The most comprehensive and authoritative pharmacology text—updated with new content and USMLE-style questions

Katzung's Basic & Clinical Pharmacology has been helping students master key pharmacological concepts and practices for decades. Continuing the tradition, this updated sixteenth edition facilitates learning with engagingly written text, a full-color presentation, hundreds of illustrations, and important new content.

The text is organized to reflect the course sequence in many pharmacology courses and in integrated curricula. Each chapter opens with a case study, covers drug groups and prototypes, and closes with summary tables and diagrams that encapsulate important information. This edition has been updated to reflect the latest research and practices.

Delivers the Knowledge and Insight Needed to Excel in Every Facet of Pharmacology!

• Encompasses all aspects of medical pharmacology, including botanicals, and over-the-counter drugs

• Addresses the clinical choice and use of drugs in patients and the monitoring of their effects

• Case studies introduce clinical problems and issues

• Trade Name/Generic Name tables are provided at the end of each chapter for easy reference when writing a chart order or prescription

• New: Chapter on cannabinoids

• New: 50 USMLE-style questions

• New: Drug tables and descriptions of important new drugs

• Full-color illustrations help clarify important concepts, and provide more information about drug mechanisms and effects

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For more than 25 years, Casarett & Doull's Toxicology: The Basic Science of Poisons has set the standard for providing thorough, academic, and authoritative information in clear and engaging ways. Distilling the major principles and concepts from that renowned text, Casarett & Doull's Essentials of Toxicology delivers an accessible and highly readable introduction to the science and clinical field of medical toxicology. The book reflects the expertise of more than 60 renowned contributors.

Presented in full-color, this new edition builds on the wide success of previous editions, with extensive updates that make the book more clinically relevant to students and beginners in toxicology, pharmacology, pharmacy, and environmental sciences. Chapter-ending self-assessment Q&As and other features make the learning process more effective and efficient.

Casarett and Doull's Essentials of Toxicology is organized into seven units:

• General Principles of Toxicology

• Disposition of Toxicants

• Nonorgan-directed Toxicity

• Target Organ Toxicity

• Toxic Agents

• Environmental Toxicology

• Applications of Toxicology

Succinct, yet comprehensive, the text covers essential principles, toxicokinetics, how toxic effects are passed on to succeeding generations, how each body system responds to poisons, and the specific effects of a wide range of toxic agents—from pesticides to radiation.

The principles of endocrinology and metabolism clearly and simply explained on a system-by-system, organ-by-organ basis.

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Applauded by medical students for its clarity, comprehensiveness, and portability, Endocrine Physiology, Fifth Edition delivers unmatched coverage of the fundamental concepts of hormone biological actions. These concepts provide a solid foundation for first- and second-year medical students to understand the physiologic mechanisms involved in neuroendocrine regulation of organ function. With its emphasis on must-know principles, Endocrine Physiology is essential for residents and fellows, and is the single best endocrine review available for the USMLE^® Step 1.

Here's why this guide is essential for USMLE^® Step 1 review:

• Informative first chapter describes the organization of the endocrine system, as well as general concepts of hormone production and release, transport and metabolic rate, and cellular mechanisms of action

• Boxed case studies help you apply principles to real-world clinical situations

• Each chapter includes bulleted Objectives, Key Concepts, Study Questions, Suggested Readings, and diagrams encapsulating key concepts

If you've been looking for a student-tested, basic yet comprehensive review of endocrinology and metabolism, your search ends here.

Created by an expert team of neuroscience educators, this comprehensive guide delivers the knowledge and insight you need to build your understanding of neuroscience—quickly and easily. Divided into two parts, the guide offers a thorough treatment of the basic science of the anatomy and function of the nervous system, as well as an extended treatment of nervous system disorders and therapeutics.

Packed with 500 color illustrations, Essentials of Modern Neuroscience provides both clinical content and numerous cases in an engaging, simple-to-understand style. It includes the strong pedagogy that makes LANGE basic science titles so popular and provides chapter-opening Learning Objectives, bulleted chapter summaries, and application boxes.

Features:

• Covers both basic science and clinical cases for full mastery of the topic

• Organized to mirror the way medical schools teach neuroscience

• Presents information in a way that fosters maximum retention

• Unique chapters cover addiction, affective disorders, and neurologic diseases

• Outstanding art program, where readers can visually learn from the images and legends

An engaging and effective nuts-and-bolts approach to scientific writing

"…outstanding for its approach to the logic of presenting scientific work."

- British Medical Journal review of first edition

Now revised and updated, this straightforward guide to biomedical writing helps authors understand both what a well-written scientific research paper is and how to create such a work. Essentials of Writing Biomedical Research Papers, Second Edition, provides writers with specific, clear guidelines on word choice, sentence structure, and paragraph structure. In addition, it explains how to construct each section of a research paper, so that, ultimately, the paper as a whole tells a clear story and sends a clear message.

New To This Edition!

• New examples from the current literature, including many involving molecular biology

• Expanded exercises at the end of the book

• Revised explanations on linking key terms, transition clauses, uses of subheads, and emphases

The specific principles of effective biomedical writing are presented and explained, and then summarized in handy chapter checklists. Each section of the prototypical biomedical research paper is then systematically analyzed in terms of its function, content, organization, detail, and length. This section-by-section analysis covers the following: the introduction, materials and methods, results, discussion, figures and tables, references, abstract, and title. Of special note: The book contains a full-length paper for readers to evaluate and revise in accordance with the book's principles and guidelines.

