Medical research Books

These stories illustrate that Modern Western Medicine has lost its way and with it the seeds to its renewal in so many ways. Authentic medicine requires reconnection to traditional sources and input from other disciplines and cultures. In modernity, it...

In 1973, as the Watergate scandal was becoming public knowledge, CIA Director Richard Helms ordered that major documents relating to President Nixon's 'War on Cancer' be collected and destroyed. There was something in these documents dealing with the...

According to the US Census Bureau, the US population aged 65+ years is expected to nearly double over the next 30 years, from 43.1 million in 2012 to an estimated 83.7 million in 2050. These demographic advances, however extraordinary, have left our...

Written to equip students in the mathematical siences to understand and model the epidemiological and experimental data encountered in genetics research. This second edition expands the original edition by over 100 pages and...

Introductory Statistics for the Health Sciences takes students on a journey to a wilderness where science explores the unknown, providing students with a strong, practical foundation in statistics. Using a color format throughout, the book contains...

This book has been developed as a forest inventory textbook for students and could also serve as a handbook for practical foresters. We have set out to keep the mathematics in the book at a fairly non-technical level, and...

The authors have taught statistics and given statistics workshops in France and the Netherlands for almost 4 years by now. Their material, mainly on power point, consists of 12 lectures that have been continuously changed and...

This edition provides a collection of state-of-art methods and tools for human leukocyte antigen (HLA) and major histocompatibility complex (MHC) research. The book explores updated as well as novel in silico tools, resources, and wet lab protocols for...

This detailed volume explores the dynamic landscape of patient-derived xenograft (PDX) generation and applications. After a few chapters examining the evolution of PDXs, tracing their roots and contextualizing their significance in the broader narrative...

This second edition provides new and updated methods for establishing reliable and reproducible experimental models of cardiovascular diseases. Chapters detail practical protocols from expert laboratories focusing on cardiovascular research, that...

This volume contains a series of research reports from Rhode Island Hospital, covering topics ranging from infectious diseases to oncology. Based on original research conducted by hospital staff, these reports offer valuable insights across a wide range...

John Call Dalton was a pioneer in the use of experimental methods in medical science, and this book provides a comprehensive overview of his approach. Dalton covers topics such as the use of animal models, the design of experiments, and the...

ANOVA models involving random effects have found widespread application to experimental design in varied fields such as biology, econometrics, and engineering. Volume I of this two-part work is a comprehensive presentation of...

Systematic treatment of the commonly employed crossed and nested classification models used in analysis of variance designs with a detailed and thorough discussion of certain random effects models not commonly found in texts at...

As an area of statistical application, environmental epidemiology and more speci cally, the estimation of health risk associated with the exposure to - vironmental agents, has led to the development of several statistical...

This textbook introduces a science philosophy called "information theoretic" based on Kullback-Leibler information theory. It focuses on a science philosophy based on "multiple working hypotheses" and statistical models to...

Based on their extensive experience with teaching R and statistics to applied scientists, the authors provide a beginner's guide to R. To avoid the difficulty of teaching R and statistics at the same time, statistical methods are kept to a minimum. The...

Statistical genetics has become a core course in many graduate programs in public health and medicine. This book presents fundamental concepts and principles in this emerging field at a level that is accessible to students and...

This book aims to make the readers better informed and more critical consumers of clinical research. It will help the reader recognize the strengths and the weaknesses of scientific publications. In doing so, the reader will be...

This book can be considered a companion to two other highly acclaimed books involving James Ramsay and Bernard Silverman: Functional Data Analysis, Second Edition (2005) and Applied Functional Data Analysis (2002). This user's...

In this book, Hackett introduces the traditional usage of the mapping sentence within quantitative research, reviews its philosophical underpinnings, and proposes the "declarative mapping sentence" as an instrument and approach to qualitative scholarship...

