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Disease detectives
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Melvin Berger |
Describes the activities of the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta, Ga. in tracking down the cause of Legionnaires' disease and other mysterious health problems. |
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Clinical prediction models
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Ewout W. Steyerberg |
This book aims to provide insight and practical illustrations on how modern statistical concepts and regression methods can be applied in medical prediction problems, including diagnostic and prognos… |
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Biostatistical methods
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John M. Lachin |
"This book focuses on the comparison, contrast, and assessment of risks on the basis of clinical investigations. It develops basic concepts as well as deriving biostatistical methods through both the… |
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Dreams and due diligence
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Joe Sornberger |
"In proving the existence of stem cells, Ernest Armstrong McCulloch and James Edgar Till formed the most important partnership in Canadian medical research since Frederick Banting and Charles Best, t… |
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The prevention and treatment of missing data in clinical trials
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National Research Council (U.S.). Panel on Handling Missing Data in Clinical Trials |
"Randomized clinical trials are the primary tool for evaluating new medical interventions. Randomization provides for a fair comparison between treatment and control groups, balancing out, on average… |
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Research training in the biomedical, behavioral, and clinical research sciences
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National Research Council (U.S.). Committee to Study the National Needs for Biomedical, Behavioral, and Research Personnel |
"Comprehensive research and a highly trained workforce are essential for the improvement of health and health care both nationally and internationally. Over the past 40 years the National Research Se… |
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Healthcare research
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Helena Priest |
"The authors of the rest of this book will set out what we mean by quality in research in the different contexts in which research is done and from the different theoretical perspectives from which r… |
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Handbook of research on systems biology applications in medicine
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Andriani Daskalaki |
"This book highlights the use of systems approaches including genomic, cellular, proteomic, metabolomic, bioinformatics, molecular, and biochemical, to address fundamental questions in complex diseas… |
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Marvelous medical inventions
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Ryan Jacobson |
Explores such medical inventions as contact lenses, toothpaste, braces, and anesthesia. |
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Respiratory diseases research at NIOSH
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Institute of Medicine,National Academies,National Research Council |
Respiratory diseases caused by exposures to dangerous materials in the workplace have tremendous implications for worker health and, by extension, the national economy. The National Institute for Occ… |
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Demonstrating and communicating research impact
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Valerie L. Williams |
From 2005 to 2008, the National Academies conducted an external review of National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) research programs. This external review assessed programs' impa… |
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Current Topics in Biomedical Research
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Reinhard Kurth |
A select group of highly renowned scientists - among them four Nobel Prize Winners - have been asked to summarize significant developments of their ownrecent research in the life sciences at a worksh… |
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Multivariable Analysis
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Mitchell H. Katz |
The third edition of this highly successful text enables clinical researchers to set up, perform and interpret multivariable models. |
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For the good of mankind?
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Vicki O. Wittenstein |
This book provides true accounts of horrifying experimentation that led the way to crucial, lifesaving medical discoveries, permanently harming and humiliating their test subjects, many of whom did n… |
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Dr. Mary's monkey
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Edward T. Haslam |
The 1964 murder of a nationally known cancer researcher sets the stage for this gripping exposé of medical professionals enmeshed in covert government operations over the course of three decades. Fol… |
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Medical Nihilism
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Jacob Stegenga |
- A highly controversial argument for a sceptical view about the effectiveness of modern medicine
- Draws on interdisciplinary research and grounds the arguments in medical examples
- Accessible … |
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Life on Ice
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Joanna Radin |
After the atomic bombing at the end of World War II, anxieties about survival in the nuclear age led scientists to begin stockpiling and freezing hundreds of thousands of blood samples from indigenou… |
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Biomedical applications of spectroscopy
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R. E. Hester,R. J. H. Clark |
In recent years, a number of different spectroscopic techniques have been applied to the study of a wide range of biomedical topics. Biomedical investigations in fields as diverse as eye lens researc… |
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Medicine quest
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Mark J. Plotkin |
From the freezing Arctic to steamy rainforests, Plotkin explores mankind's search for new medicines. |
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Diabetes research
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Bernard Tuch |
Diabetes Research opens up the important world of research into a disease that is thousands of years old, but still has no cure. By presenting a succinct overview into the work of researchers struggl… |
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