World AIDS Day is celebrated on December 1 with the common goal of spreading awareness and knowledge about HIV/AIDS prevention and control. The day is one of the eleven official global public health campaigns recognized by the World Health Organization (WHO). AIDS is estimated to have killed 36.3 million people between 27.2 million and 47.8 million people worldwide as of 2020. The death rate from the AIDS epidemic has decreased by 64% since its peak in 2004. In 2022, “Equalize” will be the theme for World AIDS Day.
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Digital Contact Tracing for Pandemic Response: Ethics and Governance Guidance
As public health professionals around the world work tirelessly to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, it is clear that traditional methods of contact tracing need to be augmented in order to help address a public health crisis of unprecedented scope.
Plastic Surgery Essentials for Students
The Essentials book has been written primarily for medical students, with constant attention to the thought – Is this something a student should know when he or she finishes medical school? It is not designed to be a comprehensive text, but rather an outline that can be read in the limited time available in a burgeoning curriculum. It is designed to be read from beginning to end.
Neural Grafting: Repairing the Brain and Spinal Cord
This special report, the second of the neuroscience series, discusses the field of neural grafting into the brain and spinal cord to treat neurological disorders. It describes the technology of neural grafting, the neurological conditions that it may be used to treat, and the patient populations that are affected.
Treatise of Implant Dentistry
This book has been written to do justice to all those who contributed to the evolution of implant dentistry, from its origins to the present day. For every technique, we will provide useful information, also offering opinions, reservations and recommendations.
Fundamentals of Human Nutrition
The aim of this textbook is to provide an open, trustworthy educational resource on international human nutrition. The instructor has taught at both the undergraduate and professional levels, with a strong emphasis on the incorporation of nutrition knowledge in health care and disease prevention. Their research expertise is in both nutritional biochemistry, community nutrition, and nutrition in higher education.
Strategies to Improve Cardiac Arrest Survival
Strategies to Improve Cardiac Arrest Survival examines the complete system of response to cardiac arrest in the United States and identifies opportunities within existing and new treatments, strategies, and research that promise to improve the survival and recovery of patients.
The Tumor
From John Grisham, comes a story where today’s medical fiction could become tomorrow’s lifesaving reality…
68 Free Medical Ebooks
"We cannot be damaged into health." - Herbert M. Shelton, Rubies in the Sand Covering wide variety of topics from disaster preparedness, cardiology, hepatology, epilepsy to dermatology (and many more), this is definitely a medical treasure chest that all of us can...