Month: February 2014

Editor: Celia M. Levesque. Consulting Editor: Jan Foster Publisher: Elsevier – 141 pages Book Review by: Nano Khilnani About 8.3 percent of people living in the United States have diabetes mellitus, writes Celia M. Levesque, the editor of this book. Based on the current U.S. population of nearly 319 million (go to: http://www.census.gov/popclock) that amounts to more than 26 million people. She states that people with diabetes are twice as likely to be hospitalized, and their hospital stay is 30 percent longer than those without diabetes. The average hospital stay in this country is 4.9 days, and the average...

Editor-in-Chief: Michael S. Kappy. Associate Editors: Lewis A. Barness, Leslie L. Barton, Carol D. Berkowitz, Enid Gilbert-Barness, Jane Carver, and Moritz Ziegler Publisher: Elsevier – 332 pages Book Review by: Nano Khilnani This book is about medical advancements in the treatment of ailments, conditions, diseases, and disorders of children. Its 16 chapters written by 32 contributors discuss the details relating to each discovery and medical breakthrough in diagnosis and treatment. Most noteworthy of all the advances in the field of pediatrics are those of Dr. Helen Brooke Taussig, born in 1898 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, who was a champion for...

Volume Editor: Gordon C. Weir. Senior Editors: Leslie J. Groot, Ashley Grossman, J. Larry Jameson, Herald Juppner, David de Kretser, John C. Marshall, Shlomo Melmed, and John T. Potts, Publisher: Elsevier Saunders – 532 pages Book Review by: Nano Khilnani This book with its focus on diabetes mellitus and obesity is part of the series entitled Endocrinology: Adult and Pediatric. It is designed to provide comprehensive and up-to-date information on diabetes mellitus and the related condition of obesity to you the student, clinician, and researcher. The current explosion of knowledge and the discovery of new drugs that treat various...

Editor: James W. Patterson, MD. Pattern Recognition Series editors: Kevin O. Leslie, MD and Mark R. Wick, MD. Publisher: Elsevier Saunders – 740 pages Book Review by: Nano Khilnani This large (11” x 9”) book enables you the student, resident or practitioner in skin pathology to identify different skin conditions, ranging from simple scratches to tumors. Tumors, defined simply, are abnormal benign or malignant new growths of tissue that possesses no physiological function and arise from uncontrolled (usually rapid) cellular proliferation. Neoplasia – the process of tumor formation – is a term you will encounter frequently in this text....

Authors: Myron A. Pozniak and Paul L. Allan Publisher: Elsevier Saunders – 390 pages Book Review by: Nano Khilnani Doppler ultrasound is a diagnostic method in which measurement and a visual record are made of the shift in frequency of a continuous ultrasonic wave proportional to the blood-flow velocity in underlying vessels; used in diagnosis of extracranial occlusive vascular disease. It is also used in detection of the fetal heartbeat or of the velocity of movement of a structure, such as the beating heart. The color flow Doppler ultrasound meanwhile is a form of pulse wave Doppler in which...