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  • The Good Doctor

    Why Medical Uncertainty Matters

    by Kenneth Brigham, Michael M. E. Johns ...
    What makes a good doctor? It's not what you think. A doctor willing to face their own uncertainty in the face of illness and treatment might just be the best medicine.Too often we choose the wrong doctor for the wrong reasons. It doesn't have to be that way. In The Good Doctor, Ken Brigham, MD, and Michael M.E. Johns, MD, argue that we need to change the way we think about health care if we want ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Predictive Health

    How We Can Reinvent Medicine to Extend Our Best Years

    by Kenneth L. Brigham, Michael ME Johns ...
    Our health care system is crippled by desperate efforts to prevent the inevitable. A third of the national Medicare budget -- nearly 175 billion -- is spent on the final year of life, and a third of that amount on the final month, often on expensive (and futile) treatments. Such efforts betray a fundamental flaw in how we think about healthcare: we squander resources on hopeless situations, ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Gene Therapy for Diseases of the Lung

    Edited by Kenneth Brigham ...
    Series series Lung Biology in Health and Disease
    This up-to-the-minute and comprehensive resource lucidly covers gene therapy for lung diseases from existing technologies delivering foreign DNA to the lungs via the airways or circulation to promising new approaches for the further development of safe and efficient gene delivery systems. ... Read more

    $166.26 CAD

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  • Essential Medical Genetics

    by Edward S. Tobias, Michael Connor, Malcolm Ferguson-Smith ...
    Series Book 22 - Essentials
    Adopted at Cambridge UniversityEssential Medical Genetics provides students, clinicians, counsellors and scientists with the up-to-date information they need regarding the basic principles underlying medical genetics. It also provides guidance on how to apply current knowledge in clinical contexts, covering a wide variety of topics: from genome structure and function to mutations, screening and ... Read more

    $70.99 CAD

  • USMLE Road Map: Genetics

    by George H. Sack Jr. ...
    Series series LANGE USMLE Road Maps
    High-yield factsNumerous illustrationsClinical problemsClinical correlations ... Read more

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  • Roitt's Essential Immunology

    by Peter J. Delves, Seamus J. Martin, Dennis R. Burton, Ivan M. Roitt ...
    Series series Essentials
    Roitt's Essential Immunology - the textbook of choice for students and instructors of immunology worldwideRoitt’s Essential Immunology clearly explains the key principles needed by medical and health sciences students, from the basis of immunity to clinical applications. A brand new introduction sets the scene to section 1, Fundamentals of Immunology, introducing the microbial world and the ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Molecular Diagnostics

    Techniques and Applications for the Clinical Laboratory

    Edited by Wayne W. Grody, Robert M. Nakamura, Frederick L. Kiechle, Charles Strom ...
    Advances in genomic and proteomic profiling of disease have transformed the field of molecular diagnostics, thus leading the way for a major revolution in clinical practice. While the range of tests for disease detection and staging is rapidly expanding, many physicians lack the knowledge required to determine which tests to order and how to interpret results. Molecular Diagnostics provides a ... Read more

    $190.99 CAD

  • Medical Genetics at a Glance

    by Dorian J. Pritchard, Bruce R. Korf ...
    Series series At a Glance
    Medical Genetics at a Glance covers the core scientific principles necessary for an understanding of medical genetics and its clinical applications, while also considering the social implications of genetic disorders.This third edition has been fully updated to include the latest developments in the field, covering the most common genetic anomalies, their diagnosis and management, in clear, ... Read more

    $46.99 CAD

  • Gene Therapy of Cancer

    Translational Approaches from Preclinical Studies to Clinical Implementation

    Edited by Edmund C. Lattime, Stanton L. Gerson ...
    Gene therapy as a treatment for cancer is at a critical point in its evolution. Exciting new developments in gene targeting and vector technology, coupled with results from the first generation of preclinical and clinical studies have led to the design and testing of new therapeutic approaches. The Third Edition of Gene Therapy of Cancer provides crucial updates on the basic and applied sciences ... Read more

    $176.99 CAD

  • The Science of Prostate Cancer

    by Peter Hahn ...
    The current medical approach to prostate cancer works reasonably well for men with advanced disease, but it fail miserably for men with very early stage low-risk prostate cancer. Many of these men are treated unnecessarily. In theory, important medical decisions are supposed to be joint decisions made by patients and their doctors, but in practice we defer to our doctors. However, with prostate ... Read more

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  • Challenges in Delivery of Therapeutic Genomics and Proteomics

    Edited by Ambikanandan Misra ...
    Delivery of therapeutic proteomics and genomics represent an important area of drug delivery research. Genomics and proteomics approaches could be used to direct drug development processes by unearthing pathways involved in disease pathogenesis where intervention may be most successful. This book describes the basics of genomics and proteomics and highlights the various chemical, physical and ... Read more

    $136.99 CAD