HIV/AIDS in U.S. Communities of Color
More people in communities of color are contracting, living with, and being treated for HIV/AIDS than ever before. In 2005, 71% of new AIDS cases were diagnosed in people of color. Though the number of racial and ethnic minority HIV/AIDS cases continues to grow, the health care community has been unable to adequat...
Economics and Preventing Healthcare Acquired Infection (Graves et al.)
Economics and Preventing Healthcare Acquired InfectionNicholas Graves, Kate Halton, and William Jarvis The evolution of organisms that cause healthcare acquired infections (HAI) puts extra stress on hospitals already struggling with rising costs and demands for greater productivity and cost containment. Infec...
Applying Quantitative Bias Analysis to Epidemiologic Data (Lash et al.)
series: Statistics for Biology and Health This text provides the first-ever compilation of bias analysis methods for use with epidemiologic data. It guides the reader through the planning stages of bias analysis, including the design of validation studies and the collection of validity data from other s...
Case Studies in Global School Health Promotion
From Research to Practice Case Studies in Global School Health PromotionCheryl Vince Whitman and Carmen Aldinger A growing body of research identifies strong links between children?s health, social and educational outcomes; it also notes the reciprocal benefits of access to quality education on individual...
Latino Farmworkers in the Eastern United States
Health, Safety and Justice Latino Farmworkers in the Eastern United StatesHealth, Safety, and JusticeEdited by Thomas A. Arcury and Sara A. Quandt, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USAThey work at some of America?s most hazardous jobs, have few protections, and receive some of the ...
Biobehavioral Approaches to Pain
Biobehavioral Approaches in PainEdited by Rhonda J. Moore, National Institute of Health, Bethesda, Maryland Pain is a common symptom, yet it is frequently underevaluated and undertreated. It is difficult to define, describe?and sometimes to prove. It?s pain, and suspicions of exaggerations often add further ...
Behavioral Interventions for Prevention and Control of Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Before AIDS, the role of behavioral interventions in preventing transmission of sexually transmitted diseases was acknowledged in text books and journals but rarely promoted effectively in public health practice. Informed by a comprehensive knowledge of behavioral theory, intervention methods, and affected populat...
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High Resolution EPR
Applications to Metalloenzymes and Metals in Medicine
series: Biological Magnetic Resonance High Resolution EPR: Applications to Metalloenzymes and ...
Transgenesis Techniques
Principles and Protocols
series: Methods in Molecular Biology One of the major challenges currently facing the scientific community is to understand...
Biotechnology for Agro-Industrial Residues Utilisation
Utilisation of Agro-Residues Residues from agriculture and the food industry consist of many and varied wastes, in total accounting for over 250 million tonnes o...
Grapevine Molecular Physiology & Biotechnology
Grapevine is one of the most widely cultivated plant species worldwide. With the publication of the grapevine genome sequence in 2007, a new horizon in grapevine res...
Stem Cells and Cancer
Cancer is a major cause of human morbidity and mortality worldwide. Despite decades of basic and clinical research, the outcome for many cancer patients is still dis...
Coordinated Activity in the Brain
Measurements and Relevance to Brain Function and Behavior
series: Springer Series in Computational Neuroscience Increasing interest in the study of ...
Oxidative Neural Injury
series: Contemporary Clinical Neuroscience Edited bySigrid Veasey, M.D.Center for Sleep and Respiratory NeurobiologyDepartment of MedicineUniversity of Pe...
Protocols for In Vitro Cultures and Secondary Metabolite Analysis of Aromatic and Medicinal Plants
series: Methods in Molecular Biology Given the vital and far-reaching applications of medicinal plant metabolites worldwide, the quality and consistency o...
Animal Models of Epilepsy
Methods and Innovations
series: Neuromethods With its complex anatomical, molecular, electrophysiological and behavioral components, epilepsy provid...
The Neuroendocrine Leydig Cells and their Stem Cell Progenitors, the Pericytes (Davidoff et al.)
series: Advances in Anatomy, Embryology and Cell Biology The Leydig cells of the testis represent the main source of androgens. The idea of Leydig cells a...
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