The treatment of cancer patients must include quality of life. As this book shows, patients do not have equal access to cancer treatment around the world, and often basic diagnosis and treatment are lacking.
This collection explores current issues concerning glycolipids and their connection with diseases, the immune system, cancer, and infections. It offers a comprehensive presentation of current trends, data, and developments in health sciences, pharmacology, and industry.
Helping You Successfully Manage Your Headache and Migraine
Authored by a consultant neurologist with 20 years of experience, this book is for headache sufferers told “there is nothing else we can do.” Advising on how to alleviate and prevent symptoms, it provides a guide to understanding and self-managing your condition.
Diabetic Foot Management at the Primary Care Level
Diabetic foot complications are serious and difficult to manage. This book provides a concise, clinically focused guide to diagnosis and management at the primary care level. It highlights prevention, at-risk feet, and the latest international guidelines on various conditions.
The History of Medicine and Healthcare
This well-illustrated volume covers topics such as the history of psychiatry, biomedical ethics, and public health. Of special note is a paper by internationally renowned historian Dr Peter L. Twohig.
Alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) delivers toxins to cancer cells for targeted chemotherapy. More importantly, AFP+toxin harnesses the patient’s immune system to attack cancer by depleting suppressor cells, activating a natural immune response with promising results in patients.
Reflecting on Presence in Nursing
Presence is essential in nursing: connecting with another person for healing. This book explores its importance through personal accounts from research and practice, allowing readers to reflect on finding meaning, joy, and delivering care in a truly relational way.
Acetylcholine is a universal messenger, from bacteria to humans. While best known as a neurotransmitter, our understanding of its action has completely changed. This book explores its vital physiological and toxicological importance, since it can be perturbed by many substances.
Despite its key role in medicine, epidemiology is faltering. No other specialty can track diseases in populations, assess health risks, or evaluate medical care. A lesson from COVID-19 is that enhancing this work is crucial for public health. This volume shows how.
This book provides up-to-date, evidence-based information on prenatal and neonatal cardiology. It presents a multidisciplinary approach to managing congenital heart defects in the fetus and newborn, covering advances in diagnosis, screening, and therapeutic treatment options.
This book provides up-to-date, evidence-based information on neonatal cardiology, presenting a multidisciplinary approach to managing infants with congenital heart defects. This second volume explores individual cardiac defects, cardiomyopathies, and hypertension.
Radiopharmaceuticals can diagnose, treat, and predict the aggressiveness of endocrine tumors. This book provides up-to-date insights into the diagnostic, therapeutic, and future approaches of nuclear medicine in the spirit of precision medicine for physicians and specialists.
Problem-Based Learning is an effective method of medical instruction that teaches students to think critically in a group environment. This book will help you harness the power of active learning and conduct an outstanding session and properly prepare for it.
A lost science of medicine is resurfacing. This book explores “caves of healing”—metaphorical caverns in the body and the earth—to unfold a new map of medicine that integrates mind, body, and environment, reviving the role of consciousness in our health.
This comprehensive collection explores state-of-the-art autoimmunity, its connection to related diseases, current trends, and future developments. A unique resource for medical educators, practitioners, and academics.
This practical, illustrated book provides a simple overview of Intra-operative neuromonitoring (IONM) to ensure neurological integrity during surgery. Uniquely authored by an experienced multidisciplinary team, this guide is an invaluable source for all staff and trainees.
Dr Samways Writes to the Editor
After early achievements in physics and medicine, Dr Daniel Samways’s prestigious career was thrown off course by tuberculosis. He turned to general practice, but his undiminished scientific curiosity was revealed in prolific writings that continue to resonate today.
This book describes experiments for modifying clinically used anticoagulants. It establishes the structure of the synthesized products through X-ray analysis, identifies unexpected new structures, and highlights their usefulness through biological and pharmacological experiments.
18 Stories of the Skin
When disease tears our skin apart, the trauma is both physical and emotional. This book gathers patient stories to find the fundamental humanity, compassion, and empathy for those who suffer, seeking to dignify each life in the face of an illness that is not their fault.
Our Self-Organized Brains
This book describes the dynamic nature of the brain and how it learns. Using a systemic approach to neuroscience, it introduces concepts of feedback control and self-organized systems in plain language for a holistic understanding of the human learning process.