Geriatric Medicine: An Evidence-Based Approach (Geriatric Medicine (Cassel)) (Repost)
Geriatric Medicine: An Evidence-Based Approach (Geriatric Medicine (Cassel))
English | Springer; 4th edition | 2003 | ISBN: 0387955143 | PDF | 1318 pages | 15.36 MB
English | Springer; 4th edition | 2003 | ISBN: 0387955143 | PDF | 1318 pages | 15.36 MB
Since the publication of the third edition of Geriatric Medicine,extraordinary advances have occurred in the science of aging and the potential for biomedical research to give us answers to many, if not most, of the age-related disorders that threaten the quality of life in older years. At the most basic level, the successful mapping of the human genome was declared complete in the fall of 2000. Understanding the map of the human genome is as important as understanding the map of genomes of important laboratory species, ranging from the microscopic worms and fruit?ies used in most classic genetic studies to rodents such as laboratory mice, and eventually to primates, on which much of the research on the aging human brain is done. The genetic maps of all of these species,including our own,does not answer clinical questions,but it does open the door to dramatic, rapid, and ef?cient answers to questions about the genetic polymorphisms related to diseases in humans.