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Diabetes Care for the Older Patient
A Practical Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
The management of older people with diabetes requires careful attention to the specific needs of this age group. This practical handbook addresses the issues surrounding the care of older diabetic patients, including dementia, frailty, depression and cardiovascular risk. Intended for day-to-day use...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
This is a timely and informative updated edition for all health care providers challenged with helping patients manage weight. Similar to the well-reviewed first edition, this updated title is directed toward individuals who wish to read further about targeted topics, rather than find an introduction...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2010
Jacques Barzun, the noted Columbia University historian of ideas and culture, once described the feeling that some people experience when they come upon a new reference book. He wrote: “Hand over to one of us a new Dictionary, “Companion,” or Guide, and our eyes first light up and then turn...
The Diabetic Patient Agent
Modeling Disease in Humans and the Healthcare System Response
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2017
This book provides a pioneering approach to modeling the human diabetic patient using a software agent. It is based on two MASc (Master of Applied Science) theses: one looking at the evolution of the patient agent in time, and another looking the interaction of the patient agent with the healthcare...
Integrated Diabetes Care
A Multidisciplinary Approach
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
Integrating care across disciplines and organisations around the needs of the person with diabetes has been proposed as an approach that could improve care while reducing cost- but has it and can it? Integrated Diabetes Care- A Multidisciplinary Approach collates evidence of worldwide approaches to...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The ability to measure accurately the hormones regulating calcium homeosta sis is the fundamental first step toward understanding the roles these hormones play in health and disease. Techniques for such measurements have only been available for the past 10 years or so and remain in a state of rapid...
Neuroendocrine Tumours
Diagnosis and Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2015
This book is a timely textbook that covers all aspects of neuroendocrine tumors (NET) from epidemiology, pathological classification and evaluation and molecular biology through to diagnostic imaging methods and therapeutic options, including the latest targeted therapies. The various types of NET...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2017
This text provides a comprehensive, state-of-the art review of this field, and serves as a valuable resource for clinicians, surgeons and researchers with an interest in thyroid cancer. The book reviews new data about molecular genetics and molecular diagnostic approaches, covers diagnosis and treatment...
Safety of Biologics Therapy
Monoclonal Antibodies, Cytokines, Fusion Proteins, Hormones, Enzymes, Coagulation Proteins, Vaccines, Botulinum Toxins
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
This long overdue title provides a comprehensive, up-to-date, state-of-the art review of approved biologic therapies, with coverage of mechanisms of action, Indications for therapy, immunogenicity and a detailed examination of adverse effects and safety of the many and diverse therapeutic agents presented...
by Silvia Maina
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2012
Publishing is an essential practice for all health care professionals. This booklet aims at providing some suggestions to physicians who would like to publish on diabetes. An exmplanation of editorial process and some tricks are given to write an article, submit it to a journal and improve the probability to be published.
Prediction Methods for Blood Glucose Concentration
Design, Use and Evaluation
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
This book tackles the problem of overshoot and undershoot in blood glucose levels caused by delay in the effects of carbohydrate consumption and insulin administration. The ideas presented here will be very important in maintaining the welfare of insulin-dependent diabetics and avoiding the damaging...
by The Blokehead
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2015
The lymphatic system is so named due to its essential function of transporting lymph. Similarly, the lymphatic system can trace its origins to the word lymphaticus. This is a Latin word that means “ associated with water ”. Seeing as lymph is a clear-colored substance, it s comparison with water is quite apparent.
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Global Perspectives on Childhood Obesity
Current Status, Consequences and Prevention
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
Understanding the complex factors contributing to the growing childhood obesity epidemic is vital not only for the improved health of the world's future generations, but for the healthcare system. The impact of childhood obesity reaches beyond the individual family and into the public arenas of social...
Diabetes and Health Disparities
Community-Based Approaches for Racial and Ethnic Populations
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2009
"What Liburd and colleagues provide in this edition is a framework for all practitionersÖinvolved in diabetes prevention and control. The recommendations and tools provided here are key to the success of future research and programmatic efforts."
-Wayne H. Giles, MD, MS &
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