Medicine
epub |eng | 2016-04-21 | Author:Les Iversen

Plagues and pestilences Throughout human history infectious diseases have plagued us. As the human species became more and more numerous and lived in increasingly high densities in towns and cities, ...
( Category: Medicine May 11,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Elias Traboulsi & Virginia Utz

Group Criteria Group A (very low risk) All tumors are 3 mm or smaller, confined to the retina and at l east 3 mm from the foveola and 1.5 mm ...
( Category: Medicine May 10,2018 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-09 | Author:Trevor A. Hurwitz

Key Clinical Points Lyme disease, a tick-borne spirochetal infection, is the most common, and still rapidly emerging, vector-borne illness in the United States. Only 10% of cases are reliably detected. ...
( Category: Medicine May 9,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-05-09 | Author:Paul Slack

Hard choices The fuller the sources become over time, the easier it is to test the accuracy of those sweeping statements of chroniclers about the havoc created by plague, and ...
( Category: Medicine May 9,2018 )
epub |eng | 2002-05-09 | Author:David DeGrazia

Is death a harm? Death is distinct from dying. Dying, a process involving a still-living individual, typically involves suffering, especially if the dying process is protracted. Suffering that may occur ...
( Category: Biological Sciences May 9,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Steffen Backert & Yoshio Yamaoka

Philpott DJ, Belaid D, Troubadour P, Thiberge JM, Tankovic J, Labigne A, Ferrero RL (2002) Reduced activation of inflammatory responses in host cells by mouse-adapted Helicobacter pylori isolates. Cell Microbiol ...
( Category: Medicine May 9,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Wim Van Hecke, Louise Emsell & Stefan Sunaert

Higher Order Model Tractography The diffusion tensor m odel assumes a single-fibre bundle traversing through a voxel. It has however been estimated that up to 70 % of all white ...
( Category: Medicine May 9,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jean-Marie Saudubray, Matthias R. Baumgartner & John Walter

10.3 Genetics EE is a rare autosomal recessive disorder caused by mutations in ETHE1. No genotype-phenotype correlation has been established [37]. 10.4 Diagnostic Tests Ethylmalonic acid and C4- and C5-acylglycines ...
( Category: Medicine May 9,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Marcus L. Martin, Sheryl L. Heron, Lisa Moreno-Walton & Anna Walker Jones

Discussion The physically disabled may present to emergency departments for a number of reasons: their visit may involve an injury or medical condition that is the cause for their newly ...
( Category: Administration & Medicine Economics May 9,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Johnny L. Matson

Specific Phobia Specific phobia is characterized by markedly intense and excessive fear or anxiety about a specific object or situation, leading to active avoidance or distress when the object or ...
( Category: Medicine May 9,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Dennis Hurwitz

4.3.4 Case 4.8 Obese Lower Body and Thighs Case 4.8 is most concerned over her large and sagging lower abdomen, medial thighs, and legs (Fig. 4.44). The enormity of the ...
( Category: Medicine May 9,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:David S. Seres & Charles W. Van Way, III

Management of “Surgical Diseases” Some diseases absolutely require surgical therapy. Patients with intestinal perforation need immediate operation, for example. But there is also a group of “surgical diseases” which may ...
( Category: Nutrition May 9,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Giovanni Stanghellini & Massimiliano Aragona

10.1.3 Significance of Anthropology Often the term of anthropology is taken for cultural anthropology. However, there are many kinds of anthropology, among others biological and philosophical anthropology. We restrict ourselves ...
( Category: Medicine May 9,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-05-08 | Author:Christie Watson

* * * — I’m in the Special-Care Baby Unit on my own today, as it’s so busy, and with four babies to care for. I like it in here ...
( Category: Nursing May 8,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-05-02 | Author:Nina Shapiro & Kristin Loberg

CAFFEINATED You don’t want to interact with me before I’ve had my morning coffee. I may not be such a great person afterward, but I’m pretty uninspired without it. Many ...
( Category: Administration & Medicine Economics May 5,2018 )