Month: September 2015

Book Review: Grieve’s Modern Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy, 4th edition

Editors: Gwendolen Jull, PhD; Anne Moore, PhD; Deborah Falla, PhD; Jeremy Lewis, PhD; Christopher E. McCarthy, PhD; Michele Sterling, PhD. Foreword by: Karim Khan, MD Publisher: Elsevier – 626 pages Book Review by: Nano Khilnani The last (third) edition of this book was published in 2005, and it was entitled Grieve’s Modern Manual Therapy. New knowledge discovered through research, which include psychological and social moderators, have been incorporated in current-day practice. This current edition reveals to you the practitioner and student, that new knowledge learned in the last decade or so, as well as the new techniques used in...

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Book Review: Principles and Practice of Lymphedema Surgery, 1st edition

Editors: Ming-Huei Cheng, MD; David W. Chang, MD; and Ketan M. Patel, MD Publisher: Elsevier – 220 pages Book Review by: Nano Khilnani Essentially, lymphedema is edema or buildup of fluid in the lymphatic system. It is often caused by an injury that can create an obstruction.  So excessive fluid is retained, which causes a swelling, instead of returning to the bloodstream. Lymphedema affects about 140 million people worldwide, according to a Wikipedia article. While lymphedema can be inherited, it is caused not only by what we cite above, but also by cancer treatments and by parasitic infections. There...

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Book Review: Molecular Anatomic Imaging – PET/CT, PET/MR and SPECT/CT, 3rd edition

Editor: Gustav K. von Schulthess, MD Publisher: Wolters Kluwer – 683 pages Book Review by: Nano Khilnani Molecular imaging is not a new development. It has been around about 70 years. In 1946 the Journal of the American Medical Association reported on targeted imaging of iodine therapy for metastatic thyroid cancer. This third edition provides new information and findings, and is an update to the second edition that appeared in 2007.  Since that time, hybrid imaging techniques have become quite commonplace, with numerous important technological developments Hybrid imaging on a molecular level is imaging using a combination of two...

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Book Review: Atlas of Clinical Emergency Medicine

Editors: Scott C. Sherman, MD; Stephen John Cico, MD; Erik Nordquist, MD; Christopher Ross, MD; and Ernest Wang, MD Publisher: Wolters Kluwer | Lippinocott, Wilkins & Williams – 374 pages Book Review by: Nano Khilnani This is a highly visual book, using one, two, three, and sometimes more images on each page. We all know that “a picture is worth a thousand words,” as has been expressed numerous times. But many of us probably do not know that in seven out of 10 times, we process information mainly in visual format (pictures and words) as opposed to other means...

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Elsevier and National Academy of Sciences Present Young Scientist Awards to 10 Top Accomplished People in India

New Delhi, September 22, 2015 – Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services in print and electronic forms, and the National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI), today announced the winners of the 2015 NASI-Scopus Young Scientist Awards. More than 100 guests representing the best from India’s scientific community attended the awards ceremony – now in its sixth year of inception – held at the Hyatt Regency, New Delhi. Dr. R. Chidambaram, principal scientific adviser to the government of India and chairman of the Science  Advisory Committee to the Cabinet, presented the awards to this year’s winners. The NASI-Scopus Young...

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