Also from McGraw Hill…

• Gehlbach: Interpreting the Medical Literature

• Glantz: Primer of Biostatics Books and Software

• Friedman: Primer of Epidemology

A full-color guide to the entire field of clinical endocrinology and its scientific underpinnings—updated with the latest breakthroughs and developments.

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Greenspan's Basic & Clinical Endocrinology, Tenth Edition delivers a succinct, leading-edge overview of the underlying molecular biology of the endocrine system and the latest perspectives on the diagnosis and treatment of specific diseases and disorders. Featuring an enhanced design that includes hundreds of full-color illustrations and clinical photographs, Greenspan's is a true must-have during traditional or integrated courses in endocrinology, endocrinology rotation, or exam prep in internal medicine and endocrinology, as well as a reference for disease management.

Greenspan's provides clinically relevant coverage of metabolic bone disease, pancreatic hormones and diabetes mellitus, hypoglycemia, obesity, and many other diseases and disorders. Supporting this important material is a handy appendix of normal hormone reference ranges across the lifespan.

Here's why Greenspan's is an essential tool for learning how to manage endocrine patients:

• The Tenth Edition is enhanced by updated content throughout each chapter

• NEW CHAPTERS on Transgender Endocrinology and Disorders of Sexual Determination and Differentiation

• Important chapter on Evidence-Based Endocrinology and Clinical Epidemiology

• Concise, balanced coverage of both scientific and clinical principles that guide patient management

• The best source for current concepts in endocrine pathophysiology to aid clinical decision making

• The most practical, current insights into diagnostic testing

• More than 270 full-color illustrations and clinical photographs

If you are in need of a well-illustrated, completely up-to-date guide to the entire field of clinical endocrinology, this trusted classic belongs on your desk or computer.

Gain a thorough understanding of the principles of biochemistry as they relate to clinical medicine

The thirty-second edition of Harper's Illustrated Biochemistry combines top-quality, full-color illustrations with authoritative, integrated coverage of biochemical disease and clinical information. Featuring numerous medically relevant examples, this respected text presents a clear, succinct review of the fundamentals that every student must understand in order to succeed in medical school.

All 58 chapters help you understand the medical relevance of biochemistry.

• Full-color presentation with 600+ illustrations

• Chapters have been updated to reflect the latest information

• Case studies emphasize the clinical relevance of biochemistry

• Review questions follow each of the 11 sections

• Boxed objectives define the goals of each chapter

• Tables encapsulate important information

• Each chapter contains a section on biomedical importance and a summary of the topics covered

Applauded by medical students for its current and engaging style, Harper's Illustrated Biochemistry is an essential for USMLE review and the single best reference for learning the clinical relevance of any biochemistry topic.

The text that has defined histology for generations–concise, clear, beautifully illustrated, and updated with new content and more Q&A!

For more than 50 years, Junqueira's Basic Histology has been considered the hands-down best overview of human tissue structure and function available. Accessible yet comprehensive, this trusted classic provides everything you need to know about basic cell biology and histology, integrating the material with that of biochemistry, immunology, endocrinology, and physiology. With coverage of all tissues, every organ system, organs, bone and cartilage, blood, skin, and more, Junqueira's is a valuable foundation for subsequent studies in pathology.

Formatted to optimize the learning process, Junqueira's is filled with clear explanations, art, and micrographs to clarify key concepts. This is an essential resource for students of medicine and other health-related professions, as well as for advanced undergraduate courses in tissue biology.

Features:

• Self-test questions in every chapter

• New: 550 Self-assessment Q&As – more than twice that of the previous edition!

• Key points and summary tables highlighting key content

• Clinical correlations for each topic

• Illustrations depicting key aspects of cell biology and histology

• Electron and light micrographs that deliver a definitive atlas of cell, tissue, and organ structures

• Valuable Appendix that explains light microscopy stains

• Lab manual guides readers to see and identify in actual tissue specimens all cells and tissues understudy

• New: PowerPoint slides with illustrations and micrographs via AccessMedicine

A concise, engagingly written introduction to understanding statistics as they apply to medicine and the life sciences

CD-ROM performs 30 statistical tests

Don't be afraid of biostatistics anymore! Primer of Biostatistics, 7th Edition demystifies this challenging topic in an interesting and enjoyable manner that assumes no prior knowledge of the subject. Faster than you thought possible, you'll understand test selection and be able to evaluate biomedical statistics critically, knowledgeably, and confidently.

With Primer of Biostatistics, you'll start with the basics, including analysis of variance and the t test, then advance to multiple comparison testing, contingency tables, regression, and more. Illustrative examples and challenging problems, culled from the recent biomedical literature, highlight the discussions throughout and help to foster a more intuitive approach to biostatistics.

The companion CD-ROM contains everything you need to run thirty statistical tests of your own data. Review questions and summaries in each chapter facilitate the learning process and help you gauge your comprehension. By combining whimsical studies of Martians and other planetary residents with actual papers from the biomedical literature, the author makes the subject fun and engaging.

Coverage includes:

• How to summarize data

• How to test for differences between groups

• The t test

• How to analyze rates and proportions

• What does "not significant" really mean?

• Confidence intervals

• How to test for trends

• Experiments when each subject receives more than one treatment

• Alternatives to analysis of variance and the t test based on ranks

• How to analyze survival data

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