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  • Reproductive Aging, An Issue of Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 45-4
    • Nanette Santoro + 1 more
    • English
    In consultation with Consulting Editor Dr. William Rayburn, Dr. Santor and Dr. Kravitz have put together an issue that comprehensively covers age-related changes in women. Their authors, from well-respected institutions, have contributed review articles on the following topics: Declining fertility with reproductive aging: How to protect your patient’s fertility by knowing the milestones; Onset of the transition into menopause: What are the earliest signs; Menstrual cycle changes as women approach the final menses: What matters; Menstrual cycle hormone changes and how they may link to symptoms; Symptom progression across the transition: Not all women are created equal; Cardiovascular implications of vasomotor symptoms and the menopausal transition; Depression and perimenopause :Hormones, genetics and environmental determinants of disease; Sleep, health, and metabolism: Food for thought; Bone health during the menopausal transition and beyond; Sexuality in midlife and beyond; Physical function –moving and aging; Genitourinary changes with aging; and Cognitive changes with reproductive aging, perimenopause, and menopause. Readers will come away with the latest clinical information they need to treat these patients and improve outcomes.

  • McKee's Pathology of the Skin

    • 5th Edition
    • J. Eduardo Calonje + 3 more
    • English
    Comprehensive and lavishly illustrated, McKee’s Pathology of the Skin, 5th Edition, is your reference of choice for up-to-date, authoritative information on dermatopathology. You’ll find clinical guidance from internationally renowned experts along with details on etiology, pathogenesis, histopathology, and differential diagnosis – making this unique reference unparalleled in its wealth of clinical and histopathological material. The 5th Edition of this classic text is a must-have resource for practicing dermatopathologists and general pathologists who sign out skin biopsies.

  • Inclusive Transport

    Fighting Involuntary Transport Disadvantages
    • 1st Edition
    • Hans Jeekel
    • English
    Inclusive Transport: Fighting Involuntary Transport Disadvantages offers readers profound and multifaceted insights into transportation and social equity, guiding transportation and urban studies researchers, planners, and policy makers in evaluating potential solutions to this complex issue. It considers discrimination and its societal consequences, providing a needed perspective on who is left out of transportation planning, and why. The book is systematically divided into 2 parts, Part A is problem oriented and explores the main problems to the transportation disadvantaged; accessibility and affordability. It looks at the consequences of non-accessibility, the problems non-car owners face, and the interplay between housing and transportation; Part B is policy oriented and analyses how current policies tend to forget transport disadvantages. It looks at pragmatic solutions for transport disadvantaged and ends with a design for inclusive transport, being a more radical approach combining sustainability challenges, people’s behaviours and emotions, creating more just and equitable mobility.

  • Peters' Atlas of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology

    • 7th Edition
    • Laura Nabarro + 2 more
    • English
    Newly organized and featuring new editors and hundreds of new images, Peters’ Atlas of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, Seventh Edition, brings you up to date with today’s greatest challenges in tropical medicine. Increased global travel, climate change, human conflict, short-term/large-sca... human assemblies, potent therapeutic agents, drug resistance, and vaccine misinformation have contributed to a greatly changed landscape in this complex field. This practical, highly visual guide provides more than 1,300 stunning illustrations, making it an authoritative parasitology resource for accurate diagnosis of complex diseases.

  • Polymeric Nanomaterials in Nanotherapeutics

    • 1st Edition
    • English
    Polymeric Nanomaterials in Nanotherapeutics describes how polymeric nanosensors and nanorobotics are used for biomedical instrumentation, surgery, diagnosis and targeted drug delivery for cancer, pharmacokinetics, monitoring of diabetes and healthcare. Key areas of coverage include drug administration and formulations for targeted delivery and release of active agents (drug molecules) to non-healthy tissues and cells. The book demonstrates how these are applied to dental work, wound healing, cancer, cardiovascular diseases, neurodegenerative disorders, infectious diseases, chronic inflammatory diseases, metabolic diseases, and more. Methods of administration discussed include oral, dental, topical and transdermal, pulmonary and nasal, ocular, vaginal, and brain drug delivery and targeting. Drug delivery topics treated in several subchapters includes materials for active targeting and cases study of polymeric nanomaterials in clinical trials. The toxicity and regulatory status of therapeutic polymeric nanomaterials are also examined. The book gives a broad perspective on the topic for researchers, postgraduate students and professionals in the biomaterials, biotechnology, and biomedical fields.

