Medical Science category: 13998 books
Saving Babies?
The Consequences of Newborn Genetic Screening
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
It has been close to six decades since Watson and Crick discovered the structure of DNA and more than ten years since the human genome was decoded. Today, through the collection and analysis of a small blood sample, every baby born in the United States is screened for more than fifty genetic disorders....
Preserving the Promise
Improving the Culture of Biotech Investment
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2016
Preserving the Promise: Improving the Culture of Biotech Investment critically examines why most biotech startups fail, as they emerge from universities into an ecosystem that inhibits rather than encourages innovation. This "Valley of Death" squanders our public investments in medical research and...
KILLS 99.9%
The Next Pandemic?
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
Dr. Allison Carter was veterinarian and caretaker of the primate division of the North Central Zoo in New York. Dr. John Fabrini was a researcher at the illustrious Rockefeller Institute. Together, they joined forces to create the ultimate antibacterial sanitizer. They also unwittingly contributed to...
Antimicrobial Drug Resistance
Mechanisms of Drug Resistance, Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2017
The two volumes included in Antimicrobial Drug Resistance, Second Edition is an updated, comprehensive and multidisciplinary reference covering the area of antimicrobial drug resistance in bacteria, fungi, viruses, and parasites from basic science, clinical, and epidemiological perspectives. This...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2017
This book explores the development of modern transatlantic prosthetic industries in nineteenth and twentieth centuries and reveals how the co-alignment of medicine, industrial capitalism, and social norms shaped diverse lived experiences of prosthetic technologies and in turn, disability identities....
Beating Drug Tests and Defending Positive Results
A Toxicologist’s Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
A majority of the Fortune 500 Companies implement some practice of workplace drug testing in their company policies. This practice was first initiated by President Ronald Reagan when he ordered federal agencies to drug test federal employees involved in sensitive positions as well as positions involving...
by Fabrizio Bruschi
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2017
Several parasites are able to spread diseases through contaminated water. While the spread of diseases through contaminated water appears to have a greater correlation with a lack of access to clean water in low income populations in developing countries, there have been outbreaks of water-borne diseases...
The Symbiont Factor
How the Microbiome Redefines Health, Disease and Humanity
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
The study of the human microbiome has revealed the most revolutionary concept ever discovered in health sciences: Our gut bacteria, brain and immune system are in constant communication, each influencing the others. Science has shown we are not a singular organism but function as a superorganism (also...
Physiology for Engineers
Applying Engineering Methods to Physiological Systems
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
This book provides an introduction to qualitative and quantitative aspects of human physiology. It looks at biological and physiological processes and phenomena, including a selection of mathematical models, showing how physiological problems can be mathematically formulated and studied. It also illustrates...
by Ronald R. Scheline
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
Handbook of Mammalian Metabolism of Plant Compounds provides an extensive survey of how mammals metabolize compounds found in higher plants. Information about these compounds is important to researchers in pharmacology, toxicology, medical and natural products chemistry, and food sciences. Although...
Side Effects of Drugs Annual
A worldwide yearly survey of new data in adverse drug reactions
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
The Side Effects of Drugs Annual was first published in 1977. It has been continually published since then as a yearly update to the voluminous encyclopedia, Meyler's Side Effects of Drugs. Each new Annual continues to provide clinicians and medical investigators with a reliable and critical yearly...
by Chris Willmott, Salvador Macip
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2016
Through engaging case studies and clear explanations of the underlying science, this book makes the social impacts and ethical consequences of recent advances in biomedicine understandable for general readers.
• Provides clear, easily understandable information for nonspecialist readers with...
by C. Ben Mitchell
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2007
Some of humankind's greatest tools have been forged in the research laboratory. Who could argue that medical advances like antibiotics, blood transfusions, and pacemakers have not improved the quality of people's lives? But with each new technological breakthrough there comes an array of consequences,...
Serotonin
From Cell Biology to Pharmacology and Therapeutics
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This volume contains the Proceedings of the invited lectures of the Second International Sym posium on SEROTONIN from Cell Biology to Pharmacology and Therapeutics held in Houston, Texas September 15-18, 1992. The meeting was held under the co-sponsorship of the Serotonin Club, the Giovanni Lorenzini...