Product Description: Exploring Medical Language provides students in health care educational programs with the basic knowledge of medical language they need to communicate clearly and understand communication from other health care team members. LaFleur's strength has always been its clear presentation of not only medical terms built from word parts, but also those not built from word parts, which are sometimes omitted from other texts. The text also reviews anatomic terminology. Another popular feature of the book is its wealth of exercises that help the student memorize the word parts and their meanings, so that they can combine the parts to form medical terms.
The definitive guide to the full spectrum of neurology
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4 STAR DOODY'S REVIEW! "This book should be an essential element in the library of both young and seasoned clinicians....This has always been a successfully balanced textbook, combining a personal approach to the study of neurology and neurologic diseases. This edition, now 1572 pages, expands on the prior editions admirably. It achieves the difficult task of refreshing and updating a classic."--Doody's Review Service
Adams and Victor's Principles of Neurology provides all the information you will need to confidently handle any neurologic problem, from disorders of motility, and derangements of intellect, behavior, and language, to the degenerative and neuromuscular diseases. Having this gold standard text on your reference shelf is like being able to consult with skilled clinicians on a daily basis. More than a compilation of facts, Adams and Victor's delivers expert insights not found in any other resource that help you understand every aspect of neurological disease.
Written in a conversational style, the text offers practical, yet in-depth, coverage of both common and rare illnesses. Adams and Victor's Principles of Neurology also includes timely, complete, and accessible treatment and clinical management strategies.
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Balanced presentation of evidence-based research coupled with the perspectives and experience of world-renowned expert neurologists
Logical six-part organization reviews the clinical method, cardinal presentations, diseases of the central nervous system, diseases of the peripheral nervous system, and psychiatric disorders
A-to-Z coverage of cardinal manifestations, including disorders of the special senses; epilepsy and disorders of consciousness; disorders of energy, mood, autonomic, and endocrine functions; and neuromuscular, spinal cord, and psychiatric disease
Focus on symptoms, etiology, diagnosis, and treatment offers complete, practical guidance in clinical practice
Special section on growth, development, and aging related to neurologic disease presents the latest, cutting-edge research in this integral area
Product Description: Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD. A Brandon/Hill Medical List first-purchase selection. Textbook for medical students learning to perform a physical examination. Previous edition: c1995. Full-color illustrations and photographs. Includes a CD-ROM. DNLM: Physical Examination--methods.
Product Description: Endocrinology's #1 single-source reference updated to reflect the latest diagnostic testing and important new approaches to medical management
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5 STAR DOODY'S REVIEW! "This book, one of the best endocrine textbooks, manages to be comprehensive but not overwhelming. Since various aspects of clinical endocrinology have changed in recent years, a new edition is certainly warranted. I would recommend this book to anyone with an interest in endocrinology."--Doody's Review Service
Basic & Clinical Endocrinology, 8e is a concise, single-source reference for the entire field of clinical endocrinology and the underlying basic science. Richly illustrated with 330 illustrations, this trusted guide is written by clinicians and researchers drawn largely from the University of California, San Francisco, one of the nation’s most respected endocrine divisions. (20081119)
Now in its Sixth Edition, this comprehensive text provides pertinent information on medical diagnosis, therapy, lab tests, and health maintenance essential to decision making in primary care medicine. Every chapter has been revised to include more images, tables, and bulleted lists. Practical recommendations that incorporate the best available evidence, expert consensus guidelines, and clinical judgement are listed in bulleted items at the end of every chapter. The dermatology section has been extensively revised for this edition by a new section editor. A companion Website offers the fully searchable text and an image bank. "Doody's Core Titles™ 2009."
Get into the nursing school of your choice and succeed once you get there!
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"This information-packed, 208-page book covers the essentials of entering nursing school....a valuable resource for the prospective nursing student. 3 Stars."--Doody's Review Service
If getting into the right nursing school -- and making your mark -- is your goal, following the strategies in The Ultimate Guide to Getting into Nursing School will definitely put you ahead of the pack. This fun, information-packed guide covers all the essentials of the nursing school experience, from picking the right school to what to expect and how to rise to the head of the class once you are accepted into a program.
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Insider advice and anecdotes from professors, nurses, and students who tell you what it's really like to go through the application process and succeed in nursing school
Sure-fire steps for turning a nursing application into a winning application
Self-assessment chapter that helps you determine whether nursing is right for you
A detailed overview of the application process
Everything you need to know to do well in school, including exam preparation, papers, and presentations, and the basic clinical information with which you'll need to be familiar
Advice from students, nurses, and professors on how to smoothly adjust to the culture and expectations of being a nurse
Chapter on post-nursing-school options, including acquiring an advanced degree, obtaining certification, and becoming a manager
Zero-in on what you must know to excel in medical school and ace your course exams and the USMLE!
