Statistical methods for survival data analysis have continued to flourish in the last two decades. Applications of the methods have been widened from their historical use in cancer and reliability research to business, criminology, epidemiology, and social and behavioral sciences.
Chemicals are part of our everyday lives. The hundreds of chemicals that are manufactured by industrial processes influence what we do and how we do it. This book offers descriptions and process details of the most popular of those chemicals.
Angiogenesis is the development of new blood vessels from an existing vascular bed. Normal vascular proliferation occurs only during embryonic development, the female reproductive cycle, and wound repair. Many pathological conditions are characterized by persistent, unregulated angiogenesis, such as cancer, atherosclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, and diabetic neuropathy.
Patient safety is making the transition from infancy and is entering a tumultuous adolescence, with all the resultant challenges.
Ensuring patient safety is the first critical step in improving quality of care. At all levels, health care workers make decisions every day involving patient safety.
This Physics of Modern Brachytherapy for Oncology is the most comprehensive brachytherapy textbook for physicists that has so far been written and intentionally includes chapters on basic physics that are necessary for an understanding of modern brachytherapy.
What! Yet another book on medical biostatistics! Why? What for?
The purpose of this preface is to answer those questions and to add a few other pertinent remarks. The sections that follow describe a series of distinctions, some of them unique, that make this book different from other texts.
In this book leading experts provide the state-of-the-art in the emerging and exciting field of pharmacogenomics. The multitude of ways that pharmacogenomics can be approached and applied reflects the possibilities brought about by the wealth of data generated by the Human Genome Project, in conjunction with parallel advances in bioinformatics and biotechnology.
Virtually every organism serves as the host for a complement of parasites. Parasitism is so common that it is rare to find classes of animals without members that have adopted a parasitic mode of living. Evidence gained from various archeological studies indicates that parasitic diseases existed in prehistoric human populations.
This Handbook of Respiratory Medicine has been written largely by specialist registrars, for specialist registrars. Three of the four authors, Stephen Chapman, Grace Robinson, and Sophie West, are specialist registrars on the Oxford rotation and John Stradling is Professor of Respiratory Medicine in Oxford.
