Jack Farr • Andreas H. Gomoll Editors 2014 Practical Clinical Applications Every book has someone who keeps the editors/authors on track, picks up loose ends, proofs, edits, and helps it become a reality. For this book, it was Andi Clifford. Thank you. Many of our techniques were developed over time through patient outcomes: many published […]
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Ernst Rainer Weissenbacher Monika Wirth • Ioannis Mylonas William J. Ledger • Steven S. Witkin 2014 The mucosal immune system in the female reproductive tract has evolved to meet the unique requirements of dealing with colonization with commensal microorganisms, sexually transmitted bacterial and viral pathogens, allogeneic spermatozoa, and the immunologically distinct fetus. It is now […]
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Lisa R. Sammaritano • Bonnie L. Bermas Editors 2014 Rheumatologic diseases disproportionally impact women during their reproductive years. Rheumatologists are not trained as obstetricians and many of us lack the experience of managing pregnant patients. Similarly, most obstetricians are not familiar with the intricacies of treating rheumatologic disorders. Thus, clinicians are often faced with difficult […]
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Uwe M. Martens Editor 2014 The past decade has resulted in major breakthroughs in the treatment of cancer. Even though conventional chemotherapy currently remains the backbone of most treatment regimens, the paradigm of cancer therapy is shifting unambiguously towards more selective, mechanism-based strategies.
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S. David Hudnall Editor 2014 The journey of discovery of human tumor viruses has stretched over 100 years, from the discovery by Giuseppe Ciuffo of a very small transmissible agent in human warts in 1907, to the discovery of the merkel cell polyomavirus by Yuan Chang and Patrick Moore in 2008. Now that the number of known human cancer […]
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Mei Hwei Chang • Kuan-Teh Jeang Editors 2014 From Basic Science to Clinical Prevention
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Hasan Yazici • Yusuf Yazici • Emmanuel Lesaffre Editors 2014 A Guide to Interpreting Criteria, Drugs, Trials, Registries, and Ethics The background for this book is a series of almost-parallel conferences on clinical research methodology organized by the senior and junior Yazici, in either Bodrum or Istanbul by the senior and in New York by Yusuf Yazici. […]
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Suzanne M. Snedeker Editor 2014 Exposure and Health Risks to Consumers The purpose of this book is to provide a comprehensive resource on what is known and what we need to know about toxicants present in food packaging materials and household plastics. This includes identifying human exposure scenarios for consumers, summarizing relevant known and emerging health effects, and […]
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Marco Matucci-Cerinic • Daniel Furst David Fiorentino Editors 2014 Rheumatologists and internists see many patients whose disease manifestations include skin rashes, yet they often do not have expertise regarding dermatological manifestations of rheumatic diseases. Dermatologists and rheumatologists have worked together to produce this practical handbook for rheumatologists (or internists) to guide them in day-to-day practice. The handbook is, above all […]
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Jozef Rovenský • Manfred Herold Martina Vašáková Editors 2014 Sine syndromes (SSs) represent a problem in clinical medicine, especially if the diagnosis is not determined by pathognomic findings, e.g., identification of microbial pathogens, sodium monouratic crystals, etc. SSs are topical especially in diseases defined by diagnostic and/or classification criteria, while in SSs a criterion with nomenclature meaning can also […]
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