The WHO Manual of Diagnostic Imaging: Radiographic Anatomy by A.M. Davies, H. Pettersson

By A.M. Davies, H. Pettersson

WHO in collaboration with the overseas fee for Radiologic schooling (ICRE) of the foreign Society of Radiology (ISR) and the opposite individuals of the worldwide guidance crew for schooling and coaching in Diagnostic Imaging is making a sequence of Manuals of Diagnostic Imaging. the entire sequence of manuals will essentially hide the exam strategies and interpretation of traditional diagnostic X-ray approaches. those manuals will change and replace the WHO handbook of Radiographic Interpretation for basic Practitioners and the WHO guide of Radiographic Technique. the current quantity during this sequence the guide Radiographic Anatomy and Interpretation of the Musculoskeletal process provides an exhaustive description of radiographic basic anatomy in addition to pathologic alterations most often noticeable in musculoskeletal procedure together with trauma, infections in bone and joints, metabolic, endocrine and poisonous problems, tumours, congenital and developmental problems. sponsored via fine quality copy of radiographs, this handbook will turn out crucial analyzing to basic practitioners clinical experts radiographers and radiologists in any scientific settings even supposing focusing in particular on wishes in small and mid-size hospitals.

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McGraw-Hill Manual Endocrine Surgery by Shane Morita, Alan Dackiw, Martha Zeiger

By Shane Morita, Alan Dackiw, Martha Zeiger

A step by step advisor to the analysis and administration of the endocrine surgical procedure patient

A Doody's middle name for 2011!

"This is a wanted reference that are meant to join any surgical resident's library. three Stars."--Doody's overview Service

"The authors have essentially succeeded in synthesizing a truly sensible and reader-friendly guide of 21st-century endocrine surgical procedure. it will be a useful source for clinical scholars, surgical citizens, fellows, and consulting surgeons alike."--Geoffrey B. Thompson, MD, university of medication, Mayo sanatorium (from the foreword)

McGraw-Hill handbook Endocrine surgical procedure can provide the knowledge you would like for the full-range of endocrine surgical procedure, provided in at-a-glance bulleted lists and tables. Concise, well-illustrated chapters offer high-yield summaries of epidemiology, chance components, genetics, scientific presentation, diagnostic overview, administration, surveillance and follow-up. You'll additionally locate a number of useful pearls that provide worthwhile insights from skilled surgeons.

This certain, point-of-care booklet features:

Succinct, but finished assurance of the illnesses and stipulations that impact the thyroid, parathyroid, pancreas, and adrenal glands

High-yield info at the administration of particular endocrine conditions

Management algorithms inside of every one bankruptcy to hurry the decision-making process

A two-color layout with tabbed pages to facilitate on-the-spot look-up

Content worthwhile to surgeons, surgical citizens, fellows, and school

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Avicenna's Medicine: A New Translation of the 11th-Century by Marc S. Micozzi, Mones Abu-Asab, Hakima Amri

By Marc S. Micozzi, Mones Abu-Asab, Hakima Amri

The 1st modern translation of the 1,000-year-old textual content on the origin of recent medication and biology

• provides the particular phrases of Avicenna translated without delay from the unique Arabic, removal the inaccuracies and mistakes of so much translators

• Explains present scientific interpretations and how you can practice Avicenna’s suggestions at the present time, rather for individualized medication

• unearths how Avicenna’s knowing of the “humors” corresponds at once with the biomedical sessions recognized this present day as proteins, lipids, and natural acids

A millennium after his existence, Avicenna continues to be some of the most extremely popular physicians of all time. His Canon of drugs, sometimes called the Qanun, is without doubt one of the most renowned and influential books within the historical past of medication, forming the foundation for our sleek knowing of human well-being and sickness. It concentrated no longer easily at the therapy of signs, yet on discovering the reason for sickness via humoral diagnosis—a technique nonetheless utilized in conventional Unani and Ayurvedic medications in India.

