| View Larger Image | The Autoimmune Diseases, Fourth Edition | Hardcoverby Noel Richard Rose (Editor), Ian R. Mackay (Editor)
| List Price: | $235.00 | | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours |
| | Binding: | Hardcover | | Publisher: | Academic Press | | Edition: | 4th Edition | | Page Count: | 1,160 Pages | | Publication Date: | April 10, 2006 | | Sales Rank: | 1,180,262st |
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Product Description
Since publication of the Third Edition in 1998, the understanding of the immune mechanisms underlying autoimmunity and autoimmune disease has significantly deepened and broadened. This Fourth Edition incorporates new material and combines common themes underlying inductive and effector mechanisms and therapies that relate generally to the autoimmune disorders. It discusses the biological basis of disease at genetic, molecular, cellular, and epidemiologic levels. New to This Edition:* Tissue-specific interventions to arrest or "cure" autoimmune disease* Bone marrow eradication and replacement* Both basic science and clinical medicine is covered* Boxed points to emphasize key features of each chapter |
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| Diagnostic Criteria in Autoimmune Diseases
by Yehuda Shoenfeld (Editor), Ricard Cervera (Editor), M. Eric Gershwin (Editor)
According to the Autoimmune Diseases Coordinating Committee (ADCC), between 14.7 and 23.5 million people in the USA – up to eight percent of the population are affected by autoimmune disease. Autoimmune diseases are a family of more than 100 chronic, and often disabling, illnesses that develop when underlying defects in the immune system lead the body to attack its own organs, tissues, and cells. In Handbook of Autoimmune Disease, the editors have gathered in a comprehensive handbook a...
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| Autoimmune Diseases and Their Environmental Triggers
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| The Autoimmune Epidemic
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From the foreword by Dr. Douglas Kerr, Director, Johns Hopkins Transverse Myelitis Center "The Autoimmune Epidemic by Donna Jackson Nakazawa is an astounding book....It is the kind of book that will rivet you and scare you. It will make you angry. It will amaze you with the courage of some of the people described in the book...The Autoimmune Epidemic is every bit as compelling as Upton Sinclair's The Jungle...It is also every bit as necessary as An Inconvenient Truth.... You will leave...
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| The Autoimmune Connection: Essential Information for Women on Diagnosis, Treatment, and Getting On With Your Life
by Rita Baron-Faust (Author), Jill Buyon (Author)
As featured in the New York Times and recommended by the National Women's Health Resource Center and the Society for Women's Health Research, The Autoimmune Connection discusses the links between autoimmune diseases and offers up-to-date information on diagnosis, treatments, and risks for women with one or more autoimmune disease, such as lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, or Crohn's disease.
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| CURRENT Diagnosis & Treatment in Rheumatology, Second Edition (LANGE CURRENT Series)
by John Imboden (Author), David Hellmann (Author), John Stone (Author)
The most up-to-date and readily accessible rheumatology resource available! A Doody's Core Title ESSENTIAL PURCHASE! 5 STAR DOODY'S REVIEW!
"I was impressed with this book and consider it one of the more useful books I've come across for use in treating patients. Not only is it a good book to read from cover-to-cover, but it's also a wonderful resource for injection techniques as well as therapeutics. No other book provides the practicalities like this does. Based...
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