A
Step Ahead of Everyday Practice -- the most authoritative, comprehensive, and
useful guide to the entire spectrum of internal medicine. The New 16th Edition
fully details the most exciting research and therapeutic advances in decade !
Here's
just a sample of some of the important highlights in the NEW 16th edition:
Brilliant NEW full-color photographs are now integrated throughout
the text
Revitalized, full-color art enhances usefulness of line illustrations,
tables, and charts
Over 4,700 diseases and disorders - more than any
other internal medicine text
Pioneering NEW section on Microbial,
Chemical, and Radiation bioterrorism
Entirely NEW section covers
Critical Care Medicine
Fully integrated section on HIV and other retroviruses
and the diseases they cause
Continued focus on therapy
Additional
clinical guidelines and tables
Expanded sections on treatment
Substantially
revised Genetics chapters reflecting rapid advances in this field
Every
chapter is NEW, or extensively revised and updated:
NEW
chapter on Screening and Prevention of Disease
NEW chapter on
Medical Evaluation of the Surgical Patient
NEW Chapter on End-of-life
care
NEW chapter on Stem Cell and Gene Transfer in Clinical Medicine
Entirely re-written chapter on Women's Health
NEW, state-of-the-art
chapter covers The Perimenopause Transition and Hormone Replacement Therapy
NEW
chapter on Unstable Angina and Non-ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction
Latest
on classification, diagnosis, and treatment of disorders of cholesterol and triglyceride
metabolism
NEW chapter on Acute Respiratory Failure
NEW
Chapter on Cardiogenic Shock and Pulmonary Edema
NEW coverage
of SARS
Completely revised and updated coverage of HIV/AIDS including
therapeutic strategies
Breakthrough advances in the treatment of viral
hepatitis
NEW chapter on Fibromyalgia, Arthritis Associated with
Systemic Disease and Other Arthritides
Completely revised chapter on
Alzheimer's disease and related dementias
Late-breaking treatment information
on multiple sclerosis
An evidence-based approach to treatment and prevention
of stroke
NEW chapter reviews new interventions in anticoagulation
therapy
NEW chapter on familial Mediterranean fever
NEW
chapter on Diverticular and Vascular Disease of the Bowel
Revised chapter
on Late Complications of Cancer and its Treatment
