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Discovering Nutrition

Timothy Carr

Biomechanics in Sport: Performance Enhancement and Injury Prevention

<b>Biomechanics in Sport</b> is a unique reference text prepared by the leading world experts in sport biomechanics. Over thirty chapters cover a broad spectrum of topics, ranging from...

The Road to Successful CRT System Implantation

Daniel Gras / Westvy G. Fisher / Angel R. León

Cardiac resynchronization therapy is a new therapy for advanced heart failure patients. This therapy has been shown to improve quality of life, exercise capacity, NYHA classification, and even rev...

Thoracic Vein Arrhythmias

In 1998 Professor Haïssaguerre and his colleagues made the initial observation in patients that triggering foci in or around the pulmonary veins initiate some types of atrial fibrillation. Since ...

Evidence based Dementia Practice

The era of therapeutic nihilism in dementia has ended, with the emergence of agents for symptomatic treatment, those that delay the course of the disease or prevent the onset of dementia, and new ...

The Infectious Diseases Manual

Mark Farrington / David Wilks / David Rubenstein

<p><b>The Infectious Diseases Manual is a concise and up-to-date guide to infectious diseases, medical microbiology and antibiotic prescribing</b></p> <p>"I have ...

Manual of Smoking Cessation

Robert West / Peter Hajek / Andy McEwen / Hayden McRobbie

<i>Manual of Smoking Cessation</i> provides the crucial knowledge required if you are involved in helping smokers to stop. The manual provides facts, figures, suggested interventions a...

Laser Dermatology

David J. Goldberg

<ul> <li>The first all-inclusive text on the pitfalls, complications and controversies surrounding the use of lasers in dermatology and aesthetic medicine</li> <li>Each cha...

Establishing a Heart Failure Center

Michael McIvor

“. . . every critical examination of HF therapy in the United States has documented that we are not using all the weapons in our arsenal. We know what works, yet we are not systematically applyi...

Diseases of the Gallbladder and Bile Ducts

<b>An interdisciplinary reference book for the diagnosis and treatment of gallbladder and bile duct diseases</b><br /> <p><br /> </p> <p>With recent devel...

A - Z of Haematology

Barbara J. Bain / Rajeev Gupta

A–Z of Haematology provides an essential ‘quick reference guide’ to definitions covering the entire spectrum of haematology, from blood transfusion and coagulation through to recent advances...

Pediatric ECG Interpretation

Barbara J. Deal / Scott H. Buck / Christopher L. Johnsrude

Pattern recognition is an important learning tool in the interpretation of ECGs. Unfortunately, until faced with a patient with an arrhythmia or structural heart disease, pediatric practitioners g...

Vitamins

George F. M. Ball

This single-source reference draws together the current knowledge of the vitamins’ biological properties in the context of human nutrition. Vitamins are co-enzymes, antioxidants or precursors of...

The Pigmentary System

<b>The most comprehensive and integrated book on pigmentation</b><br /> <p><i>The Pigmentary System,</i> Second Edition<i>,</i> gathers into one con...

Handbook of Clinical Obstetrics

The second edition of this quick reference handbook for obstetricians and gynecologists and primary care physicians is designed to complement the parent textbook <i>Clinical Obstetrics: The ...

Stroke Rehabilitation

There is a continuing need for education about stroke and its management, both in acute and chronic stages. This book aims to facilitate interdisciplinary cooperation, which is essential if rehabi...

Advanced Endovascular Therapy of Aortic Disease

<p><b>At last, years of clinical experience and the latest clinical evidence comes together in one comprehensive collection by world-renown experts at the Baylor College of Medicine.&l...

Anaesthesia Science

<p><b><i>Anaesthesia Science</i> presents the scientific foundations upon which the clinical practice of anaesthesia and care of the critically ill are based.</b><...

Textbook of Hepatology

<p><b>THE encyclopedic guide to hepatology – for consultation by clinicians and basic scientists</b></p> <p>Previously the <i>Oxford Textbook of Clinical Hepa...

Health Economics

Ceri J. Phillips

<p>This book provides all the necessary information in a readable style that can be understood by anyone with even the most basic knowledge of mathematics <i>Health Economics</i>...