This book reviews platelet rich plasma therapy, covering its preparation, controversies, and its future combined with stem cells. It explores how PRP’s growth factors enhance the body’s healing capacity. For dermatologists, plastic surgeons, orthopedicians, and physicians.
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.
Insights into Genetic Retinal Diseases
This definitive guide from leading experts covers cutting-edge research in genetic retinal diseases. It delves into next-generation sequencing, unveiling unknown mutations and innovative diagnostic tools and treatments that hold the key to preserving and restoring vision.
This book explores an organism’s development in health and disease from the viewpoints of biochemistry, biophysics, and thermodynamics. It offers a broad perspective on the interaction between an organism and its environment and the mechanisms that maintain its internal energy.
Explore hot topics in Microbiology, from the gut microbiota’s role in allergies and obesity to vaccines and oil prospection. Written to be accessible for students, microbiologists, and anyone interested in the field.
This book is the first to summarise the ultrastructure of pathogenic bacteria under different conditions. Presenting results from extensive studies, it describes similar morphological changes across species, suggesting universal adaptation mechanisms to changing environments.
The first comprehensive guide to facial aging, for general readers and scientists alike. This book takes a step-by-step approach, from basic background to cutting-edge techniques developed by the author. Using many photos, it provides an intuitive understanding of the field.
Health, Communication and Multicultural Communities
For healthcare professionals, students, mediators, and interpreters, this is a practical handbook on communicating in multicultural settings. It is not a theoretical book but is oriented towards reflection and practice, drawing from years of experience.
This book links chronic degenerative diseases to inflammation, blending scientific findings with folklore. It explores how natural remedies can halt the progression of chronic disease by acting on this root cause. A concise guide for students and medical practitioners.
Tuberculosis and Co-infection with HIV-AIDS
This exhaustive book on Tuberculosis incorporates the most recent research on its history, global spread, co-infection with HIV-AIDS, and novel therapies. Supplemented with figures, it helps students grasp the facts with full visualisation of the concepts.
The neurodiversity movement alleges that neurologically divergent individuals must struggle for their civil rights. This book explores these questions, examining the policies and practices of institutions like higher education, social support, and healthcare.
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.
This book advances an evidence-based, unifying view of sarcoidosis that accounts for its baffling features. It challenges prevailing premises on its nature, causation, and treatment by positing plausible mechanisms and sketching 20 fundamental questions for future investigation.
Written by neurosonology experts, this volume details the ‘science’ and ‘art’ of performing these tests. With representative cases from clinical practice, it serves as a reference for sonographers and neurologists on transcranial Doppler and cervical duplex exams.
This volume provides concise, essential information on common non-neoplastic liver diseases. It is a useful guide for pathologists and trainees, with checklists to guide workup and reporting. It is also a good reference for hepatologists, other clinicians, and researchers.
Psychotherapy in Pain Management
This timely, neuroscience-based guide presents the Clinical Biopsychological Model for treating chronic pain. It offers novel strategies for addressing negative memories, interpersonal stressors, and depression, with detailed guidance for assessment and treatment.
This book provides a historical and applicable overview of current Interventional Oncology (IO) approaches. It explores treatment options, medical breakthroughs, and the disease processes themselves. This up-to-date review is crucial for learners and current interventionalists.
The Climate and COVID-19
This book explores the critical link between climate and the COVID-19 pandemic. It provides insights into the pandemic’s biological trends, the challenges for frontline workers, and debates future forecasts and the transition back to normalcy.
Music
This book explores applications of music in healthcare with research from music therapy, sociology, and psychology. International authors present how music participation creates community, promotes health, and delivers patient-centred care.
Transdisciplinarity and Translationality in High Dilution Research
Evidence for the biological effects of high dilutions is often ignored by the scientific community. This book provides direct access to the latest research, offering a sound, evidence-based “no” to the question: “Is homeopathy really that implausible?” An essential contribution.