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Saturday, 02 July 2016 19:08
Single Best Answers in Surgery
Single Best Answers in Surgery offers a new approach to revising for surgical finals; by not only indicating the correct answer to each question, but explaining the full rationale used for finding the answer in each case. This means the book is invaluable not only for self-testing before an exam, but will have long-term value throughout a student's surgical studies, through to finals exams and beyond. The questions are arranged into topic areas, followed by a practice exam for true self-assessment.
Single Best Answers in Surgery contains 450 questions and answers in the following areas:
(1) Pre- and Postoperative Management, (2) Fluid Balance and Parenteral Nutrition, (3) Trauma, (4) Abdomen: Upper GI and Hepatobiliary Surgery, (5) Abdomen: Lower GI Surgery (6) Abdomen: The Acute Abdomen, (7) Breast Surgery, (8) Vascular Surgery, (9) Urology, (10) Orthopaedics, (11) Neurosurgery, (12) ENT Surgery, (13) Ophthalmic Surgery, (14) Lumps, Bumps, Skin and Hernias, (15) Practice exam
Produced by an excellent team of authors and with an introduction by Editorial Advisor Professor Sir Ara Darzi KBE.
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Saturday, 02 July 2016 17:23
Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 19th Ed.
About the Author
Dennis Kasper, MD is Professor of Medicine at Harvard and a leading researcher of the health and disease implications related to host-microbe interactions and the human microbiome.
Anthony Fauci, MD is Director of the National Institutes for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and recipient of the Lasker Prize for Medicine. He is a leading authority in HIV and AIDS, immunology, and management of Ebola Virus Disease.
Dan Longo, MD is Deputy Editor, New England Journal of Medicine and Professor of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School. Dr. Longo is a highly regarded cancer specialist.
Stephen Hauser MD is Robert A. Fishman Distinguished Professor and Chair, Department of Neurology, UCSF School of Medicine. He is a leading authority on multiple sclerosis.
J. Larry Jameson, MD, PhD is Robert G. Dunlop Professor of Medicine, Dean, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, and Executive Vice President, University of Pennsylvania Health System.
Joseph Loscalzo MD, PhD is Hersey Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine, Harvard Medicine School and a leading authority in many aspects of cardiovascular medicine.
Anthony Fauci, MD is Director of the National Institutes for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and recipient of the Lasker Prize for Medicine. He is a leading authority in HIV and AIDS, immunology, and management of Ebola Virus Disease.
Dan Longo, MD is Deputy Editor, New England Journal of Medicine and Professor of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School. Dr. Longo is a highly regarded cancer specialist.
Stephen Hauser MD is Robert A. Fishman Distinguished Professor and Chair, Department of Neurology, UCSF School of Medicine. He is a leading authority on multiple sclerosis.
J. Larry Jameson, MD, PhD is Robert G. Dunlop Professor of Medicine, Dean, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, and Executive Vice President, University of Pennsylvania Health System.
Joseph Loscalzo MD, PhD is Hersey Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine, Harvard Medicine School and a leading authority in many aspects of cardiovascular medicine.
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Tuesday, 14 June 2016 08:23
Parenteral Vaccination Can Be an Effective Means of Inducing Protective Mucosal Responses
ABSTRACT
The current paradigm in vaccine development is that nonreplicating vaccines delivered parenterally fail to induce immune responses in mucosal tissues. However, both clinical and experimental data have challenged this concept, and numerous studies have shown that induction of mucosal immune responses after parenteral vaccination is not a rare occurrence and might, in fact, significantly contribute to the protection against mucosal infections afforded by parenteral vaccines. While the mechanisms underlying this phenomenon are not well understood, the realization that parenteral vaccination can be an effective means of inducing protective mucosal responses is paradigm-shifting and has potential to transform the way vaccines are designed and delivered.
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Sunday, 22 May 2016 06:40
Radioisotopes – Applications in Bio-Medical Science
Description: The book Radioisotopes-Applications in Bio-Medical Science contains two sections: Radioisotopes and Radiations in Bioscience and Radioisotopes and Radiology in Medical Science. Section I includes chapters on radioisotope production, radio-labeled nano-particles, radioisotopes and nano-medicine, use of radiations in insects, drug research, medical radioisotopes and use of radioisotopes in interdisciplinary fields etc.
In Section II, chapters related to production of metal PET (positron emission tomography) radioisotopes, 3-dimensional and CT (computed tomography) scan, SS nuclear medicine in imaging, cancer diagnose and treatments have been included. The subject matter will by highly useful to the medical and paramedical staff in hospitals, as well as researchers and scholars in the field of nuclear medicine medical physics and nuclear bio-chemistry etc.
