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Reviews the findings that allow physicians to identify and manage children and adolescents who are at the highest risk for the development of premature cardiovascular disease in later life. This book covers

This is the first comprehensive text on the design and analysis of group-randomized trials. It collects information previously scattered among journals and texts in a variety of disciplines, and, in addition, presents

In the mid-1980s public health officials in North America, Europe, Japan, and Australia discovered that almost half of the hemophiliac population, as well as tens of thousands of blood transfusion recipients, had

The past thirty years has seen a huge expansion in the provision of palliative care services. Because Palliative Medicine is a multidisciplinary specialty - combining the expertise of oncologists, anaesthetists, nurses, and

This new edition of Anaesthesia and Analgesia in Emergency Medicine has been extensively revised throughout, especially with regard to resuscitation techniques, including the new 1997 European Resuscitation Council Guidelines. It provides a

Genetic counselling is widely accepted as an integral part of the management of every patient with an inherited disorder, and the rapid developments in human and medical genetics have reinforced the importance

St. George's Hospital Medical School, London, UK. Text began as a course in statistics for medical students and is drawn entirely from published literature. Presents questions and answers about the statistical principles

By chronicling the transformations of hospitals from houses of mercy to tools for confinement, from dwellings of rehabilitation to spaces for clinical teaching and research, this book provides historical approach to understanding

This guidebook on depression aims to extend the scope of available treatments beyond the medical perspective and to introduce a more prominent role for a psychological perspective - one including a full

State of Connecticut, Department of Public Health. Examines mortality rates for African Americans in relation to both social class and the degree of black-white residential segregation. For practitioners.

Univ. of Texas, Houston. Presents and evaluates research and clinical data on a number of topics in palliative care. Topics discussed include cultural issues in palliative care, palliative care in geriatrics, outcomes

Neurology abounds with eponyms. This book brings together 55 eponyms related to neurological examination, neuroanatomy and neurological diseases. For each it provides a short biography, a discussion of the original publication, and

Tel Aviv Univ., Israel. Compilation of detailed case histories representing a variety of peripheral neurologic cases encountered in neuromuscular practice. Demonstrates the usefulness of reported case studies as a pedagogic tool. For

Traces the history, challenges, internal struggles, and conflicts of the international health division of the Rockefeller Foundation. Includes sketches of the personalities and prejudices of those working in the division and their