This unique book provides a concise account, written by world authorities in their fields, of how the mammalian lung grows and matures before birth...
The Vein Book is a comprehensive reference on veins and venous circulation. In one volume it provides complete, authoritative, and up-to-date...
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In recent years, there have been major developments in the fields of pharmacogenetics and pharmacogenomics, with the potential to make drug treatments...
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The development of clinical computing systems is a rapidly growing priority area of health information technology, spurred in large measure by robust...
Psychosomatic medicine has developed methods to increase diagnostic accuracy and improve targeted therapeutic approaches in all fields of medicine. In...
Modern medicine is now in a position to make advanced prognoses that chart the entire course of illness and recovery. Paradoxically, this is coupled...
Gender medicine is an important new field in health and disease. It is derived from top-quality research and encompasses the biological and social...
This book shows how vitamin A deficiency – before the vitamin was known to scientists – affected millions of people throughout history. It is a story...