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Saturday, 14 May 2016 06:01
Cancer Imaging: Lung and Breast Carcinomas
Description: With cancer-related deaths projected to rise to 10.3 million people by 2020, the need to prevent, diagnose, and cure cancer is greater than ever. This book presents readers with the most up-to-date imaging instrumentation, general and diagnostic applications for various cancers, with an emphasis on lung and breast carcinomas--the two major worldwide malignancy types. This book discusses the various imaging techniques used to locate and diagnose tumors, including ultrasound, X-ray, color Doppler sonography, PET, CT, PET/CT, MRI, SPECT, diffusion tensor imaging, dynamic infrared imaging, and magnetic resonance spectroscopy. It also details strategies for imaging cancer, emphasizing the importance of the use of this technology for clinical diagnosis. Imaging techniques that predict the malignant potential of cancers, response to chemotherapy and other treatments, recurrence, and prognosis are also detailed.
- Concentrates on the application of imaging technology to the diagnosis and prognosis of lung and breast carcinomas, the two major worldwide malignancies
- Addresses the relationship between radiation dose and image quality
- Discusses the role of molecular imaging in identifying changes for the emergence and progression of cancer at the cellular and/or molecular levels
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Tuesday, 10 May 2016 19:58
Special Procedures and Troubleshooting | COULTER® EPICS® XL™ Flow Cytometer | COULTER EPICS XL-MCL™ Flow Cytometer | BECKMAN COULTER
Use the Reference manual for in-depth information on the principles of flow cytometry, information about what your instrument does, the methods it uses, its specifications, and information on installation, safety, and system options.
Use the Getting Started manual to become familiar with the controls and indicators for your system and to learn about protocols, regions, panels, and the basic skills you need to operate the system. This manual also has an overview of the software.
Use the Operator’s Guide for the day-to-day running of your instrument. Go through the detailed step-by-step procedures of startup, quality control (QC), running samples, analyzing data, printing reports, reviewing QC data, and shutdown.
Use the Data Management manual for instructions on how to export, save, copy, move, archive, and delete files. It also has information about the types of files your system creates and uses, instructions for working with QC features, and instructions for setting up the report template that you need to create your patient reports.
Use the Special Procedures and Troubleshooting manual to clean, replace, or adjust a component of the instrument. The Troubleshooting tables and error messages appear at the back of the manual.
Use the Operating Summary as a quick reference for basic procedures.
Use the Master Index to easily locate a topic in any of your manuals.
Use the User's Comment Card in the Reference manual to give us your comments about the manual and ways to improve it.
Use the Getting Started manual to become familiar with the controls and indicators for your system and to learn about protocols, regions, panels, and the basic skills you need to operate the system. This manual also has an overview of the software.
Use the Operator’s Guide for the day-to-day running of your instrument. Go through the detailed step-by-step procedures of startup, quality control (QC), running samples, analyzing data, printing reports, reviewing QC data, and shutdown.
Use the Data Management manual for instructions on how to export, save, copy, move, archive, and delete files. It also has information about the types of files your system creates and uses, instructions for working with QC features, and instructions for setting up the report template that you need to create your patient reports.
Use the Special Procedures and Troubleshooting manual to clean, replace, or adjust a component of the instrument. The Troubleshooting tables and error messages appear at the back of the manual.
Use the Operating Summary as a quick reference for basic procedures.
Use the Master Index to easily locate a topic in any of your manuals.
Use the User's Comment Card in the Reference manual to give us your comments about the manual and ways to improve it.
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Sunday, 08 May 2016 07:51
Handbook of Obesity Intervention for the Lifespan
Description: This book Edited by Larry C. James, Wright State University, Dayton, OH, USA John Linton, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Charleston Environmental, genetic, psychological, and societal factors interact to produce obesity, a chronic condition of epidemic proportions. The Handbook of Obesity Intervention for the Lifespan guides professionals in meeting this complex challenge with a multidisciplinary palette of evidence-based interventions that can be tailored to men and women across the lifespan, regardless of background.
This unique reference combines salient research data and hands-on clinical applications for use with overweight patients, from the very young to the very old, and includes a “treatment resources” section with extra materials to bolster therapy-all geared toward respectful, encouraging treatment and lasting weight-loss results. Key features of the Handbook: Review of the obesity literature, both pediatric and adult. Exercise interventions for children and adults. Lifestyle interventions for adolescents, adults, and seniors. Weight-related cultural issues throughout the lifespan. Bariatric surgery: when is it indicated? How successful is it? The ten critical steps to healthy weight loss. Clinical resources, patient self-help materials, and useful websites. With excess weight contributing to some 300,000 deaths in the U.S. each year, the Handbook of Obesity Intervention for the Lifespan will be welcomed-and consulted frequently-by clinical and health psychologists, psychiatrists, primary care providers, and nutritionists.
