The Enlightenment of Evolutionary Medicine
This book applies evolutionary theory to human physiology, disease, and culture. It reveals how maladaptation causes modern diseases like obesity and diabetes, and how evolutionary principles now guide the development of new drugs and cancer therapies.
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.
Understand and manage the complications affecting one in five early pregnancies. This up-to-date guide covers their causes, diagnosis, and treatment. A vital resource for healthcare providers and the public.
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 offers an ethical analysis of challenges in COVID-19 research, vaccination, and therapy. It confronts the dilemma of who to treat when life-saving resources are limited and highlights the necessity of a global bioethical framework for pandemic management.
Amidst the rise of chronic diseases, this book provides insight into physiology, molecular biology, and genetics to raise awareness about nutrition. It shows how food is not only for disease prevention, but for co-adjuvant and sustainable treatment.
This book describes the latest knowledge on hereditary colorectal cancer syndromes, focusing on management, surveillance, and screening. It discusses multidisciplinary care, risk estimation, genetic information, and future developments in this evolving field.
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.
This book identifies the main biochemical changes in several diseases and their biochemical markers, highlighting how they can be used in diagnosis.
This book discusses emerging diabetes technology like insulin pumps, closed-loop systems, and continuous glucose monitoring, providing essential resources and advice for successful self-management of Type 1 diabetes.
Mankind is in an arms race with drug-resistant pathogens. This book reveals how benign bacteria become pathogenic by acquiring new genes and proposes a third strategy beyond drugs and vaccines: achieving herd resistance by enhancing our protective intestinal microbiota.
Get answers to your headache questions. Experienced authors cover common issues: diagnosis, triggers, lifestyle, and medical management for everything from migraine to concussions. This book is an excellent resource for patients, their families, and clinicians.
Pediatric glycometabolic disorders are often considered a specialist field, but the diagnosis of type 1 diabetes, hypoglycemia, and metabolic syndrome is not. This book provides the trainee pediatric specialist with robust preliminary knowledge of the field.
From a lethal poison to one of medicine’s most versatile agents. This book is a compilation of botulinum toxin’s uses in the oral and maxillofacial regions, detailing its pharmacology and applications for TMJ disorders, bruxism, facial palsy, cosmetology, and more.
The Running of Hospitals
A senior NHS administrator charts the health service’s growth during a major reforming period, 1965-1985. This collection of noteworthy articles, brought together for the first time, is essential for anyone interested in the history of the NHS.
Living Well with Cancer
This book uses solution-focused thinking to show how life with cancer may be lived well. Written in a chatty but powerfully effective style, it is for people who have cancer, their families, and friends, as well as the health professionals who seek to help them.
Evidence-Based Eating
This accessible book summarizes the latest research in human nutrition and lifestyle, with fascinating historical context. It distinguishes high-quality evidence from personal anecdotes and clarifies the critical difference between correlation and causation.
This book chronicles the journey of the Epilepsy Society of Australia, from humble beginnings to a leading professional body. It details the society’s growth, its role in advancing knowledge and technology, and its contribution to training some of the world’s leading experts.
Modern ideas about acute pneumonia ignore fundamental medical science, leading to declining treatment results. This book corrects the existing doctrine to help understand the causes of these failures and significantly improve the effectiveness of treatment for patients.
This book provides the objective and thoroughly scientific approach to the COVID-19 pandemic that has been missing. Based on hard published clinical research, it offers a measured explanation of the virus, its spread, diagnosis, management, vaccination, variants, and long-COVID.
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