Published April, 2008
By Shayne Cox Gad and SC Gad
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd (John Wiley & Sons Inc)
Series: Pharmaceutical Development Series
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This book gives the professional pharmaceutical scientist a basic and comprehensive tool to facilitate the preclinical development process by bringing together an overview of the preclinical process and a compendium of methods and techniques that need to be considered when developing a new drug.

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Published April, 2008
By D.D. Davis and Denise D. Davis
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd (John Wiley & Sons Inc)
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The first book of its kind to provide an in-depth and practical approach to termination in the current era of time-limited therapy A successful termination is a vital phase of any kind of psychotherapy, yet often taken for granted or not considered when therapy is initiated.

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Published April, 2008
By Norman Sartorius, Julio Arboleda-Florez, Julio Arboleda–Flórez and J Arboleda-Florez
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd (John Wiley & Sons Inc)
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Many mentally ill people are the victims of stigma, which leads to additional suffering and humiliation. Negative stereotypes and prejudicial attitudes against them are often reinforced by their media representation as unpredictable, violent and dangerous.

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Published April, 2008
By Kian Fan Chung and F Chung
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd (John Wiley & Sons Inc)
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In this book, leading researchers in medicine and molecular pharmacology explain the cellular mechanisms that control airway smooth muscle. The means by which these are disrupted in disease, and the pharmacologic strategies by which they may be modified are discussed and future therapeutic interventions are identified.

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Published April, 2008
By John Morris, Jeffrey Burns, John C. Morris, Jeffrey M. Burns and JM Burns
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd (John Wiley & Sons Inc)
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Alzheimer's disease is by far the most common dementing disorder in later life, but discriminating the initial manifestations of Alzheimer's from the cognitive changes that accompany usual aging is, in many instances, a difficult task.

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Published April, 2008
By Novartis Foundation, Gregory R. Bock, Jamie A. Goode and Novartis
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd (John Wiley & Sons Inc)
Series: Novartis Foundation Symposia
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The past decade has seen mounting global concern regarding viral outbreaks such as SARS, avian influenza and West Nile virus. In 2004 and 2005, reports of bird-to-human, and possible human-to-human, transmissions of the H5N1 influenza viruses raised fears that these viruses could cause a pandemic on the scale of the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918.

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Published April, 2008
By Janet Marsden and J Marsden
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd (John Wiley & Sons Inc)
Series: Wiley Series in Nursing
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The objective of this book is to provide an evidence base for ophthalmic nursing practice. There are areas of practice where little evidence exists, in those areas, the book aims to provide reasoned guidelines from an informed source, thus negating the need for every ophthalmic practice area to develop diverse often contradictory guidelines.

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Published April, 2008
By David W. Hosmer, Stanley Lemeshow, Susanne May and DW Hosmer
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd (John Wiley & Sons Inc)
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This book fills this gap, providing a comprehensive, self-contained introduction to regression modeling used in the analysis of time-to-event data in epidemiological, biostatistical, and other health-related research.

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Published April, 2008
By Johann Schaller, Simon Gerber, Urs Kaempfer, Christian Trachsel, Sofia Lejon and J Schaller
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd (John Wiley & Sons Inc)
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The first textbook on blood plasma proteins published for ten years, this book gives an overview of human blood plasma proteins with special emphasis on their structure and function and, if known, also in relation to pathological states and diseases.

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Published April, 2008
By Chris Wild, Paolo Vineis, Seymour Garte and C Wild
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd (John Wiley & Sons Inc)
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Epidemiology increasingly relies on laboratory-generated biomarker data, and an understanding of disease mechanisms is increasingly important in elucidating aetiology. Eagerly awaited, this book is the first in many years to bridge the gap between molecular biology and epidemiology.

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