A Step Ahead of Everyday Practice -- the most authoritative, comprehensive, and useful guide to the entire spectrum of internal medicine. The New 16th Edition fully details the most exciting research and therapeutic advances in decade !

Here's just a sample of some of the important highlights in the NEW 16th edition:

  • Brilliant NEW full-color photographs are now integrated throughout the text
  • Revitalized, full-color art enhances usefulness of line illustrations, tables, and charts
  • Over 4,700 diseases and disorders - more than any other internal medicine text
  • Pioneering NEW section on Microbial, Chemical, and Radiation bioterrorism
  • Entirely NEW section covers Critical Care Medicine
  • Fully integrated section on HIV and other retroviruses and the diseases they cause
  • Continued focus on therapy
  • Additional clinical guidelines and tables
  • Expanded sections on treatment
  • Substantially revised Genetics chapters reflecting rapid advances in this field

Every chapter is NEW, or extensively revised and updated:

  • NEW chapter on Screening and Prevention of Disease
  • NEW chapter on Medical Evaluation of the Surgical Patient
  • NEW Chapter on End-of-life care
  • NEW chapter on Stem Cell and Gene Transfer in Clinical Medicine
  • Entirely re-written chapter on Women's Health
  • NEW, state-of-the-art chapter covers The Perimenopause Transition and Hormone Replacement Therapy
  • NEW chapter on Unstable Angina and Non-ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction
  • Latest on classification, diagnosis, and treatment of disorders of cholesterol and triglyceride metabolism
  • NEW chapter on Acute Respiratory Failure
  • NEW Chapter on Cardiogenic Shock and Pulmonary Edema
  • NEW coverage of SARS
  • Completely revised and updated coverage of HIV/AIDS including therapeutic strategies
  • Breakthrough advances in the treatment of viral hepatitis
  • NEW chapter on Fibromyalgia, Arthritis Associated with Systemic Disease and Other Arthritides
  • Completely revised chapter on Alzheimer's disease and related dementias
  • Late-breaking treatment information on multiple sclerosis
  • An evidence-based approach to treatment and prevention of stroke
  • NEW chapter reviews new interventions in anticoagulation therapy
  • NEW chapter on familial Mediterranean fever
  • NEW chapter on Diverticular and Vascular Disease of the Bowel
  • Revised chapter on Late Complications of Cancer and its Treatment
  • NEW chapter on Principles of Radiation Therapy
  • MUCH MORE

August 2004 / 2,880 pages / 1,148 illustrations
Single Volume ISBN: 0-07-140235-7
Two Volume Set ISBN: 0-07-139140-1
 
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