Pseudomonas aeruginosa causes infections resistant to many antimicrobials. This book studies the β-lactamases that create resistance to critical drugs. It shows that while molecular methods are the gold standard for detection, they are very costly and require expertise.
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.
Voice Classification by Phonetography
An essential guideline for all voice professionals. This book uses phonetographic analysis to present an age- and gender-specific pattern card of the human voice, based on a database of more than 1000 phonetograms, enabling basic voice classification for education and therapy.
Surgical Education and Training in Pakistan
This book covers starting a surgical training program in Pakistan, detailing how to impart skills, evaluate residents, and develop professional ethics. It also offers insights into career counseling and trainee rights, with personal monologues from renowned practitioners.
Orthoculogy is a neurological treatment for nearsightedness, effective for children and adolescents. This book is for parents and eye care specialists interested in treating young myopic clients, and for adults seeking to treat their own nearsightedness.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This book identifies the main biochemical changes in several diseases and their biochemical markers, highlighting how they can be used in diagnosis.
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 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.
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.