Gynecology Obstetrics category: 1201 books
The Ultimate Guide to Ovarian Cancer
Everything You Need to Know About Diagnosis, Treatment, and Research
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016
Over twenty-two thousand American women will get ovarian cancer this year. No screening test exists for this disease, and the symptoms are often vague and mistaken for other illnesses. This cancer is almost always diagnosed in advanced stages, thus requiring extensive surgery and heavy doses of chemotherapy....
by Jim Dornan
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
When thirty-six-year-old working mum Penny came to see gynaecologist Jim Dornan about her premenstrual symptoms, she was at the end of her tether. In Coping with PMT, Jim discusses the physical effects of modern family planning, the contraceptive pill and hormone therapy, and you’ll discover...
Joy at the End of the Rainbow
A Guide to Pregnancy After a Loss
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2017
You’ve got What to Expect When You’re Expecting, but where do you go for a pregnancy guide when you’ve been pregnant before, and didn’t get to come home with a baby? For the nearly 2.6 million women worldwide every year who lose a baby to miscarriage, stillbirth and early neonatal loss, this...
Paediatric and Adolescent Gynaecology
A Multidisciplinary Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This book provides a multidisciplinary overview of developmental anomalies, disorders and intersex conditions. These are complex conditions that demand high standards of care and treatment by all healthcare professionals involved with the management of these psychological, medical and surgical problems....
by Alice Gilgoff
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
For women who believe that childbirth is a normal event, and that hospitals are places to treat illness, home birth with a licensed professional midwife is a safe and viable option.
Unlike the rest of the world where home birth and midwifery are the norm, Western society has captured the traditional...
Taking Charge of Your Fertility
The Definitive Guide to Natural Birth Control, Pregnancy Achievement, and Reproductive Health
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
This new edition for the twentieth anniversary of the groundbreaking national bestseller provides all the information you need to monitor your menstrual cycle—along with updated information on the latest reproductive technologies
Are you unhappy with your current method of birth control?...
by Debra Ikeda, MD, FACR
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2010
Breast Imaging: The Requisites, 2nd Edition, by Debra Ikeda, MD, presents all of today’s core knowledge about diagnostic imaging of the breast. Clinically oriented and easy to use, it shows you how to interpret the full range of imaging studies for the most accurate diagnoses. Updates include all-new...
Pregnancy in the Obese Woman
Clinical Management
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2011
Obesity presents many challenges to mothers and their unborn babies
How can a severely overweight woman prepare for pregnancy? What if she is already pregnant? How do you guide her through an inherently high-risk pregnancy and labor to a successful birth?
Pregnancy in the Obese Woman...
by Aine Alam
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
It is absolutely staggering that in developing countries most women birth their babies without a skilled attendant present. There are no figures about how many midwifery students are lectured without a skilled midwifery facilitator - the author's guess is at sixty per cent. How can the Millennium...
How to Improve your ART Success Rates
An Evidence-Based Review of Adjuncts to IVF
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2011
IVF is now established worldwide as a clinical service. Units are striving to improve their success rates, and many treatments are being advocated as 'yet another breakthrough'. The purpose of this book is to help clinicians to evaluate each of these new treatments. Each chapter is written by a recognized...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
In order to maximize the chance of IVF success, couples need to ensure that their preconceptual health is optimal to increase the quality of gametes and reproductive fitness. This text reviews the medical and lifestyle factors that can affect the body at preconception stage, such as micronutrients,...
Testosterone
Action, Deficiency, Substitution
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
Now in its fourth edition Testosterone: Action, Deficiency, Substitution provides the most up-to-date and comprehensive source of information on testosterone and its role in human physiology and pathology. It covers biosynthesis and mechanisms of action and reviews their effects on brain and behavior,...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is the most common endocrine disturbance, affecting 10-15% of women in the UK. The definition of PCOS has been much debated, while its pathophysiology appears to be multifactorial and is still being actively researched. There is no doubt that PCOS has a significant...
Primary Ovarian Insufficiency
A Clinical Guide to Early Menopause
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
Presenting the most current and relevant information on the diagnosis and management of primary ovarian insufficiency, also known as premature ovarian failure (POI/POF), this book presents two equally important voices. The first is the scientific, evidence-based voice discussing the latest information...