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Essential Midwifery Practice: Postnatal Care summarises the important developments in postnatal care in relation to recent policy and guidance and relates the recommendations to midwifery practic…

The increasing number of individuals with co-existing substance misuse and psychiatric disorders presents a key challenge to mental health and addiction nurses. This practice-based text focuses o…

Learning disability nurses play a leading role in the care and support of people with learning disabilities. Learning Disability Nursing explores the theory and practice of learning disability nu…

Written by some of the world's leading practitioners – and pioneers – in the field, Thoracic Endoscopy is the first up-to-the-minute, expert reference for clinicians with a solid foundation in di…

Учебно-методическое пособие содержит общую характеристику процессов старения, периодизацию и основные закономерности периода геронтогенеза. В пособии представлены теоретические подходы к понимани…

Continuing accumulation of scientific evidence demonstrates that nutrition is one of the most important determinants of health for the individual, and that specific nutrition habits of various po…

This standard work has been comprehensively revised and expanded to meet the needs of the modern practising and student dietitian. In tune with current trends, a greater emphasis has been placed …

This exciting and important book covers the impact on demography of the nutrition of populations, offering the view that the change from the hunter-gatherer to an agricultural life-style had a ma…

Stroke is a common and devasting event, which often results in death or major loss of independence, with immense human and financial costs. In the developed world stroke accounts for around 10 pe…

Многие женщины, услышав диагноз «миома матки», воспринимают его как приговор и впадают в депрессию. К тому же обилие недостоверной информации заставляет таких пациенток годами лечиться неэффектив…

Arthritis affects millions of people throughout the world and while its treatment is usually medical or surgical, there exists an increasingly large body of evidence concerning the positive effec…

Adolescents undergo rapid physical, psychological and social developmental changes that result in management challenges, communication issues, patterns of disease and symptom presentations that a…

* Offers a social view of the activities leading to the timely patient access to medicines including: drug research, drug production, drug distribution, drug prescribing, drug information and dru…

Practical Immunology is a basic text aimed at immunology students and researchers at all levels who need a comprehensive overview of the methodology of immunology. The rapid and startling innovat…

On average people spend one third of their life sleeping. An understanding of the physiology and pathophysiological changes that take place during this time is, therefore, essential to the medica…

The only text to cover lung function assessment from first principles including methodology, reference values and interpretation New for this edition: – More illustrations to convey concepts clea…

Radiography is an integral part of paediatric health care. It is frequently requested to assist in the diagnosis, management and treatment of childhood disease and illness. Accurate interpretatio…

Coaching Science and Coaching Studies courses are appearing in increasing numbers in many universities. The textbooks used in most of these courses are either theoretically based sports science t…

Patellofemoral complaints are a major problem for all those working in sports medicine and orthopaedics. The correct diagnosis at an early stage is essential if subsequent treatment is to be succ…

Today the Paralympic Movement is recognised as a global sporting phenomenon attracting thousands of athletes from an ever-increasing number of countries. Athlete First provides a thoroughly resea…