#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER From Canadian OB/GYN, women's health advocate and New York Times columnist Dr. Jen Gunter: The Vagina Bible is a comprehensive, accessible antidote to the maelstrom of misinformation around female sexual health, and the ultimate guide to everything a person needs to know about the vagina and vulva. We are well into the twenty-first century and have access to more information than ever before, yet many people don't know that a vagina is self-cleaning, condoms should be us...
Cross-Cultural Anxiety (Clinical and Community Psychology)
First published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Individual Participant Data Meta-Analysis (Statistics in Practice)
by Richard Riley, Jayne Tierney, and Lesley Stewart
Individual Participant Data Meta-Analysis: A Handbook for Healthcare Research provides a comprehensive introduction to the fundamental principles and methods that healthcare researchers need when considering, conducting or using individual participant data (IPD) meta-analysis projects. Written and edited by researchers with substantial experience in the field, the book details key concepts and practical guidance for each stage of an IPD meta-analysis project, alongside illustrated examples and s...
Basics For Evaluating Medical Research Studies
by Sheri Ann Strite, Michael E Stuart MD, and Delfini Group
Manual Nonfatal Strangulation Assessment
by Diana K. Faugno, Angelia Clark Trujillo, Barbra A. Bachmeier, and Patricia M. Speck
Evidence-based Clinical Chinese Medicine - Volume 16: Atopic Dermatitis (Evidence-based Clinical Chinese Medicine, #16)
by Meaghan Coyle and Junfeng Liu
The authors start the book with overviews of the understanding and management of atopic dermatitis in conventional and Chinese medicine. They then review how atopic dermatitis was treated with herbal medicine and other Chinese medicine therapies in past eras, and highlight the treatments that continue to be used in contemporary clinical practice.The authors use evidence-based medicine principles and scientific techniques to review the current state of evidence from clinical studies of Chinese he...
Measuring the Quality of Care for Psychological Health Conditions in the Military Health System
by Kimberly A Hepner, Carol P Roth, Coreen Farris, Elizabeth M. Sloss, Grant R. Martsolf, Harold Alan Pincus, Katherine E. Watkins, Caroline Epley, Daniel Mandel, Susan D. Hosek, and Carrie M. Farmer
The instant #1 New York Times bestseller! A bold new vision for optimizing our health now and in the future What if depression, anxiety, infertility, insomnia, heart disease, erectile dysfunction, type 2 diabetes, Alzheimer’s, dementia, cancer and many other health conditions that torture and shorten our lives actually have the same root cause? Our ability to prevent and reverse these conditions - and feel incredible today - is under our control and simpler than we think. The key is our m...
Evidence-based Clinical Chinese Medicine - Volume 26: Rheumatoid Arthritis (Evidence-Based Clinical Chinese Medicine, #26)
by Brian H May and Xuan Xia
This 26th volume of the Evidence-based Clinical Chinese Medicine series provides a multi-faceted 'whole evidence' analysis of the management of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) using integrative Chinese medicine. Beginning with an overview of how RA is conceptualised and managed in conventional medicine (Chapter 1), the authors summarise the syndrome differentiation and management of RA in contemporary Chinese medicine (Chapter 2), based on clinical guidelines and contemporary books. Chapter 3 provides...
Malaria
Malaria: Volume 3, Immunology and Immunization is a collection of papers dealing with malaria parasites, the methods for measuring the immunological response to plasmodia, and the vertebrates host's immune response to plasmodia. Some papers discuss immunization against sporozoites, against the exoerythrocytic stages of malaria parasites, against asexual blood-inhabiting stages of plasmodia, as well as gamete immunization in malaria. One paper describes various separation methods to isolate malar...
Knowledge Transformation in Health and Social Care
The term ‘mindlines’ has become common currency in the world of research implementation and evidence-based practice. This book updates, develops and applies the mindlines model more widely. It sheds light on how we can realistically mobilise and transform research-based evidence into practice in context. This illuminating book shows how the mindlines model can be put to work. It highlights how practitioners collectively share and internalise implicit, flexible ways of rapidly handling complex...
Medical Response to Adult Sexual Assault
by Linda Ledray, Freelance Nutrition Consultant Ann Burgess, and Angelo Giardino
This book presents an in-depth analysis using a 'whole evidence' approach of Chinese medicine treatments for diabetic kidney disease. It is the 10th volume in the Evidence-based Clinical Chinese Medicine series and is an essential reference tool for Chinese medicine practitioners interested in kidney diseases and nephrology.The book provides a comprehensive description of diabetic kidney disease from conventional medicine and Chinese medicine. It includes a summary of Chinese medicine treatments...
Evidence-based Clinical Chinese Medicine - Volume 17: Colorectal Cancer (Evidence-Based Clinical Chinese Medicine, #17)
by Brian H May and Yihong Liu
This seventeenth volume of the Evidence-based Clinical Chinese Medicine series aims to provide a multi-faceted 'whole evidence' analysis of the management of Colorectal Cancer in integrative Chinese medicine.Beginning with overviews of how colorectal cancer is conceptualised and managed in both conventional medicine and contemporary Chinese medicine, the authors then provide detailed analyses of how colorectal cancer and related disorders were treated with herbal medicine and acupuncture in past...
Sample Sizes for Clinical, Laboratory and Epidemiology Studies
by David Machin, Michael J. Campbell, Say-Beng Tan, and Sze-Huey Tan
This book is the principal account of epidemiology's role in the development of effective measures to identify, prevent, and treat diseases. Throughout history, epidemiologists have challenged conventional knowledge, elucidating mysteries of causality and paving the way for remedies. From the outbreak of the bubonic plague, cholera, and cancer to the search for an effective treatment of AIDS and the origins of Alzheimer's disease, epidemiological thought has been crucial in shaping our understan...
Professional Training for Feminist Therapists
by Esther D. Rothblum and Ellen Cole
Here is a unique collection of personal memoirs from feminist therapists which provides a revealing look at their professional training experiences. This superb volume offers a rare glimpse at the struggles of these women, both as therapists and feminists, as they continue to develop professionally while maintaining their own identities. These candid accounts clearly recount the realities of professional training for the feminist therapist as a combination of painful memories, active struggle, i...
How to Reduce Overuse in Healthcare
Reduce low-value care with this practical guide Low-value care harms patients, overburdens healthcare professionals, threatens healthcare systems and damages the climate. How to Reduce Overuse in Healthcare is designed to provide practical guidance and tools for healthcare providers, their professional societies and policy makers developing programs to de-implement low-value or unnecessary care. It provides a five-step evidence- and theory-based framework for developing and evaluating programs...
Unhealthy Politics
by Eric M. Patashnik, Alan S. Gerber, and Conor M Dowling