Originally written in Arabic, Avicenna’s Canon used to be in the past translated into Latin, Persian, and Urdu, but some of the inaccuracies from these first translations linger in present English translations. Translated without delay from the unique Arabic, this quantity contains special statement to give an explanation for present biomedical interpretations of Avicenna’s theories and how you can observe his remedies this day, quite for individualized drugs. It exhibits how Avicenna’s knowing of the humors corresponds at once with the biomedical definition of proteins, lipids, and natural acids: the nutrient development blocks of our blood and physique. With this new translation of the 1st quantity of his enormous paintings, Avicenna’s Canon turns into simply as appropriate this present day because it used to be 1,000 years ago.

“The subsequent time you stopover at your healthcare professional, whisper a prayer of due to Avicenna, simply because some of the foundations of recent medicine--empirical statement, objectivity, and rationalism--surfaced via his towering genius a millennium in the past. Avicenna’s medication is a invaluable hyperlink in medicine’s wealthy historical past. because the authors clarify during this extraordinary translation, Avicenna’s relevance to our period has now not been exhausted.” (Larry Dossey, M.D., writer of therapeutic phrases and One Mind)

“Avicenna’s drugs represents a breath of unpolluted air to these drawn to the background of Western medication. it really is provided in a continually transparent and concise shape that makes Avicenna’s writings obtainable to the English reader. moreover, a couple of chapters in the beginning of the publication act as a primer within the rules of Graeco-Arabic medication. Avicenna’s medication is likely one of the best and fascinating volumes that has come my method in many years. It presents perception right into a medication that may be a ancient a part of the improvement of contemporary Western medication and an ethnic conventional medication that continues to be kind of practiced at the Indian subcontinent and in a few elements of the center East. this can good serve to re-ignite a resurgence of curiosity in Avicenna’s drugs within the West; anything it absolutely deserves.” (Paul Hysen, Ph.D., health care provider of Naturopathy and Chiropractic)

“While it's meant for a scientific viewers, Avicenna’s medication is offered to an individual who's drawn to a holistic method of health...” (Renee Twombly, Georgetown clinical heart magazine, August 2013)

“A e-book like this can be tremendous well timed. ..It is a superb representation, on a superior medical foundation, of what a standard scientific method can carry to the twenty first century medication and clinical debates. it truly is not at all a simple learn, yet one who calls for a pen in hand and time to mirror upon the information expressed inside. This workout of interpretation is an effective advent to standard medication pondering that may be of curiosity to scholars, students, and the intellectually curious.” (Herbalgram, Alain Touwaide, Ph.D., July 2014)

“Avicenna’s Canon isn't just crucial and influential unmarried textual content within the background of drugs, it's also the most paintings of reference for a big conventional institution of medication that remains alive and has a lot to educate us this day. the current translation, Avicenna’s medication, is welcome not just since it makes the various rules of the Canon available in English but additionally since it bargains with useful purposes of its rules for these interested in holistic or integrative medication anyplace they may be.” (Seyyed Hossein Nasr, writer of technological know-how and Civilization in Islam and professor of Islamic stories at)

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The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange by Sherwin B. Nuland

By Sherwin B. Nuland

Original yr of publication: 2003; 2004 - pb

"Riveting" (Houston Chronicle), "captivating" (Discover), and "compulsively readable" (San Francisco Chronicle)

Surgeon, pupil, best-selling writer, Sherwin B. Nuland tells the unusual tale of Ignác Semmelweis with urgency and the perception received from his personal reviews and scientific adventure. Ignác Semmelweis is remembered for the now-commonplace thought that medical professionals needs to wash their palms earlier than reading sufferers. In mid-nineteenth-century Vienna, in spite of the fact that, this used to be a subversive proposal. With deaths from childbed fever exploding, Semmelweis came across that medical professionals themselves have been spreading the illness. whereas his uncomplicated reforms labored immediately—childbed fever in Vienna all yet disappeared—they introduced down upon Semmelweis the wrath of the institution, and ended in his tragic end.

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Meningococcal Vaccines: Methods and Protocols (Methods in by Andrew J. Pollard, Martin C.J. Maiden

By Andrew J. Pollard, Martin C.J. Maiden

Andrew Pollard and Martin Maiden have assembled a magnificent number of the most recent molecular and mobile concepts for the advance, assessment, and implementation of vaccines for use in contrast dreaded illness. The contributors-leading scientists, clinicians, and public well-being physicians-describe intimately the numerous techniques to vaccine layout, in addition to the overview of immune reaction to vaccine applicants and novel vaccine formulations. well timed and complete, Meningococcal Vaccines: tools and Protocols offers the scientist, public wellbeing and fitness medical professional, epidemiologist, medical microbiologist, and clinician with the basic instruments to put naked the secrets and techniques of the meningococcus, and to strengthen, assessment, and enforce winning new meningococcal vaccines.

