Ailments Diseases category: 10428 books
Basic and Advanced Bayesian Structural Equation Modeling
With Applications in the Medical and Behavioral Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2012
This book provides clear instructions to researchers on how to apply Structural Equation Models (SEMs) for analyzing the inter relationships between observed and latent variables.
Basic and Advanced Bayesian Structural Equation Model**ing introduces basic and advanced SEMs for analyzing various...
Your Healthy Pregnancy with Thyroid Disease
A Guide to Fertility, Pregnancy, and Postpartum Wellness
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
At minimum, 27 million Americans have thyroid disease. Despite being the majority of thyroid sufferers, women rarely know that thyroid problems increase their risk of pregnancy complications, including infertility, preeclampsia, miscarriage, premature delivery, and low birth weight. This awareness...
by Kenneth Kee
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
This book describes Meckel Diverticulum, Diagnosis and Treatment and Related Diseases.
A month ago I have a 2 year old patient who presents with severe abdominal pain and blood in the stools.
Because of the severe pain and the age I suspected Intussusception, a congenital condition in which...
Grain Brain
The Surprising Truth about Wheat, Carbs, and Sugar--Your Brain's Silent Killers
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2018
Dr. Perlmutter's #1 New York Times bestseller about the devastating effects of gluten, sugar, and carbs on the brain and body -- updated with the latest nutritional and neurological science
When Grain Brain was published in 2013, Dr. Perlmutter kick-started a revolution. Since then, his book...
by SpeedReader Summaries
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2017
Your Quick and Simple Summary and Analysis of Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
Inside, you’ll find:
An introduction to the main concepts found in Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
A 30-second summary of the entire book
Time-saving chapter summaries
An Action Steps recap...
The Fever
How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2010
In recent years, malaria has emerged as a cause célèbre for voguish philanthropists. Bill Gates, Bono, and Laura Bush are only a few of the personalities who have lent their names—and opened their pocketbooks—in hopes of curing the disease. Still, in a time when every emergent disease inspires...
Lead Wars
The Politics of Science and the Fate of America's Children
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
In this incisive examination of lead poisoning during the past half century, Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner focus on one of the most contentious and bitter battles in the history of public health. Lead Wars details how the nature of the epidemic has changed and highlights the dilemmas public health...
The Yeast Connection
A Medical Breakthrough
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2010
An in-depth guide on how to suspect, identify, and over-come those health problems in people of all ages and sexes that can be traced to sensitivity to the yeast germ candida albicans.
The Yeast Connection also includes:
Easy-to-follow diet instructions;
Information about labratory studies...
American Plagues
Lessons from Our Battles with Disease
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Smallpox, yellow fever, malaria, and polio, fearful diseases that once beset Americans, are now largely, just unhappy history. Yet from our confrontations with these past plagues come lessons that inform today’s struggles to understand and remedy problems like HIV/AIDS, coronary heart disease, and...
by Professor Janet Peacock, Dr Philip Peacock
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2010
To practice evidence-based medicine, doctors need to understand how research is conducted and be able to critically appraise research evidence. A sound understanding of medical statistics is essential for the correct evaluation of medical research and the appropriate implementation of findings in...
by M. Harris, G. Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2008
This new edition of Medical Statistics Made Easy 2nd edition enables readers to understand the key statistical techniques used throughout the medical literature.
Featuring a comprehensive updating of the 'Statistics at work' section, this new edition retains a consistent, concise, and user-friendly...
by David Clayton, Michael Hills
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
This self-contained account of the statistical basis of epidemiology has been written specifically for those with a basic training in biology, therefore no previous knowledge is assumed and the mathematics is deliberately kept at a manageable level. The authors show how all statistical analysis of...
Easy Interpretation of Biostatistics E-Book
The Vital Link to Applying Evidence in Medical Decisions
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2012
Learn biostatistics the easy way. This outstanding resource presents the key concepts you need to understand biostatistics and how to apply them in clinical medicine. Easy-to-understand examples and analogies explain complex concepts, and practical applications provide you with real tools for use...
Multivariable Analysis
A Practical Guide for Clinicians and Public Health Researchers
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2011
Now in its third edition, this highly successful text has been fully revised and updated with expanded sections on cutting-edge techniques including Poisson regression, negative binomial regression, multinomial logistic regression and proportional odds regression. As before, it focuses on easy-to-follow...