COMMUNICABLE AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES (4th ed.)

Focal Peripheral Neuropathies, 4th ed.

The rise of the internet and the ready availability of electronic resources such as Up to Date have greatly changed the landscape for publishers and purchasers of medical textbooks. Many would argue that textbooks no longer have a useful role in medical education and medical practise, as web-based resources are cheaper, more easily maintained current, and can be accessed virtually anywhere. Whi...

Urogynecology and Reconstructive Pelvic Surgery. 4th ed.

This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creative-commons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution , and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. This is a truly comprehensive textbook that covers the whole spectrum of female pelvic me...

Book Review: Clinical Research Design. 4th ed.

Although this is a comprehensive textbook on clinical research design, it takes the reader in a truly step by step manner in designing a clinical research. It starts with explaining what a clinical research is made of the “anatomy” and how it works the “physiology.” It then covers how to conceive a research question, writing research proposals and ends with explaining not commonly discussed sub...

Communicable Diseases

Corticosteroids in Infectious Diseases

Accumulated data based on experiences with curtico,teroids in the management uf infectious disea­ses, have proved that they are very dfective and ,afe drugs provided that are administered properly.  The Corticosteroids arc administered mainly be­c,1usc o; antitoxic, antiimflammatory a11d antiallcrgic effects, the cndotoxius are ncuturalized, generalized body reactions are diminished, damaged t...