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

USDA is responsible for ensuring the safety of poultry products. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report the U.S. food supply i...

The similar body images of obese patients frequently hide psycho-pathological and medical differences needing different therapeutic approaches. A g...

In this book, the authors present current research in the study of the practices, methods and challenges of patient education and patient managemen...

In March 2010, the 111th Congress passed health reform legislation, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Jointly referred to as the PPAC...

In the past 50 years, ethical concerns concerning human experimentation have arisen with the advancement of new medical research and technology. Wh...

In the past 50 years, ethical concerns concerning human experimentation have arisen with the advancement of new medical research and technology. Wh...

In our time of well-publicized health care travails, in the USA and the UK and elsewhere, matters of financing too often subsume the dimension of p...

The harm associated with health care is a questionable issue and several systemic global strategies to reduce it with a safer system are being deve...

Patient Satisfaction: Determinants, Psychological Implications and Impact on Quality of Life first provides an in-depth, evidence-based review of t...

This book addresses the issue of patient safety and the need to promote it in hospital settings, such as reducing the risk of injury from falls. Ho...

Peanuts (Arachis hypogaea) are one of the most popular leguminous plants that originated in the Andean Cordilleras of South America, and they were ...

Peanuts are among the most popular oilseeds in the world. When their price is considered, they present a competitive advantage in comparison to oth...

Mental health problems often occur in perinatal periods. Mothers' mental health problems can cause parenting impairment and affect family health pr...

From prolonged duration of a disease, to permanent injury, to death, drug shortages have led to harmful outcomes for patients of all ages. Over the...

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

From 1970 to 2007, hundreds of millions of pounds of pesticides were applied annually to U.S. food crops to protect them from pests. To protect con...

Realising the impact of smoking on human beings, the US Public Health Service updated its 2000 Guidelines for Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence i...

The great Paracelsian scholar Walter Pagel and the pioneer medical historian Kurt Polycarp Sprengel identified Petrus Severinus' Idea medicinæ (157...

Being physically active is one of the most important steps that Americans of all ages can take to improve their health. This book provides science-...

During the past two decades the prevalence of overweight and obesity in children has increased rapidly world-wide. Together with the rising of chil...

Physical therapy is a health profession that assesses and provides treatment to individuals to develop, maintain and restore maximum movement and f...

A growing number of U.S. physicians are combining their practices; affiliating with hospitals, insurance companies, and speciality management firms...

Self-referral occurs when a provider refers patients to entities in which the provider or the provider's family members have a financial interest. ...

The United States continues to debate the adequacy of the current and future supply of physicians. This book presents projections of physician supp...

The regulation of energy balance and body weight is under the influence of complex neural, metabolic and genetic interactions. Despite this, obesit...

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...

This book is both a lively introduction and a guidebook to those pioneers, most of them surgeons, who attempted to help their patients by extending...

Despite intensive work on molecular carcinogenic mechanisms and novel drug development, cancer has still remained an incurable disease. With the ho...

This is a unique book which critically summarizes the current scientific knowledge concerning manifestations, mechanisms, consequences and preventi...

Air pollution has been associated with significant adverse health effects, including increased morbidity and mortality. The global increase in the ...

Pneumonia, an inflammatory condition of the lung, is one of the most common serious infections, causing two million deaths annually among young and...

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...

Epidemiological and clinical data are accumulating on the health-promoting properties of diets rich in fruits, vegetables and grains associated wit...

This book touches upon the subject of diet and health interest to a wide audience. It is a very topical subject and one which is at the forefront o...

During the last four decades, the interest in polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) has augmented manifolds, and the number of published studies is ri...

Population, Health & Nutrition - Selected Papers of Hector Correa

The aim of this book is to offer the reader a number of different perspectives on health-related interventions. It seeks to go beyond the dominant ...

It makes sense to have well-planned, research based approaches to adolescent health and education, which can be incorporated into the curriculum by...

This book furnishes a rich description and discussion on the theory and practice of DPYD (digital positive youth development) games, in particular,...

This book presents a rigorous empirical study of various aspects of poverty alleviation in rural Bangladesh. The themes include the trend and struc...

This book has primarily been aimed at epidemiologists working with empirical data for both human and veterinary diseases. The final paragraph of th...