Edited by Randolph W. Hall 2006 Over the last 100 years, quality of life and human longevity have improved in most of the industrialized world as a result of advances in human health. We have benefited from reduced exposure to disease (through such measures as vaccinations and improved water quality), and developed treatments that reduce the consequences of disease […]
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Françoise Galateau-Sallé 2006 Recent decades have seen substantially increased worldwide incidence and mortality rates for mesothelioma. Studies in many countries have confirmed its association with asbestos exposure. Nonetheless, important scientific and public health questions still need answers.
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Edited by George A. Bray Donna H. Ryan 2006 The field of obesity and the metabolic syndrome continues to advance on all fronts. This book is an effort to bring together a series of chapters that cover many of the newer facets of the problem. We have tried to capture the goal of this book in the subtitle […]
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Edited by CI-IRISTOS S. MANTZOROS 2006 Obesity and diabetes are reaching epidemic proportions in developed countries in the 21st century while, at the same time, they are also becoming disturbingly more prevalent in developing countries. In the United States alone, one-third of the population is obese and another third is overweight, more than 10 million people have been […]
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Redento Mora (Ed.) 2006 Diagnosis and treatment with compression-distraction techniques Expressions such as “compression-distraction techniques”, “transosseous osteosynthesis methods”, and “circular external fixation”, born in past decades in the former Soviet Union, are interchangeable and will be used in this book without distinguishing between them. Moreover, the term “screw” is used throughout this volume instead of “fiche”, as established in the […]
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Edited by Antonio Llombart-Bosch Vicente Felipo José Antonio López-Guerrero 2006 This volume contains the text of the presentations delivered at the Second International Symposium on Cancer “New trends in Cancer for the 21st Century” held in Valencia, Spain, from November 12 to 15, 2005. This second symposium represents continuity in the scientific activities of the Cátedra Santiago Grisolía and […]
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W. Schlegel · T. Bortfeld · A.- L. Grosu (Eds.) 2006 In the 1960s radiation therapy was considered an empirical, clinical discipline with a relatively low probability of success. This situation has changed considerably during the past 40 years. Radiation therapy is based heavily on fields such as physics, mathematics, computer science and radiation biology as well as electrical […]
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Edited by ELKE BOGNER ANDREAS HOLZENBURG 2006
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Edited by C. Jane Welsh Mary W. Meagher Esther M. Sternberg 2006 Susceptibility to infections and autoimmunity is profoundly affected by neural and neuroendocrine factors that in turn mediate the psychological status of the organism. Physiological stressors have provided one important experimental approach to investigate the interactive bidirectional communication between the immune and nervous systems.
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Aldo Clerico • Michele Emdin (Eds.) 2006 The Hormones of the Heart Clinical progress is a complex resultant of the interaction between intelligent clinical observation, selected cohort studies, advances in the biophysiological understanding of regulatory mechanisms in health and disease, and technological innovation. In other words, it is through the interplay of clinical, epidemiological, biological and technological research that […]
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