Immunology Made Clear

Medical Statistics Made Clear

and "the simplest and one of the most important innovations", the stethoscope, first described in 1816. Ernest Board's picture of Laennec Listening to the Chest of a Patient shows the physician using a simple wooden tube to auscultate the chest of a man showing probable phthisis and a detail is also used on the dust cover of the book. A number of plates are devoted to hospitals and teaching. Re...

Teamscope: Teamwork Made Clear

Teaching software development process is an important component of computer science and engineering education. In practice, processes are used by software development teams to coordinate activities and combine skills[12]. As in social behavior studies, human behaviors in teams are conceptualized as activities, interactions, and sentiments[10]. Software development processes can be both consider...

Fisher's 'fundamental theorem' made clear.

X-ray contrast media made clear

Introduction The practice of clinical diagnostic radiology has been made possible by advances not only in diagnostic equipment and investigative techniques, but also in the contrast media that permit visualisation of the details of the internal structure or organs that would not otherwise be demonstrable. The remarkably high tolerance of modern contrast media has been achieved through successiv...

The ABCD of GOLD made clear.

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) remains a major public health problem. We know this with some certainty from the recently published Global Burden of Disease Study [1], a remarkable analysis of 235 causes of death in 21 regions of the world over a 30-year period. These data show that COPD will rise from the fourth most common cause of death in 1990 to the third by 2020. This gloomy ...