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This edition includes a NEW Epigenetics and Disease chapter along with. additional What’s New boxes. highlighting the latest advances in pathophysiology. Over 1,200 full-color illustrations and photographs depict the clinical manifestations of disease and disease processes ― more than in any other pathophysiology text. EXTENSIVELY Updated content reflects advances in pathophysiology including tumor biology invasion and metastases, the epidemiology of cancer, diabetes mellitus, insulin resistance, thyroid and adrenal gland disorders, female reproductive disorders including benign breast diseases and breast cancer, and a separate chapter on male reproductive disorders and cancer.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Very in depth look into how the body works."
"Good book."
"Slight highlighting ang cover aging signs, and what looks like a coffee stain."
"Product was just as described."
"Amazing book, informative."
"Very difficult to follow."
"Very stiff language , no flow , need to read twice to understand."
The 13th edition of Guyton and Hall Textbook of Medical Physiology continues this bestselling title's long tradition as the world’s foremost medical physiology textbook . Larger font size emphasizes core information around how the body must maintain homeostasis in order to remain healthy, while supporting information and examples are detailed in smaller font and highlighted in pale blue. "The 13th edition of Guyton and Hall Textbook of Medical Physiology continues this bestselling title's long tradition as the world's foremost medical physiology textbook.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"The text guides you through the figures and explains them well as it is teaching the subject making for a far better learning experience than others where they just have a description underneath the figure (in this textbook there is also a very brief description under the figure but mainly is described in the main part as you are reading). Here is the general outline (15 units broken down into 85 chapters): Unit 1 - Introduction to Physiology: The Cell and General Physiology. Unit 2 - Membrane Physiology, Nerve, and Muscle. Unit 3 - The Heart. Unit 4 - The Circulation. Unit 5 - The Body Fluids and Kidneys. Unit 6 - Blood Cells, Immunity, and Blood Coagulation. Unit 7 - Respiration. Unit 8 - Aviation, Space, and Deep-Sea Diving Physiology. Unit 9 - The Nervous System: A."
"I hope wrtings will be edited again."
"Very good, detailed explanations."
"Still Fantastic After All These Years."
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"a must have book for any serio use medical student!"
"It is a very complete text, as it talks about how we know certain things (talks about what experiments were done, etc."
Dependable, current, and complete, Robbins and Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease, 9th Edition is the perennially best-selling text that you’ll use long after your medical student days are behind you. Further your understanding with access to a wealth of interactive ancillaries on the Student Consult site, including pathology case studies and videos and self-assessment questions. Even though the book is definitely for the new generations, I am sure that it will be welcomed by senior pathologists trying to keep up with the times – I doubt that I am the only old timer eager to re-read it." They point out that for this edition, they have “gone one step further. They have added a chapter entitled The Cell as a Unit of Health and Disease at the very beginning of the book. The study of the cell – including its functions, and the changes to it at anytime – is critical to understanding any particular disease in a patient. This book is also a bestseller among medical and allied professionals, as evidenced from its very high rank on Amazon.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Minor text revisions. Minor text revisions. Minor text revisions. Minor text revisions. 859 → 959. p. 25 Right column, 3rd line: cycin CDK4 and cycline CDK6 → cyclin D-CDK4 and cyclin D-CDK6. p. 49 Left column, 16th line: cross-lins → cross-links. p. 55 Left column, 9th line: proteins This → proteins. This. p. 56 Left column, Figure 2-25 caption : FAAD → FADD. p. 58 Left column, 3rd line: Table 2-4). → Table 2-4. p. 67 Left column, 4th line: a proteins → proteins. p. 76 Table 3-3: α4β7 (CD49DCD29) → α4β7 (CD49dCD29). p. 81 Right column, 4th line: meshwork of of → meshwork of. p. 118 Left column, 3rd line: he → the. p. 118 Right column, 16th line: Glanzmann thrombasthenia). p. 150 Right column, Figure 5-10: Wrong location of the "primary storage" box in the center of the figure. p. 152 Left column, 14th line: Chapter 1 → Chapter 2. p. 156 Left column, 13th line: Fig. 5-15. p. 165 Left column, 19th line: genes All → genes. All. p. 168 Right column, 12th line: gene (2) → gene. (2). p. 171 Left column, 4th line: FRMP-mRNA → FMRP-mRNA. p. 171 Left column, 10th line: FRMP → FMRP. p. 190 Right column, Figure 6-5: ξ → ζ (not 'xi' chain, but 'zeta' chain). p. 208 Left column, 19th line from the bottom: Figs. 6-32. p. 224 Left column, 9th line: ( IV-S) → (IV-S). p. 266 Right column, last line: capable of capable of → capable of. p. 277 Figure 7-21B. 72.3 → ≥ 72.3, 17.1 → ≤ 17.1. p. 279 Left column, 19th line: genotoxic. as