Oral Cancer
This practical manual details the cause, prevention, and treatment of oral cancer. A lethal disease with rising incidence, half of all patients die within five years. This book provides pragmatic strategies to identify malignant disease at the earliest stage.
Based on research with 300 young Albanian males from post-conflict Kosovo, this book explores how physical training shapes the body. It reveals distinctive biological profiles in athletes and non-athletes, with vital implications for sports science, medicine, and public health.
Scientific Research on Health Inequalities
This book reviews the evidence on health inequalities, revealing the methodological limitations of the research. It suggests the causal effect of social position on health is a chimera, raising crucial questions for researchers and public health professionals.
A Patient’s Perspective on Spastic Tetraparesis Diagnosis
Unlike books by doctors that ignore the spastic tetraparesis diagnosis, this is written by someone with personal experience. It overviews how the condition affects the body, daily challenges, and ways to overcome them—from walking aids to exploring disability and sexuality.
Pseudoscience and Hypermedicalization
This book provides a critical analysis of burnout. Citing the inconsistencies and dangers of a general diagnosis with 140 symptoms and the absence of a negative diagnosis, it argues that burnout represents the widest medicalization of human life that we know of.
This book emphasizes the role of the extracellular matrix in regulating cell growth and death. It presents promising findings that trace elements Zn, Se, and Mn can inhibit the progression of colorectal cancer, offering hope for their potential therapeutic use in CRC patients.
The COVID-19 pandemic created new challenges for safe and effective pain medicine. This book provides practical guidance from experts on pharmacology, non-pharmacologic, and interventional procedures for all physicians, nurses, and allied health teams.
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.
Hepatitis C is a significant cause of mortality in hemodialysis patients. This book analyzes the “two sides of the same coin”—the benefits and adverse effects of peginterferon alpha therapy. Based on a unique national study, it raises awareness of HCV prevention.
A readable guide to health as we age, easily understood by all. Written in an appealing, informal manner with entertaining stories and useful philosophical notes, it offers a helpful, holistic perspective. This encouraging book has value for all of us, elderly or not.
Nurses’ Extraordinary Experiences During the COVID-19 Pandemic
In their own words, nurses share the joys, sorrows, and grief of caring for dying COVID-19 patients. Often the only ones in the room, they went above and beyond their role, all while fearing they would bring the deadly virus home to their families.
Healthy nutrition is critical to the body’s self-defense. This book covers calculating daily nutritional needs, energy balance, restoring healthy body weight, treating food intolerance, and using food supplements and ergogenic aids in sport.
Zoonoses and Public Health
This book follows the One Health approach to zoonotic diseases, focusing on the main parasites transmitted from animals to humans. With contributions from renowned researchers, it covers key aspects like epidemiology, diagnosis, treatment, prevention, and control.
With no approved drug for Autism, this book presents a novel approach validated by brain imaging and large clinical trials. It details a repurposed drug’s unprecedented potential to be the first pediatric treatment, describing specific cases of children who improved.
For patients with metastatic cancer, the prognosis remains grim and conventional chemotherapy is limited. This book lays out a novel strategy using artificial intelligence and genomic data to develop precise, personalized treatments that offer hope for an eventual cure.
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.
This textbook explains the mechanical properties of smooth muscle, a vital tissue implicated in diseases like high blood pressure and asthma. It is the only book with functional models and easy-to-follow mathematical derivations, linking the muscle cell to the laws of physics.
This unique book by industry experts reveals the complexities of dermatological drug development. It covers topical, oral, and biologic drugs, explaining the unique clinical studies necessary and how to navigate negotiations with regulatory agencies like the FDA, EMA, and PMDA.
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.
Creativity, a Profile for Our Species
A profound reflection on the brain and mind. This book charts the search for talent in the brain, analyzing historical icons from Descartes to van Gogh, and features the author’s unique, direct analysis of Einstein’s brain tissue.
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