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Saturday, 07 May 2016 06:28
Neuroimaging in Addiction
Description: Neuroimaging in Addiction presents an up-to-date, comprehensive review of the functional and structural imaging human studies that have greatly advanced our understanding of this complex disorder. Approaching addiction from a conceptual rather than a substance-specific perspective, this book integrates broad neuropsychological constructs that consider addiction as a neuroplastic process with genetic, developmental, and substance-induced contributions.
The internationally recognized contributors to this volume are leaders in clinical imaging with expertise that spans the addiction spectrum.
Following a general introduction, an overview of neural circuitry and modern non-invasive imaging techniques provides the framework for subsequent chapters on reward salience, craving, stress, impulsivity and cognition. Additional topics include the use of neuroimaging for the assessment of acute drug effects, drug-induced neurotoxicity, non-substance addictive behaviors, and the application of imaging genetics to identify unique intermediate phenotypes. The book concludes with an exploration of the future promise for functional imaging as guide to the diagnosis and treatment of addictive disorders.
Scientists and clinicians will find the material in this volume invaluable in their work towards understanding the addicted brain, with the overall goal of improved prevention and treatment outcomes for patients.
Features a Foreword by Edythe London, Director of the Center for Addictive Behaviors, University of California at Los Angeles.
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Saturday, 07 May 2016 06:22
Neuroimaging in Developmental Clinical Neuroscience
Description: Modern neuroimaging offers tremendous opportunities for gaining insights into normative development and a wide array of developmental neuropsychiatric disorders. Focusing on ontogeny, this text covers basic processes involved in both healthy and atypical maturation, and also addresses the range of neuroimaging techniques most widely used for studying children. This book will enable you to understand normative structural and functional brain maturation and the mechanisms underlying basic developmental processes; become familiar with current knowledge and hypotheses concerning the neural bases of developmental neuropsychiatric disorders; and learn about neuroimaging techniques, including their unique strengths and limitations. Coverage includes normal developmental processes, atypical processing in developmental neuropsychiatric disorders, ethical issues, neuroimaging techniques and their integration with psychopharmacologic and molecular genetic research approaches, and future directions. This comprehensive volume is an essential resource for neurologists, neuropsychologists, psychiatrists, pediatricians, and radiologists concerned with normal development and developmental neuropsychiatric disorders.
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Saturday, 07 May 2016 05:52
The Cook's Herb Garden
Description: With a catalog of 150 different culinary herbs and their varieties, more than 30 recipes, step-by-step photographs on how to plant, nurture, harvest, and store, and flavor charts that list the best herbs to partner with popular ingredients, The Cook's Herb Garden shows you how to grow your own supply of herbs whether on a window ledge, in pots, on the patio, or in a vegetable garden.
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Saturday, 07 May 2016 05:44
Clinical Case Studies for the Family Nurse Practitioner
Description: Clinical Case Studies for the Family Nurse Practitioner is a key resource for advanced practice nurses and graduate students seeking to test their skills in assessing, diagnosing, and managing cases in family and primary care. Composed of more than 70 cases ranging from common to unique, the book compiles years of experience from experts in the field. It is organized chronologically, presenting cases from neonatal to geriatric care in a standard approach built on the SOAP format. This includes differential diagnosis and a series of critical thinking questions ideal for self-assessment or classroom use.
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Saturday, 07 May 2016 05:35
Energy Healing: The Essentials of Self-Care
Description: True wellness begins at the energetic level. As traditional healers have known for thousands of years—and as modern medicine is affirming today—we have a subtle energy field that is as important to our well-being as our physical body is. With Energy Healing, integrative physician Ann Marie Chiasson offers a complete guidebook of easy-to-use energy practices to enhance our health and vitality. Drawing from the material she teaches at Dr. Andrew Weil’s Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine, Dr. Chiasson explores:
- Our subtle anatomy—understanding the chakras, meridians, and the key principles of energy medicine
- Self-diagnosis techniques for sensing the movement of energy in our bodies
- Practices for daily self-care and specific techniques to address energy blocks often seen in common illnesses and health issues
- Stories about how energy moves in and around us for healing— and why these stories themselves can enable us to heal
- Why our energy wanes as we age, and how we can replenish our vitality from sources in the world around us
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Saturday, 07 May 2016 05:24
Advances in Cancer Research, Volume 84
Description: The Advances in Cancer Research series provides invaluable information on the exciting and fast-moving field of cancer research. This volume presents outstanding and original reviews on a variety of topics, including gene expression in inherited breast cancer, multiparameter analyses of cell cycle regulation in tumorigenesis, Rho GTPases in transformation and metastasis, the myc oncogene, genetic requirements for the episomal maintenance of oncogenic herpesvirus genomes, treatment of Epstein-Barr virus-associated malignancies with specific T cells, the role of glycogen synthase kinase-3 in cancer, chronic immune activation and inflammation in the pathogenesis of AIDS and cancer, and molecular biology of Hodgkin's lymphoma.
