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  • Quality of Life and Psychosomatics

    In Mechanical Circulation • The Heart Transplantation

    Series series Medicine (R0)
    Advances in heart surgical treatment have been impressive in the last 15 years. In end-stage heart disease, procedures are now performed routinely which were only experimental one or two decades ago. Heart transplantation has become a well-established procedure. According to the Gen eral Registry of the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation. 40,738 heart transplantations had been ... Read more

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  • Cardiac Valve Allografts

    Science and Practice

    Series series Medicine (R0)
    CARDIAC VALVE ALLOGRAFTS (HOMOGRAFTS) highlights the current controversy about freehand subcoronary aortic valve and root replacement with regard to postoperative morbidity and long term durability. It discusses particular implantation techniques of preference in young patients and in different root pathology. Other chapters address intermediate- and long-term results on cardiac valve and vascular ... Read more

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  • Transplantation Medicine and Organ Donation in Germany

    The Medical, Legal, Organizational and Ethical Frameworks

    Series series Medicine (R0)
    This is an open access book.Beside the fascination in the feasibility and the remarkable advances in the impressive development of transplantation medicine, it is beset with a considerable issues and concerns which still remain to be addressed to in a meaningful context: equity in organ allocation, the contradiction between a high acceptance of organ donation in the German society according to ... Read more

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    Series series Medicine (R0)
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  • 50 Studies Every Global Health Provider Should Know

    Series series Fifty Studies Every Doctor Should Know
    50 Studies Every Global Health Provider Should Know presents a diverse series of studies that illustrate key issues in health systems and delivery, policy, ethics, bias, and social determinants of health. Selected not only for their content using a rigorous methodology, these studies were specifically chosen to represent research conducted in low- and middle-income countries by a global array of ... Read more

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  • Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition (Volume 1)

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    Series series Disease Control Priorities
    About this Series: From its inception, the Disease Control Priorities series has focused attention on delivering efficacious health interventions that can result in dramatic reductions in mortality and disability at relatively modest cost. The approach has been multidisciplinary, and the recommendations have been evidence-based, scalable, and adaptable in multiple settings. Better and more ... Read more

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  • Health Protection

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    Health Protection: Principles and practice is a practical guide for practitioners working at all levels in public health and health protection, including those with a non-specialist background. It is the first textbook in health protection to address all three domains within the field (communicable disease control; emergency preparedness, resilience and response (EPRR); and environmental public ... Read more

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  • Inside Health Care: Neonatal Intensive Care - Who Decides? Who Pays? Who Can Afford It?

    Health care in the US is facing a crisis, but there is polarization and disagreement among policy makers and the public about how to solve this crisis. The overall outcome is ranked much lower than most developed nations and nearly 50 million people are uninsured. Health care is big business and is 17 % of the gross domestic product. Inside Health Care highlights the lifesaving nature of neonatal ... Read more

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  • Forgotten People, Forgotten Diseases

    The Neglected Tropical Diseases and Their Impact on Global Health and Development

    Series series ASM Books
    The neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are among the most common infections of the world’s poorest people and have profound ramifications on affected populations, including physical, mental, social, and economic. This third edition of Forgotten People, Forgotten Diseases coincides with the third decade of the NTDs movement, which has given access to essential NTD preventative treatments and ... Read more

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  • The Body's Keepers

    A Social History of Kidney Failure and Its Treatments

    A remarkable account of the kidney and the scientific, medical, and health evolution tied to our understanding of it.The kidney is an extraordinary organ – in many ways the regulator, the metronome, the keeper of the human body’s delicate equilibrium. On a given day, minute by minute, it purifies the body of toxins it encounters from diet, climate, activity, and injury. It allows us to be and to ... Read more

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  • Human Challenge Studies in Endemic Settings

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    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This open access book provides an extensive review of ethical and regulatory issues related to human infection challenge studies, with a particular focus on the expansion of this type of research into endemic settings and/or low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Human challenge studies (HCS) involve the intentional infection of research participants, and this type of research is rapidly ... Read more

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