Medical Research

The atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August, 1945, unleashed a force as mysterious as it was deadly. In 1946, the Atomic Bomb Casu...

Did America try to steal Soviet "cancer secrets"? And how could a cancer cure turn into a "biological atomic bomb"? Nikolai Krementsov's compelling...

The technique of electromyography, used to study the electrical currents generated by muscle action, has become invaluable to researchers in the bi...

Looking for the first time at the cut-price anatomy schools rather than genteel Oxbridge, Desmond winkles out pre-Darwinian evolutionary ideas in r...

A daily glass of wine prolongs life—yet alcohol can cause life-threatening cancer. Some say raising the minimum wage will decrease inequality while...

Self-experimentation, the deliberate design and implementation of an experiment using the experimenter's own body, is more common than is generally...

Drawing together contributions from a broad selection of internationally recognized experts in the field, this book aims to provide an up-to-date s...

The chaotic state of today's health care is the result of an explosion of effective medical technologies. Rising costs will continue to trouble U.S...

Pioneers in Medicine and Their Impact on Tuberculosis tells the stories of six individuals [Laennec, Koch, Biggs, von Pirquet, Frost, and Waksman],...

Designing and Conducting Health Surveys is written for students, teachers, researchers, and anyone who conducts health surveys. This third edition ...

A thorough treatment of the statistical methods used to analyze doubly truncated data In The Statistical Analysis of Doubly Truncated Data, an exp...

­The authoritative guide for Data Monitoring Committees—fully revised and updated The number of clinical trials sponsored by government agencies an...

An essential tool for statisticians and data scientists seeking to interpret the vast troves of data that increasingly power our world First develo...

Introduction to Nursing Research: Incorporating Evidence-Based Practice, Sixth Edition provides a solid foundation for teaching and learning the ba...