Medical Science category: 13998 books
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
In this subcourse, Subcourse MED808, we shall view a drug in its treatment of specific ailments. We have included a section on biologicals and vitamins and minerals primarily because natural resistance, and vitamins and minerals can prevent as well as successfully treat disease, malnutrition, and...
by Samuel Webster, Rhiannon de Wreede
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2016
Highly Commended in Obstetrics and gynaecology in the 2017 BMA Medical Book Awards
Embryology at a Glance is a highly illustrated and innovative introduction to key embryological concepts, with concise, memorable descriptions of major embryological developments. This new edition covers the...
by Harry G. Brittain
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
Volumes in this widely revered series present comprehensive reviews of drug substances and additional materials, with critical review chapters that summarize information related to the characterization of drug substances and excipients. This organizational structure meets the needs of the pharmaceutical...
Forensic Toxicology
Proceedings of the European Meeting of the International Association of Forensic Toxicologists
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Forensic toxicology has progressed rapidly and diversified greatly in recent years. The members of the International Association of Forensic Toxicologists provide a valuable service through the association's bulletin. In its pages members hear of new poisons as they are encountered and the analytical...
I Contain Multitudes
The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
Joining the ranks of popular science classics like The Botany of Desire and The Selfish Gene, a groundbreaking, wondrously informative, and vastly entertaining examination of the most significant revolution in biology since Darwin—a “microbe’s-eye view” of the world that reveals a marvelous,...
The Good Gut
Taking Control of Your Weight, Your Mood, and Your Long-term Health
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
The groundbreaking science behind the surprising source of good health
Stanford University’s Justin and Erica Sonnenburg are pioneers in the most exciting and potentially transformative field in the entire realm of human health and wellness, the study of the relationship between our bodies...
This Is Your Brain on Parasites
How Tiny Creatures Manipulate Our Behavior and Shape Society
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
**“Engrossing … [An] expedition through the hidden and sometimes horrifying microbial domain.” —Wall Street Journal
“Fascinating—and full of the kind of factoids you can't wait to share.” —Scientific American**
Parasites can live only inside another animal and, as Kathleen...
The Age of Genomes
Tales from the Front Lines of Genetic Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
A leading geneticist explores what promises to be one of the most transformative advances in health and medicine in history
Almost every week, another exciting headline appears about new advances in the field of genetics. Genetic testing is experiencing the kind of exponential growth once seen...
Laughing Gas, Viagra, and Lipitor
The Human Stories behind the Drugs We Use
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2006
The stories behind drug discovery are fascinating, full of human and scientific interest. This is a book on the history of drug discovery that highlights the intellectual splendor of discoverers as well as the human frailty associated them. History is replete with examples of breakthrough medicines...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
This book surveys healthy and diseased vascular systems in a multitude of model organisms and systems. It explores a plethora of functions, characteristics, and pathologies of the vascular system such as angiogenesis, fibroblast growth factor signaling, lymphangiogenesis, junctional signaling, the...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
Epigenetic Mechanisms in Cancer provides a comprehensive analysis of epigenetic signatures that govern disease development, progression and metastasis. Epigenetic signatures dictating tumor etiologies present an opportunity for biomarker identification which has broad potential for improving diagnosis,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
Epigenetic Biomarkers and Diagnostics comprises 31 chapters contributed by leading active researchers in basic and clinical epigenetics. The book begins with the basis of epigenetic mechanisms and descriptions of epigenetic biomarkers that can be used in clinical diagnostics and prognostics. It goes...
Genomic and Precision Medicine
Primary Care
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
Genomic and Precision Medicine: Primary Care, Third Edition is an invaluable resource on the state-of-the-art tools, technologies and policy issues that are required to fully realize personalized health care in the area of primary care.
One of the major areas where genomic and personalized...
It Takes a Genome
How a Clash Between Our Genes and Modern Life is Making Us Sick
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2008
Human beings have astonishing genetic vulnerabilities. More than half of us will die from complex diseases that trace directly to those vulnerabilities, and the modern world we’ve created places us at unprecedented risk from them*. In It Takes a Genome*, Greg Gibson posits a revolutionary new hypothesis:...