From Library Journal This set of five essays stems from the 1994 Royal Institute Christmas Lectures, filmed and later televised by the BBC. Greenfield, a science writer and professor of pharmacology at Lincoln College in Oxford, presents a survey of the brain that is intended for a general adult readership. Offering both a "top-down" and "bottom-up" approach, Greenfield examines movement and vision to illustrate how various brain functions might be localized, and she describes how neurons communicate and how this activity can be modified by drugs.
There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program
Diabetes has become a seemingly unstoppable national epidemic, affecting more than twenty million Americans. Conventional wisdom calls it incurable, but renowned Dr. Gabriel Cousens counters that claim with this breakthrough book. There Is a Cure for Diabetes lays out a three-week plan for reversing the negative genetic expression of diabetes to a physiology of health and well-being.
Current Best Practice in Interventional Cardiology
Current Best Practice in Interventional Cardiology addresses the questions which challenge clinicians involved with interventional procedures. Helpfully organized into four sections, the text addresses; coronary artery disease, non-coronary interventions, left ventricular failure and the latest advances in imaging technologies, and provides authoritative guidance on the current recommendations for best practice.
Procedures, Techniques, and Minimally Invasive Monitoring in Intensive Care Medicine
This portable paperback bench manual contains the thoroughly updated atlas of procedures and techniques and the new section on noninvasive monitoring from Irwin and Rippe's Intensive Care Medicine, Sixth Edition. In a user-friendly format, this extremely practical "how-to" guide provides graphically illustrated, step-by-step instructions for every diagnostic, therapeutic, and noninvasive monitoring procedure used in adult critical care.
Emphasizes Evidence-Based Practice and Quality Improvement Approaches Leading the way in the integration of information technology with healthcare, Pharmacy Informatics reflects some of the rapid changes that have developed in the pharmacy profession. Written by educators and professionals at the forefront in this field, the book shows how informatics plays a central role in providing productive and efficient healthcare services.