Medicine: general issues (500)

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:This book explores the history, effects, diagnosis and treatment of chronic fatigue as well its significant links to other illnesses. Fatigue is a difficult symptom to accurately assess and quantify due to its subjective nature. Marie Thomas discusse...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:This book reviews the medical history of Hong Kong, beginning with its birth as a British colony. It introduces the origins of Hong Kong’s medical education, which began in 1887 when the London Missionary Society set up the Hong Kong College of Medic...

publisher: Springer
year: 2007
description:The Kuala Lumpur International Conference on Biomedical Engineering (Biomed 2006) was held from 11 to 14 December 2006 at the Palace of the Golden Horses, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. This international conference was jointly organised by the Department o...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:Giving dermatologists, dermatology residents, and primary care physicians a deeper insight into pemphigus vulgaris, a rare autoimmune disease characterized by blisters and lesions on the skin and mucous membranes, this book provides insight and treat...

publisher: Springer
year: 2005
description:Accident and emergency departments are the doorway to the hospital for acutely ill and injured patients. Whereas casualty departments have existed for over 150 years, they were often poorly staffed and managed. This book describes the fight to create...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:This book will be a ‘how to’ guide for medical students interested in pursuing a career in academic surgery.  It will discuss personal traits and rationale for going into academic surgery.  It will review accomplishments as a medical student that are...

publisher: Springer
year: 2009
description:The concept of specific receptors for drugs, hormones and transmitters lies at the very heart of biomedicine. This book is the first to consider the idea from its 19th century origins in the work of John Newport Langley and Paul Ehrlich, to its devel...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:This salient volume surveys the state of access to primary care and preventive health services by migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers across Europe. Experts in public health and allied fields identify obstacles to healthcare interventions for migr...

publisher: Springer
year: 2019
description:This concise guide takes a practical approach to adolescent and young adult (AYA) rheumatology, aiming to cover the needs of any healthcare professional dealing with young people aged 10-24 years. Each chapter contains key management points for reade...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:This book offers a comprehensive and clinically relevant survey of adolescent gynecology. Adolescent Gynecology: A Clinical Casebook addresses the many intersecting considerations of gynecologic and reproductive health care for this population using ...

publisher: Springer
year: 2019
description:As the Baby Boomers age, concerns over healthcare systems' abilities to accommodate geriatric patients grow increasingly challenging. This is especially true with the population deemed to be “the oldest of the old,” specifically those over the age o...

publisher: Springer
year: 2016
description:This text provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art review of the application of image analysis focusing on the techniques which can be used in every biology and medical laboratory to automate procedures of cell analysis and to create statistics ver...