Mark K. Ferguson and M. Brian Fennerty (Eds) 2006 Although GERD was initially described in the early 19th century, it is essentially a consequence of our modern day largesse. Dietary factors and associated obesity have combined with as yet other unknown factors (e.g. a decrease in the prevalence of H. pylori?) to make GERD one of the most […]
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I. Ross McDougall 2006 After my early training in medicine, I was invited to join Professor Edward McGirr at the Royal Infirmary in Glasgow Scotland. Two of the main interests in his department were thyroid and isotopic medicine. At that time, 1969, the term isotopic medicine had been changed to Nuclear Medicine in the United States; thus, I […]
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Merlin G. Butler Phillip D.K. Lee Barbara Y. Whitman Editors 2006 In the first edition of Management of Prader-Willi Syndrome, published in 1988, Dr. Hans Zellweger wrote in the foreword, “I . . . have reached the conclusion that PWS is one of the two most grave ailments I have encountered. . . . “Fortunately, if Hans were […]
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Rüdiger von Kummer and Tobias Back (Eds.) 2006 Cerebrovascular diseases have an enormous and increasing impact on societies: they rank among the leading causes of death, are often associated with chronic handicap, and cause high costs for primary treatment, rehabilitation and chronic care. The advent of treatment options such as reperfusion therapies and, to a lesser degree, neuroprotective […]
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Raffaele Badolato Silvano Sozzani Editors 2006
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Edited by Constantine Tsoukas 2006 Signal transduction through leukocyte receptors involves a variety of signaling molecules — including kinases, phosphatases, adaptor proteins, small GTPases GTP exchange factors, membrane phospholipids, as well as others. These signal transducers, regulated by inter- and intramolecular interactions, as well as by various post-translational modifications, lead to the activation of transcription factors that mediate cellular differentiation […]
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Edited by ZENG YI EILEEN M. CRIMMINS YVES CARRIÈRE JEAN-MARIE ROBINE 2006 The International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) Committee on Longevity and Health was formed in 1999. Its initial objectives were to study human longevity, the dynamics of health transitions, the emergence and proliferation of centenarians, and demographic-epidemiological projections, to develop implications for the […]
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Edited by Nagy A. Habib and Ruben Canelo 2006 The aim of this book is to present a unique compilation of lectures given by international speakers at the Hammersmith Hospital during the Meetings in Hepato Pancreato-Biliary Surgery and Transplantation 2003–2004. Their experience in the management of patients with liver, bile duct, and pancreas diseases, which is so important […]
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Constantine Ch. Karaliotas Christoph E. Broelsch Nagy A. Habib (Eds.) 2006 The 25th Panhellenic Surgical Congress is offering the present textbook of surgery to all participants on one of the hot surgical topics: hepatobiliary surgery: “I wonder what the young surgeon learn when they attend a national surgical congress?” It is well known that delegates and young […]
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Ai-Lean Chew · Howard I. Maibach (Eds.) 2006 Irritant contact dermatitis, once viewed as the “poor relation” of allergic contact dermatitis, has now come into its own, with considerable progress in research and increasing recognition amongst clinicians and regulatory authorities. Now recognized as a major cause of morbidity, irritant dermatitis affects a wide variety of people: babies with napkin (diaper) dermatitis, consumers […]
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