This concise guide simplifies the immune system, providing a clear overview of the body’s defence mechanisms. It covers immune cells, antigen response, autoimmunity, and the latest developments in immunotherapy. Multiple-choice questions enhance understanding.
This book discusses the impact of micronutrients (minerals and vitamins) on the human brain. From its developmental stage to intellectual performance, it describes their regulatory role, their potency on brain cells, and their connection to various neuropathological conditions.
The next generation of oncological hyperthermia selectively heats malignant cells. Due to its selectivity, this innovative concept is safer, less toxic, and uses significantly lower energy. This book shows the challenges, theoretical basis, and clinical results of the method.
Bioactive Nutrients as Dietary Supplements and Therapeutic Agents
This book explores nutraceuticals, from prebiotics and probiotics to phytochemicals. It examines their regulation, physiological role, and power to combat diseases like diabetes and cancer, highlighting fruits and vegetables as Nature’s multinutraceutical capsules.
The Importance of Becoming a Medical Educator
A medical degree alone is not enough to make an effective educator. This book gives doctors the understanding and tools they need to better teach their students, colleagues, and patients by addressing topics like adult learning theory, motivation, and teacher assessment.
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.
A comprehensive guide to vitamins, related minerals, and their role in disease. Learn the fundamentals, from absorption to toxicity, and discover their mechanism of action in conditions like autoimmune diseases and aging. An essential guide for health professionals and students.
Relating the achievements of women dental professionals in the 100 years since (some) women first achieved the right to vote in the UK, this volume profiles women working in all aspects of dentistry during the period, and celebrates those who are a credit to their profession.
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.
Survival after Treatment for Gynaecological Cancer
As gynaecological cancer survival rates improve, quality of life after treatment is vital. This is the first textbook on managing the physical and psychological effects of treatment. It is essential reading for gynaecological oncology specialists and related disciplines.
The medical consequences of low-dose, low-rate exposures to ionizing radiation have been overestimated in numerous scientific publications. Jargin analyses and exposes the biases and hidden conflicts of such publications and exposes the detrimental motivations behind them.
Master the adult thoracic surgery exam with this definitive SBA revision guide. Packed with questions covering the full new curriculum, it focuses on clinical scenarios to test your knowledge, improve exam technique, and maximise your chances of success.
Our skin changes throughout our lives, responding to health, lifestyle, and our surroundings. As it often deteriorates in cold weather, this book explores why this happens and what we can do about it, connecting skin with our lifestyle, wellbeing, and environment.
This book highlights the necessity of biological sciences in understanding cancer pathophysiology. It is a reference detailing advances in cancer metabolism research, explaining how metabolic changes like aerobic glycolysis are associated with cell growth and proliferation.
For students and dental professionals, this text illustrates important concepts in dental anatomy and occlusion. It presents a step-by-step wax build-up technique to guide the fabrication of dental restorations with optimal longevity, aesthetics and function.
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.
Modern Technological Intervention Advancements for the Physically Challenged and Disabled Population
This book explores how technology can improve the quality of life for the disabled and elderly. Incorporating expertise from global professionals, it provides insights for researchers and students, highlighting key challenges for engineers, clinicians, and industry professionals.
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.
A Global Compendium of Oral Health
This book summarizes 30 countries’ epidemiological profiles on tooth eruption and dental tissue anomalies. It introduces the full spectrum of anomalies, addresses teething myths and misconceptions, and maps what we currently know and what remains to be studied.
An essential collection for health professionals and researchers on the wellbeing of breast cancer survivors. This book covers key topics including comorbid conditions, lifestyle factors, health disparities, symptom management, survivorship care plans, and financial hardship.