In this book, the authors present current research in the study of the risk factors, management and recovery process in pregnancy. Topics include g...

This book presents research done surrounding prevalent medical issues and diseases which pose potential health risks to pregnant women and infants....

Protein is necessary during the development of all new cells. During pregnancy, a females need for protein increases significantly. This book revie...

One of the challenging issues of contemporary pediatrics is potential long-term effects of maternal cigarette smoking during pregnancy on the subse...

During infancy and pre-school age, movement is an integral part of human life. This book discusses the correlation between cognitive and motor func...

Preterm birth is defined by WHO as birth before the 36 weeks and 6 days of gestation or before 259 days, counting from the first day of the last me...

Preterm birth (PTB) is defined as delivery before 37 weeks of gestation. Chapter One focuses on important aspects regarding potential risk factors,...

In this book, the authors present current research from across the globe in the study of the development, prognosis and potential complications of ...

The prevention of dementia, and particularly of Alzheimer's disease, is a major challenge for researchers and clinicians. In this book, the mixture...

This book presents the latest research on advances in genetics, molecular medicine, biotechnologies, and behavioural sciences that have an impact o...

Hearing loss is a chronic and often lifelong disability that can cause profound damage to the development of speech, language, and cognitive skills...

Glomerulonephritis is a term referring to direct injury of the glomeruli with resulting disturbances of normal glomerular function, progressively l...

Primary central nervous system lymphoma (PCNSL) is an extranodal form of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL) occurring in the craniospinal axis that accou...

Q fever was first described in 1937 by Dr. Edward Holbrook Derrick among abattoir workers in Queensland (Australia). This worldwide zoonotic diseas...

The field of interventional nephrology needs to be viewed as a new road towards improving the diagnostic methods and the dialysis access care provi...

The most fascinating and unique feature of prion diseases is that they are caused almost exclusively by a proteinaceous and infectious particle ter...

Prions are disease-causing agents that are neither bacterial nor fungal nor viral and contain no genetic material. A prion is a protein that occurs...

Probiotics, a word of Greek origin composed of "pro" (promoting) and "biotic "(life), have been defined by the Food and Agriculture Organization of...

In recent years mass media represented an important vehicle to develop the concept that everything we eat could have a positive or negative impact ...

This book provides an overview of the functions, uses and research insights of the progesterone hormone. Chapter One focuses on the effects of prog...

The last book on the prognosis of epilepsies was written by Rodin in 1968. For the next 35 years, many original papers or chapters in textbooks wer...

Exploring prognostic and predictive response therapy factors in cancer disease is one of the most exciting issues of modern oncological science. Ta...