well as → genotoxic, as well as. p. 329 Right column, 12th line: Rb and p53 → p53 and Rb. p. 345 Right column, 4th line: Transmission and Dissemination of Microbes → How Microorganisms Cause Disease. p. 348 Left column, 15th line from the bottom: Burkholdaria → Burkholderia. p. 350 Right column, 5th line from the bottom: How Microorganisms Cause Disease → Host Damage. p. 353 Right column, 19th line: flow.. → flow. p. 368 Left column, 20th line from the bottom: die → die. p. 387 Left column, 10th line, inflammation cause → inflammation, cause. p. 397 Left column, 11th line, The → Pathogenesis. The (for editorial consistency). p. 398 Left column, Figure 8.54: Oblique → straight cutting line between A & B. p. 425 Left column, 18th line: a subsequent a post-use → a subsequent, post-use. p. 491 Left column, 3rd line: disorder , → disorder, p. 499 Left column, 5th line: matrice → matrix (or matrices). p. 500 Right column, 14th line: inflammatiion → inflammation. p. 514 Right column, 8th line from the bottom: Trousseau sign → Trousseau syndrome (which I think is better because Trousseau sign can also be used in hypocalcemia). p. 524 Right column, 26th line: [MMPs], → [MMPs]), p. 550 Right column, 4th line from the bottom: (see later) → (see later). p. 575 Right column, 14th line: Myxomas → Myxoma. Myxomas (for editorial consistency). p. 584 Left column, 10th line: organs,- the → organs, the (duplicated punctuation). p. 584 Left column, 11th line: T cells-, lymphocytes → T cells, lymphocytes (duplicated punctuation). p. 586 Left column, 11th line: NK to → NK cells to. p. 586 Right column, 23rd line from the bottom: so that is some → so that in some. p. 607 Right column, 25th line: M-CSF) chemokines → M-CSF), chemokines. p. 609 Table 13-8, 6th row, 2nd column: C30-; EB- → CD30-; EBV-. p. 609 Right column, Figure 13-26: Incorrect figure; figure 13-26 & 13-27 are switched. p. 629 Chapter Contents, 3rd column, 2nd line: Purpura and → Purpura (TTP) and. p. 630 Right column, 1st line: when sufficiently → sufficiently. p. 635 Right column, 7th line: O2 → O₂(subscript). p. 649 Right column, Table 14-6: incorrect spacing in the 3rd & 4th row. p. 660 Right column, 15th line from the bottom: is caused by → is an autosomal recessive disorder caused by (not concordant with 'also' in the next paragraph). p. 669 Right column, 6th line: The mainstem bronchus → The right mainstem bronchus. p. 675 Right column, 5th line from the bottom: Chapter 17 → Chapter 18. p. 678 Left column, 4th line: change → change. p. 679 Right column, 20th line from the bottom: most notable → most notably. p. 683 Left column, 1st line: IL13 → IL-13. p. 683 Left column, 2nd line: IL17 and IL9 → IL-17 and IL-9. p. 718 Left column, 4th line: Chapter 11 → Chapter 12. p. 749 Chapter Contents, 1st column, 5th line from the bottom: a missing line "Complications of Chronic Gastritis 766" (refer to the page 766). p. 749 Chapter Contents, 3rd column, 11th line: a missing line "Other Causes of Chronic Colitis 802" (refer to the page 802). p. 750 Left column, 4th line from the bottom: (17-1B) → (Fig. 17-1B). p. 794 Left column, 15th line from the bottom: Necator duodenale → Necator americanus. p. 794-795 Paragraph titles: Italicize species names in paragraph titles. (e.g., Schistosomiasis). p. 816 Left column, 19th line: oxyuriasis vermicularis → Oxyuriasis vermicularis or Enterobius vermicularis(case sensitive, italic). p. 816 Right column, 5th line from the bottom: outflow → outflow. p. 828 Left column, 14th line from the bottom: ( resulting → (resulting. p. 829 Right column, 4th line, 8th line, 15th line: absent bullets (●). p. 839 Right column, 30th line: diseases , → diseases, p. 848 Right column, 17th line from the bottom: severity) → severity): p. 854 Right column, 3rd line from the bottom: mechanisms → mechanisms: p. 863 Left column, 1st line: may be may → may be. p. 870 Left column, 5th line: Familial → familial. p. 875 Left column, 19th line: delta-gamma T cell → gamma-delta T cell. p. 876 Right column, 17th line: gallstones → gallstones: p. 892 Figure 19-12 caption, 3rd line: p16 sta occurs → p16 occurs. p. 894 Right column, 3rd line from the bottom: Trousseau sign, → Trousseau syndrome, (the same reason as mentioned above). p. 903 Left column, 18th line: composted of → composed of. p. 915 Left column, 12th line: (NSAIDs). p. 915 Right column, 23rd line from the bottom: dense also deposits → dense deposits. p. 934 Right column, 12th line: Fig. 20-32B. p. 943 Left column, 10th line from the bottom: aberration → aberrant. p. 946 Left column, 2nd, 5th, 26th line from the bottom: Ca2+ → Ca²⁺ (superscript). p. 946 Right column, 12th, 15th, 17th, 21st line: Ca2+ → Ca²⁺ (superscript). p. 961 Right column, 24th line from the bottom: bladde → bladder. p. 964 Right column, Table 21-2: absent indentation in the 2nd-6th row (from exophytic papilloma to carcinoma in situ). p. 969 Right column, 7th line from the bottom: adeno carcinomas → adenocarcinomas. p. 975 Right column, Table 21-5, 3rd row from the bottom: Insert "Sex Cord-Stromal Tumors" in a separate row, as they are not parts of germ cell tumors, but an independent entity. p. 982 Right column, 11th line from the bottom: Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia → Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia (BPH) (BPH is defined nowhere within the chapter 