Medical Specialties Books
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Neuromodulation Using Ultra Low Frequency Current Waveform Reversibly Blocks Axonal Conduction And Chronic Pain
KEY TAKEAWAYS: Novel Ultra Low Frequency (ULF™) neuromodulation inhibits pain signals in pre-clinical animal models, computational models, and in a clinical trial The mechanism of ULF™ neuromodulation is unique, enabling controlled and reversible inhibition of pain neurons through sodium channel inactivation. This mechanism of action is different than existing SCS ...
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StemJournal
StemJournal is an international, multidisciplinary publication for communicating outstanding stem cell research, including basic biology, clinical applications, disease modeling, computational and systems biology, and data science. It promises to be open new scientific contributions from the many fields of research on stem cells. The journal publishes original, peer-reviewed content covering a ...
By IOS Press
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Guidance on Application and Review of New Cosmetic Raw Materials
Guidance on Application and Review of New Cosmetic Raw Materials (revised from Guidance for the Safety Evaluation of New Cosmetic Raw Materials ...
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Emergency Medical Services; Search and Rescue; Anesthetic and Respiratory Equipment
Emergency Medical Services—covers emergency medical dispatch, ambulances, fixed wing basic and specialized units, and basic training for emergency medical technicians.Search and Rescue—addresses search, rescue, and recovery operations, including the testing and maintenance of equipment, management and operations, and personnel training.Anesthetic and Respiratory ...
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Emergency Medical Services; Search and Rescue; Anesthetic and Respiratory Equipment
Emergency Medical Services—covers emergency medical dispatch, ambulances, fixed wing basic and specialized units, and basic training for emergency medical technicians.Search and Rescue—addresses search, rescue, and recovery operations, including the testing and maintenance of equipment, management and operations, and personnel training.Anesthetic and Respiratory ...
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International Travel and Health 2009
More than 900 million international journeys were undertaken in 2008. This amount of global travel exposes many people to changes in altitude, humidity, disease agents and temperature - all of which can lead to ill-health. Many health risks can be minimized by precautions taken before, during and after travel. This book explains how travellers can stay healthy, and provides WHO guidance on ...
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Heart Rate Variability & Ultrafine Particle Exposures
Over the last ten years, many epidemiological studies have assessed changes in cardiac morbidity and mortality based on exposures to ambient to particles (Dockery et al., 1993, Schwartz, 1994; Samet et al., 2000; Peters et al., 1999). Exposure to particles of aerodynamic diameter <2.5 µm and <10 µm have earned considerable attention as elevated levels have been associated with lung function ...
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International Health Regulations (2005). Second Edition
Their stated purpose and scope are "to prevent, protect against, control and provide a public health response to the international spread of disease in ways that are commensurate with and restricted to public health risks, and which avoid unnecessary interference with international traffic and trade." Because the IHR are not limited to specific diseases, but are applicable to health risks, ...
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Biophysical and Physiological Effects of Solar Radiation on Human Skin
In an era of global warming knowledge of the effects of solar radiation on humans is of great importance and the latest discoveries in environmental photobiology are presented in this book.The Editor has brought together a wide range of world class contributors to provide the reader with information on the clinical effects of solar radiation, such as inflammation, pigmentation, ...
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Living with the Earth, Third Edition: Concepts in Environmental Health Science
Includes all the bells and whistles you and your students have come to expect It’s hard to imagine a book more innovative and groundbreaking than Living with the Earth: Concepts in Environmental Health Science, Third Edition. The first edition won the CHOICE award for Outstanding Academic Book and both previous editions became bestsellers in their own right. See what’s new and updated ...
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Geocoding Health Data: The Use of Geographic Codes in Cancer Prevention and Control, Research and Practice
In the past, disease pattern mapping depended on census tracts based on political units, such as states and counties. However, with the advent of geographic information systems (GIS), researchers can now achieve a new level of precision and flexibility in geographic locating. This emerging technology allows the mapping of many different kinds of geographies, including disease rates in relation to ...
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Fatigue and Fracture of Medical Metallic Materials and Devices
Get the latest information on the thermal and mechanical properties of shape memory alloys (SMA's) and metallic medical materials and devices. Eleven peer-reviewed papers: • Define the environments in body-specific locations such as the superficial femoral artery, carotid, abdominal and thoracic arteries• Develop constitutive expressions for the deformation response of nitinol via ...
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Avian and pandemic influenza: the FAO response. A selection of material. December 2007 (CD-ROM) (En)
Over the last four years, highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) viruses of the H5N1 subtype have spread from Asia to Europe , the Middle East and Africa , causing severe disease in poultry and humans. In those four years, numerous meetings have been organised and studies carried out on specific aspects of the disease, the socioeconomic impact of the disease on households and communities, the ...
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Pearl oyster health management. A manual (En)
The pearl oyster industry is a growing multibillion dollar sector of molluscan aquaculture. The end product of pearl farming, the pearl, is unique to this sector. Pearl production is entirely based upon health. The pearl itself is a product of the oyster's immune defences as a response to soft-tissue irritation. Today, most disease problems are caused by opportunistic pathogens taking advantage ...
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Double burden of malnutrition, (The). Case studies from six developing countries (English)
Series: FAO Food and Nutrition PapersIn several developing countries, undernourishment is still prevalent while obesity and its related co-morbidities, including chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as heart disease, diabetes and cancer, are emerging and contributing increasingly to morbidity and mortality. Several countries are now facing a double burden of malnutrition, i.e. caloric ...
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Tiger Bone & Rhino Horn: The Destruction of Wildlife for Traditional Chinese Medicine
In parts of Korea and China, moon bears, black but for the crescent-shaped patch of white on their chests, are captured in the wild and brought to "bear farms" where they are imprisoned in squeeze cages, and a steel catheter is inserted into their gall bladders. The dripping bile is collected as a cure for ailments ranging from an upset stomach to skin burns. The bear may live as long as fifteen ...
By Island Press
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Muscle Strength
Muscle strength is an important topic for ergonomics practitioners and physiologists to understand, especially as it relates to workplace injuries. Muscle strength and function is at the heart of many injuries that lead to reduced productivity and economic strain on the worker, the company, and society as a ...
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Back Injury Among Healthcare Workers: Causes, Solutions, and Impacts
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics recently calculated nearly 60,000 musculoskeletal injuries to healthcare workers resulting from heavy lifting during attempts to move patients. Often the nurses, aides, orderlies, and attendants who suffered permanent injuries were forced out of the profession, straining an already inadequate pool of workers and wasting valuable knowledge and ...
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Fair Weather: Effective Partnerships in Weather and Climate Services
Decades of evolving U.S. policy have led to three sectors providing weather services—NOAA (primarily the National Weather Service [NWS]), academic institutions, and private companies. This three-sector system has produced a scope and diversity of weather services in the United States second to none. However, rapid scientific and technological change is changing the capabilities of the sectors and ...
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Correcting Gender Myopia: Gender Equity, Women"s Welfare, And The Environment
At international conferences throughout the 1990"s--in Rio de Janeiro, Vienna, Cairo, and Beijing--a new vision of women"s health, welfare, and rights was created. This vision acknowledged the deep connections between support for educational, economic, social, and political opportunity for women on the one hand, and progress in stabilizing population growth, protecting the environment, and ...
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