Catálogo de libros: Medicina

41373 Catálogo de libros: Medicina

  • Advances in Endodontics and Periodontics
    Irene Pina-Vaz
    This Special Issue of Applied Sciences, titled 'Advances in Endodontics and Periodontics', aims to improve the state of the art in relation to the most relevant advances in Endodontics and Periodontics. Topics addressed in this Special Issue include alternative treatment strategies such as 'green' antimicrobials, the relationship with systemic diseases, new devices and material...
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    71,18 €

  • Enhancing a taxonomy for medicinal plants by incorporating Information Extraction from Biomedical Literature
    Niyati Kumari Behera
    In last few years, the volume of experimental data and publications produced in biomedical domain have scaled up rapidly. This enormous amount of knowledge has been stored in text databases such as MEDLINE, PubMed Central, BioMed Central etc. For example, MEDLINE, one of the largest bibliographic text database of biomedical information science, has more than 27 million research...
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    35,59 €

  • Research Progress of Plant Compounds for Diabetes and Its Complications
    Numerous chronic complications appear in the evolution of diabetes mellitus type 2 and type 1, and they significantly influence the duration of life of the patient. Diabetes mellitus is a metabolic disease where pro-oxidant and pro-inflammatory mechanisms are intensely expressed. Given the numerous beneficial effects present in compounds extracted from different plants, such as...
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    71,27 €

  • Key Advances in the Treatment of the Critically Ill
    Spyros D. Mentzelopoulos
    This reprint of a Special Issue of the Journal of Clinical Medicine includes a submission-motivating editorial, eleven clinical research papers (including a meta-analysis), six narrative reviews and a survey-based study, focusing on a wide variety of aspects of intensive care. Five studies pertain to coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) assess intermittent vs. prolonged prone vent...
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    90,93 €

  • The Living Wetsuit
    Sue Adstrum PhD
    Dive into the fascinating world of human anatomy with Sue Adstrum’s ground-breaking book, The Living Wetsuit: Demystifying anatomy for everyday use. This compelling read offers a fresh perspective on our bodies’ anatomical structure, blending historical insights, scientific exploration, and the untapped wisdom of fascia - the body’s connective tissue that intertwines and suppor...
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    56,30 €

  • Experimental Model of Chronic Sensory Neuropathy due to Oxaliplatin
    Juliana Lino / Mariana Vale / Renata Bessa Last N
    This book can be used as a basis for experimental research aimed at improving the health condition of patients who use chemotherapy and, consequently, may develop alterations that compromise their quality of life. We would like to pay tribute to Prof. Dr. Ronaldo Ribeiro (in memorian) for the opportunity to carry out this research at LAFICA/UFC. We hope that this reading will s...
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    79,28 €

  • Isolation of verbascoside and validation of an analytical method
    Daniella Maria Soares de Oliveira / Marilis D. Miguel / Obdúlio G. Miguel
    In this study, the phenylpropanoid verbascoside, identified by NMR, which has pharmacological activities such as antioxidant, analgesic, anti-inflammatory and gastroprotective, was isolated from the ethyl acetate fraction of the aerial parts of Buddleja stachyoides Cham. & Schltdl. The analytical method using high-performance liquid chromatography was developed and validated to...
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    49,74 €

  • Biochemical and proteomic profile of SGA newborns
    Sandra Mattos
    Barker’s hypothesis of fetal programming for chronic non-communicable diseases proposes that an adverse environmental stimulus such as nutrient or oxygen restriction during a critical period of fetal development induces structural and functional effects in the developing organism, optimizing the growth of key organs such as the brain, at the expense of other organs such as the ...
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    69,53 €

  • Anatomy of a Medically Abusive Childhood
    Candace Ahalse
    Have you ever been in contact with a medical or Munchausen by proxy abuser? Are you sure? Have you ever been in a traffic accident, a school lockdown, an office lockdown, an infrastructure failure, a fire, or a power outage? Have you ever been burglarized, stalked, falsely accused of a crime, falsely accused of a scandal, or catfished? Have you ever had your property vandalized...
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    19,78 €

  • Evaluation of tuberculosis care in Koro
    Kourbé DIARRA
    In 2020, 6922 cases of tuberculosis were notified in Mali. Despite efforts tuberculosis remains a public health problem in sub-Saharan Africa Objective to evaluate tuberculosis management in Koro according to national guidelines in Mali.Materials and Methods: This was a descriptive cross-sectional study of tuberculosis management in 2019 ,2020 and 2021. It focused on the evalua...
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    61,57 €