21.). p. 985 Left column, 3rd line: (RB, CDKN2A, → (RB, CDKN2A), p. 996 Right column, 2nd line from the bottom: Chapter 21 → Chapter 8. p. 997 Right column, 11th line: (VIN) → (classic VIN) (as a counterpart of the differentiated VIN in the next paragraph). p. 1021 Left column, 14th line from the bottom: de novo → de novo. p. 1031 Left column, 11th line from the bottom: thought that to be → thought to be. p. 1035 Left column, 6th line: there little → there is little. p. 1074 Right column, 13th line: in males → in males. p. 1115 Left column, 10th line: hyperosmolar hyperosmotic syndrome → hyperosmolar hyperglycemic syndrome (or state). p. 1115 Left column, 24th line from the bottom: diabetic macrovascular → diabetic microvascular. p. 1163 Right column, 6th line: common lymphocyte antigen → cutaneous lymphocyte antigen. p. 1164 Left column, 8th line: (hyperkeratotic and acanthotic). p. 1171 Left column, 19th line: Fig. 25-34A. p. 1171 Left column, 21st line: Fig. 25-34C. p. 1177 Right column, 6th line from the bottom: (or primary infection of the nails) → (or primary infection of) the nails. p. 1179 Chapter Contents, 2nd column, 14th line: 2 missing lines "Chondroma 1201" and "Chondrosarcoma 1202". p. 1182 Left column, 6th line from the bottom: RANK ligand, (RANKL) → RANK ligand (RANKL), p. 1189 Left column, 12th line from the bottom: and, when multiple, → and when multiple, p. 1207 Right column, 19th line from the bottom: during development → during development. p. 1218 Figure 26-49A: the absent arrow. p. 1222 Right column, 1st line: arcomas → sarcomas. p. 1222 Right column, 6th line: or(1;13) → or (1;13). p. 1242 Left column, 2nd line from the bottom: infancy.While → infancy. While. p. 1249 Left column, 23rd line: skeletal defects pigmented → skeletal defects, pigmented. p. 1294 Left column, 25th line from the bottom: FTLD-TPD → FTLD-TDP. p. 1300 Right column, 22nd line: innervat ed → innervated. p. 1304 Left column, 10th line: other that → other than. p. 1312 Right column, 23rd line from the bottom: Chapter 10), → (Chapter 10), p. 1327 Left column, 10th line: keratoepithelin.Some → keratoepithelin. Some. p. 1330 Left column, 14th line: open-angle glaucoma → open-angle glaucoma. p. 1336 Left column, 22nd line from the bottom: "designated by the nebulous term neovascularization elsewhere" → designated by the nebulous term "neovascularization elsewhere". p. 1337 Left column, 4th line from the bottom: detachment.. → detachment."
"Overall, pretty solid text."
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"This book is like my bible as a Pathologists' Assistant student."
"must have source for med school, especially if you are expected to know pathology details."
"One of the best books ever."
Best Pathophysiology
This edition includes a NEW Epigenetics and Disease chapter along with. additional What’s New boxes. highlighting the latest advances in pathophysiology. Over 1,200 full-color illustrations and photographs depict the clinical manifestations of disease and disease processes — more than in any other pathophysiology text. EXTENSIVELY Updated content reflects advances in pathophysiology including tumor biology invasion and metastases, the epidemiology of cancer, diabetes mellitus, insulin resistance, thyroid and adrenal gland disorders, female reproductive disorders including benign breast diseases and breast cancer, and a separate chapter on male reproductive disorders and cancer.
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"Good book."
"Slight highlighting ang cover aging signs, and what looks like a coffee stain."
"Product was just as described."
"Amazing book, informative."
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"Very difficult to follow."
Best Urology
This authoritative, concise reference book provides an international standard for oncologists and pathologists and will serve as an indispensable guide for use in the design of studies monitoring response to therapy and clinical outcome. The use of this fascicle can be highly recommended to those already knowledgeable and well-established in the clinical and research areas of these organ systems as well as those at an earlier stage in their career who seeks to expand their knowledge and understanding."
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Best Nursing Fundamentals & Skills
This edition includes a NEW Epigenetics and Disease chapter along with. additional What’s New boxes. highlighting the latest advances in pathophysiology. Over 1,200 full-color illustrations and photographs depict the clinical manifestations of disease and disease processes ― more than in any other pathophysiology text. EXTENSIVELY Updated content reflects advances in pathophysiology including tumor biology invasion and metastases, the epidemiology of cancer, diabetes mellitus, insulin resistance, thyroid and adrenal gland disorders, female reproductive disorders including benign breast diseases and breast cancer, and a separate chapter on male reproductive disorders and cancer.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Very in depth look into how the body works."
"Good book."
"Slight highlighting ang cover aging signs, and what looks like a coffee stain."
"Product was just as described."
"Amazing book, informative."
"Very difficult to follow."
"Very stiff language , no flow , need to read twice to understand."