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Microbiology PreTest Self-Assessment and Review (14th by Matthew Grisham, Robert K. Bright, LaJean Chaffin, Jane A.

By Matthew Grisham, Robert K. Bright, LaJean Chaffin, Jane A. Colmer-Hamood, Abdul N. Hamood, Afzal A. Siddiqui, David C. Straus

PreTest is the nearest you will get to seeing the attempt ahead of you're taking it

Great for direction evaluate and the USMLE Step 1!Microbiology: PreTest asks the suitable questions so you'll comprehend the correct solutions. Open it and begin studying what's at the test.

• 500 USMLE-style questions and answers
• What you really want to grasp for examination success
• exact factors for correct and fallacious answers
• proven and reviewed via scholars who lately handed their exams

student verified and reviewed

"I stumbled on the questions incorporated during this publication super good written. They coated the high-yield fabric of every topic and should aid scholars larger organize for the Step 1 exam." — Jodie Bachman, Third-Year scientific scholar, collage of drugs & Dentistry of recent Jersey university of Osteopathic Medicine

"I cherished this ebook. i believe that i'd have benefited from utilizing it in the course of my very own Step 1 learn time." — Russel Kahmke, Third-Year scientific scholar, SUNY Upstate clinical University

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Integrated Medical Sciences: The Essentials by Shantha Perera (Author), Ho Leung (Author), Rousseau Gama

By Shantha Perera (Author), Ho Leung (Author), Rousseau Gama (Author), Stephen Anderson (Author)

This book is a concise, obtainable problem-based method of the topic utilizing case situations to facilitate scholars taking their pre-clinical or simple sciences examinations.Using a relations of characters in each one case situation, the textual content displays the present adjustments in scientific and biomedical technology instructing that's more and more relocating in the direction of a extra built-in process through-problem-based studying. The characters, all participants of a longer relations, seem in numerous eventualities and the scholar turns into accustomed to their personalities and their ailment procedures. every one scenario covers the appropriate anatomy, body structure, pathology, pharmacology, microbiology, immunology and biochemistry and allows the reader to know the major innovations of simple clinical sciences in an built-in fashion. Key Features:Takes an built-in method of the topic to mirror fresh adjustments in clinical and biomedical technology curriculumFurther examine sections to augment realizing and allow the scholar to learn round the subjectIntended studying results integrated before everything of every chapterTrigger containers containing key evidence and revision questions incorporated all through to make sure key innovations are absolutely understoodIntegrated scientific Sciences: The necessities is an important textual content for first and moment 12 months undergraduates taking scientific or biomedical sciences (during the pre-clinical part for clinical students.). The e-book can also be a useful source for nursing measure scholars and allied health and wellbeing scholars taking classes in dentistry, physiotherapy and pharmacy. furthermore, the publication is perfect for US and overseas clinical scholars getting ready for the USMLE Step 1 exam.

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Long-Term Care Medicine: A Pocket Guide by Robert Salinas (auth.), Pamela Ann Fenstemacher, Peter Winn

By Robert Salinas (auth.), Pamela Ann Fenstemacher, Peter Winn (eds.)

Long-Term Care drugs: A Pocket advisor lessens the uncertainty focused on taking care of sufferers in a long term care facility. This functional pocket consultant is split into 4 sections: creation, universal scientific stipulations, Psychosocial facets, and certain concerns in long term Care. The chapters tackle all of the various elements of the LTC method in addition to tips to look after the sufferers and citizens dwelling inside it. The individuals to this easy-to-read consultant are enthusiastic about LTC and lots of have labored in the American clinical administrators organization to create and disseminate an information base for practitioners. long term Care medication: A Pocket consultant is a useful source for clinicians, practitioners, and educators who're trying to optimize the care and residing event of citizens in LTC by means of offering resident-centered care in addition to resident selection, future health, dignity, and a much better caliber of life.

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