- Gene Expression in Inherited Breast Cancer
- Multiparameter Analyses of CellCycle Regulatory Proteins in Human Breast Cancer: A Key to Definition of Separate Pathways in Tumorigenesis
- Rho GTPases in Transformation and Metastasis
- The myc Oncogene: Marvelously Complex
- Genetic Requirements for the Episomal Maintenance of Oncogenic Herpevirus Genomes
- Treatment of Epstein-Barr Virus-Associated Malignancies with Specific T Cells
- Role of Glycogen Synthase Kinase-3 in Cancer: Regulation Wnts and Other Signaling Pathways
- Chronic Immune Activation and Inflammation in the Pathogenesis of AIDS and Cancer
- Molecular Biology of Hodgkin's Lymphoma
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Saturday, 07 May 2016 05:05
CT Anatomy for Radiotherapy
Description: Knowledge of CT anatomy is increasingly vital in daily radiotherapy practice, especially with more widespread use of cross-sectional image-guided radiotherapy (IGRT) techniques. Existing CT anatomy texts are predominantly written for the diagnostic practitioner and do not always address the radiotherapy issues while emphasising structures that are not common to radiotherapy practice. CT Anatomy for Radiotherapy is a new radiotherapy-specific text that is intended to prepare the reader for CT interpretation for both IGRT and treatment planning. It is suitable for undergraduate students, qualified therapy radiographers, dosimetrists and may be of interest to oncologists and registrars engaged in treatment planning. All essential structures relevant to radiotherapy are described and depicted on 3D images generated from radiotherapy planning systems. System-based labelled CT images taken in relevant imaging planes and patient positions build up understanding of relational anatomy and CT interpretation. Images are accompanied by comprehensive commentary to aid with interpretation. This simplified approach is used to empower the reader to rapidly gain image interpretation skills. The book pays special attention to lymph node identification as well as featuring a unique section on Head and Neck Deep Spaces to help understanding of common pathways of tumour spread. Fully labelled CT images using radiotherapy-specific views and positioning are complemented where relevant by MR and fusion images. A brief introduction to image interpretation using IGRT devices is also covered. The focus of the book is on radiotherapy and some images of common tumour pathologies are utilised to illustrate some relevant abnormal anatomy. Short self-test questions help to keep the reader engaged throughout.
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Saturday, 07 May 2016 04:56
The Medical Book: From Witch Doctors to Robot Surgeons, 250 Milestones in the History of Medicine
Description: Following his hugely successful The Math Book and The Physics Book, Clifford Pickover now chronicles the advancement of medicine in 250 entertaining, illustrated landmark events. Touching on such diverse subspecialties as genetics, pharmacology, neurology, sexology, and immunology, Pickover intersperses “obvious” historical milestones-the Hippocratic Oath, general anesthesia, the Human Genome Project-with unexpected and intriguing topics like “truth serum,” the use of cocaine in eye surgery, and face transplants.
Internationally renowned author Clifford Pickover has published more than 40 books, translated into over a dozen languages. He is an associate editor for several journals and the author of over 200 articles on various subjects. Dr. Pickover received his PhD from Yale Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry. He holds over 80 US patents for inventions dealing with computing technologies and interfaces, and his website, pickover.com, has received millions of visits.
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Saturday, 07 May 2016 04:38
Pharmacotherapy of Asthma
Description: Standing as the only text focused on the pharmaceutical treatment of asthma, this reference details the pharmacology, mechanisms of action, efficacy, and safety of every drug currently used in the management and care of asthma patients. Internationally renowned authorities cover published practice guidelines, treatment plans, pharmacologic agents, and clinical studies to provide the most authoritative and up-to-date information on the use of medications to control and prevent this common condition.
Reviewing the role of pharmacotherapy in the overall management of asthma, this guide:
- Reviews the pharmacology and clinical use of inhaled corticosteroids, beta adrenergic agonists, leukotriene modifiers, combination products, and many other asthma drugs
- Provides a practical framework for the optimal pharmacotherapy of asthma, focusing on outpatient therapy
- Examines international guidelines for the drug treatment of asthma.
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