Best Physiology
Each chapter opens with a visual “Chapter Roadmap” that guides students through the material and shows how concepts are related within and across chapters. The new modular organization makes key concepts more readily apparent and understandable to students, and new videos help students see why the content matters in their course as well as their future careers. Within its structured environment, students practice what they learn, test their understanding, and. pursue a personalized study plan that helps them better absorb course material and understand difficult concepts. While teaching at Holyoke Community College, where many of her students were pursuing nursing degrees, she developed a desire to better understand the relationship between the scientific study of the human body and the clinical aspects of the nursing practice. To that end, while continuing to teach full time, Dr. Marieb pursued her nursing education, which culminated in a Master of Science degree with a clinical specialization in gerontology from the University of Massachusetts. She contributes to the New Directions, New Careers Program at Holyoke Community College by funding a staffed drop-in center and by providing several full-tuition scholarships each year for women who are returning to college after a hiatus or attending college for the first time and who would be unable to continue their studies without financial support. She funds the E. N. Marieb Science Research Awards at Mount Holyoke College, which promotes research by undergraduate science majors, and has underwritten renovation and updating of one of the biology labs in Clapp Laboratory at that college. In 1994, Dr. Marieb received the Benefactor Award from the National Council for Resource Development, American Association of Community Colleges, which recognizes her ongoing sponsorship of student scholarships, faculty teaching awards, and other academic contributions to Holyoke Community College. These include a PanCanadian Educational Technology Faculty Award (1999), a Teaching Excellence Award from the Students’ Association of Mount Royal (2001), and the Mount Royal Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award (2004). Following Dr. Marieb’s example, Dr. Hoehn provides financial support for students in the form of a scholarship that she established in 2006 for nursing students at Mount Royal University.
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"I just do not see the justification to charge someone almost $200 for a new book when the previous edition is almost the exact same, with just replacing of pictures. Always try to get the previous edition if you can, your save a lot of money, around 1/5 the price. These publishers just drive me nuts, I understand they need to make money, but come on, most of these books are never completely rewritten and they come out with a new edition every 2-3 years and those editions like this one, are almost exactly the same, except for replacement of pictures and a few updated stories/examples. Getting the older book, will save you money, so you will be able to purchase the other software."
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Ebola, SARS, Hendra, AIDS, and countless other deadly viruses all have one thing in common: the bugs that transmit these diseases all originate in wild animals and pass to humans by a process called spillover. He also adds a powerful measure of moral witness: ecological destruction is greatly to blame for our current peril.”. - Dwight Garner, The New York Times. That bodes well for his new book, whose subject really is thriller-worthy: how deadly diseases (AIDS, SARS, Ebola) make the leap from animals to humans, and how, where, and when the next pandemic might emerge.”. - Kathryn Schulz, New York Magazine. “[ Spillover is] David Quammen’s absorbing, lively and, yes, occasionally gory trek through the animal origins of emerging human diseases.”. - Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I read this for a biology class and it was a good read."
"David Quammen draws on his many travels, interviews, and research to paint vivid stories about the history of a handful of zoonotic diseases and the science used to study them."
"The book seeks not only to enlighten us to thrilling tales of discovery but also urges us to examine our role in these emerging viruses."
"I initially purchased this book for a microbiology class that required outside reading and I wanted something other than The Hot Zone. If I had any single critique, it is that some of the scientific terms are almost over explained to a point of tediousness at times but I can understand why since most people reading this book likely don't have a strong background in zoonotic diseases and the terms associated with them."
"But recently there have been programs that have basically cleared an area of deer (much easier to do that than with mice) and new case of Lyme dropped by over 90%."
"It's probably the most informative discussion of the potential "manure hitting the oscillator" since "The Coming Plague" by Laurie Garrett which close to twenty years after it's original publication still has the capacity to raise the hair on the back of your head."
"The author explains extremely difficult subjects and concepts such that a lay person can readily understand them and covers diverse items from the origin of the AIDS virus in Cameroon (the who, the where and the how - as he puts it), to an outbreak of tent caterpillars in Montana."
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Intuitively organized into 17 sections of code tables with supplementary definitions tables and device and body part keys, the Optum360 ICD-10-PCS code book sets the standard for coding accuracy which is the cornerstone of healthcare analytics and revenue cycle management. Ease into the new classification system using these handy code tables to build the code through character value selections that reflect the procedure performed. This edition includes all our hallmark color-coding and symbols for the most comprehensive coverage of ICD10 MS-DRG MCEs for procedures including: non-covered procedures, limited coverage procedures, combination only procedures, non-operating room procedures affecting MS-DRG assignment, non-operating room procedures NOT affecting MS-DRG assignment, hospital acquired condition (HAC) related procedures.
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"Arrived in good condition."
"Needed for school and it was perfect."
"This book arrived in new condition just like the description stated."
"I use this manual for school studies and practice for coding and it really serves its purpose."
"My wife also used this book for her Medical Coding class together with CPT book."
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Praised for its exceptionally clear presentation of complex topics, this #1-selling text for microbiology non-majors provides a careful balance of concepts and applications, proven art that teaches and the most robust, dynamic media in MasteringMicrobiology. The Twelfth Edition ofTortora, Funke, and Case’s Microbiology: An Introduction focuses on big picture concepts and themes in microbiology, encouraging students to visualize and synthesize tough topics such as microbial metabolism, immunology, and microbial genetics. He belongs to numerous biology/microbiology organizations, including the American Society of Microbiology (ASM), Human Anatomy and Physiology Society (HAPS), American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), National Education Association (NEA), New Jersey Educational Association (NJEA), and the Metropolitan Association of College and University Biologists (MACUB). He has spent his professional years as a professor of microbiology at North Dakota State University. He taught introductory microbiology, including laboratory sections, general microbiology, food microbiology, soil microbiology, clinical parasitology, and pathogenic microbiology. As a research scientist in the Experiment Station at North Dakota State, he has published numerous papers on soil microbiology and food microbiology.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I purchased this book for school."
