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...