Brian Murphy and his family are enjoying a relaxing summer excursion in Cape Cod when his wife, Emma, comes down with mild flu-like symptoms. Their return home to New York City quickly turns into a race to the ER as she begins seizing and falls into a coma. Emma is diagnosed with Eastern Equine Encephalitis, a rare and highly lethal mosquito-borne viral disease caught during one of their evening cookouts-- and their daughter exhibits alarming signs...

In A Dublin Student Doctor, Taylor turns back the clock to present a portrait of the young Fingal and the pivotal events that shaped the man he would become. In the 1930s, fresh from a stint in the Royal Navy Reserve, Fingal O?Reilly goes to Dublin to study medicine and faces the arduous demands of Trinity College and Sir Patrick Dun?s Hospital. The hours are long and the cases challenging, but Fingal manages to find time for boxing, rugby, and romance....

Newly divorced surgeon Dr. Kim Regis is determined to remain a good father to his only son, Selden. On a special night out, Kim takes Seldon to his favorite fast-food restaurant for a feast of burgers and fries. But the good time turns to tragedy: the young boy becomes gravely ill and dies as a result of poisoning by E. coli. bacteria found in the meat.Was Seldon's death a result of shoddy food-handling practices? Or was it a sophisticated...

Is personalized medicine—what some scientists call genetic medicine—a pipe dream or a panacea? Francis Collins, current director of the National Institutes of Health and director of the Human Genome Project, considers this new era "the greatest revolution since Leonardo," while Nobel Laureate Leland Hartwell compares personalized medicine to a train that has not yet left the station—"a very slow train with a very long way to go

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"Introduces the reader to x-ray machines."--

EMT Anne Lundstrom is running from her past. But it's about to catch up. She thought she'd escaped it when she moved out of the city and into the quiet town of Deep Haven. She certainly never expected to get roped into helping Noah Standing Bear run his summer camp for inner-city kids. Yet Noah has a charisma she can't ignore, and romance is in the air. But when the very danger she was trying to escape threatens her peaceful haven—and her life—Anne...

"Through a series of short, engaging chapters, the author gives readers a realistic view of American health care and introduces many public health concepts. The author describes the social determinants of health, how health policy is shaped, and why we engage in unhealthy behaviors despite knowing that they're bad for us"--

"Das Basiswerk für die Entwicklung von Software als Medizinprodukt - Kompakter, umfassender Überblick über die relevanten Gebiete der normenkonformen Entwicklung von medizinischer Software - Zur Vorbereitung auf die Prüfung zum "Certified Professional for Medical Software" Dieses Buch beschreibt den gesamten Lebenszyklus von Software als Medizinprodukt. Es deckt den kompletten CPMS-Lehrplan (Foundation Level) ab und ergänzt ihn durch...