This guide provides unique views on assessing and treating motor, cognitive, balance, and swallowing problems after neurological disease, especially in the elderly. It covers motor training for stroke, fall risk assessment, and new tools for cognitive and swallowing function.
Insights into Portuguese Medical History
This book uncovers the understudied history of medicine in Portugal. International scholars reveal the lives of physicians, responses to past pandemics, and analyses of medical culture, from defence against plague to the history of medicinal emeralds and spectacles.
In the quest for a ‘magic bullet’ against cancer, nanoparticles show great promise. These engineered nanostructures can target specific tumors, but their effectiveness must be weighed against toxicity. This book explores diverse nanotechnological advances.
This book discusses insulin’s role in health and the link between insulin resistance and diseases like Alzheimer’s and cancer. It provides an up-to-date review of the types, pathogenesis, and therapeutic strategies for managing this critical health issue.
This book explores ghrelin family peptides (GFPs), hormones involved in health and disease. It describes their physiological roles and how their dysregulation contributes to chronic illness, osteoporosis, and fractures, presenting emerging diagnostic and therapeutic benefits.
Based on years of original research, this book explores how hormones affect brain activity, behavior, and adaptation. It uncovers the origins of mental disorders in hormonal diseases and proposes the purposeful synthesis of new oligopeptide drugs for treatment.
How do we make rational decisions in medicine with contradictory data? This interdisciplinary book explores the scientific and ethical issues of proof, questioning the value of physicians’ experience, the relevance of data, and the reliability of biomedical knowledge.
The first International Handbook of Forest Therapy unites over 50 global experts to define this evidence-based public health approach. Drawing on three decades of research and the latest developments, this milestone work sets the baseline for its worldwide implementation.
Interstitial Lung Diseases
This groundbreaking update demystifies Interstitial Lung Disease, offering a fresh perspective on its diagnosis and cutting-edge strategies for management. From innovative diagnostic techniques to personalized treatments, this is an essential guide for healthcare professionals.
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.
This book collects interviews with eight master cardiovascular surgeons, trailblazers of the 20th century whose contributions affect medical practice today. Each interview offers insights on the surgeons’ personal and professional lives.
Intra-articular Corticosteroid Therapy for Knee Osteoarthritis
An essential guide to corticosteroid therapy for knee osteoarthritis. This resource demystifies treatment, exploring effectiveness, factors that predict response, and clinical management strategies based on the latest research. Enhance your treatment methods and patient care.
Introduction to Clinical Pharmacology
Built around patient presentation, this textbook advances from symptoms to diagnosis and treatment, mirroring clinical practice. It provides concise information on pharmacology, with relevant cases and questions. For medical and pharmacy students, practitioners, and pre-meds.
Many new pathologies and syndromes are caused by tiny, unsuspected foreign bodies. Knowing them is essential for correct diagnoses, without which no therapy can be effective. This book is an introduction to nanopathology, a field where so much still remains to be discovered.
This book challenges the idea that medical ethics in armed conflict is identical to peacetime. It explores the dual loyalty conflict for Military Health Care Professionals torn between military orders and professional codes when caring for the wounded under fire.
This book explores the p53 protein’s role in malignant hematologic diseases, impacting clinical management. It focuses on Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia’s progression to Richter Syndrome, where mutations lead to low survival and non-response to chemotherapy.
James Hill, a Dumfries Neurosurgeon
Shaped by the Scottish Enlightenment, surgeon James Hill (1703-1776) preferred his own observations to the teachings of past authorities. He achieved a grand reputation for his contribution to the treatment of head injuries. Though his legacy faded, this book documents his work.
This volume provides a theoretical background for labelling disaster victims and protecting their information. It discusses information processing and AI techniques to assist in disaster response and will be of interest to researchers in disaster, emergency, and data management.
This collection presents case studies and reflections on research bioethics from a Latin American perspective. It inspires comparative analyses of research with human subjects and explores the reception of global scientific ideas in the region.
Learning from Empire
With contributions from reputed faculty and researchers, this anthology addresses the dynamics of circulation of medical knowledge and the creation of webs of empire through medical curiosities, medical and architectural knowledge, medical manuscripts, and surgical knowledge.