Highlighting the need for more information on the management of palliative care programs, this title addresses the various settings where palliative care occurs, the specific disease management approach and quality of life care including cancer, heart disease, dementia and AIDS/…
If you suffer from chronic pain, whether as a result of an injury, illness, or accident, you know it can interfere with every aspect of your life. You may also know the medical treatments currently available are limited and, for many, ineffective. Current research has shown hypn…
Research suggests that our attitudes about pain contribute as much to its life-disrupting power as actual painful sensations. This book offers you ten quick and simple tips aimed at changing your response to chronic pain and promoting improved activity, sleep, mood, and quality …
Just a few decades ago, children born with significant congenital anomalies or genetic and metabolic diseases perished at an early age and very few survived into their teens and even less into adulthood. Congenital heart disease, major errors in metabolism, cancer, cystic fibros…
by Wu, Jian, Charbord, Pierre, Weiss, Daniel, Wraith, David, Almeida-Porada, Graca, Bühler, Leo, Camara, Niels Olsen Saraiva, DeClerck, Yves A., Dennis, James E., Gonelle-Gispert, Carmen, Kastrup, Jens, Kurtz, Andreas, Pileggi, Antonello, Rojas, Mauricio, Ringdén, Olle, Tyndall, Alan, Uccelli, Antonio
Multipotent mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are a heterogeneous population of cells which reside in a variety of tissues. They differentiate into several mesodermal lineages, secrete a multitude of trophic factors and contribute to tissue homeostasis. MSCs are able to exert immuno…
This book investigates the current state of the MSC-dependent therapy of chronic inflammatory disorders and autoimmune diseases. Among the covered topics are GvHD, chronic kidney, liver and lung disease, ischemic heart and inflammatory bowel disease, diabetes, osteoarthritis, va…
It is now widely accepted that there are important links between inactivity and chronic lifestyle-related diseases, and that exercise can bring tangible therapeutic benefits to people with chronic disease. Exercise and Chronic Disease: An Evidence-Based Approach offers the most …
It is now widely accepted that there are important links between inactivity and lifestyle-related chronic diseases, and that exercise can bring tangible therapeutic benefits to people with long-term chronic conditions. Exercise and Chronic Disease: An Evidence-Based Approach off…
In A Nation in Pain, Foreman offers a sweeping, deeply researched account of the chronic pain crisis, from neurobiology to public policy, and presents to practical solutions that are within our grasp today. Drawing on both her personal experience with chronic pain and her backgr…
