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  • Ferrous Sulfate - A Medical Dictionary, Bibliography, and Annotated Research Guide to Internet Referencesby James N. Parker; Philip M. Parker

    ICON Group International Inc. 2004; US$ 34.95

    This is a 3-in-1 reference book. It gives a complete medical dictionary covering hundreds of terms and expressions relating to ferrous sulfate. It also gives extensive lists of bibliographic citations. Finally, it provides information to users on how to update their knowledge using various Internet resources. The book is designed for physicians, medical students preparing for Board examinations, medical researchers, and patients who want to become familiar with research dedicated to ferrous sulfate. If your time is valuable, this book is for you. First, you will not waste time searching the Internet while missing a lot of relevant information. Second, the book also saves you time indexing and defining entries. Finally, you will not waste time... more...

  • Beriberi - A Medical Dictionary, Bibliography, and Annotated Research Guide to Internet Referencesby James N. Parker; Philip M. Parker

    ICON Group International Inc. 2004; US$ 28.95

    This is a 3-in-1 reference book. It gives a complete medical dictionary covering hundreds of terms and expressions relating to beriberi. It also gives extensive lists of bibliographic citations. Finally, it provides information to users on how to update their knowledge using various Internet resources. The book is designed for physicians, medical students preparing for Board examinations, medical researchers, and patients who want to become familiar with research dedicated to beriberi. If your time is valuable, this book is for you. First, you will not waste time searching the Internet while missing a lot of relevant information. Second, the book also saves you time indexing and defining entries. Finally, you will not waste time and money printing... more...

  • Cachexia - A Medical Dictionary, Bibliography, and Annotated Research Guide to Internet Referencesby James N. Parker; Philip M. Parker

    ICON Group International Inc. 2004; US$ 48.95

    This is a 3-in-1 reference book. It gives a complete medical dictionary covering hundreds of terms and expressions relating to cachexia. It also gives extensive lists of bibliographic citations. Finally, it provides information to users on how to update their knowledge using various Internet resources. The book is designed for physicians, medical students preparing for Board examinations, medical researchers, and patients who want to become familiar with research dedicated to cachexia. If your time is valuable, this book is for you. First, you will not waste time searching the Internet while missing a lot of relevant information. Second, the book also saves you time indexing and defining entries. Finally, you will not waste time and money printing... more...

  • A Clinical Guide to Inherited Metabolic Diseasesby Joe T. R. Clarke

    Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 54.00

    This clinically organized, user-friendly, handbook is intended to help general physicians and medical specialists in training with the first critical steps in clinical diagnosis: how to determine that this is an inherited metabolic disease, and where to go from here to establish a diagnosis. more...

  • Beriberi, White Rice, and Vitamin Bby Kenneth J. Carpenter

    University of California Press 2000; US$ 15.95

    In this comprehensive account of the history and treatment of beriberi, Kenneth Carpenter traces the decades of medical and chemical research that solved the puzzle posed by this mysterious disease. Caused by the lack of a minute quantity of the chemical thiamin, or vitamin B1 in the diet, beriberi is characterized by weakness and loss of feeling in the feet and legs, then swelling from fluid retention, and finally heart failure. more...

  • A Clinical Guide to Inherited Metabolic Diseasesby Joe T. R. Clarke

    Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 90.00

    This user-friendly clinical handbook provides a clear and concise overview of how to go about recognizing and diagnosing inherited metabolic diseases. To help make the correct diagnosis, the book is organized according to the clinical symptoms presenting in these patients. This new edition includes much new and up-dated material. more...

  • The Great Starvation Experimentby Todd Tucker

    Simon & Schuster 2006; US$ 14.99

    What does it feel like to starve? To feel your body cry out for nourishment, to think only of food? How many fitful, hungry nights must pass before dreams of home-cooked meals metastasize into nightmares of cannibalism? Why would anyone volunteer to find out? In The Great Starvation Experiment, historian Todd Tucker tells the harrowing story of thirty-six young men who willingly and bravely faced down profound, consuming hunger. As conscientious objectors during World War II, these men were eager to help in the war effort but restricted from combat by their pacifist beliefs. So, instead, they volunteered to become guinea pigs in one of the most unusual experiments in medical history -- one that required a year of systematic starvation.... more...

  • A Research Agenda for Geographic Information Scienceby Robert B. McMaster

    CRC Press 2004; US$ 119.95

    This book for researchers and scholars of geographic information systems (GIS), examines the fundamental issues of GIScience, and includes discussions on spatial analysis, visualization, ontology, GIS and society, and more. more...

  • Geriatric Nutritionby John E. Morley

    CRC Press 2007; US$ 139.95

    Poor nutritional health leads to acute and chronic disease, and disease states are catastrophic to nutritional health. Beginning with an overview of nutrition in older persons, this book addresses nutrition epidemiology, obesity, immunity, as well as molecular theories of aging. It offers prescriptions for enteral and parenteral nutrition. more...

  • Managing Metabolic Abnormalities in the Psychiatrically Illby Richard A. Bermudes; Paul E. Keck Jr.; Susan L. McElroy

    American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc. 2006; US$ 54.00

    This book addresses an important unmet need of patients suffering from both mental disorders and medical illness?namely, the lack of integration of general medical care with psychiatric care and the related problem of barriers to collaboration and communication among health care providers. It provide a current review of the relationships among psychiatric illnesses, metabolic abnormalities, and treatment, focusing on how clinicians can tailor care to those doubly-afflicted patients. more...