This book is a collection of some major topics in neonatal neurology, delivering up-to-date data. The book covers several sections in a wide variet...

This book looks at the state of housing for people with disabilities with the intent to provide recommendations that can improve housing opportunit...

This opus gathers the answers given by senior epilepsy specialists from all over the world to a standard questionnaire. The interviewees were chose...

Given that micro-organisms are everywhere, they naturally appear in plants and animals. A small percentage of these micro-organisms are pathogenic ...

The coronaviruses are ssRNA viruses that infect a wide range of mammalian and avian species; they are important causes of respiratory and enteric d...

Human development research commonly addresses the "what", "when", "how", "why", "who", and "where" of human development. For example, with referenc...

Looking back over the course of the three-plus decades of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, scholars and researchers have made many significant strides in und...

Lyme neuroborreliosis is a disorder of immense magnitude and importance. This volume on Lyme neuroborreliosis, authored by David S Younger provides...

Among the various mycotoxins affecting man, OTA -- involved in the renal disease endemic in the Balkans -- is thought by the International Cancer R...

Esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) has a peculiar geographical distribution, with up to 500-fold variations in incidence between the low- and...

Virtually all cervical cancer cases are caused by human papilloma viruses (HPV), mainly HPV-16 and HPV-18. Furthermore, HPVs may cause other types ...

The placenta is a fetomaternal organ provided by nature to aid development of the growing embryo by facilitating gas and nutrient exchange between ...

Human polyomaviruses are non-enveloped viruses with a circular double-stranded DNA genome of approximately 5,000 base pairs. The members BK virus a...

As an objective of human security, it is important to understand the social system and to make more appropriate policies for people based on the bi...

Huntington's disease (HD) is a progressive, fatal, dominant inherited neurodegenerative disorder caused by an unstable expansion of CAG repeats wit...

Nanotechnology has emerged as a key technology which has opened new vistas to find effective therapies for cancer. Nanomaterials are particularly p...

Hydrocephalus is an abnormal build-up of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) in the brain. In normal circumstance, CSF is produced by the choroid plexus loca...

Hyperglycemia is the central metabolic abnormality in diabetes mellitus and it serves as the basis for making the diagnosis in both type 1 and type...

Hyperhidrosis is defined as excessive sweat production beyond requirements for temperature regulation. It can be idiopathic, secondary to other sys...

Hypertension is a major cause of cerebral accidents, cardiac disease and renal failure. Essential or secondary hypertension occur in between 15-20%...

This book gathers the latest research from around the world on hypertension and stroke. While it is widely known how raised heart rate adversely af...

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is the most common form of genetically inherited cardiovascular disease, with a prevalence of one in 500 individu...