Published December, 2009
By Richard Wender and Danielle Snyderman
Publisher: Elsevier (W B Saunders Co Ltd)
Series: The Clinics: Internal Medicine
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Cancer is a chronic life-threatening disease that requires a comprehensive approach, including health promotion, prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, and palliation. This title focuses on identifying cancer risk factors and on screening and prevention for specific cancers such as breast, cervical, colon, and prostate cancer.

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Published December, 2009
By Wytske J Fokkens and Wystke J. Fokken
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Series: The Clinics: Internal Medicine
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Focuses on treatments for Chronic Rhinosinusitis. This title covers topics such as: inflammatory mechanisms in chronic rhinosinusitis with or without nasal polyposis; European versus Asian Chronic rhinosinusitis; what did it teach us and what do we want to know; and, anti-inflammatory effects of macrolides - applications in CRS.

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Published December, 2009
By Adre J. du Plessis
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Series: The Clinics: Internal Medicine
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Covering fetal neurology, this title explores the genetic basis of normal brain development and its disorders, including reviews on the prosencephalon, the cerebral cortex, and the cerebellum. It includes articles on normal fetal cerebral substrate supply, disorders of placental circulation and the fetal brain, and disorders of fetal circulation.

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Published December, 2009
By Stephen A. Harrison and Steven Harrison
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Presents the views of some of the experts on findings concerning the epidemiology, natural history, diagnosis, pathogenesis, and treatment of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis. This title includes articles on bariatric surgery, liver transplantation, cytokines and apoptosis, as well as insulin resistance and lipotoxicity.

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Published December, 2009
By Leonard G. Feld and Shabnam Jain
Publisher: Elsevier (W B Saunders Co Ltd)
Series: The Clinics: Internal Medicine
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Reviews the topic of pediatric quality. Examining the case for quality improvement in pediatrics, this title approaches to improve pediatric health care, also examining driving children's healthcare initiatives, and the future of quality on pediatric practice.

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Published December, 2009
By Edgar V. Lerma
Publisher: Elsevier (W B Saunders Co Ltd)
Series: The Clinics: Internal Medicine
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Examines critical aspects of renal disease from anatomic and physiologic changes in the aging kidney, to ethical issues in elderly with patients with renal disease. This title covers such topics as: drug dosing and the elderly kidney, diabetic nephropathy, renal replacement therapy, glomerular diseases in the elderly, and urinary incontinence.

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Published December, 2009
By Mario J. Garcia
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Computed tomography (CT) has become increasingly more important in the diagnosis of cardiac disease. This issue includes articles on CT angiography, evaluation of the coronary atherosclerotic plaque, evaluation of heart valves, and electrophysiology applications of CT, among others.

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Published December, 2009
By Hans-Ulrich Wittchen, Andrew T. Gloster, Andrew Gloster and Uli Wittchen
Publisher: Elsevier (W B Saunders Co Ltd)
Series: The Clinics: Internal Medicine
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Covers such topics as: the size and burden of Anxiety worldwide - an update, patterns of comorbidity and the structure of anxiety and mental disorders revisited - lumping or splitting, anxiety and anxiety disorders in children and adolescents - developmental issues, precursor conditions, etcetera and Public Health Perspective - Why did we fail?

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Published December, 2009
By Steven Schachter and Steven C. Schachter
Publisher: Elsevier (W B Saunders Co Ltd)
Series: The Clinics: Internal Medicine
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Epilepsy afflicts more than two million people in the United States and over 50 million people globally. This title contains the following articles on this condition: Sudden Unexplained Death in Epilepsy; Approaches to Seizure Prediction; Localizing Seizure Onset; Concomitant Mood Disorders; and, Advances in the Genetics of Epilepsy.

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Published December, 2009
By Lawrence J. Epstein, Douglas B. Kirsch, Douglas Kirsch and Lawrence Epstein
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Series: The Clinics: Internal Medicine
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Covers such topics as: the History of Polysomnography and Sleep Technology, and Generating a Signal - Biopotentials, Amplifiers and Filters, and Recording sleep; and Electrodes, 10/20 Recording system and sleep system specifications, Respiratory monitoring equipment and detection of respiratory events, and Differentiating Nocturnal Movements.

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