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by Julie Anne Brion (Author) Number of Pages: 38 Dimensions: 0.09 x 9 x 6 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: June 21, 2024

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Living Well with Orthostatic Intolerance: A Guide to Diagnosis and Treatment - Paperback

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by Peter C. Rowe (Author)The essential guide to living with orthostatic intolerance.Orthostatic intolerance (OI) describes a group of circulatory disorders whose symptoms are characterized by a dramatic drop in blood flow to the brain when people sit down or stand up. It is often associated with other acute issues, such as substantial drops in blood pressure, tachycardia, dizziness, and fainting, or long-term problems, such as chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, and "long COVID." Living Well with ...

The Successful Occupational Therapy Fieldwork Student - Paperback

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by Karen Sladyk (Author)The Successful Occupational Therapy Fieldwork Student is a stimulating new book that paves the way to the profession of occupational therapy. This book fulfills the needs of all OT and OTA students throughout their entire education by fully preparing them for their fieldwork assignments. This is an imperative learning tool for all students since all curricula include Level I and II fieldwork requirements, ranging from the associate's level to a master's program.This co...

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by Fran Balkwill (Author), MIC Rolph (Author)Planet Earth can be a dangerous place for all living creatures, including you. You can usually escape from erupting volcanoes and floods. You can protect your body from the blazing Sun and freezing snow. But wherever you live and whatever the weather, you cannot escape GERMS! Enjoy Your Cells is a series of children's books from the acclaimed creative partnership of scientist/author Fran Balkwill and illustrator Mic Rolph. Once again, they use thei...

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Mouse Hematology: A Laboratory Manual [With DVD] - Hardcover

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by Michael P. McGarry (Author), Cheryl A. Protheroe (Author), James J. Lee (Author)The mouse has become a standard laboratory model organism, particularly for the study of hematopoiesis, the immune system, and inflammation. Although laboratories studying stem cells, blood, and blood-forming tissues have assimilated many new molecular diagnostic methods, the identification of cell lineages through classical light microscopic techniques is often poorly understood and practiced. Mouse Hematology...

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Intellectual Property in Molecular Medicine - Hardcover

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by Salim Mamajiwalla (Author), Rochelle Seide (Author)Patents are an important way of protecting inventions in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. However, intellectual property law reforms have not kept pace with the rapid advances in genomics, synthetic biology, and stem cell research. Meanwhile, universities are increasingly spinning off companies that use these technologies, requiring the academic scientists involved to gain an understanding of intellectual property law and t...

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Prion Biology: A Subject Collection from Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology - Hardcover

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by Stanley B. Prusiner (Author)Prions are best known as the agents of mad cow and related diseases, and a growing number of proteins with prion-like properties have been implicated in diseases such as Parkinson's. But some recently discovered prion-like proteins do not appear to induce pathological changes and, in fact, may be key players in basic biological processes such as transcription, immune regulation, and memory formation. Written and edited by experts in the field, this collection fr...

Career Options for Biomedical Scientists - Hardcover

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by Kaaren Janssen (Author), Richard Sever (Author)Most people who do a PhD and postdoctoral work in the biomedical sciences do not end up as principal investigators in a research lab. Despite this, graduate courses and postdoctoral fellowships tend to focus almost exclusively on training for bench science rather than other career paths. This book plugs the gap by providing information about a wide variety of different careers that individuals with a PhD in the life sciences can pursue. Coveri...

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The Politics of Reproduction: Race, Medicine, and Fertility in the Age of Abolition - Paperback

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by Katherine Paugh (Author)Many British politicians, planters, and doctors attempted to exploit the fertility of Afro-Caribbean women's bodies in order to ensure the economic success of the British Empire during the age of abolition. Abolitionist reformers hoped that a homegrown labor force would end the need for the Atlantic slave trade. By establishing the ubiquity of visions of fertility and subsequent economic growth during this time, The Politics of Reproduction sheds fresh light on the ...

Raising the Living Dead: Rehabilitative Corrections in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean - Paperback

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by Alberto Ortiz Díaz (Author)An eye-opening look at how incarcerated people, health professionals, and others behind and beyond bars came together to problem-solve incarceration. Raising the Living Dead is a history of Puerto Rico's carceral rehabilitation system that brings to life the interactions of incarcerated people, their wider social networks, and health care professionals. Alberto Ortiz D?az describes the ways that multiple communities of care came together both inside and outside ...

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Sbas and McQs for Drugs in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care - Paperback

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by Edward Scarth (Editor), Claire Blandford (Editor)Designed to complement the highly popular Drugs in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, this companion title provides high quality pharmacology practice questions for exam revision. Focusing specifically on pharmacological principles and agents, it is tailored for postgraduate exams in anaesthesia and intensive care including the FRCA, FFICM, the EDAIC, and the EDIC. Over 230 True/False MCQs and Single Best Answers help readers to test and consol...