"I hate carrying this heavy, oversized book along everywhere I go."
"The tables helped out wen I was reading the chapters, and the drawings were exceptional!"
"Arrive on time, Perfect in all shape, color as in the image, there is wear and tear,but I like it."
"Book was exactly as described."
"This book was inexpensive to rent and it was very detailed."
"Excellent book with great photographs and diagrams."
"It seems to be easy to use and read and it’s nice to have it as a reference during lectures and assignments."
Best Histology
Volume 1 provided a thorough understanding of what myofascial pain actually is, and discussed the approach to effective diagnosis and treatment of the syndrome from the waist up.
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"All pages were clearly intact, no rips, tears, or stains."
"The master of the trigger point and the research to back it up."
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"Must have book if you are treating myofascial trigger points."
"This book, for the lower body trigger points, is the compliment of Volume 1, for the upper body."
"Every thing that I needed in Vol."
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The Hot Zone tells this dramatic story, giving a hair-raising account of the appearance of rare and lethal viruses and their "crashes" into the human race. The dramatic and chilling story of an Ebola virus outbreak in a surburban Washington, D.C. laboratory, with descriptions of frightening historical epidemics of rare and lethal viruses.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I'm writing this review now because, 1- the current (July 2014) outbreak of Ebola is "the deadliest in recorded history," and 2- I've NEVER forgotten the book. The thing that is so terrifying is the way the poor people who contract the disease die."
"I learned a lot about the virus. After reading this book, im able to read between the headlines of what is being said and more importantly, what's NOT being said. Medical researchers working with the virus give share their information."
"I bought this book in its hard-cover version when it first came out, quite a few years ago, and what with the recent Ebola crisis in Africa and now in the news here in the U.S., I wanted to re-read it. I am dismayed that the CDC is still "learning" how to contain this disease, when the knowledge has been in use by the U.S. Army, and various charitable organizations in Africa for many years."
"A scary, eye opening book about Ebola. He describes in detail the Ebola Reston outbreak in Maryland."
"A must read for anyone who wants the scientific truth about this disease, how it can be spread & how easily & quickly it can mutate."
"Although twenty years old, the information is timely and so. pertinent for our age when Ebola is devastating Africa and may be advancing thought the world."
"Because you will be terrified every time you have a tiny headache. Because you will want strangers to stay far away from you, especially if they are breathing. Because you will realise that your government, our government, the government will probably be unable to stop a proper Ebola virus. Because you will forgive the sometimes over detailed writing because you are completely absorbed in the horror. Because this is not fiction, this is real, this is here, this is now. And this is a gripping, interesting, well put together, well researched non-fiction book that reads like an adventure, a horror and a thriller all at once. Viruses are clever little buggers and best we be afraid."
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Icon Learning Systems acquired the Netter Collection in July 2000 and continued to update Dr. Netter’s original paintings and to add newly commissioned paintings by artists trained in the style of Dr. Netter. The 13-book Netter Collection of Medical Illustrations, which includes the greater part of the more than 20,000 paintings created by Dr. Netter, became and remains one of the most famous medical works ever published. The Netter Atlas of Human Anatomy, first published in 1989, presents the anatomic paintings from the Netter Collection. No matter how beautifully painted, how delicately and subtly rendered a subject may be, it is of little value as a medical illustration if it does not serve to make clear some medical point. Dr. Netter’s planning, conception, point of view, and approach are what inform his paintings and what make them so intellectually valuable. Enter your model number to make sure this fits.
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Best Cell Biology
She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells—taken without her knowledge—became one of the most important tools in medicine. HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered secrets of cancer, viruses, and the atom bomb’s effects; helped lead to important advances like in vitro fertilization, cloning, and gene mapping; and have been bought and sold by the billions. Now Rebecca Skloot takes us on an extraordinary journey, from the “colored” ward of Johns Hopkins Hospital in the 1950s to stark white laboratories with freezers full of HeLa cells; from Henrietta’s small, dying hometown of Clover, Virginia—a land of wooden slave quarters, faith healings, and voodoo—to East Baltimore today, where her children and grandchildren live and struggle with the legacy of her cells. Amazon Best Books of the Month, February 2010 : From a single, abbreviated life grew a seemingly immortal line of cells that made some of the most crucial innovations in modern science possible. Henrietta Lacks was a mother of five in Baltimore, a poor African American migrant from the tobacco farms of Virginia, who died from a cruelly aggressive cancer at the age of 30 in 1951. A sample of her cancerous tissue, taken without her knowledge or consent, as was the custom then, turned out to provide one of the holy grails of mid-century biology: human cells that could survive--even thrive--in the lab. Meanwhile, Henrietta's family continued to live in poverty and frequently poor health, and their discovery decades later of her unknowing contribution--and her cells' strange survival--left them full of pride, anger, and suspicion. Jad Abumrad is host and creator of the public radio hit Radiolab , now in its seventh season and reaching over a million people monthly. Just the simple facts are hard to believe: that in 1951, a poor black woman named Henrietta Lacks dies of cervical cancer, but pieces of the tumor that killed her--taken without her knowledge or consent--live on, first in one lab, then in hundreds, then thousands, then in giant factories churning out polio vaccines, then aboard rocket ships launched into space. The cells from this one tumor would spawn a multi-billion dollar industry and become a foundation of modern science--leading to breakthroughs in gene mapping, cloning and fertility and helping to discover how viruses work and how cancer develops (among a million other things). But what's truly remarkable about Rebecca Skloot 's book is that we also get the rest of the story, the part that could have easily remained hidden had she not spent ten years unearthing it: Who was Henrietta Lacks?
