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.
Bones regenerate, but teeth do not. This book introduces the world of apatites, the biomaterials composing our teeth and bones. It will boost your interest in biomaterials and improve your understanding of the daily efforts of dentists, dental technicians, and hygienists.
Acute Right Heart Failure
Acute right heart failure is a complex syndrome often overlooked in research. This book covers its precursors, from normal physiology to pathology, and offers comprehensive guidance on its early assessment and management based on current clinical and experimental trials.
This book introduces a new view of agility theory, offering experimental research and theoretical knowledge on both reactive and running agility. It also details a number of agility training methods and exercises.
Neurosurgery before Science
This book traces the development of surgery from Hippocrates to the nineteenth century, analysing procedures like bloodletting and the myth of laudable pus. It demonstrates the profession’s resistance to new ideas, preferring accepted notions even when evidence confounds them.
The first deep dive into how social determinants of health fuel disparities for people with epilepsy. Through ground-breaking research into low-income communities, this book exposes the social and economic roots of inequity and charts a path toward health justice.
Food Safety, from Farm to Fork
This volume explores global food safety issues, presenting key findings from scientific studies. It details threats along the food chain—from pathogens, pesticides, and heavy metals to allergens—and shows how adhering to good practices is crucial in ensuring safe foods.
Health disparities in American Indians are severe and underappreciated. Edited by experts, including a member of the Oglala Lakota Tribe, this volume identifies the causes and solutions to this overlooked problem, with relevance for Indigenous People’s health around the world.
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.
A lost science of medicine is resurfacing. This book explores “caves of healing”—metaphorical caverns in the body and the earth—to unfold a new map of medicine that integrates mind, body, and environment, reviving the role of consciousness in our health.
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.
Tuberculosis is a leading cause of death, but its multidrug treatment often causes adverse effects. This practical clinical guide is for health personnel managing TB. It details drug side effects on the body’s systems and offers clear therapeutic strategies for their management.
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 guide is for caring for the cognitively impaired in professional and home settings. It provides information to study for the ICCPA certification exam, covering interventions for conditions like Sundowning to ensure the highest quality of life.
The Success Rates and Limits of Reproductive Medicine
More couples are leaving children until later, not realising “later” can be “too late”. While many trust in reproductive medicine, the biological clock cannot be turned back. This book explains the medical facts: what fertility treatments can achieve, and what they cannot.
Information Systems in Healthcare
This book examines the power of information systems (IS) to re-shape healthcare. Addressing demands for accountability, cost-effectiveness, and quality, it shows how IS can change management and offers a fresh look at the future of healthcare in the digital era.
Medical knowledge is not just for doctors. Since the principles of life are largely universal, studying human medicine reveals much about all living beings. Yet disease, an unavoidable part of existence for every species, is often treated as chaos beyond the laws of life.
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.
Taichi Meets Motor Neuroscience
Is Taichi Chuan more than soft gymnastics? This book shows it is a master key for communication between Western and Eastern cultures. Defined as meditation in motion, it explores East-West points of convergence in cognitive neuroscience, embodied cognition, robotics, and dance.
For healthcare professionals, the assessment of sarcopenia and frailty is essential to personalized medicine. This book provides practical assessment tools, reviews key findings from the literature, and suggests treatment modifications for frail patients across clinical settings.