Now available in Spanish, this chart briefly describes a healthy diet plan and provides further detail on physiological hazards that accompany low-carbohydrate diets. The chart lists strategies for diet planning and contains suggetions and tips for physical activity. It shows how to calculate Body Mass Index (BMI), contains a chart showing acceptable weights based on BMI, and discusses the unique risks of apple- and pear-shaped fat distribution. It explains calories and how to calculate your total daily energy needs and lists calories burned by various activities from basketball to walking. The chart also lists problems associated with overweight and underweight.

The Johns Hopkins Manual of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Third Edition is the perfect PDA reference for clinicians who deal with obstetric and gynecologic problems. Developed by residents in obstetrics and gynecology at The Johns Hopkins University, this palm-based product covers virtually every clinical situation in obstetrics, high-risk obstetrics, gynecology, reproductive endocrinology, infertility, and gynecologic oncology. The easy-to-use outline format—modeled after The Washington Manual® of Medical Therapeutics—helps busy clinicians find information quickly. A list of frequently used drugs with dosages is included. This completely updated edition includes the latest information on hormone therapies, birth control, and drugs.

Platform: Palm OS, Windows CE, and Pocket PC handheld devices

Atlas of Osteopathic Techniques is the only comprehensive full-color atlas of osteopathic manipulative techniques currently available. Richly illustrated with over 1,300 full-color photographs professionally shot for this atlas, this comprehensive, practical reference provides step-by-step instructions for 368 osteopathic manipulative techniques. Primary and secondary indications, relative and absolute contraindications, and general considerations are also discussed in well-organized textual sections preceding each technique.

The fully searchable online text will be available on thePoint.

Drug Facts and Comparisons: Pocket Version 2008 is the ideal resource for the drug information you need at the point of care. Abridged from Drug Facts and Comparisons, this handy pocket version allows you to confirm critical drug information immediately in a quick-reference format. Pocket DFC features the most commonly used drugs, conveniently addressing topics that demand attention.

Features include: Rx and OTC drugs; similar products listed together in tables for easy comparison; more than 2,000 brand name and 600 generic drugs; dozens of convenient charts and tables; and more than 400 monographs.

The best-selling nursing drug handbook for 28 years is now in its fully updated 2008 edition. Organized by therapeutic class, Nursing2008 Drug Handbook provides quick access to current, accurate information on over 900 generic and 3,000 brand-name drugs.

This edition includes over 30 recently approved drugs and newly approved indications. Each entry now includes pharmacologic class and information on the drug's half-life. Delayed, severe interactions are now highlighted.

A free CD-ROM contains 200 drug monographs and corresponding customizable patient-teaching handouts. CE activity and updates are on NDHnow.com.

Nursing2008 Drug Handbook will be available for PDA in September 2007.

Developed and endorsed by the American Academy of Physician Assistants (AAPA) and the Physician Assistant Education Association (PAEA), this comprehensive review book offers the most thorough preparation for the NCCPA examinations. The book features review material, test questions, and detailed explanations covering the critical content areas on the certification (PANCE) and recertification (PANRE and Pathway II) examinations. This Third Edition includes thoroughly updated content, new test questions, and new chapters on geriatrics, pediatrics, and surgery.

A 300-question pre-test and a 300-question post-test which simulate the NCCPA exams and incorporate the PAEA's GRADRAT self-assessment exam are provided both on a bound-in CD-ROM and online at thePoint.

Designed to provide students with essential concepts of disease processes and altered health states, this text is ideal for both discrete and integrated pathophysiology courses. The Second Edition has over 200 new and revised illustrations and incorporates a new feature /"Understanding/", which uses large pieces of art to outline key processes using a step-by-step approach. The text continues to include such favorite features as: key concept boxes, color-coded summaries, and icons to delineate special considerations for children, the elderly, and pregnant women.

The free CD-ROM now provides access to three-dimensional animations so visual learners can gain a greater understanding of common disease and cellular processes. The CD-ROM also includes student review questions.

The LiveAdvise online tutoring and course assistance for students, powered by Smarthinking™, is now available when you adopt this textbook. Visit connection.lww.com/liveadvise for more information on how this service can help your students!

In its updated Fourth Edition, this text presents essential pharmacology concepts in a streamlined, user-friendly fashion. Organized by body system, the book explains the rationale for each drug class's therapeutic actions, contraindications, and adverse effects.

Each chapter opens with learning objectives and ends with NCLEX®-style and other questions. Illustrations, tables, side bars, and boxes summarize concepts and focus attention on critical thinking, patient safety, evidence-based practice, lifespan issues, patient teaching, and case study-based critical thinking exercises.

A bound-in CD-ROM contains over 700 patient teaching printouts, Canadian drug regulations, a video on medication administration, NCLEX®-style questions, and additional learning tools.

The LiveAdvise online tutoring and course assistance for students, powered by Smarthinking™, is now available when you adopt this textbook. Visit connection.lww.com/liveadvise for more information on how this service can help your students!

Geared to allied health students and written in an engaging narrative style, this pathology text is an easy-to-read primer on the etiology and pathogenesis of human disease. This unique book provides a basic understanding of pathology without microscopic pathology and molecular biology details that health professions students do not need. Each chapter reviews normal anatomy and physiology, explains the development of common diseases, lists the major determinants of disease, presents clinical case studies, and includes end-of-chapter problem-solving questions.

