Steroid hormones such as Glucocorticoids can effect a variety of metabolic and secretory pathways, and have a profound influence on the physiologic...

The World Health Organization recognizes that motor vehicle crashes and their impacts have become a serious public health crisis, with injury rates...

Human African trypanosomiasis or sleeping sickness is caused by infection with the morphologically indistinguishable subspecies Trypanosoma brucei ...

Alcohol consumption patterns are characterized as mild, moderate, social, heavy drinking, problem drinking, binge drinking and heavy episodic drink...

Alcoholism is a complex condition that involves both alcohol abuse and dependence, the so-called alcohol use disorders. Alcoholism is a quantitativ...

Alcoholic beverages are divided into three general classes: beers, wines, and spirits. Such beverages contain ethanol, a psychoactive drug that has...

The term "Alimentary Microbiome" includes all the micro-organisms constituting the microbial ecosystems in the alimentary tract. Their actions are ...

This book gathers together the collected wisdom of an experienced group of practitioners from the world of blood conservation including surgeons, a...

World-renowned ice climber Margo Talbot shares her compelling story of healing and self-discovery amid the frozen landscapes of the planet. Born an...

This compendium brings together articles from the 'Journal of Alternative Medicine Research' in 2009 with a broad research agenda on a global basis...

On example of the highly efficient plant growth regulator AMBIOL (2-methyl-4-dimethylaminomethyl-5-hydroxybenzimidazol dihydrochoride) - is as a co...

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) has prepared these reports to Congress to provide an overview of the facts a...

Aminoglycosides are a commonly used class of antibiotic worldwide, with examples including gentamicin, tobramycin and amikacin. Their low cost, tog...

Amoxicillin represents the lead substance of the aminopenicillin group of beta-lactames, which is characterised by a broader antibacterial spectrum...

An Introduction to the Interpersonal-Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (I-CBT) Treatment System: A 21st Century Recipe for Mental Health Treatment Succe...

This book is intended for urologists and pathologists who practice in an office setting. In this setting, bladder and prostate diseases are most co...

This book presents current research in the study of analgesics. Topics discussed include the role of intravenous NSAIDs in the multimodal managemen...

Anesthesiology is one of the least understood medical specialties. The drugs and equipment are specialized to a point where physicians in other fie...

Objective structured clinical exams (OSCEs) have been in use as an assessment tool for graduate medical students and postgraduate medical training ...

In this book experts from academia introduce the reader to some of the recent new developments in the field of experimental modelling of various br...

This book discusses the applications, outcomes and controversies of using animal models in cancer research and human disease. Topics include murine...

This is a book that attempts to propose itself as a new trigger in the wide world of anorexia nervosa. The originality of its proposal consists in ...

Anorexia Nervosa is an enigmatic and, too commonly, an extremely challenging disorder. Its core clinical features have been recognised for centurie...

"To say that drugs have become the major affliction of society is not stating the situation too strongly. No sector of life is untouched by this ep...

In this age, societies take great pains to protect their populations against exposure to undesirable microbes. Pasteurization, sterilization, sanit...

As documented by health and medical professionals and social and behavioural scientists, stress has a pervasive presence in our society. The effect...

Antibiotic resistance is the ability of a micro-organism to withstand the effects of antibiotics. There are three mechanisms that can cause antibio...

In this book, the authors present new developments in the study of antibiotic therapy. Topics discussed include analgesia and sedation in severe se...

Depression is a common worldwide mental illness, and one of the leading causes of disability. It is not exclusive for an age, social or income leve...

An antidepressant is a psychiatric medication used to alleviate mood disorders, such as major depression and dysthymia. These medications are among...

Antidepressants are the category of drugs that act in a disease specific way to reverse the neuropathological basis of the symptoms of depression. ...

Most cases of suicide (81%-95%) in the general population involve psychiatric illnesses, nearly half of which (48.5%) are mood disorders. Internati...

Arterial hypertension is one of the most important preventable contributors to disease and death, and is commonly treated with antihypertensive dru...

Antimalarial drugs are medicines that prevent or treat malaria, a disease which takes a great toll on human health and well-being, particularly in ...

Anti-malarial drugs are medicines that prevent or treat malaria, a disease which takes a great toll on human health and well-being, particularly in...

Malaria is the leading parasitic infectious disease in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) in terms of morbidity, hospitalisation and mortality. Pregnant wome...