Books in Biotechnology in health care

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Digital Health

• 1st Edition
• October 21, 2024
• Dipu Patel
• English
• Paperback 978-0-443-23901-4

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• eBook 978-0-443-23902-1

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Digital Health: Telemedicine and Beyond describes practical ways to use digital health tools in clinical practice. With a strong focus on case studies and patient outcomes, this title provides an overview of digital medicine, terms, concepts, and applications for the multidisciplinary clinical practitioner. Chapters provide a concise, yet comprehensive understanding of digital health, including telemedicine, mHealth, EHRs, and the benefits and challenges of each. The book gives insights on risks and benefits associated with storing and transmitting patient information via digital tools and educates clinicians in the correct questions to ask for advocacy regarding state laws, scope of practice, and medicolegal implications.It also addresses the ethical and social challenges that digital health raises, how to engage patients to improve shared decision-making models and how digital health tools can be integrated into clinical practice. This book is a valuable resource for clinicians and medical educators of all health professions, including physicians, physician associates, nurses, pharmacists, physical therapists, occupational therapists, speech therapists, students, and all those who wish to broaden their knowledge in the allied field.

Overcoming Cancers Resistant to HER-2 Antibodies

• 1st Edition
• Volume 2
• July 15, 2024
• Benjamin Bonavida
• English
• Hardback 978-0-12-816408-2

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• eBook 978-0-12-816738-0

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Overcoming Cancers Resistant to HER-2 Antibodies provides general updated information on the resistance of various human cancers to anti-HER2 therapeutic antibodies. The book also discusses the description of various sensitizing agents that can reverse resistance when used in combination with anti-HER2 antibodies. There have been a lot of reports in which the treatment with anti-HER2 antibodies for various cancers has resulted in clinical responses; however, there have been also subsets of cancer patients who did not respond initially, and several responding patients developed resistance following treatments. Sections cover Lapatinib, Ganetespib, Paclitaxel, Celecoxib, Emantasine, Liposomal Doxorubicin, and Kinase Inhibitors.This book is a valuable source for cancer researchers, oncologists, pharmacologists and different members of the biomedical field interested in fighting cancer resistance to HER-2 antibodies.

Metaverse Technologies in Healthcare

• 1st Edition
• July 11, 2024
• Rajesh Kumar Dhanaraj + 4 more
• English
• Paperback 978-0-443-13565-1

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• eBook 978-0-443-13566-8

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Metaverse Technologies in Healthcare focuses on data analysis, utilizing the possibilities of data to increase the effectiveness of healthcare organizations. As healthcare services aim to maintain the physical, mental, social and emotional well-being of human lives while the Metaverse is a blend of technological trends- Artificial Intelligence (AI), Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR), collectively, they can deliver treatments and medicines, lower costs, and substantially enhance patient outcomes. The book redefines the digital health experience and describes the advantages of the Metaverse-based NFT technology in the healthcare sector, facilitating NFT avatars to interact with targeted audiences, and more.

Fundamentals of Radiation Oncology

• 4th Edition
• June 20, 2024
• Hasan Murshed
• English
• eBook 978-0-443-22209-2

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Fundamentals of Radiation Oncology: Physical, Biological, and Clinical Aspects, Fourth Edition, is written by a team of renowned experts. This book is a must-have resource for anyone practicing radiation oncology. From basic principles to more-advanced planning and delivery of radiation therapy to treat cancer, this book is a go-to resource for mastering the art and science of radiation oncology.

Modern Inference Based on Health-Related Markers

• 1st Edition
• March 18, 2024
• Albert Vexler + 2 more
• English
• Paperback 978-0-12-815247-8

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Modern Inference Based on Health Related Markers: Biomarkers and Statistical Decision Making provides a compendium of biomarkers based methodologies for respective health related fields and health related marker-specific biostatistical techniques. The book introduces correct and efficient testing mechanisms, including procedures based on bootstrap and permutation methods with the aim of making these techniques assessable to practical researchers. In the biostatistical aspect, it describes how to correctly state testing problems, but it also includes novel results, which have appeared in current statistical publications.In addition, the book discusses also modern applied statistical developments that consider data-driven techniques, including empirical likelihood methods and other simple and efficient methods to derive statistical tools for use in health related studies.