  • Otolaryngology, An Issue of Medical Clinics of North America

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 102-6
    • Stewart C. Matthew
    • English
    This issue of Medical Clinics, Guest Edited by C. Matthew Stewart, MD, is devoted to Otolaryngology. Articles in this issue include: Hearing Loss; Sinuses and Common Rhinologic Conditions; Dizziness and the Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery POV; Head and Neck Masses; Hoarseness; Aging Face; Pediatric Transitions; Chronic Ear Disease; Tinnitus; Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery System Diseases; Urgent Infections; Speech Language Pathologist Rehabilitation; and Facial Nerve Paralysis.

  • Ross & Wilson Pocket Reference Guide to Anatomy and Physiology

    • 1st Edition
    • Anne Muller
    • English
    The new Ross & Wilson Pocket Reference Guide to Anatomy and Physiology is a quick reference and revision guide designed specifically for the needs of nursing and allied health students, as well as those of paramedical science, operating department practice, and complementary therapy. The volume provides over 250 topics, each one presenting a key anatomical structure together with notes covering its anatomy, physiology and clinical relevance. Designed for portability, this helpful pocket guide is intended to facilitate and reinforce learning and comes with a helpful online self-assessment program containing a range of MCQs and anatomical labelling exercises.

  • Seguridad Clínica en los servicios de Emergencias Prehospitalarios

    • 1st Edition
    • M.ª Elena Castejón De La Encina
    • Spanish
    Primera obra en español editada específicamente para el ámbito de las emergencias sanitarias prehospitalarias. Se centra en la importancia del trabajo en equipo y en las características propias de la seguridad clínica. Para ello, propone estrategias de gestión para introducir pilares fundamentales de la seguridad clínica en los servicios de emergencias y dota de herramientas de mejora y buenas prácticas. Cuenta con la participación de 44 autores procedentes de varios países y que son expertos en los distintos aspectos que componen la cultura en seguridad clínica. Dirigida a estudiantes de los grados de Medicina y Enfermería, técnicos de emergencias sanitarias, paramédicos, alumnos de posgrado de emergencias Prehospitalarias, gestores de servicios de emergencias, profesionales sanitarios expertos en emergencias prehospitalarias, y docentes e investigadores clínicos.

  • Tratado de medicina del trabajo

    • 3rd Edition
    • Fernando Gil Hernández
    • Spanish
    Guía formativa, didáctica y práctica para profesionales relacionados con la salud laboral que aborda, con el máximo rigor y actualidad, los temas fundamentales que versan sobre la medicina del trabajo, así como las novedades más recientes. Además de actualizar de manera exhaustiva todos los capítulos de la anterior edición, esta nueva edición del Tratado de Medicina del Trabajo incorpora cuatro capítulos nuevos para abordar temas de gran interés como las auditorías en la prevención de riesgos laborales, la comunicación, información y negociación en la empresa y su importancia en materia de riesgos laborales y vigilancia de la salud, las drogas en el mundo laboral y las tecnopatías. A través de 62 capítulos distribuidos en un único volumen se presentan numerosos y diversos temas, tanto de carácter jurídico como técnico, que hacen que la obra sea de gran utilidad para profesionales de la salud laboral y para expertos de otros ámbitos que abordan cuestiones relacionadas con la salud ocupacional y la prevención de riesgos laborales. Tratado de referencia de especial interés para los residentes de medicina (MIR) y Enfermería (EIR) del Trabajo, así como para otros profesionales vinculados a este área como médicos de mutuas de accidentes, abogados, técnicos de prevención de riesgos laborales, peritos, etc.

  • Abernathy. Cirugía. Secretos

    • 7th Edition
    • Alden H. Harken + 1 more
    • Spanish
    El formato de la serie Secretos permite al lector aprovechar su tiempo al máximo gracias a su enfoque conciso, accesible, atractivo y muy eficaz. Ahora, con una organización de los contenidos mejorada que permite encontrar la información aún más fácilmente. El popular formato de preguntas y respuestas de la serie, que también incluye cuadros y tablas, todo ello con un estilo de fácil lectura, para que consultar y repasar la información sea rápido, sencillo y ameno. Completamente actualizado y con ilustraciones, imágenes y diagramas de flujo claros, que agilizan el estudio y la revisión. Los capítulos están escritos por expertos mundiales en cirugía. Los 100 secretos principales y los cuadros de puntos clave permiten revisar con rapidez los secretos que deben conocerse para lograr el éxito en la práctica de la cirugía y en los exámenes. Durante más de 30 años, la serie Secretos ha proporcionado a estudiantes y médicos residentes de todas las áreas de la asistencia sanitaria recursos concisos, dirigidos. Su tamaño de bolsillo permite consultarlo con rapidez o revisarlo en cualquier lugar y en todo momento.

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