History has repeatedly taught us that diet-dependent nutrient deficiencies can cause a constellation of adverse symptoms (a syndrome) that are trea...

EPA and DHA omega-3 fatty acids are contained in oily fish, such as salmon, lake trout, tuna and herring. These fatty acids are not essential to th...

One Planet, One Health provides a multidisciplinary reflection on the state of our planet, human and animal health, as well as the critical effects...

Flavonoids and organosulfur compounds are the two major classes of secondary metabolites found in onions that are believed to play a role as health...

The primary aim of this book is to provide clear and concise explanations about all aspects of the medico-legal process for surgeons, other doctors...

The issue of living organ donation is important because it represents one important set of possibilities for balancing the needs of people seeking ...

While covering human history, civilization, and diseases to reveal why humans are sick with many ailments, this book provides the answers to the qu...

While covering human history, civilization, and diseases to reveal why humans are sick with many ailments, this book provides the answers to the qu...

Osteoporosis is likely to become one of the major health burdens of the coming decades. According to the American National Institute for Arthritis ...

What happens when the place you've loved working at for twenty years asks for a divorce and breaks your heart?"Tapping into her journalistic rigour...

This book presents and discusses current data on the topics of overweightness and walking. Angular momentum as a metric of human walking is discuss...

There is an emerging concept that nitric oxide (NO), its derivatives and reactive oxygen intermediates (ROS) are the major determinants of the invo...

This book represents current findings on the impact of oxidative stress in the pathogenesis of diseases and underlying mechanisms of antioxidants i...

The VA/DoD published the first Clinical Practice Guideline for management of opioid therapy for chronic pain in 2003. This original publication was...

This book provides a new outlook on the practice of palliative care worldwide. All five continents are represented in this book by global leaders i...

A frank and amusing account of pandemics including covid-19. This book is incredibly timely .....The author has the surprising ability to grab the ...

According to WHO, a pandemic is the spread of a disease on a global scale. The globalization of the modern singular world has led to a dynamic deve...

This book uses unique dataset to examine parental influence on children's dietary intake and whether or not the children will become obese. The stu...

One of the most important objectives of health psychology is to promote people's mental health. Mental health is a decisive factor in the daily wel...

Parenteral nutrition (PN) is the feeding modality of choice for patients with non-functional gastrointestinal (GI) tracts who are unable to maintai...

What should Parliaments do about screening for AIDS and detecting genetic diseases? How do the media report and comment on information in this fiel...

Breathing other people's smoke is called passive, involuntary or second-hand smoking. The non-smoker breathes "sidestream" smoke from the burning t...