In this thoroughly updated fourth edition, award-winning contact lens author, lecturer, and researcher, Professor Nathan Efron, presents an easily accessible, systematic account of how to identify, understand, and manage contact lens complications. Professor Efron is renowned for his ability to distil often-complex principles of ocular physiology and pathology into a clinically-friendly format. The subject matter is arranged logically by tissue structure - which is the way practitioners natur...

Since its introduction in 2012, cell-free (cf) DNA based Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing (NIPT) has been employed to test for fetal chromosome abnormalities, and gene mutations that lead to a variety of genetic conditions, by millions of pregnant women, in more than 90 countries worldwide. With Noninvasive Prenatal Testing (NIPT): Applied Genomics in Prenatal Screening and Diagnosis, Dr Lieve Page-Christiaens and Dr Hanns-Georg Klein have compiled the first authoritative volume on cfDNA NIPT me...

For courses in Human Physiology. Move beyond memorization: Prepare students for tomorrow's challengesHuman Physiology: An Integrated Approach is the #1 best-selling 1-semester human physiology text world-wide. The 8th Edition engages students in developing a deeper understanding of human physiology by guiding them to think critically and equipping them to solve real-world problems.

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Medical students preparing for a career in clinical practice must become familiar with a wide range of diagnostic imaging techniques and image-guided interventions. They must learn to identify the indications for radiological examination and recognize the role each procedure plays in the workup, diagnosis, and therapeutic management of patients. That is why Squire's Fundamentals of Radiology has been such an important, long-standing resource for medical students, physicians, and other profess...

This new and fully updated edition of Developmental Neuropsychology: A Clinical Approach addresses key issues in child neuropsychology but differs from other books in the field in its emphasis on evidence-informed clinical practice rather than research issues.

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Casarett & Doull's Toxicology: The Basic Sciences of Poisons is the most trusted all-in-one overview of the biomedical and environmental aspects of toxicology. Presented in full color, it delivers a skill-building review of the basic components of toxicology, including general principles, modes of action, and chemical-specific toxicity. Spanning the entire field, Casarett & ...

By investigating thousands of descriptions of epidemics reaching back before the fifth-century-BCE Plague of Athens to the distrust and violence that erupted with Ebola in 2014, Epidemics challenges a dominant hypothesis in the study of epidemics, that invariably across time and space, epidemics provoked hatred, blaming of the 'other', and victimizing bearers of epidemic diseases, particularly when diseases were mysterious, without known cures or preventivemeasures, as with AIDS during the la...

Bij de 5e druk van de Sobotta deel 1 – Algemene anatomie en bewegingsapparaat ligt de nadruk op de relevantie voor tentamens:

· Nieuwe en inhoudelijk aangepaste afbeeldingen en tabellen als basis voor het begrip van anatomische structuren

· Overzicht houden, de details van een preparaat herkennen en snel de anatomische verbanden kunnen begrijpen en verklaren -

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Bij de 5e druk van de Sobotta deel 2 – Inwendige organen ligt de nadruk op de relevantie voor tentamens:·         Nieuwe en inhoudelijk aangepaste afbeeldingen en tabellen als basis voor   het begrip van anatomische structuren·         Overzicht houden, de details van een preparaat herkennen en snel de  anatomische verbanden k...

Af en toe verschijnt er een boek dat je als medische professional niet mag missen. Herkenning van letsel door lichamelijk geweld is zo’n boek. Mishandeling – of het nu gaat om volwassenen of om kinderen – wordt binnen de Nederlandse gezondheidszorg onvoldoende herkend. Letsel kan een belangrijke aanwijzing zijn voor mishandeling. Het is van groot belang dat deze verwondingen op een juiste wijze worden beoordeeld, geïnterpreteerd en geregistreerd, waardoor een begin kan worden gemaakt m...