The Pocket Guide to AIDS is succinct review of HIV/AIDS from a human-interest perspective. Chapters focus on some of the common patterns and prevention of HIV transmission and debunks misconceptions about HIV and AIDS. Brief descriptions the human immune system and epidemiology of HIV are included. The cultural component of disease, treatment and living with AIDS is central to much of this Pocket Guide intended to synthesize, explain and de-mystify HIV and AIDS.

Tumors and Cancers: Brain - Central Nervous System provides succinct reviews of neoplastic growths disrupting normal functions of affected structures. Each chapter presents a state of the art summary of tumor/cancer of a particular type in relation to its biology, epidemiology, disease mechanisms, clinical signs, diagnosis, treatment and prognosis.

Solving intractable biotechnological questions of evolution, medicine, and genetics is now easier due to methods permitting the rapid analysis of molecular sequence data. These advances have exposed ethical and policy concerns. How would genomic information be used and by whom? Should individuals be able to make decisions regarding their own genomic data? How accurate are these genetic tests and how should they be regulated? These and other ethical conundrums are the subject of this book. Bioethicists, biomedical policy experts and lawyers, physicians, nursing and allied health students as...

Solving intractable questions of evolution, medicine, and genetics is now easier due to computer assisted methods permiting the rapid analysis of molecular sequence data. These advances have exposed ethical and policy concerns. How would genomic information be used and by whom? Should individuals be able to make decisions regarding their own genomic data? How accurate are these genetic tests and how should they be regulated? These and other ethical conundrums are the subject this book. Bioethicists, biomedical, nursing and allied health students will find this book helpful and tersely...

Tumors and Cancers: Head - Neck - Heart - Lung - Gut is a succinct review of neoplastic growths disrupting normal functions of affected organs. Each chapter presents a state of the art summary of tumor/cancer of a particular organ/type in relation to its biology, epidemiology, disease mechanisms, clinical signs, diagnosis, treatment and prognosis.

Part of the Pocket Guides to Biomedical Sciences series, Tumors and Cancers focuses on tumors and cancer, which are characterized by an abnormal growth of cells that extend beyond their usual boundaries and disrupt the normal functions of affected organs. This will be the third of four individual volumes (each covering 2-4 body systems). Each chapter will present a state of art review of a particular tumor/cancer in relation to its biology, epidemiology, disease mechanisms, clinical signs, diagnosis, treatment and prognosis. This third volume will cover the Skin, Soft...

Tumors and Cancers: Brain - Central Nervous System provides succinct reviews of neoplastic growths disrupting normal functions of affected structures. Each chapter presents a state of the art summary of tumor/cancer of a particular type in relation to its biology, epidemiology, disease mechanisms, clinical signs, diagnosis, treatment and prognosis.

Part of the Pocket Guides to Biomedical Sciences series, Tumors and Cancers focuses on tumors and cancer, which are characterized by an abnormal growth of cells that extend beyond their usual boundaries and disrupt the normal functions of affected organs. This will be the third of four individual volumes (each covering 2-4 body systems). Each chapter will present a state of art review of a particular tumor/cancer in relation to its biology, epidemiology, disease mechanisms, clinical signs, diagnosis, treatment and prognosis. This third volume will cover the Skin, Soft...

Tumors and Cancers: Head - Neck - Heart - Lung - Gut is a succinct review of neoplastic growths disrupting normal functions of affected organs. Each chapter presents a state of the art summary of tumor/cancer of a particular organ/type in relation to its biology, epidemiology, disease mechanisms, clinical signs, diagnosis, treatment and prognosis.

Part of the Pocket Guides to Biomedical Sciences series, Tumors and Cancers focuses on tumors and cancer, which are characterized by an abnormal growth of cells that extend beyond their usual boundaries and disrupt the normal functions of affected organs. This will be the fourth of four individual volumes (each covering 2-4 body systems). Each chapter will present a state of art review of a particular tumor/cancer in relation to its biology, epidemiology, disease mechanisms, clinical signs, diagnosis, treatment and prognosis. This fourth volume will cover the Respiratory,...