Brazil is a country of continental dimensions, internationally recognized for its capacity to offer a universal public policy of health care through the Unified Health System (SUS). However, severa...
Virginity refers to the state of a person who has never engaged in sexual intercourse. There are cultural and religious traditions which place special value and significance on this state. This boo...
In the two previous studies, compared with those who do not drink and smoke at all, individuals who either drank or smoked slightly increases the risk for suicide, but the combination of the two el...
Increasingly, evidence can be found for the use of physiotherapeutic treatment for scoliosis. Bracing, once controversial, is now regarded as having a scientific basis. In contrast, evidence is lac...
The book deals with the problems of radiation diagnostics of acute, chronic pancreatitis and pancreatic tumors. We used different methods, ranging from standard radiography of abdominal organs to m...
Since the publication of the 3rd Edition 17 years ago, progress has been truly remarkable in all areas of electrocardiography. Five of the seven chapters in this 4th Edition have been extensivel...
Improving the quality of health care and services is a priority for the NHS, and for commissioners, managers, practitioners and service users. However, to improve we must first know what already ex...
Tobacco has close association with blood pressure is a known fact. Tobacco can be consumed as both smoking and smokeless tobacco. However, the relationship between smoking and smokeless tobacco use...
Cartilage regeneration is one of the most challenging topics which is still not clearly acknowledged in the regenerative medicine field. Understanding numerous factors such as the structure and fun...
The marine environment is under continuous stress due to various types of contaminants. Since the water is most polluted in the coastal side, it has an adverse effect on organisms like fishes, oyst...
Birth pain represents a great problem for about 20% of childbearing women that due to unsupportable pain cooperate poorly or do not cooperate at all. Stress caused by pain influences birthing proce...
Through an adaptation of Miller's experiment, where saliva was collected from donors in a sterilized, closed glass container and a sugar-based substrate (sucrose) was added. In addition, a human to...
Over the past few decades, there has been a dramatic improvement in the long-term survival of childhood cancer patients as a result of advancement in pediatric oncology management. Previously the l...
Traumatic, degenerative, iatrogenic or inflammatory conditions can cause permanent cartilage damage. Prostheses, surgery, medications or other medical devices could be used for management; however,...
Dengue fever is the one of the most important arboviral infection. It has become a major global public health problem in the world. Dengue infection is the most rapidly spreading mosquito borne vir...
This book is a handbook for students that offers concise information on digenetic trematodes and cestodes that infect domestic and wild animals. It is useful particularly for undergraduates in the ...
Homocysteine, an "old-new" risk factor for cardiovascular diseases, plays also a role in numerous pathological conditions. Although it is not completely clarified if it a causal factor or only a bi...
More than any other infectious disease in modern medical history, HIV/AIDS has galvanized the concern and efforts of physicians, scientists, and the lay public alike. Since the initial clinical rep...
U.S. federal research funding triggers regulations to protect human subjects known as the Common Rule, a collaborative government effort that spans seventeen federal agencies. The Department of Hea...
There are two main categories of learning: non-associative and associative learning. Both types of learning have sub classification; like non-associative mainly divided in habituation, sensitizatio...