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Find Best Price at Amazon"This was a great book that I'm so glad I read."
"In “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks,” Rebecca Skloot introduces us to the “real live woman,” the children who survived her, and the interplay of race, poverty, science and one of the most important medical discoveries of the last 100 years. Skloot narrates the science lucidly, tracks the racial politics of medicine thoughtfully and tells the Lacks family’s often painful history with grace. When science appears, it does so effortlessly, with explanations of cell anatomy or techniques like “fluorescence in situ hybridization” seamlessly worked into descriptions of the coloured wards of Johns Hopkins hospital to Lacks’s hometown of Clover, Virginia. And yet for all its grand scope, skilful writing and touching compassion, there is one simple element that makes As a final thought, I was struck by the parallels between Henrietta’s cells and her story."
"The author did a great job of allowing the reader to decide if Henrietta's family should have profited from her cells."
"After reading about Henrietta Lacks, I began thinking about all the blood tests I've had done, and some minor surgeries I've had and I constantly wondered, what did those doctors and/or hospitals do with my tissues and/or blood? I realize there are laws in place now that weren't there when Henrietta lived, but to read how Dr. Gey took samples of Henrietta's cancerous tumor and used it to advance science and medicine as we know of it today, is mind-boggling. All of us living today should be thankful for Henrietta because she has done something that no one else seems to ever have been able to do, which is live immortally. Lacks' cells, while her family continues to live in poverty. I learned so much about cells and DNA, not to mention that just about every pill I've ever taken, most likely was the result of Henrietta's cells, which still grow today."
"When a friend recommended this book I'd never heard of Henrietta Lacks or HeLa."
Best Immunology
Now, in The Wahls Protocol, she shares the details of the protocol that allowed her to reverse many of her symptoms, get back to her life, and embark on a new mission: to share the Wahls Protocol with others suffering from the ravages of multiple sclerosis and other autoimmune conditions. Terry L. Wahls, M.D., is a clinical professor of medicine at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine in Iowa City and the director of the Therapeutic Lifestyle Clinic at the Iowa City Veterans Affairs Health Care System, where she treats veterans with autoimmune, neurological, and medical problems using diet and lifestyle interventions.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Even though I'm definitely NOT grateful for having this disease, I truly believe my loved ones, future children and I obtained the most valuable information we have come across as a consequence of my MS. In this book, Dr Wahls goes into detail about every aspect of the dietary and lifestyle changes she recommends, which includes supplements, exercise, electrical stimulation, meditation, etc., and she details three different versions of the Wahls diet so anyone can find a level they can learn to live with. I actually convinced my wife and my mother to read the book and follow different levels of the protocol with me for one month. It has been three weeks today, and the results have been noticeable: - I have RRMS, and am still in early stages of the disease so when I'm in remission, which is 90% of the time, I have no symptoms. She feels a lot more rested and the Polar Loop is actually measuring and showing these results as concrete data. Additionally, she used to get headaches at work about once a week, and hasn't had a single one since following the Wahls Paleo. I have now read many other books by Sarah Ballantyne, Dr. Perlmutter, Amy Myers, Jimmy Moore, etc., I have found countless Blogs and Cookbooks, and I even have iOS Apps that make my life way easier (MyPaleoPal is excellent for tracking and ideas, for example). I now enjoy eating and even cooking more than I ever had before, and my entire family is still reaping the benefits from all this knowledge. Just to detail a bit more: I follow the Wahls Paleo Plus diet, mixed together with the AIP just to make it a little more challenging. This means no nuts, seeds, nightshades, or coffee, on top of Dr Wahls' strictest protocol. I also swim every other day, meditate and work my core muscles daily, and sleep 7.5-8.5 hours every night. You be the judge: my last relapse was over a year ago, I can now bike for 45minutes and totally withstand heat sensitivity, I can swim for as long as I want to, I walked over 120,000 steps in a week last december during Christmas break (used a pedometer to keep track), I'm sleeping like a baby, and, MOST IMPORTANT: I stopped my MS medication two weeks ago (under my neurologist's supervision of course, and having sworn to go back on it if my status changes negatively)."
