Medicine

Depression is a common problem for individuals in their senior years. Conservative estimates suggest that...

Genetics is in all senses a family affair. The diagnosis of a genetic condition affects...

A woman recounts the horror of waking up paralyzed, unable to call for help. A...

Launched on Oxford Medicine Online in 2012, with the full-text of eight Mayo Clinic Scientific...

Nutrition, appetite, and involuntary weight loss are issues that affect a large number of cancer...

On any given day, nearly half a million children are served by foster care services...

Sleep disturbances and sleep deprivation are common in modern society. Increasingly populations have been subjected...

When corporations claim the same citizenship rights as human citizens, they exercise an undue influence...

In 'Unconscious Knowing and Other Essays in Psycho-Philosophical Analysis', Linda Brakel tackles a range of...

Hallucinations are a troublesome and distressing symptom for countless patients who suffer from psychiatric or...

Consisting of contributions from experts in all specialties of cardiovascular genetics and applied clinical cardiology,...

Cancer control is the term applied to the development of integrated population-based approaches to reduce...

The Handbook of AIDS Psychiatry is a practical guide for AIDS psychiatrists and other mental...

Written by leading American practitioners, the Oxford American Handbooks of Medicine each offer a pocket-sized...

The Oxford American Handbook of Neurology is a practical, quick-reference guide for use on the...

This book first reviews the case that brain oscillations not only are important for cognition,...

Hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery is a relatively new specialty and the vast majority of patients...

Despite significant improvement in the management of patients with chronic kidney disease, the morbidity and...

Congenital Heart Defects, or CHDs, are the most frequently occurring birth defect. In the US...

Gender and mental health is a growing field in psychiatry and in the last three...

This classic text is much beloved by medical students and physicians-in-training throughout the English-speaking world,...

After considering the aging population in developed countries, it has become clear to physicians and...

With the increasing focus on tackling obesity and other lifestyle-related illnesses and conditions, participation in...

85 in 100 feel that they are at their best in summer and worst in...

Retinal Detachment: Principles and Practice provides a historical review of current information on the diagnosis...

The ability to perform a wide variety of practical procedures safely and competently is essential...

Respiratory disease is the most common reason for admission to intensive care, and advanced respiratory...

Written by leading American practitioners, the Oxford American Handbooks of Medicine each offer a pocket-sized...

Individuals working in health research want to be able to use their findings to influence...

In the last twenty-five years, coronary stenting stands as the cornerstone of modern day interventional...

Over the past fifty years, the case-control method, and to a lesser extent its case-based...

Older people have complex and unique primary care needs. The frequent occurrence of co-morbidities, polypharmacy,...

Is there an epidemic of depression sweeping the world, or are we radically altering our...

Crisis workers make split-second decisions every day that affect the mental health and well-being of...

The years between 18 and 29 have become an extended period of development between adolescence...

The first edition of The Mind and its Discontents was a powerful analysis of how,...

In recent years, there has been an explosion of knowledge concerning the developmental processes that...

Patients' expectations regarding involvement in their own healthcare have increased dramatically over the past few...

In the United States alone, roughly 300,000 children suffer from some form of arthritis or...

Young children with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) often require professional help to overcome their symptoms. This...

Measures that are reliable, valid and can be used across diverse populations are vital to...

The twelfth edition of this classic neurology textbook builds on the success of the previous...

This is a new edition of the first comprehensive text to show how the advances...

This classic text covers over 700 different genetic syndromes affecting body structures, and has established...

Around one in three people in the western world will develop cancer at some stage...