcinogenesis, induced...

Surgical skill and imaging technology in the field of neurosurgery have developed remarkably during the past decade. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), with high contrast resolution and multiplanar capabilities, allows for accurate preoperative...

clinical research in a geography depends on factors ranging from researcher potential to infrastructure and regulatory authority to ethical approaches. This book takes a snapshot of the state of clinical research in the MENA region and aims to propose...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781461339908Author Alfred EvansFormat PaperbackPage Count 584Imprint Springer-Verlag New York Inc.Publisher Springer-Verlag New York Inc.Weight(grams) 1163g

Gallstone disease has afflicted man since antiquity, but only in the past decade has it been recognized as a major health problem and been the subject of widespread investigation. This investiga- tion, initiated by the definition of the limits of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783036559735Author Katarzyna Taranta-JanuszFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Mdpi AGPublisher Mdpi AGWeight(grams) 853g

This socially conscious, culturally relevant book explores the little-known history and present climate of Black people in the medical field. It reveals the deficiencies in the American healthcare structure that have contributed to the mismanagement of...

The Brescia division of the Italian Association of Blood donors (AVIS Brescia) celebrated its 50th anniversary in 1985. The idea of organizing a Postgraduate Course on Viral Hepatitis on this occasion developed for ob vious reasons. Viral hepatitis is a...

,,1m Kleinsten die wirkliche Wahrheit gibt graBen Gedanken erst Klarheit" KARL THOMAS Each year sees the publication of hundreds of reports of experimental work on the lymphatic tissue, yet morphological studies of the cells involved can be counted...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781461334200Author David M. HerculesFormat PaperbackPage Count 381Imprint Springer-Verlag New York Inc.Publisher Springer-Verlag New York Inc.Weight(grams)...

Presenting detailed information on treatment of the obese patient, this handy, concise title is designed not only to educate practitioners about obesity but, most importantly, to provide practical strategies in the comprehensive approach to treating this...

CINDI is an European intervention programme against major noncommunicable diseases (NCD). 12 European countries, Canada, and Israel are participating in the programme which is coordinated by the World Health Organization. The book discribes the baseline...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783036540016Author Masaru TanakaFormat HardbackPage Count 266Imprint Mdpi AGPublisher Mdpi AGWeight(grams) 170g

There are many unanswered questions regarding the molecular nature of antibodies, components of complement, and other substances which participate in the immune response. The list of substances which need to be analyzed chemically is increasing. Plasma...

Part of the recognised Clinical Focus Series, this book is a guide to the management of diabetes mellitus. Beginning with discussion on the role of exercise and nutrition, the next chapters look at the characteristics of Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes. ...

This completely revised and updated edition of an outstanding text addresses the fundamental knowledge of epidemiological methods and statistics that can be applied to evolving systems, programs, technologies, and policies. This edition presents new...

The basic principles of the management of cerebral arteriovenous mal- formations were established during the first phase of the neurological attack on these problems between 1930 and 1960. The leaders were CUSHING, BAILEY and DANDY, but principally...

The book aims to cover basic physiologic functions of melatonin, and its therapeutic applications in humans for a variety of clinically relevant disorders. This book contains chapters on the recent aspects of melatonin physiology, its receptors and...

The Tenth International Conference on Intracellular Protein Catabolism was held in Tokyo Japan, October 30-November 3, 1994. under the auspices of the International Committee on Proteolysis (lCOP). ICOP meetings have been held biennially in the USA,...

Why anDther series .on infectiDus disease? The questiDn is a fair .one in view .of the proliferatiDn .of mDnDgraphs, texts, and periDdicals .on the vast subject .of infectiDus disease. The gDal .of this series is tD provide an additiDnal service tD the...

Rapid technical advances in medical imaging, including its growing application to drug/gene therapy and invasive/interventional procedures, have attracted significant interest in close integration of research in life sciences, medicine, physical sciences...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781649510211Author Ratna ChanduFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint Notion Press, Inc.Publisher Notion Press, Inc.Weight(grams) 435g

During the last decade it has become evident that the brain is an important target for hormones. Although it has been discovered only recently that the brain contains numerous peptide hormones, the role of pituitary and hypo- thalamic hormones in brain...

A detailed description of a new approach to perceptual analysis and processing of medical images is given. Instead of traditional pattern recognition a new method of image analysis is presented, based on a syntactic description of the shapes selected on...

2 Vol. 3: Hormones, Psychology and Behavior (1952). A range of interests was covered in respect to the influence of glucocorticoids on behavioral responses, as well as to the glucocorticoid status in various behavioral states and disorders. Vol. 4:...

Although it may seem a rash, even ill-conceived, undertaking to devote a mono graph to cerebral angiography at a time when CT seems to be the most important neuroradiologic procedure, this is definitely not the case. Moreover, the authors are aware of...

Two decades have elapsed since the publication of the earliest study from this clinic 13 concerning arteriovenous aneurysms. Although numerous communications , 36-40 have elaborated on our subsequent experiences with this lesion, it would appear...

Autoimmune myasthenia gravis (MG) is a classical autoimmune disease, for which the target antigen, nicotinic acetylcholine receptor, has been cloned, sequenced and biochemically characterized. Antibodies to acetylcholine receptors destroy acetylcholine...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Springer Book ArchivesBook InformationISBN 9783642682193Author D. PlattFormat PaperbackPage Count 490Imprint Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KPublisher...

For almost four decades the Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation has been con vening conferences relating to medicine, medical education, and health care in their broadest contexts. During the 1940s and 1950s the conferences focused on biomedical research, which...

Neurological Syndromes: A Clinical Guide to Symptoms and Diagnosis offers a concise, invaluable resource for understanding how a group of neurologic symptoms or signs collectively characterize a disease or disorder. Intended as a quick reference guide to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783640828036Author Dr Med Bernt-Dieter HuismansFormat PaperbackPage Count 28Imprint Grin PublishingPublisher Grin PublishingWeight(grams) 45g

In this book, the discussion of the normal and pathological aspects of anxiety is critically examined. A chapter on the molecular basis of anxiety is included, outlining the potential of such approach in the discovery of novel effective pharmacological...