Medical Research

It's time to talk about the menopause openly, to dispel the myths and inform every woman of their choices for this important stage of life.Dr Louis...

Presents Practical Applications of Mass Spectrometry for Protein Analysis and Covers Their Impact on Accelerating Drug Discovery and Development C...

Cancer on the Margins presents the findings of the Ontario Breast Cancer Community Research Iniative, an organization created to investigate the ex...

Human Stem Cell Technology & Biology: A Research Guide and Laboratory Manual integrates readily accessible text, electronic and video component...

Because the concept and discoveries of cancer stem cells are relatively new, scientists and researchers need an introduction to this dynamic area. ...

The book outlines first the importance of Extra Cellular Matrix (ECM), which is a natural surface for most of cells. In the following chapters the ...

Long before the U.S. government began conducting secret radiation and germ-warfare experiments, and long before the Tuskegee syphilis experiments, ...

How is medicine doing at the end of the twentieth century? While there has been no end of studies of our health care system and proposals for chang...

Research physicians face intractable dilemmas when they consider introducing new medical procedures. Innovations carry the promise of preventing or...

The idea that we have an unlimited moral imperative to pursue medical research is deeply rooted in American society and medicine. In this provocati...

Covering all state-of-the-art experimental research methods in orthopedic surgery and trauma From bioinformatics to nanotechnology, advances in bas...

Applying new technologies, presenting your experience, and, of course, thinking of your current practice in the light of new evidence, needs some u...

Highlights the importance of translation for the global exchange of medical theories, practices, and materials in the premodern period. This volume...

"The goal is to provide a comprehensive reference book for the preclinicaldiscovery and development scientist whose responsibilities span target id...

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...

A clear and thorough introduction to meta-analysis, the process of synthesizing data from a series of separate studies The first edition of this te...

A thoroughly updated new edition of the essential reference on the design, practice, and analysis of clinical trials  Clinical Trials Dictionary: T...

Cancer on the Margins presents the findings of the Ontario Breast Cancer Community Research Iniative, an organization created to investigate the ex...

THE MOST PRACTICAL, UP-TO-DATE GUIDE TO MODELLING AND ANALYZING TIME-TO-EVENT DATA—NOW IN A VALUABLE NEW EDITION Since publication of the first ed...

A valuable new edition of the trusted, practical guide to managing data in clinical trials Regardless of size, type, or complexity, accurate resul...

The trial of the "German doctors" exposed atrocities of Nazi medical science and led to the Nuremberg Code governing human experimentation. In Japa...

Although it strikes individuals from a variety of backgrounds, sickle cell anemia has always been known as a "black" disease in America. In the Blo...

In 1645 the Japanese samurai Musashi Miamoto wrote A Book of Five Rings, which described the attitudes necessary for individual success. Though he ...

Despite the long and distinguished history of health services research in the United States, this unparalleled work is the first comprehensive acco...

In 1985 the media announced a new therapy for cancer. It was expensive, labor-intensive, and toxic--but, they said, it worked. How it worked is the...

Lawrence Altman has authored the only complete history of the controversial and understudied practice of self-experimentation. In telling the stori...

In the pages of this rich and detailed narrative, whose characters include the field's leading scientists as well as key patients and their familie...

Millions of people in the third world die from diseases that are rare in the first world--diseases like malaria, tuberculosis, and schistosomiasis....

Saving lives versus taking lives: These are the stark terms in which the public regards human embryo research--a battleground of extremes, a war be...

Tamoxifen is one of the most widely prescribed drugs used to prevent the recurrence of breast cancer. A nonsteroidal antiestrogen, it has been succ...

Thalidomide: patented in Germany as a non-toxic cure-all for sleeplessness and morning sickness. A wonder drug with no side effects. We know differ...

This concise, easy to understand and learner-friendly book invites the readers to actively particpate in the understanding of medical statistical c...