Edited by Anita L. Nelson JoAnn Woodward 2006 A Practical Guide for Primary Care As a group, primary care providers treat most of the people who are infected with sexually transmitted infections (STIs); however, each individual health care provider may not see enough cases to keep current with new information about the clinical presentations of or the diagnostic tests […]
Continue reading →
Edited by Dolph L. Hatfield Maria J. Berry Vadim N. Gladyshev 2006 Since the first edition of Selenium: Its Molecular Biology and Role in Human Health was published in 2001, many new insights into the biochemical, molecular, genetic and health aspects of this fascinating element have been elucidated. Several new human clinical trials have also been undertaken examining the […]
Continue reading →
Antonio Cano Sanchez Joaquim Calaf i Alsina José-Luis Dueñas-Díez (Editors) 2006 A New Brand of Multitarget Drugs The increasing awareness on the varied consequences of hypogonadism in distinct organs and systems has supported the notion of estrogens as systemic agents. This observation is congruent with the variety of tissues affected by estrogens when used in hormone therapy formulations […]
Continue reading →
Editor Marco Romanelli 2006 I consider it a great privilege to have been asked to write the foreword for this book. The European Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel (EPUAP) is less than 10 years old having been founded in 1997. I had the honour of being the first president of this group and have been amazed and delighted at the […]
Continue reading →
Edited by Gail Skowron Richard Ogden 2006 Inhibitors of nucleic acid biosynthesis have had a long and varied history as therapeutic agents. They have frequently provided the backbone of therapy in a wide variety of proliferative disorders ranging from infectious diseases to cancer.
Continue reading →
Edited by A-Majid Khatib 2006 A New Potential Strategy in Cancer Therapy To date, cancer therapies are mainly based on the use of cytotoxic drugs and/or radiotherapy that have a relatively low therapeutic index with significant side effects, although they have a potent antitumor activity, since they target both cancer and normal cells. Furthermore, several cancer types are intrinsically […]
Continue reading →
L. M. Portnoy 2006 A new Outlook This book deals with problems which are sufficiently important to become the subject of studies. Cancer of the stomach remains one of the most pressing medical problems. Meanwhile, scientific and practical interest in this problem has markedly diminished during recent years.
Continue reading →
Edited by WILLIAM SMALL, JR. GAYLE E. WOLOSCHAK 2006
Continue reading →
Habib Zaidi Editor 2006 This book provides a review of image analysis techniques as they are applied in the field of diagnostic and therapeutic nuclear medicine. Driven in part by the remarkable sophistication of nuclear medicine instrumentation and increase in computing power and its ready and inexpensive availability, this is a relatively new yet rapidly expanding field.
Continue reading →
Edited by Suresh I.S. Rattan and Moustapha Kassem 2006 During the last 40 years, biogerontology – the study of the biological basis of aging – has progressed tremendously, and it has now become an independent and respectable field of study and research. Numerous universities, medical institutes and research centers throughout the world now offer full-fledged courses on the biology […]
Continue reading →