Published August, 2006
By Steven R. Smith and Leonard Handler
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (Routledge Member of the Taylor and Francis Group)
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Highlights assessment techniques, issues, and procedures that are of interest to practicing clinicians. This book provides guidance for test selection, interpretation, and application. It outlines selection and interpretation of measures in a manner that is relevant to clinicians and graduate students.

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Published August, 2006
By Guang-Zhong Yang, Tianzi Jiang, Dinggang Shen, Lixu Gu, Jie Yang and Bing Liu
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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The papers are organized in topical sections on shape modeling and morphometry, patient specific modeling and quantification, surgical simulation and skills assessment, surgical guidance and navigation, image registration, PET image reconstruction, and image segmentation.

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Published August, 2006
By Derek Field and Jane Owen Hutchinson
Publisher: Elsevier (Butterworth-Heinemann Ltd)
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Enables readers be able to identify, understand and palpate structures through an intact skin and aids the practitioner in the assessment and diagnosis of conditions using manual contact techniques, relating palpation to surface markings and anatomy. This book is suitable for students and practitioners of medicine, physiotherapy, and osteopathy.

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Published July, 2006
By Cyrus Cooper and Raj Mani
Publisher: Jaypee Medical (Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers)
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Published July, 2006
By Yi-Wei Tang and Charles W. Stratton
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
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Clinical microbiologists are engaged in the field of diagnostic microbiology to determine whether pathogenic microorganisms are present in clinical specimens collected from patients with suspected infections. This book describes methods that have evolved for the diagnosis of infectious diseases in the routine clinical microbiology laboratory.

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Published June, 2006
By Myung K. Park and Warren G Guntheroth
Publisher: Elsevier (Mosby)
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Useful for medical students, residents, and practitioners for interpreting electrocardiograms in children, this book teaches the vectorial approach to paediatric ECG interpretation in a practical way. Written by paediatric cardiologists, it contains over 200 actual size ECG tracings, review questions, and case studies for board review.

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Published June, 2006
By Attila Lorincz
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (CRC Press Inc)
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Nucleic Acid Testing for Human Disease describes various techniques including target and signal amplification-based NAT procedures, microarrays, bead-based multiplex assays, in situ hybridization, and SNP techniques. This book discusses RNA expression profiling and laboratory issues such as the need for proper validation of tests intended fo

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Published May, 2006
By Gavin Mooney and Ivar Sonbo Kristiansen
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
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Evidence based medicine is defined as the conscientious explicit and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients. This superb collection will take a critical view of this concept and examine the economic implications of its imposition.

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Published May, 2006
By Esther Strauss, Elisabeth M. S. Sherman, Otfried Spreen and Elisabeth M.S. Sherman
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
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Presents critical reviews of major neuropsychological assessment tools. This book provides information concerning theoretical background, norms, reliability, validity, and utility of tests. It includes the chapters: "Psychometrics in Neuropsychological Assessment" and "Norms Selection in Neuropsychological Assessment".

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Published May, 2006
By Konstantinos N. Syrigos, Chris M. Nutting and Charalambos I. Roussos
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
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Aims to depict all aspects of chest tumors in a comprehensive volume format that encompasses their biology, clinical presentation and management. This book also covers the wide-ranging topics of management in the elderly, chemoprevention, along with ethical, social and economic issues.

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