  • Effects of alternative products on piglets in the maternity ward
    Camila Saremba / Paulo Eduardo Bennemann
    In 2015, the material was developed with the aim of identifying opportunities in the area of pig farming and applying them in practice in order to seek improvements in the farm’s productivity, as well as reducing costs. The results found during this period were used at the farm, as well as changes to some of the previous management practices. To get to this point, the support o...
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    54,90 €

  • Bio-Kernel Machines and Applications
    Zheng Rong Yang
    Due to its capability of handling very complex problems and its high flexibility in adapting to different algorithms, the kernel machine plays a crucial role in machine learning.Bio-Kernel Machines and Applications will introduce a new type of kernel machine for the exploration and modeling between the genotypic inherent structures of short protein sequences or nucleic sequence...
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    132,40 €

  • Common Medical Plants of India
    Edward John Waring
    'The principal use of Aloes is as a purgative, in doses of from three to six grains. If administered alone, it is apt to cause griping, nausea.' 'In Coughs, especially those of Infancy and Childhood, where there is difficulty of breathing, the application of betel leaves, warmed, smeared with oil, and applied in layers over the chest, often affords speedy and marked relief. It ...
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    16,17 €

  • Chronic Diseases in Primary Care in the Municipality of Volta Redonda-RJ
    Airton Ferreira Pinto de Oliveira
    The study aimed to provide a current overview of the population of the municipality of Volta Redonda-RJ in relation to Hypertension and Dyslipidemia, correlating them with their risk factors, associated comorbidities and treatment used, as well as assessing whether this is in line with the National Guidelines, in order to adapt primary care strategies to optimize and improve he...
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    39,23 €

  • ACTIVITY OF NONSPECIFIC DEFENSE FACTORS IN COVID-1 RECONVALESCENTS
    Zuhra Abdukadyrovna Nuruzova
    Mucosal immunity, including secretory IgA (sIgA), plays an important role in early defense against respiratory pathogens. Saliva analysis, the most convenient way to measure sIgA, is used to characterize the mucosal immune response to many viral infections including SARS, MERS, influenza, HIV, and RSV. The study determined that mucosal immunity, including secretory IgA, plays a...
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    84,54 €

  • EDUCATIONAL WORK IN THE REDUCTION OF ADOLESCENT PREGNANCY
    Elena María Matos Batista / Miraida Molina Ruíz / Zoraima Concepción Domínguez
    The training process for specialists in General Comprehensive Medicine (MGI) includes aspects related to adolescent pregnancy in their curriculum. In spite of the above, it has been shown that the knowledge they receive in this module is not sufficient for this professional to have a greater impact on community education and to achieve adequate modes of action for the family an...
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    61,76 €

  • Principles of Public Health
    Thomas Dyer Tuttle
    The earliest history of remote ages describes methods employed in combating disease, and down through all the centuries the struggle against infection has been going on. The science of health as applied in recent years reveals wonderful progress in the avoidance of disease, and in the control of the violent epidemics by which in the past nations were almost exterminated. Modern...
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    14,29 €

  • The Road Back Home
    George M. Papa / Joshua S. Rich
    I first met Joshua Rich when he attended a class I was teaching as a volunteer in the Arizona Maricopa County Jail system. When he explained his story, I knew it would make a positive impact as to prison sentencing, reform and rehabilitation. I asked him to write down the details of his life, and I would turn it into a book. He did so, and the book became two books. This is the...
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    62,84 €

  • Nerves and Common Sense
    Annie Payson Call
    PEOPLE form habits which cause nervous strain. When these habits have fixed themselves for long enough upon their victims, the nerves give way and severe depression or some other form of nervous prostration is the result. If such an illness turns the attention to its cause, and so starts the sufferer toward a radical change from habits which cause nervous strain to habits which...
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    14,31 €

  • The impact of the Ebola epidemic on HIV PMTCT
    Soua Goumou
    The N’Zérékoré region has 6 health districts with a total population of 1,696,807 in 2015 [1]. HIV prevalence is 1.6% in Guinea, with 120,000 people including 65,000 women [2]. In Guinea during the Ebola virus disease epidemic, the N’Zérékoré region was the most affected, leading to dysfunctional health services. The aim of this study was to assess the impact of the Ebola epide...
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    54,90 €