"The book is so easy to read, and it is set up pretty much the way I spent my first year changing my diet. I loved reading Chapter 7 - Wahls Paleo Plus, because that is the way I basically eat now, strictly and consistently. This new book is an easier read, but still full of Dr. Wahls passion for sharing this vital information, and getting it right. Her life is at stake, and she wants to help as many people as she can - in my opinion, it is obvious that this book is a true labor of love for her. I rarely left the house, except for appointments that I couldn't put off any longer, or family celebrations with the our grown kids. My husband, whose busy career took much of his time, did the best he could, which meant my diet was mostly easy processed food or take-out. A few weeks after I sold/gave my beloved Prius to my son, my daughter urged me to look into some doctor that had MS and wrote a book about how she healed herself with diet. I had a slight increase in energy, and cleaned a tiny spot of kitchen counter between the sink and the coffee maker. I had stopped eating white potatoes, and soon started avoiding soy, legumes all processed and packaged foods. After a year, a friend offered to drive me to the gym again, so I started working out a bit, and she helped me move between machines. Finally I started taking my walker, and then made my husband buy a car so I could have his Prius - I needed my independence back, and I was ready. My gym workouts were good for a while but I began to hurt myself; I could barely remember how to walk, because my body was so messed up. I started working with a personal trainer at the gym, after he actually convinced me that he could wake up my severely weakened muscles, when giving me a free hour-long evaluation where I could not even do a squat, or get up from the floor. I can now do a deadlift with 115 pound weight, I can squat, carry bags of groceries upstairs, and take many different classes at the gym, with modifications, such as Zumba, spinning, step, yoga, Pilates, and I love to walk outside to get the fresh air and sunshine. I finally bought a Vitamix (I stopped juicing - I want the nutrients in my body) and I still use it every single day for getting a huge amount of veggies and berries. I had been on weight loss diets all my life, and that was a struggle, because I could never shake my addiction to sweets, carbs, etc. Terry also talks about the importance of moving our bodies and having strong emotional bonds with the people in our lives. That last one has been harder for me in the last year, and the stress of it taught me a lot about how my body reacts to negative thoughts in my mind."
Best Neuroanatomy
Veterinary Neuroanatomy: A Clinical Approach is written by veterinary neurologists for anyone with an interest in the functional, applied anatomy and clinical dysfunction of the nervous system in animals, especially when of veterinary significance. Veterinary Neuroanatomy: A Clinical Approach has been prepared by experienced educators with 35 years of combined teaching experience in neuroanatomy. Keeps to simple language and focuses on the key concepts Unique ‘NeuroMaps’ outline the location of the functional systems within the nervous system and provide simple, visual aids to understanding and interpreting the results of the clinical neurological examination The anatomical appendix provides 33 high-resolution gross images of the intact and sliced dog brain and detailed histological images of the sectioned sheep brainstem. This is an enjoyable and informative book...I enjoyed reading this book and found it very illumainating on a subject I already feel I know reasonably well... each section contained a fresh perspective or new information that enhanced my understanding of functional neuroanatomy.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"That being said, I would not recommend this book as your only source of study."
"This is an awesome neuro book."
"I have been teaching small animal clinical neurology for more than 20 years and at last, here is a book that gets it just right in terms of content - a mix of appropriate neuroanatomy, neurophysiology and clinical problem-solving for neurological cases."
"I purchased this book for my second year of vet school and I LOVE it."
"The gift of teaching that Christine Thomson possesses is extended into the written form."
"Where other books (such as de Lahunta) may be more detailed, they can be harder to read and sometimes you don't see the wood for the trees (though I'm still learning from de Lahunta on the 3rd or 4th read and it makes an excellent reference text)."
"This book provides a concise, comprehensive, and complete clinically oriented introduction to veterinary neuroanatomy and neurophysiology."
"This was/is a great resource that helped clarify multiple concepts I had difficulty grasping in class (ex."
Best Biostatistics
Winner of the 2014 Technometrics Ziegel Prize for Outstanding Book Applied Predictive Modeling covers the overall predictive modeling process, beginning with the crucial steps of data preprocessing, data splitting and foundations of model tuning. "There are a wide variety of books available on predictive analytics and data modeling around the web...we've carefully selected the following 10 books, based on relevance, popularity, online ratings, and their ability to add value to your business. "This monograph presents a very friendly practical course on prediction techniques for regression and classification models...The authors are recognized experts in modeling and forecasting , as well as developers of R packages and statistical methodologies...It is a well-written book very useful to students and practitioners who need an immediate and helpful way to apply complex statistical techniques." However, in my judgment, Applied Predictive Modeling by Max Kuhn and Kjell Johnson (Springer 2013) ought to be at the very top of the reading list ...They come across like coaches who really, really want you to be able to do this stuff.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I read "Applied predictive modeling" (which I will shorten to APM) shortly after I read "Introduction to statistical learning" (ISL) by James, Witten, Hastie and Tibshirani, and find that book both closest to APM, and helpful in highlighting APM's strengths. Adopting H&T's terminology choice, I will say that both books combine theory of "statistical learning" with hands-on illustrations and exercises implemented in R; the get-your-hands-dirty, try-it-out element is, in fact, ISL's key difference from the earlier, venerable "Elements of statistical learning"."
"Max Kuhn is a legend in R like Hadley Wickham."
"I read this cover to cover, it's incredibly well written without sacrificing technical explanation."
"Great book for understanding concepts, and the R code can be used right away in your own projects."
"Excellent insights on the strengths and weaknesses of traditional machine learning models."
"This book is really good for those who want doing some data analysis!"
"It addresses very important concepts in predictive modeling (i.e., over-fitting and predictor's reduction) and provides efficient R codes for testing."
"And by using R, a freely accessible language, the writers ensure the reader will be able to immediately apply the information in the real world."
Best Medical Anatomy
View anatomy from a clinical perspective with hundreds of exquisite, hand-painted illustrations created by pre-eminent medical illustrator Frank H. Netter, MD. During his student years, Dr. Netter’s notebook sketches attracted the attention of the medical faculty and other physicians, allowing him to augment his income by illustrating articles and textbooks. Now translated into 16 languages, it is the anatomy atlas of choice among medical and health professions students the world over. No matter how beautifully painted, how delicately and subtly rendered a subject may be, it is of little value as a medical illustration if it does not serve to make clear some medical point. Dr. Netter’s planning, conception, point of view, and approach are what inform his paintings and what make them so intellectually valuable.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"This atlas is amazing with beautiful anatomical drawings with color codes to help you study and memorize every piece of the human body."