Secondary Metabolites and Biotherapeutics

• 1st Edition
• February 29, 2024
• Awanish Kumar + 1 more
• English
• Paperback 978-0-443-16158-2

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• eBook 978-0-443-16159-9

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Secondary Metabolites and Biotherapeutics presents the latest biotechnological advancements in the production of target secondary metabolites for medicinal use, including topics such as transcriptomics, nanotechnology, gene editing tools like CRISPR/CAS, secondary metabolites source and production.  Secondary metabolites derived from plants as a response to stress have always played a vital role in the pharmaceutical industry to produce medicines. However, their limited production in plants have always raised concerns for large-scale production. With the advancement of modern biotechnology, researchers around the globe are now able to engineer plants with specific chemical compositions.This book is a valuable resource to researchers in biotechnology, medical sciences, pharmaceutical biotechnology, pharmacology and plant biology.

New Horizons in Natural Compound Research

• 1st Edition
• April 18, 2023
• Surya Nandan Meena + 3 more
• English
• Paperback 978-0-443-15232-0

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• eBook 978-0-443-15233-7

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New Horizons in Natural Compound Research provides the latest updates in natural compound research (plant, microbes, algae, fungi) and their novel applications in health, agriculture and environment. The book gives recent advances in the extraction of natural compounds, cutting-edge approaches for natural compound purifications, and emerging trends in natural compound screening and identification. In addition, it provides a detailed explanation of the databases and libraries of natural compounds, as well as their significance. Sections focus on research and multidisciplinary practical techniques of natural product research, encouraging young scientists to pursue unique research while also generating strong research ideas. From a future perspective, this book acts as a guide to identify potential areas and new research opportunities in the field of natural products and their service towards human beings, animals and the environment.

Magnetic Resonance Imaging of The Pelvis

• 1st Edition
• January 17, 2023
• Neeraj Lalwani
• English
• Paperback 978-0-323-89854-6

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• eBook 978-0-323-90218-2

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Magnetic Resonance Imaging of The Pelvis: A Practical Approach presents comprehensive information to deal withcommonly encountered pelvic pathologies. The content is developed by disease-focused experts aiming to share theirexperience to make the information easily applicable to clinical setting and research. The book covers a wide range of pelvic pathologies, and each chapter focuses on problem-solving approaches andincludes tips and advice for multiple real-world scenarios. It also provides comprehensive-yet-tailored protocols, clearguidelines for indications, a detailed discussion of pathologies, descriptions of important differential diagnoses, and pitfalls and their solutions. It is a valuable resource for radiologists, researchers, clinicians, and members of medical and biomedical fields who needto understand better how to use MRI to base their diagnosis or advance their research work.

Smartphone Apps for Health and Wellness

• 1st Edition
• January 6, 2023
• John Higgins + 1 more
• English
• Paperback 978-0-323-99271-8

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Smartphone Apps for Health and Wellness helps readers navigate the world of smartphone apps to direct them to those which have had the best medical evidence in obtaining the users’ goal. The book covers the history of apps, how they work, and specific apps to improve health and wellness in order to improve patients outcomes. It discusses several types of apps, including apps for medical care, sleeping, relaxation, nutrition, exercise and weight loss. In addition, sections present the features of a good app to empower readers to make their own decision when evaluating which one to use. This is a valuable resource for clinicians, physicians, researchers and members of biomedical field who are interested in taking advantage of smartphone apps to improve overall health and wellness of patients.

Omics Approaches and Technologies in COVID-19

• 1st Edition
• December 1, 2022
• Debmalya Barh + 1 more
• English
• Paperback 978-0-323-91794-0

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• eBook 978-0-323-98621-2

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The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the entire world in an unprecedented way since 2019. However, novel and innovative applications of various omics, computational, and smart technologies have helped manage the pandemic of the 21st century in a very effective manner. Omics approaches and technologies in COVID-19 presents up-to-date knowledge on omics, genetic engineering, mathematical and computational approaches, and advanced technologies in the diagnosis, prevention, monitoring, and management of COVID-19. This book contains 26 chapters written by academic and industry experts from more than 15 countries. Split into three sections (Omics; Artificial Intelligence and Bioinformatics; and Smart and Emerging Technologies), it brings an overview of novel technologies under omics such as, genomic, metagenomic, pangenomic, metabolomics and proteomics in COVID-19. In addition, it discusses hostpathogen interactions and interactomics, management options, application of genetic engineering, mathematical modeling andsimulations, systems biology, and bioinformatics approaches in COVID-19 drug discovery and vaccine development. This is a valuable resource for students, biotechnologists, bioinformaticians, virologists, clinicians, and pharmaceutical, biomedical, and healthcare industry people who want to understand the promising omics and other technologies used in combating COVID-19 from various aspects.