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Directions for Research

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 …

Athletes and nonathletes frequently consume too little water or fluids, affecting exercise performance as well as overall health. This book comprehensively reviews the aspects relating to body fluid …

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 …

This authoritative volume contains 179 chapters by international experts on recent developments in our understanding of amyloid proteins, protein folding disorders, and new and proposed clinical tria …

A compilation of published scientific information, including human, animal, cellular, and theoretical studies, Depleted Uranium: Properties, Uses and Health Consequences provides the most current and …

Integrating various technologies with informational systems provides vast improvements to the overall research and development that occur in the biopharmaceutical industry. One of the first books to …