The Prescription Drug User Fee Act authorized the Food and Drug Administration to collect user fees from industry to support the approval of new dr...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) awards priority review vouchers (PRV) to drug sponsors that develop drugs for tropical diseases or rare pedi...

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention has declared that the United States is in the midst of an epidemic of prescription drug overdose deat...

Suicide-proofing a room can prevent suicidal behaviour in incarcerated prisoners and in psychiatric patients. The question addressed is this book i...

Mental illness comes in many qualities and many degrees, from the young patient with low self-esteem and incomplete psychosexual development, to th...

Probiotics are live micro-organisms that beneficially influence human health. The majority of probiotics are found in the gastrointestinal tract an...

The prodrug approach is a promising and well established strategy for the development of new entities that possess superior efficacy, selectivity a...

One of the main causes of failure in the treatment of cancer is the development of drug resistance by the cancer cells. The design of cancer chemot...

Migraine is a painful neurological condition, of which the most common symptom is an intense and disabling episodic headache. Migraine headaches ar...

Obesity is officially recognised as a major worldwide public health problem. "Progress in Obesity Research: 9" fulfils the need for an accessible a...

Schizophrenia is a chronic, severe, and disabling psychosis, which is an impairment of thinking in which the interpretation of reality is abnormal....

Sleep apnea or sleep apnoea is a sleep disorder characterised by pauses in breathing during sleep. These episodes, called apneas (literally, "witho...

The first part of the book deals with several aspects of different viruses : viral structure, function, replication and interplay between the virus...

The past quarter-century has seen tremendous progress in biomedical research, leading to increasing understanding of cancer, heart disease, diabete...

Patients undergoing bariatric surgery are special subjects, as they present several features that convert them into high-risk patients, despite oft...

Propofol is an injectable agent that is commonly used for general anaesthesia. In addition to its central nervous system depressant action, propofo...

Why would anyone want to write about propranolol, the first clinically utilized beta blocker? It is, after all, an outdated medicine. However, that...

Proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) have become a mainstay of therapy not only in the practice of gastroenterology, but also for general medicine and eve...

Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a unique pathogen with a characteristic hospital epidemiology resulting in colonisation and major infectious complication...

The contents of this book include a variety of information that represents the viewpoints of individuals participating in the eradication effort. T...

This book address metabolic disorders (e.g. diabetes mellitus, dyslipidemia, overweight/obesity, disturbances in inflammatory response systems) and...

Since different diseases and their associated pathogens became more resistant to the diverse drugs that have been synthesized or isolated from natu...

Childbirth is one of the most important social and psychological life events for women. In addition to the social context of including a new family...