A bound-in CD-ROM includes animations and a 250-question quiz. Faculty resources include a 2,000-question test bank and PowerPoint slides with lecture notes.

The LiveAdvise Online Student Tutoring and Teaching Advise, powered by Smarthinking™, is now available when you adopt this textbook. Visit connection.lww.com/liveadvise for more information on how this service can help you and your students!

This innovative text equips pharmacists and pharmacy students with the skills to assist patients in managing existing conditions and controlling the development of preventable disorders. The text demonstrates how important lifestyle modification strategies—including nutrition, physical activity, weight control, and smoking cessation—can be used in a pharmacy setting to improve patients' well-being.

Case studies show how lifestyle modifications can positively impact patients with chronic diseases. Chapters explain how lifestyle modification strategies might be different for children, adolescents, older adults, women, and minorities. The book includes detailed instructions for writing wellness plans for patients who have, or are at risk for, certain chronic diseases.

BRS Embryology, Fourth Edition is a succinct outline-format review for USMLE and course exams, with USMLE-style questions at the end of each chapter and a comprehensive USMLE-style examination at the end of the book. The book also includes radiographs, sonograms, computed tomography scans, and photographs of various congenital malformations.

This updated edition has a new organization: prefertilization through the embryonic period; system by system; genetic abnormalities; and teratology. The chapter on structural chromosomal abnormalities has been substantially revised. This edition's review questions are in the clinical vignette-based format of the current USMLE.

This is the Seventh Edition of the comprehensive and well-respected text and reference of pathophysiology. As a nurse-physiologist, Carol Porth uniquely emphasizes /"concepts/" of altered health states, as opposed to factual descriptions of diseases and disorders. By taking this physiologic approach, the author ensures a comprehension of the whole of body function. By integrating all of the aspects of the human body into a total functional whole, the student can grasp both the physical and psychological aspects of altered health.

A back-of-book CD-ROM includes three-dimensional animations of pathophysiology.

The LiveAdvise online tutoring and course assistance for students, powered by Smarthinking™, is now available when you adopt this textbook. Visit connection.lww.com/liveadvise for more information on how this service can help your students!

Completely revised and evidence-based, The 5-Minute Clinical Consult, 2008 is now in its Sixteenth Edition. It provides rapid-access information on the diagnosis, treatment, medications, follow-up, and associated conditions of 675 medical conditions. Organized alphabetically, this best-selling clinical reference presents brief, bulleted points on disease topics in a consistent 3-column format. Most topics include cited evidence-based references. Differential diagnosis algorithms have been moved to the front of the book, ICD-9 codes are highlighted in blue, and there is additional coverage of complementary and alternative medicine.

A bound-in CD-ROM and a companion Website include the full content of the book, plus 178 English and Spanish patient handouts from AAFP; full-color images from Goodheart's Photoguide of Common Skin Disorders, Second Edition; 15 short videos of medical procedures; and over 50 new pediatrics topics not found in the print book. The Website will be updated quarterly with new content and videos.

The 5-Minute Clinical Consult, 2008 will also be available for PDAs.

35 New Topics Covered in the 2008 Edition, Including:

• Adolescent Depression
• Amnestic Disorder
• Anemia/Chronic Disease
• Autonomic Dysreflexia
• Avian Flu
• Charcot Joint
• Clostridium Difficile Infection
• Concussion
• Diffuse Interstitial Lung Disease
• Eustachian Tube Dysfunction
• Factitious Disorder (including Munchausen Syndrome)
• Granuloma Inguinale
• Growth Hormone Deficiency
• Hepatitis/Autoimmune
• Homelessness
• Hydrocephalus/Normal Pressure
• Incontinence/Rectal
• Interstitial Nephritis
• Lipoma
• Lymphangitis
• Mastitis
• Mitral Regurgitation
• MRSA Skin Infections
• Neuropathic Pain
• Nicotine Addiction
• Paranoid Personality Disorder
• Postoperative Complications
• Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder
• Seizure Disorder/Absence
• Seizure Disorder/Partial
• Spinal Stenosis
• Surgical Complications
• Thrombophilia
• Tuberculosis/Miliary
• Vertigo/Dizziness
• Vitamin D Deficiency

High-Yield™ Histopathology reviews the relationships of basic histology to the pathology, physiology, and pharmacology of clinical conditions that are tested on the USMLE Step 1 and seen in clinical practice. The book includes case studies that prepare students for the clinical vignette questions on the USMLE Step 1. Numerous light and electron micrographs and pathology photographs help students understand the structure and physiological function of organ systems and the pathology of diseases. Tables of laboratory findings in pathological diagnosis aid students in diagnosing pathological conditions and answering clinical vignette questions.

This comprehensive text emphasizes the practical application of electronic fetal monitoring (EFM). Case scenarios link various clinical situations with data interpretation to promote critical thinking. Relevant, up-to-date research helps readers develop problem solving skills; identify optimal treatment responses; and become familiar with the disease and nondisease conditions in pregnant patients that affect fetal health. More than 170 EFM strips complement the text. This edition has more monitoring strips and a new chapter on electronic record-keeping by a well-known expert.

Electronic Fetal Monitoring: Concepts and Applications, Second Edition is a must-have purchase for anyone responsible for EFM interpretation.

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