Radiography uses X-rays to view a non-uniformly composed material such as the human body and displays areas of different density and composition. I...

The Fellowship of the Royal College of Radiologists' Part 2A Examination has undergone significant changes and a new format was initiated in Spring...

The Radiology of AIDS is aimed at candidates for postgraduate examinations in all specialities and especially those doctors with some training in H...

Randomised clinical trials (RCT) have been accepted as the golden standard of testing, which in turn makes chemical medicine "evidence based". RCT ...

Rapid eye movement sleep (REM sleep) is a normal stage of sleep characterised by the random movement of the eyes. REM sleep is classified into two ...

It is slowly becoming accepted that people with terminal illnesses who are suffering physically and mentally from the illness have the moral and le...

This book presents, in two parts, a review concerning the use of Rattus norvegicus as a model for the study of neurological disorders and oncologic...

Why do we not have a vaccine for HIV? What are we doing wrong? Every HIV vaccine has failed so far, and public opinion is turning pessimistic again...

It has been over 100 years since Dr. Paul Ehrlich referred to an ideal therapeutic agent able to target and treat only a highly specific site in an...

Strokes are a leading cause of brain injury that strike approximately 800,000 people per year in the US alone, killing about 150,000 meaning one de...

Toxoplasmosis is one of the most important food-borne illnesses and foetal maternal inflammatory syndromes. Currently, there is no safe and effecti...

This book highlights recent advances in beta blockers research. Beta blockers have been used for the treatment of several clinical conditions and i...

Biotechnology is one of the major technologies of the twenty-first century. Its wide-ranging, multi-disciplinary activities include recombinant DNA...

Antibiotics have vastly changed the way we fight diseases. History is replete with examples of infectious diseases that have killed millions of peo...

The concept of recovery lies at the core of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA's) mission, and fostering the dev...

The definition of 'natural' is 'produced or existing in nature.' Natural products refer to as any natural constituents, natural substances, or a gr...

Lyme disease may affect the brain in many ways, the most common of which is a disturbance in thinking. Other symptoms that occur frequently include...

Interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT) was developed as a time-limited, individual, outpatient treatment for patients with acute major depression. Socia...

Retinoic acid (RA) is a signalling molecule involved in many important pathways in every cell. When RA binds to RA receptors and activates them, ce...

Ribavirin has been studied for over 20 years as a potential therapy against a number of RNA and DNA viruses. It is well known that Ribavirin in com...

Ribosomes are essential protein-RNA complexes that synthesize proteins according to the gene library of the cell in all living organisms. In this b...

Rituximab (MabThera®, Rituxan®) is a chimaeric murine/human antibody targeted against the surface antigen CD20 that is expressed on normal and mali...