From the authors of First Aid for the® USMLE Step 1 comes this comprehenisve summary of essential basic science organ systems covered in the first two years of medical school. It provides the background you need before reviewing for the board and distills important course material down to easily understood parts.
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Emphasizes the major basic science concepts taught in medical school
Covers the high-yield topics and facts tested on the USMLE
Provides a practical framework for learning basic sciences by organ system
Written by top students who aced their exams and the USMLE
Organized in the same manor as First Aid for the® USMLE Step 1 to facilitate cross-study
Packed with hundreds of full-color images and tables
Great for PBL and integrated curricula
Use in conjunction with First Aid for the® Basic Sciences: General Principles for a complete review of basic science covered in the first two years of medical school
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* Comprehensive: acclaimed in a prior edition as the best pharmacotherapy textbook available,* it offers you the most detailed pathophysiologic approach to selecting and using pharmaceutical agents in disease management and pharmaceutical care * Current: the 5th Edition presents the latest information on new drugs and new approaches to treatment and disease management in all therapy sections * New Chapters: now covers evidence-based medicine, pharmacogenetics, benign prostatic hyperplasia, endometriosis, erectile dysfunction, urinary incontinence, and much more * Disease Management Focus: meets the needs of pharmacy curriculum and establishes a strong pathophysiologic basis for treatment * Student-Friendly: provides clear explanations on how a particular organ system and related drug therapy is evaluated; includes dozens of treatment algorithms, figures and tables for quick readability; also offers the necessary background to understand topics including pharmacoeconomics and the used of evidence-based decision-making in practice *Annals of Pharmacotherapy on the 4th Edition
Product Description: Each year, over 40,000 women in the U.S. die from breast cancer. With statistics rising, conventional methods of treatment are simply not working, and in some cases may even be harmful. Now, Drs. Lee and Zava explain the potentially life-saving facts, such as: likely sources for the increase in breast cancer, including environment, excessive estrogen, progesterone imbalance, and diet, and the dangers associated with traditional hormone replacement methods. Readers will learn strategies for lowering their risk and preventing this devastating disease through a revolutionary hormone balance program.
Amazon.com Review: An informative and absorbing read for both medical practitioners and their patients, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Breast Cancer takes aim at "the breast cancer industry" with a barrage of thought-provoking ammunition.
The book is equal parts criticism and suggestion. Current health treatments, including HRT, receive serious condemnation, and authors John Lee and David Zava carefully provide plenty of medical research to back up claims that excessive estrogen is a main source of cancer-causing irregularities. While the names of all the different natural and synthetic hormones can get overwhelming for the lay reader, with perseverance your new vocabulary of terms like androstenedione, estradiol, and cortisol will enable you to communicate more effectively with your doctors. The authors credit these hormones not just with a role in cancer, but with culpability for everything from insomnia and acne to fatigue and migraines. A full chapter extols the virtues of natural progesterone cream, and urges women to order their own saliva tests for proper evaluation of their hormone levels.
Diet and exercise recommendations are simple, outlining reasons to limit fats, sugars, and meats while increasing vegetables and adding a multivitamin. These recommendations extend to adolescents and urge getting off the couch and beginning a gentle exercise program to women of all ages and in each stage of life. --Jill Lightner
The structure, function, and pathologies of the human kidney -- simplified and explained
4 STAR DOODY'S REVIEW! "This seventh edition of a concise, well written book on renal physiology continues the legacy of the book as a major contributor in the field....This well written book is an excellent review of renal function and is one of the best concise reviews of the topic."--Doody's Review Service
Written in a concise, conversational style, this trusted text reviews the fundamental principles of renal physiology that are essential for an understanding of clinical medicine.
Combining the latest research with a fully integrated teaching approach, Vander's Renal Physiology explains how the kidneys affect other body systems and how they in turn are affected by these systems. Filled with the learning tools you need to truly learn key concepts rather than merely memorize facts, Vander's will prove valuable to you at every stage of your studies or practice.
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New Global case studies
New An online physiology learning center that offers additional exam questions, artwork, and graphs
Offers the best review of renal physiology available for the USMLE Step 1
Begins with the basics and works up to advanced principles
Distills the essence of renal processes and their regulation in a concise, integrated manner that focuses on the logic of renal processes
Features learning aids such as flow charts, diagrams, key concepts, clinical examples, learning objectives, and review questions with answers and explanations
Explains the relationship between blood pressure and renal function
Presents the normal functions of the kidney with clinical correlations to disease states
Includes the most current research on the molecular and genetic principles underlying renal physiology