  • Ménière’s Woman
    Julieann Wallace
    Ménière’s Woman. When life gives you lemons ... Insightful. Practical. Real. It’s time to have a Ménière’s disease book written by a woman! Researchers have uncovered countless ways in which women’s and men’s bodies react differently to the same diseases, due to our hormones. There is A LOT that female bodies to go through during a hormonal cycle, a stark contrast to the experi...
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    27,39 €

  • Making the Case for MTET
    Mohammad A Nezami
    Millions of cancer cases are diagnosed yearly. While a cure has yet to be discovered, one of the most promising new treatments is Multi-Targeted Epigenetic Therapy, or MTET.In Making the Case for MTET, world-renowned oncology expert Dr. Mohammad A. Nezami introduces his revolutionary method of treating patients with advanced cancer by using a careful combination of drugs and ge...
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    305,84 €

  • The role and place of the general practitioner in society
    Guy Vallancien
    The role and place of the general practitioner must evolve towards comprehensive patient care. The use of digitized diagnostic and therapeutic resources, and the sharing of tasks in close collaboration with other healthcare staff, are essential in the context of close collaboration within dedicated medical structures that will be developed in the territories. The general practi...
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    60,13 €

  • Neuropathic Pain
    Robert J. Schwartzman
    Neuropathic Pain: a Clinical Guide to Diagnosis is intended to serve as a concise reference for the clinician. It provides a snapshot of the clinical features of somatic and visceral pain in outline form. The differential diagnosis provides a quick reference to similar conditions that should be considered when assessing the proper diagnosis.Significant and unique strengths are ...
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    86,55 €

  • Equal Care
    Seth A Berkowitz
    Introduces a vision for the future of health equity and explains practical policy measures for how to achieve it.Health inequity is one of the defining problems of our time. But current efforts to address the problem focus on mitigating the harms of injustice rather than confronting injustice itself. In Equal Care, Seth A. Berkowitz, MD, MPH, offers an innovative vision for the...
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    57,20 €

  • Climate Dragon
    S.W. Lawrence
    Climate fiction without apocalypse, set in and around Washington, D.C. Newly minted engineering professor Jake Harper, dealing with issues of mild dyslexia and awkwardness with public speaking, wants to stave off climate weirding by re-engineering the North American electric grids. His pregnant partner Abbey London, sassy but irresistible, starts her practice as an infectious d...
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    17,24 €

  • Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia
    Angel Cuesta
    Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia (HHT), or Rendu-Osler-Weber syndrome, is a dominantly inheritable rare disease with a prevalence of 1:5,000 - 10,000 people. The diagnosis of HHT, as a rare disease, follows the Curaçao Diagnostic Criteria: Nosebleeds (epistaxis), whether spontaneous or recurrent; (multiple) telangiectases at characteristic sites, including the lips, oral c...
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    61,88 €

  • THE GIRL WHO SWALLOWED OFFICE SUPPLIES
    Belinda Sutton Mitchell
    THE GIRL WHO SWALLOWED OFFICE SUPPLIES is a collection of stories from the life of a mental health social worker.Stories get our attention. They entertain us, inform us, motivate us. But mostly they awaken us to the human condition. Stories are powerful purveyors of truth.These stories are sometimes tragic, sometimes hopeful, sometimes humorous--but all are filled with drama. ...
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    14,72 €

  • Fascinating Fringes of Medicine
    Campion Quinn
    Step into the captivating world of Fascinating Fringes of Medicine: From Oddities to Innovations, a compelling anthology authored by Dr Campion Quinn. Unveil the extraordinary tales of unusual diseases, queer conditions, peculiar treatments, and intriguing characters that shaped the history of medicine. Uncover the forgotten heroes and unsung pioneers who pushed the boundaries ...
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    107,87 €

  • Fascinating Fringes of Medicine
    Campion Quinn
    Step into the captivating world of Fascinating Fringes of Medicine: From Oddities to Innovations, a compelling anthology authored by Dr Campion Quinn. Unveil the extraordinary tales of unusual diseases, queer conditions, peculiar treatments, and intriguing characters that shaped the history of medicine. Uncover the forgotten heroes and unsung pioneers who pushed the boundaries ...
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    42,83 €