By weaving vignettes and case studies throughout, this fascinating and original textbook provides an accessible primer not only on the key principles of neuroscience but, crucially, how they may manifest in the everyday lives of people with neurological conditions.

Across the world, the demands placed on health systems are growing rapidly. Developed countries face the challenge of providing services to an ageing population with changing health needs, while countries with developing health systems must find ways of ensuring their populations are provided with access to healthcare. Innovative thinking is essential to meet these twin challenges, but innovation is both a cause and cure of many struggles in healthcare - we need it, but it is hard to manage a...

Combining a reader-friendly textbook and a rich, full-color atlas, Histology: A Text and Atlas: With Correlated Cell and Molecular Biology, 9th Edition, equips medical, dental, health professions, and undergraduate biology and cell biology students with a comprehensive grasp of the clinical and functional correlates of histology and a vivid understanding of the structural and functional details of cells, tissues, and organs.

The 9th Edition of this bestselling resource reflects the latest adv...

Writing and publishing scientific papers is the core business of every researcher, but is often experienced as difficult and frustrating. Good scientific content of a paper alone does not guarantee its publication in a good journal, because various aspects affect the writing and publishing process. This book is a quick guide into effective writing and publishing papers.

It provides authors with clear and concise key information on 12 major parts of the process, from how to get started to deal...

Step by Step to Proficiency in Diagnostic Ultrasound This workbook is divided into lessons that guide you-like an instructor in an ultrasound course-systematically through the individual organ systems and body regions. Key features of the fourth edition:Special multiple-exposure photos demonstrate the dynamics of handling the transducerTriplet-image units vividly illustrate transducer positioning, the ultrasound image, and relevant anatomyReference numbers on the accompanying diagrams help yo...

This textbook presents hands-on training material for medical students. The style reflects the need for practice-based teaching with a modern edge in daily clinical routine; accordingly, it also employs online material and pocket cards. Each chapter begins with specific learning objectives, which are cross-referenced with the European curriculum for undergraduate medical education released by the European Union of Medical Specialists (UEMS) together with the European Union Geriatric Medicine ...

Prevention is essential for all of us in order to make our environment healthier and reduce the increase of chronic diseases. Lifestyle changes, such as drinking water purification, sewage treatment and the introduction of the refrigerator, brought us far more health benefits than medicines produced by the pharmaceutical industry.

Something has gone bad in our environment: in the animal world caged budgerigars have the highest incidence of cancer. Ovarian and oviduct cancer are frequently fou...

The story of Bridget is about hope and will as well as luck. How many girls called Bridget survive after all? It is about love, the love of a mother and grandfather in a hostile society. It is most of all about the capacity to fight. Fight for the survival of a twitching baby who can neither suck nor crawl nor later walk. Fight for a person to be called human even if all the odds seem against it because of a traditional belief system.

Those around her in her local society mumble: Isn t sh...

We remember still a single farm with chickens and pigs on the farm and cows in the pasture. Increasingly we see grain silos appear with large livestock farming, whose pigs, chickens or cows never outside come. Diseases, which can be transmitted from animals to humans, are the result.

Prevention is essential for all of us in order to make our environment healthier and reduce the increase of chronic diseases.

Lifestyle changes, such as the purification of drinking water, sewage treatment and t...