Eugene Braunwald and the Rise of Modern Medicine
Language: en
Pages: 398
Authors: Thomas H. Lee
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-09-16 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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Much of the improved survival rate from heart attack can be traced to Eugene Braunwald's work. He proved that myocardial infarction was an hours-long dynamic pr
Eugene Braunwald and the Rise of Modern Medicine
Language: en
Pages: 418
Authors: Thomas H. Lee
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-09-09 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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Since the 1950s, the death rate from heart attacks has plunged from 35 percent to about 5 percent—and fatalistic attitudes toward this disease and many others
The Prince of Medicine
Language: en
Pages: 367
Authors: Susan P. Mattern
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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This book is a biography of the physician Galen of Pergamum (A.D. 129 - ca. 216), who began his remarkable career tending to wounded gladiators in provincial As
The End of Plagues
Language: en
Pages: 258
Authors: John Rhodes
Categories: Medical
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-09-24 - Publisher: St. Martin's Press

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World-renowned immunologist John Rhodes’s The End of Plagues is “an engaging and expansive exploration of humankind’s quest to defend itself against disea
Predictive Health
Language: en
Pages: 256
Authors: Kenneth L. Brigham
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-10-02 - Publisher: Hachette UK

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Our health care system is crippled by desperate efforts to prevent the inevitable. A third of the national Medicare budget -- nearly 175 billion -- is spent on