Committee on Leading Health Indicators for Healthy People 2010 & Institute of Medicine 
Leading Health Indicators for Healthy People 2010 [PDF ebook] 
First Interim Report

Back pain is the single leading cause of disability worldwide. This book discusses back pain in great detail and is written in an easy-to-understand style, while keeping an evidence-based approach fo …

This handbook offers practical guidance for fundamental experiments in environmental biotechnology, industrial biotechnology, and plant biotechnology, encompassing crucial aspects such as the isolati …

Care integration has become an important part of managing health and social care services all over the world. Bringing organisations together is thought to produce better access to care, reduce healt …

Resulting from ingestion of inappropriately prepared or stored foods containing pathogenic viruses, bacteria, fungi and parasites, foodborne infections have become a significant source of human morbi …

Pharmacogenetics is becoming increasingly relevant in the diagnosis, treatment, and recovery of cancer patients. A major problem facing oncologists is the outstanding varied efficacy of treatment. Pr …

The National Health Service is the most enduring of the institutions created by the first real Labour Government (1945-51). Before the NHS was created, treatment of ill health was provided by doctors …

Technology is changing the practice of healthcare by the ways medical information is stored, shared, and accessed. With mobile innovations, new strategies are unfolding to further advance processes a …

Premature births, musculoskeletal diseases, diabetes mellitus, and psychiatric disorders. Nutrition plays a direct or indirect role in the causes, treatment, and/or management of many chronic disorde …

Published in 1981: This book has been written to present the state of the art on endoscopic control of gastrointestinal haemorrhage with emphasis on combining the clinical approach to the patient whi …