Trust in a Medical Setting

Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the most widespread infectious diseases in the world, infecting an average of 9 million people annually. Although TB is...

Tumour markers are molecules occurring in blood or tissue that are associated with cancer, and whose measurement or identification is useful in pat...

A tumour suppressor gene is a gene that reduces the probability that a cell in a multicellular organism will turn into a tumor cell. A mutation or ...

Tumourigenesis is the formation of tumours in the body, often caused by oncogenes. These tumours are the result of uncontrollable reproduction (cel...

Type I collagen is a popular biomaterial for use in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine applications owing to its abundance in natural tis...

The three clinical types of childhood diarrhoea include - acute watery, persistent and dysentery. Acute watery diarrhoea which lasts for less than ...

The United States spends more money on health care than any other country in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). The...

The federal government is involved in mental health care in various ways, including direct provision of services, payment for services, and indirec...

The United States, like all countries, faces many threats with the potential for large-scale health consequences, including disease outbreaks, natu...

Understanding the supply, distribution, and educational pipeline of nurses is key to designing programs and policies that will ensure access to car...

Within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), eight agencies are designated components of the U.S. Public Health Service (PHS). The PHS...

This book explores the technology, diagnostic applications and potential benefits and risks of ultrasonography. Topics discussed in this compilatio...

Bone is a complex and specialised connective tissue, with a degree of elasticity even with a high concentration of mineralised components in the ex...

Community-based health-related research requires a reciprocal relationship between researchers and communities that differs from the relationships ...

U.S. support for global health has been motivated in large part by concern about emergent and re-emerging infectious diseases. Following outbreaks ...

Nature creates viruses. But people and politics create pandemics. And pandemics create new politics. In the 1980s, the toxic politics of the respon...

Although governments believe that the key to efficient health services lies in organisations run by inspiring leaders who stimulate the most effici...

Uric acid is the end-product of the purine metabolism in human beings. Most of this substance is in the form of monosodium urate in compartments wi...

This book has been prepared with the purpose of describing the role of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) programme on radiation and tis...

This book is just what we needed to gather the knowledge accumulated on Usher syndrome throughout the past fifteen years. The epidemiology and path...