Nutritional Therapeutics and Pharmacology in Health and Disease - Hardcover

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by Christopher Herald (Editor)Nutrition is an important aspect of developing and maintaining health. Each individual has different nutritional needs and a distinctive physiological make-up. Enriched nutrition is linked to stronger immune systems, decreased risk of non-communicable diseases, enhanced infant, child and maternal health, longer life spans, as well as safer pregnancy and delivery. Nutrition and diet are inextricably and intimately linked to all aspects of drug efficacy, metabolism...

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Essentials of Diagnostic Surgical Neuropathology - Hardcover

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by Chitra Sarkar (Editor), Vani Santosh (Editor), Geeta Chacko (Editor)Keeping abreast of the major strides made in the field of neuropathology, Essentials of Diagnostic Surgical Neuropathology brings out its second edition with the aim of keeping the neuroscience community updated with the new developments in neuropathology.This second edition comes close on the heels of the fifth edition of the WHO Classification of Central Nervous System Tumours (WHO CNS5) which was published in 2021. This...

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Ob/GYN Peds Notes: Nurse's Clinical Pocket Guide - Paperback

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by Brenda Walters Holloway (Author), Cheryl Moredich (Author)A DAVIS'S NOTES BOOK!Here's the essential clinical information you need to care for obstetric, gynecological, newborn, and pediatric patients in any setting. The 3rd Edition of this popular pocket guide has been thoroughly revised and updated to reflect nursing practice today. What students and clinicians are saying: "This is very user friendly. Perfect size to carry around at clinical. Quick and easy reference with accurate up to d...

Touch After Trauma: A Practical Guide for Manual Therapists - Hardcover

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by Alison Fraser (Author)Western medicine remains dominated by paradigms that separate physical and mental wellness, as if they were unrelated. This artificial boundary poses a challenge for manual therapists, as we see increasing signs of traumatic stress in the patients we serve.Modern research concedes that the mind and body are interdependent - they work seamlessly in tandem. This is especially evident in those who have experienced trauma: Psychological trauma is often expressed in physic...

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by Valentin A. Pavlov (Author), Kevin J. Tracey (Author)Every organ in the human body is innervated by the nervous system and communicates with the brain via electrical signals. Various devices can be used to modulate these electrical signals and elicit changes in organ function with the aim of treating injury or disease. This approach is the basis of the rapidly emerging field of bioelectronic medicine, which has the potential to diagnose and treat medical conditions more precisely and effec...

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Psychological Approaches to the Treatment of Pediatric Obesity - Paperback

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by Crystal Stack Lim (Author), Elvin Thomaseo Burton (Author)This book offers a comprehensive review of current research and theoretical approaches to pediatric obesity. Pediatric obesity is a significant public health concern that currently affects 1 in 5 children and adolescents. Prevention and treatment of this complex health condition requires a multifaceted approach that acknowledges the intersecting roles of gender, race and ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and other factors that pla...

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Naspag Essentials of Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology - Paperback

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by Nirupama de Silva (Author), Nichole A. Tyson (Author)The North American Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology (NASPAG), a leader in the field of Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology (PAG) education, outlines specific learning objectives in its "Short and Long Curriculum" that are central to PAG education in all specialties. Written and edited by experienced leaders in the field, NASPAG's Principles & Practice of Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology is based on this curricula an...

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by Victoria Jackson (Author)Victoria Jackson revolutionized the beauty industry in the 1980s and '90s with her "no make-up" approach to make-up and ultimately made Victoria Jackson Cosmetics into a billion-dollar global brand. But her greatest test of the power of rare didn't come until her daughter, Ali, was diagnosed with neuromyelitis optica, or NMO--a rare, life-threatening autoimmune disease--and Victoria, driven by a mother's love, set out to find a cure for her daughter. Within days of...

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by Stephanie Gray Connors (Author)Assisted suicide and euthanasia are being legalized or at least debated throughout much of the world today. But should suicide ever be assisted? When someone is suffering and no longer wants to live, and asks another to help him end his life, what is the right response? In this powerful volume in Word on Fire's Dignity Series, Stephanie Gray Connors engages both the mind and the heart in answering these increasingly urgent questions. Through ten proposed prin...

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Protein Homeostasis, Second Edition - Hardcover

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by Jeffery W. Kelly (Author), Franz-Ulrich Hartl (Author), Richard Morimoto (Author)The entire life cycle of a protein-from synthesis and folding to transport and degradation-is carefully controlled by the proteostasis network. This network, consisting of many interconnected pathways and processes, manages protein homeostasis by dynamically responding to the needs of the cell. Stress and aging can challenge the proteostasis network, resulting in the aggregation of misfolded proteins-a feature...

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The Complete Book of Cat and Dog Health - Paperback

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by Lise Hansen (Author)Written by a qualified veterinarian, this is a complete and comprehensive guide to health care for cats and dogs, providing invaluable advice on essential aspects of care, such as diet and vaccinations, as well as a guide to holistic treatments. The first part of the book describes the main lifestyle choices every dog and cat owner makes, whether or not they are aware of them: settling in a new puppy or kitten, vaccination, neutering, diet, finding the right veterinaria...