"Excellent book."
"Buy this one the first time and save yourself!"
"The contents of this anatomy atlas are remarkable."
"I reccomend thos to my radiography students every year."
"This book is so cool."
"I purchased this book as new and instead I got one with a sticker on the back of the last page and with coffee or something spilled all over it, the first pages were even like stuck together due to this coffee."
"Hopefully, this version will be compatible for my coursework as it is more of a pain to return this and hopefully get the correct version in time for school."
Best Genetics
THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. A New York Times Notable Book. A Washington Post and Seattle Times Best Book of the Year From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies —a fascinating history of the gene and “a magisterial account of how human minds have laboriously, ingeniously picked apart what makes us tick” ( Elle ). “A fascinating and often sobering history of how humans came to understand the roles of genes in making us who we are—and what our manipulation of those genes might mean for our future” ( Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel ), The Gene is the revelatory and magisterial history of a scientific idea coming to life, the most crucial science of our time, intimately explained by a master. Here, he follows up with a biography of the gene—and The Gene is just as informative, wise, and well-written as that first book.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"The volume benefits from Mukherjee’s elegant literary style, novelist’s eye for character sketches and expansive feel for human history. Mendel was an abbot in a little known town in Central Europe whose pioneering experiments on pea plants provided the first window into the gene and evolution. Eugenics has now acquired a bad reputation, but Galton was a polymath who made important contributions to science by introducing statistics and measurements in the study of genetic differences. Many of the early eugenicists subscribed to the racial theories that were common in those days; many of them were well intended if patronizing, seeking to ‘improve the weak’, but they did not see the ominous slippery slope which they were on. Eugenics was enthusiastically supported in the United States; Mukherjee discusses the infamous Supreme Court case in which Oliver Wendell Holmes sanctioned the forced sterilization of an unfortunate woman named Carrie Buck by proclaiming, “Three generations of imbeciles are enough”. Another misuse of genetics was by Trofim Lysenko who tried to use Lamarck’s theories of acquired characteristics in doomed agricultural campaigns in Stalinist Russia; as an absurd example, he tried to “re educate” wheat using “shock therapy”. Mutations in specific genes (for instance ones causing changes in eye color) allowed them to track the flow of genetic material through several generations. The scientists most important for recognizing this fact were Frederick Griffiths and Oswald Avery and Mukherjee tells their story well; however I would have appreciated a fuller account of Friedrich Miescher who discovered DNA in pus bandages from soldiers. All these events set the stage for the golden age of molecular biology, the deciphering of the structure of DNA by James Watson (to whom the quote in the title is attributed), Francis Crick, Rosalind Franklin and others. Many of these pioneers were inspired by a little book by physicist Erwin Schrodinger which argued that the gene could be understood using precise principles of physics and chemistry; his arguments turned biology into a reductionist science. As a woman in a man’s establishment Franklin was in turn patronized and sidelined, but unlike Watson and Crick she was averse to building models and applying the principles of chemistry to the problem, two traits that were key to the duo’s success. The book then talks about early successes in correlating genes with illness that came with the advent of the human genome and epigenome; genetics has been very useful in finding determinants and drugs for diseases like sickle cell anemia, childhood leukemia, breast cancer and cystic fibrosis. Mukherjee especially has an excellent account of Nancy Wexler, the discoverer of the gene causing Huntington’s disease, whose search for its origins led her to families stricken with the malady in remote parts of Venezuela. The basic verdict is that while there is undoubtedly a genetic component to all these factors, the complex interplay between genes and environment means that it’s very difficult currently to tease apart influences from the two. The last part of the book focuses on some cutting edge research on genetics that’s uncovering both potent tools for precise gene engineering as well as deep insights into human evolution. There are a few minor scientific infelicities: for instance Linus Pauling’s structure of DNA was not really flawed because of a lack of magnesium ions but mainly because it sported a form of the phosphate groups that wouldn’t exist at the marginally alkaline pH of the human body. The book’s treatment of the genetic code leaves out some key exciting moments, such as when a scientific bombshell from biochemist Marshall Nirenberg disrupted a major meeting in the former Soviet Union. Nor is there much exploration of using gene sequences to illuminate the ‘tree of life’ which Darwin tantalizingly pulled the veil back on: in general I would have appreciated a bigger discussion of how DNA connects us to all living creatures. Its sweeping profile of life’s innermost secrets could not help but remind me of a Japanese proverb quoted by physicist Richard Feynman: “To every man is given the key to the gates of heaven."
"There are abundant scientific notions to satisfy any reader picking up the book to understand the real subject matter, but not in the general bland fashion of studies-and-conclusions that tend to lose many a lay people. From the notions of introns and exons to the polygenic nature of most phenotypes, the feedback from environment to gene mutation and the massive role played by non-gene factors in most our traits, the author uncovers a staggering number of interesting findings in a highly understandable manner. As professionals or parents seek to weed out certain deformities, there are genuine risks of us eliminating some important evolutionary traits mainly out of ignorance of how genes really work at this stage but also out of their possible other utilities in long future."