This book presents original research results on the leading edge of cancer. Topics discussed include the role of dendritic cells in the priming of ...

This compilation presents original study results on the leading edge of neuroscience research. Each article has been carefully selected in an attem...

This compilation presents original study results on the leading edge of neuroscience research. Each article has been carefully selected in an attem...

Nearly 20% of Medicare beneficiaries aged 65 and over who were admitted to a hospital in 2005 were readmitted within 30 days following their initia...

Hospital systems throughout the developed world are undergoing waves of reform which seek to address multiple challenges of intensifying acuity, su...

Securing a place in medical school can be competitive and daunting. This complex process starts from the GCSE level of education in a student’s lif...

Have you ever left the doctor's office feeling as if you had just gone through a revolving door? Now more than ever, each of us has to take control...

Book & DVD. This book provides an ongoing assessment of the exposure of the U.S. population to environmental chemicals by the use of biomonitor...

Book & DVD. Biomonitoring is the assessment of human exposure to chemicals by measuring the chemicals of their metabolites in such human specim...

Research on nutrition has grown into one of the most challenging and innovative health-related scientific disciplines during the past decade. New a...

Human malnutrition is a serious health problem worldwide. Traditionally, malnutrition is referred to as under-nutrition. However, during the last t...

Virtually all cervical cancer cases are caused by human papilloma viruses (HPV), mainly HPV-16 and HPV-18. Furthermore, HPVs may cause other types ...

Interest in humour has grown in recent years, especially in relation to its clinical applications. Humour helps relax, improve relationships with o...

Hygiene: A Manual of Personal and Public Health written by Sir Arthur Newsholme in 1902, is a plain and straightforward account of its subject for ...

This book describes biofilms in the context of hygiene in food safety and hospital facilities, starting with bacterial adhesion as an initial step ...

Hypotheses are fundamental to all sciences, including medicine. They play a critical role in motivating the development of science, since interesti...

This book brings together opposing chapters that range in form from scientific discussions to personal narratives. The need to listen to, and respe...

Formation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) is a natural process during oxidative metabolism. ROS play an important role not only in pathological pr...

The thrust-area of this book is the connection between imperial anxieties and tropical health situations along with intriguing psychological questi...

The Medicare program enables millions of beneficiaries to obtain health care services; however, lacks many of the essential elements of a high-qual...

The rising cost of health care represents the nation's single most important long-term fiscal challenge. This book explores whether increased trans...

Incisional hernia (IH) represents a postoperative abnormal orifice or weakness in the abdominal wall through which normally contained viscera protr...

India or the Republic of India is a large country in South Asia, in fact the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country with...