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Oxford Handbook of Emergency Medicine - Paperback

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by Jonathan P. Wyatt (Author), Robert G. Taylor (Author), Kerstin de Wit (Author)Now in its fifth edition, the Oxford Handbook of Emergency Medicine is the essential rapid-reference guide to emergency medicine for everyone from junior doctors to specialist registrars, nurse practitioners, and paramedics. New and improved, the Handbook has been thoroughly revised throughout, with 100 extra illustrations and the latest guidelines and treatment advice, completely overhauled chapters on Medicine,...

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Cross-Cultural Psychology: Understanding Our Diverse Communities, Canadian Edition - Paperback

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by Saba Safdar (Author), Jeffrey Scott Mio (Author), Lori A. Barker (Author)Cross-Cultural Psychology combines quantitative and qualitative research with anecdotal material to examine multicultural issues and capture the richness of diverse cultures in relation to psychology. This Canadian edition delivers first-person narrative accounts by people in Canada of all ages and cultural backgrounds to illustrate compelling topics such as communication, racial and cultural identity, development, ra...

Public Policy Challenges in Rethinking Public Health: Comparative Perspectives - Hardcover

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by Katherine A. Fierlbeck (Editor)This volume challenges current thinking on post-pandemic public health reform, which assumes that public health systems will naturally be strengthened in light of the shortcomings exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Instead, this volume asks why public health is such an intractable and difficult area for effective public policy initiatives and suggests two kinds of answers. The first is 'because of the very nature of public health', which is difficult to clearl...

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Emerging Infections: Three Epidemiological Transitions from Prehistory to the Present - Hardcover

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by Ron Barrett (Author), Molly Zuckerman (Author), Matthew Ryan Dudgeon (Author)Serving as both an accessible textbook and an original synthesis of interdisciplinary scholarship, Emerging Infections traces the social and environmental determinants of human infectious diseases from the Paleolithic to the present day. Contrary to earlier predictions of a post-infectious era, humanity now faces a post-antimicrobial era with the emergence of drug-resistant pathogens and the entry of new and deadl...

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Headaches: Your Questions Answered - Hardcover

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by Claudio Buttic? (Author)More than 95% of people will experience a headache at least once in their lives. Discover the answers to common questions about this nearly universal human experience. Part of the Q&A Health Guides series, this book offers a broad introduction to headaches using an engaging question-and-answer format. The book's questions explore the different types of headaches, including tension-type headaches, migraines, and less common but more severe headache disorders such...

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The Food Forum 30th Anniversary: Proceedings of a Symposium - Paperback

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by National Academies of Sciences Engineeri (Author), Health and Medicine Division (Author), Food and Nutrition Board (Author)The National Academies' Food Forum celebrated its 30th anniversary in November 2023 with a symposium reflecting on its contributions and developments in the field of nutrition, food, and agriculture. Discussions covered the history of the Food Forum and how it has informed research, policy, and industry practices in light of challenges to food safety and security, clim...

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Craniosacral Therapy for Grief and Loss: Hands-On Techniques to Release Trauma Stored in the Body - Paperback

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by Diego Maggio (Author)Practical support for the trauma of losses, from large to small - Explains how CranioSacral Therapy and SomatoEmotional Release can help you through the common traumas of the life cycle, from birth to death - Shares techniques and exercises to help process emotions and experiences, assess the functionality of the body's systems and energetic framework, and recognize and transform destructive energies into constructive processes - Looks at how to enhance CST techniques ...

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DAT Prep Plus, Fifteenth Edition (2025): Includes 12 Pages of Full Color Study Sheets + Online Access to 2 Full Length Practice Tests + 600+ Practice - Paperback

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by Kaplan Test Prep (Author)Kaplan's DAT Prep Plus provides the test-taking strategies, realistic practice, and expert guidance you need to score higher on the Dental Admissions Test. Our comprehensive subject review reflects recent changes to the blueprint of the exam, question types, and test interface. You'll get two full-length practice DATs and expert tips to help you face Test Day with confidence. The Best Review Two updated full-length, online practice exams for test-like practice S...

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Skip the Waiting Room: How Telehealth Will Transform Medicine for Patients and Doctors - Hardcover

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by Chris Rovin (Author), Jared Sheehan (Author), Talib Omer (Author)A patient's and provider's guide to the telehealth revolution What if we could see a doctor faster, more efficiently, and at a lower cost? With the emergence of telemedicine, we now can. And this book is a primer on telemedicine for anyone who wants to take charge of their health and understand all their healthcare options. A mix of patient stories, research, and viewpoints from practicing physicians, Skip the Waiting Room...

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Anatomy, Physiology, and Pathology Workbook, Third Edition: Study Tools, Practices, and Exercises for Students to Understand the Human Body - Paperback

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by Ruth Hull (Author)Learn anatomy, physiology, and pathology of the human body with this fun and student-focused learning and coloring workbook--includes study tips and 100+ images Anatomy, Physiology, and Pathology--The Workbook offers students an interactive learning guide to deepen their knowledge and understanding of the human body. Designed for ease of comprehension, this learning and coloring workbook is an ideal study tool that appeals to a range of learners with various preferences a...