This is a book comprising 28 small chapters focusing on medical scientists and their discoveries. The title states past truth because these are tru...

Stem cells are primal undifferentiated cells that retain the ability to divide and differentiate into other cell types. In higher plants this funct...

Peritoneal metastases continue to be a potentially lethal manifestation of gastrointestinal and gynecologic malignancy. In the past little if any t...

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Human Myoblast Genome Therapy (HMGT) is a platform technology of cell transplantation, nuclear transfer, and tissue engineering. Myoblasts are diff...

In the past few decades, point of care ultrasound (POCUS) has become standard in most emergency rooms and trauma bays. The use of POCUS has been sh...

Advances in any branches of technology essentially depends on the branch development. The tonnage and nomenclature of medical polymers in the world...

AIDS (Acquired ImmunoDeficiency Syndrome) has become a major world-wide epidemic. AIDS is caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). By kill...

This book brings together the latest research in the battle against autism. According to numerous news reports, the increase in special needs child...

Bladder cancer is the fourth most common type of cancer in men and the eighth most common in women. This book includes within its scope the prevent...

One of the main causes of failure in the treatment of cancer is the development of drug resistance by the cancer cells. The design of cancer chemot...

Cancer is a group of different diseases (more than 100) characterised by uncontrolled growth and spread of abnormal cells. Cancer can arise in many...

Cardiac arrhythmia is a term that denotes a disturbance of the heart rhythm. Cardiac arrhythmias can range in severity from entirely benign to imme...

A circadian rhythm is a roughly-24-hour cycle in the physiological processes of living beings, including plants, animals, fungi and cyanobacteria. ...

Cystic fibrosis (CF), also known as munoviscidosis, is a chronic genetic disease involving the dysfunction of the exocrine glands. This dysfunction...

DNA methylation is a type of chemical modification of DNA that can be inherited without changing the DNA sequence. As such, it is part of the epige...

Encephalitis means "inflammation of the brain," but it usually refers to brain inflammation caused by a virus. This severe and potentially life-thr...

Hepatitis B is a disease of the liver caused by the Hepatitis B virus (HBV), a member of the Hepadnavirus family and one of several unrelated viral...

Immunology is the study of the body's protection from foreign macromolecules or invading organisms and the responses to them. These invaders includ...

The process of inflammation, which causes the swelling and redness around a wound, is a vital part of the body's system for fighting off infections...

Malaria is an infectious disease that is widespread in tropical and subtropical regions. It infects between 300 and 500 million people every year a...

During the 115th Congress, several bipartisan bills were introduced that aimed to expand the number of telehealth services that are covered under M...

Since cardiovascular (heart and blood vessel) disease is the leading cause of death for adults in developed countries, many medical studies focus o...

Migraine is a painful neurological condition, of which the most common symptom is an intense and disabling episodic headache. Migraine headaches ar...