New Releases by Mayo Clinic

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An overview of complementary and alternative medicine discusses various treatments, including herbs and energy therapies, and examines how alternative and conventional therapies can be combined to treat twenty common conditions.

Dementia ia an umbrella term for many brain disorders that disrupt memory, cognition, mood and behavior. Alzheimer''s disease is the most common form of dementia, affecting millions of older adults worldwide.

Explores the diagnoses, indications for surgery, choice of operation, operative techniques, and surgical outcomes for every major gastrointestinal condition - from the esophagus to the anal cancer; features more than 845 intraoperative photographs, line drawings, diagnostic images, pathology slides, tables, and graphs that make every technique easy to follow; covers all of the latest minimal-access techniques - including Nissen fundoplication, Heller myotomy, splenectomy, and colectomy - as well as the transplantation, and proctolectomy; outlines approaches for managing challenging conditions such as morbid obesity, pelvic trauma, GERD, esophageal hiatal hernia, Crohn''s disease and colon cancer; and provides evidence from the literature to support each therapeutic recommendations.

Written by Mayo Clinic faculty and clinicians, this new edition of the Mayo Clinic Internal Medicine Board Review is a study guide for American Board of Internal Medicine certification or recertification. Candidates will learn exactly what to expect on the exam, including format, types of questions and hints on what and how to study. The book contains more than 500 multiple-choice questions that follow the exam format. Answers and explanatory notes follow the questions, and a detailed index aids readers in locating material quickly. This edition features over 100 new questions and extensive revisions in chapters on HIV and infectious diseases.

Features 140 recipes using a wide variety of foods that offer maximum nutrients and flavor without excessive calories, fat, or sodium; each with a color photograph and nutritional information.

This extensively updated and edited new edition describes the clinical practice of cardiology and is written by clinicians at the Mayo Clinic who share their practice expertise and advice. This edition includes diagnostic and therapeutic modalities, preventive cardiology, cardiac failure, myocardial disease, arrhythmias and conduction abnormalities, coronary heart disease, acquired valvular heart disease, congenital heart disease, other disease entities, and relationships between heart and other systems.

This guide to nutritional assessment and intervention in wellness--and in a wide variety of diseases and disorders from infancy through adulthood--documents current research behind the nutrition practices presented, and assists health care practitioners in providing appropriate, individualized care.