Kategoria BISAC: Medical >> Gynecology & Obstetrics

Combined oral contraceptives are the most convenient and accepted method of hormonal contraception. Nevertheless, the medical community and consumers constantly demand innovation, additional benefits during use and lower hormonal load despite the high safety profile of available products. At the Ernst Schering Research Foundation Workshop 52, new perspectives and mechanisms for tissue-selective, estrogen-free contraception were discussed. The aim of the workshop was to bring together experts in the field of molecular and pharmacodynamic action of progestins with clinicians and medical...

"Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Pelvic Surgery" is a high level text covering recent advances in the field. It includes anatomy, normal and abnormal physiology, investigation techniques, inflammatory conditions and treatment options.
The international panel of contributors is at the leading edge of research in the field and the editors have brought together these contributors and topics which span the entire range of pelvic floor disorders in women. Emphasis is placed on evidence-based medicine and this book serves to encourage all physicians and health care providers for...

The contributors to this volume provide an overview of each component of the acute and long-term care service continuum, including managed health care, subacute care, nursing homes, community care case management, and private case management. This volume is one of the first efforts to place these varied approaches side-by-side, highlighting the gaps and areas of duplication in the services delivery system.

In addition, chapters address the emerging practices in long-term care financing and assisted living as well as the conceptual issues that need to be resolved to achieve acute and...

Death before Birth redresses this imbalance, redirecting attention to the fetus. A study of fetal health from the seventeenth century to the present day, it is the first book to offer an historical perspective on...

Das Berufsbild der Hebamme hat sich stark gewandelt. Hebammen von heute sind sowohl fur die Durchfuhrung der Mutterschaftsvorsorge, fur Vorbereitungskurse, als auch fur die Uberwachung und Leitung der risikofreien Geburt in Klinik und Praxis bis hin zur Stillberatung und Betreuung in der Elternschule und fur Hausbesuche im Wochenbett zustandig. Dieses ubersichtliche Kompendium liefert das dafur notwendige praktische Wissen. Neben den Grundlagen einer regelrechten Geburt, werden Minimierung der Risiken fur Mutter und Kind, die Geburtsatmosphare, Schmerzausschaltung, Gebarhaltung und Geburt...

Complementary & Alternative Medicine (CAM) for Prostate/Urologic Health is designed to capture and clinically review the comprehensive database of clinical research articles that support and do not support the utilization of a variety of dietary supplements and other complementary medicines that physicians are exposed to in their daily practice. This is a critical distinction between this book and any other CAM

Complementary & Alternative Medicine for Prostate and Urologic Health is designed to capture and clinically review the comprehensive database of clinical...

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