Advances in Animal Disease Diagnosis: Infectious animal diseases caused by pathogenic microorganisms such as bacteria, fungi, and viruses threaten the health and well-being of wildlife, livestock and human populations, limit productivity and...

"When overzealous animal rights activists threaten one of America's best-known scientists and academic leaders, he collaborates with an analyst of animal rights to produce a personal account of what it is like to be a medical researcher targeted by such...

"Pharmaceutical Research Methodology and Bio-Statistics: Theory and Practice" is aimed in understanding the fundamental concepts of developing a research bent of mind by careful planning, execution, collection of data and analyzing for statistical...

Information on the changing epidemiology and expanding nosological range of Q fever in humans has gained much attention in the past decade. Q fever is a zoonotic disease caused by the highly infectious pathogen Coxiella burnetii and has global...

An international collaboration of lecturers, practitioners and researchers. Each chapter considers a topic relevant to normalising maternity care. Topics include: routine interventions • epidurals • physiological third and fourth stages • longer labours...

Hay Fever, Hay Asthma: Its Causes, Diagnosis, And Treatment is a book written by William Lloyd and published in 1907. The book provides a comprehensive overview of hay fever and hay asthma, including their causes, diagnosis, and treatment options. Lloyd...

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Statistical concepts provide scientific framework in experimental studies, including randomized controlled trials. In order to design, monitor, analyze and draw conclusions scientifically from such clinical trials, clinical investigators and...

Academic medicine is a unique medical career wherein a doctor must excel in patient care, teaching and research. Philip J. Snodgrass, M.D. graduated from Harvard College in 1949 and from Harvard Medical School in 1953. He was accepted for training at the...

This edited volume describes key domains of the emerging research literature linking exercise and mental health. The volume is divided into three sections. The first section provides an overview of foundational knowledge regarding basic processes of...

p53 has emerged as a key tumor suppressor and important target for novel cancer therapy. This book, written by world-leading p53 researchers including many of those who have shaped the field over the past 25 years, provides...

Statistical Approaches in Oncology Clinical Development : Current Paradigm and Methodological Advancement presents an overview of statistical considerations in oncology clinical trials, both early and late phase of development. It illustrates how novel...

Praise for the Previous Editions"The author brings in management wisdom from the world outside laboratory animal medicine and veterinary medicine. As a result, there is a rich mixture of the experience of a seasoned professional and the theoretical...

Cluster Randomised Trials, Second Edition discusses the design, conduct, and analysis of trials that randomise groups of individuals to different treatments. It explores the advantages of cluster randomisation, with special attention given to evaluating...

This fascinating collection of medical essays, written by some of the leading physicians and thinkers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, showcases the latest advances and breakthroughs in the field of medicine. From the discovery of new...

Thomas Burr Osborne conducts groundbreaking experiments with isolated food-substances. His findings shed light on the importance of nutrition and pave the way for future research in the field.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

Editors: Hideyuki Kawauchi, Desiderio Passali, Ranko Mladina, Andrey Lopatin, Dmytro Zabolotnyi.Proceedings of the 7th International; Symposium on Recent Advances in Rhinosinusitus and Nasal Polyposis.

Dieses Lehrbuch 5011 vom Umfang her keine umfangreiche Rezeptsammlung biologisch­ medizinisch relevanter statistischer Verfahren, aber auch kein abstraktes Lehrbuch der mathematischen Statistik sein. Vielmehr haben wir uns...

Der Umfang des Beobachtungsmaterials oder die Kompli­ ziertheit des statistischen Problems verweisen den empirisch arbeitenden Wissenschaftler, aber auch den Studenten im fortgeschrittenen Semester, haufig auf die Verwendung...

S. Panchapakesan has made significant contributions to ranking and selection and has published in many other areas of statistics, including order statistics, reliability theory, stochastic inequalities, and inference. Written...

This book presents the results of Prof. A. D. Speransky's scientific investigations, including 46 illustrations, on the effects of disease in causing changes in the nervous system.Contrary to the general view that disease arises from the victory of an...