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Cardiac Drug Therapy

M. Gabriel Khan

Cardiac Drug Therapy, 7th ed., addresses the pharmacology and therapeutic application of drugs used to treat heart diseases and hypertension. Additions and updates to the sixth edition include six new chapters on current controversies in cardiac drug therapy such as the...

Cardiac Safety of Noncardiac Drugs

Ihor Gussak , Joel Morganroth

Molecular Neurosurgery with Targeted Toxins

Douglas A. Lappi , Ronald G. Wiley

Pioneers and leading researchers explain the theory and techniques of using targeted toxins experimentally. The highly successful use of the 192 IgG-saporin and ME20.4-saporin immunotoxins to lesion the cholinergic basal forebrain in order to model the behavior,...

Therapeutic Uses of Botulinum Toxin

Grant Cooper

Justinius Kerner, a German medical officer and poet, was the first to realize that botulinum toxin potentially might be useful for therapeutic purposes. Kerner made this observation in 1822, but he did not call the toxin “botulinum toxin. ” Instead, Kerner called it the...

Molecular Pathology of Gynecologic Cancer

Alessandro Bovicelli , Antonio Giordano , Robert J. Kurman

Molecular Pathology of Gynecologic Cancer focuses on putting successful molecular strategies into practice for the treatment of gynecologic cancer. The volume begins with an explication of the editors’ hypothesis that cancer is mainly a disease of the cell cycle, based...

Handbook of Drug Monitoring Methods

Amitava Dasgupta

In Handbook of Drug Monitoring Methods: Therapeutics and Drug Abuse, authors discuss the different analytical techniques used in today’s practice of therapeutic drug monitoring and drugs of abuse as well as alcohol testing with relevant theory, mechanism, and in-depth...

The Clinical Neurophysiology Primer

Andrew S. Blum , Seward B. Rutkove

With the growth of combined clinical neurophysiology fellowship training programs and their corresponding “pan-physiology” board examinations, there has been an increased need for educational materials that span the range of clinical neurophysiology topics. The Clinical...

Cytokines in the Genesis and Treatment of Cancer

Michael A. Caligiuri , Michael T. Lotze

Cytokines in the Genesis and Treatment of Cancer provides a comprehensive picture of the dual role of host responses in promoting and inhibiting tumor progression. This volume represents an important investigation into the emerging intersection of cancer biology and...

Criminal Profiling

Richard N. Kocsis

International Perspectives into the Practice and Research of Criminal Profiling Today criminal profiling is no longer viewed as some secretive, mysterious technique that police from the United States of America exc- sively indulge in when seeking to solve high-profile...

Cardiac Rehabilitation

Steven Keteyian , William Kraus

The era of cardiac rehabilitation in the United States dates back at least thirty years, when Herman Hellerstein at Case Western Reserve, Andy Wallace at Duke and Ken Cooper in Dallas envisioned that a comprehensive lifestyle approach to the rehabi- tation and...

Clinical Handbook of Insomnia

Hrayr P. Attarian , Catherine Schuman

It has been 5 years since publication of the first edition of Dr. Attarian’s Clinical Handbook of Insomnia which at the time was the first significant cl- ical textbook dedicated to insomnia, an often overlooked but important me- cal problem. The book was very well...