This book focuses on the achievement of health equity. It proposes pragmatic, feasible plans to greatly reduce them or perhaps eliminate them. Heal...

It is generally conceded that there are significant disparities in health and health care based on a person's racial and ethnic background. Infant ...

This book examines the risks and protective strategies of radiation exposure in the fields of medicine and the environment. Topics discussed in thi...

This book provides new research insights on rare diseases. Chapter One reviews the use of patients' registries as a key tool in rare disease manage...

Reading Doctors’ Writing is a book for every Australian who reads or writes health research about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Ho...

Anaesthetic drugs with a rapid onset of action and a short half-live, such as the hypnotic propofol and the analgesic opioid remifentanil, allow ea...

The acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is caused by two retroviruses of the lentivirus subfamily, human immunodeficiency viruses types 1 (HI...

The present book on basal ganglia research aims at promoting cross-fertilisation and between fields (eg: between addiction and drug-induced dyskine...

Autism is a condition that hits the patient in places that can't be hidden; in his/her behaviour. It is a condition worn for public scrutiny, blend...

Phytomedicines have been playing an important role since the beginning of civilisation, curing many diseases and alleviating different symptoms for...

This book describes the lifelong research experience of a scientist, from the beginning studies of protein chemistry to the development of a protei...

There is a critical and continuing shortage of organs and cells from deceased human donors for the purposes of transplantation into patients with t...

May a state authorise the use of marijuana for recreational purposes even if such use is forbidden by federal law? This novel and unresolved legal ...

The book revises the principal strategies for the characterisation of red wines based on compositional profiles of biogenic amines as a source of i...

This book addresses health care coverage, quality and costs and future better-quality coverage to all Americans.

Human biobanks are a revolution in the field of medical sciences and technologies. As organised bioresources of samples and data providing high qua...

Vitamin A-storing cells in the liver exist in the space between parenchymal cells and liver sinusoidal endothelial cells of the hepatic lobule, and...

Historically, religion and medicine have been strongly connected. In more recent decades, various academics can be viewed as part of a larger movem...

This is a follow-up to the 2007 review of the literature on online / offline interventions done by Marks, Cavanagh, & Gega (Psychology Press). ...

In the past 25 years, the field of psychotherapy has made tremendous leaps and bounds with regard to the efficacy of psychotherapeutic intervention...

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common type of neurodegenerative disorder in the ageing population, with dementia as a common consequence. AD ...

Alzheimer's disease (AD), the most common form of neurodegenerative disorder in the elderly, is characterised pathologically by extracellular amylo...