B.C. Decker

Biostatistics; the bare essentials, 3d ed. (CD-ROM included)

Norman (clinical epidemiology and biostatistics, McMaster University, Canada) and Streiner (psychiatry, University of Toronto, Canada) believe that "having the word 'statistics' in the same sentence as 'funny,' 'irreverent,' and 'possibly obscene' doesn't constitute an oxymoron." Their book/CD-ROM text, written especially for those in allied health fields, is peppered with humorous margin note asides, and free of math, calculations, and jargon. Chapters are in sections on the nature of data and statistics, analysis of variance, regression and correlation, and nonparametric statistics. This third edition contains new material on growth curve analysis, testing for equivalence and noninferiority, and getting started with SPSS. There is also more material on confidence intervals and indication of effect size. Chapter exercises, answers, and a glossary are included, along with chapter-ending "C.R.A.P. detector" exercises demonstrating how to spot misleading statistics. The CD-ROM contains two video lectures by the authors. The readership for the text includes physicians, nurses, administrators, psychologists, social workers, and anyone else who needs to understand medical research literature. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Burket's oral medicine, 11th ed. (CD-ROM included)

Forty-five international academics and practitioners contribute 23 chapters to a clinical resource for dental practitioners and students which provides an up-to-date description of all major aspects of the science and practice of modern oral medicine. Featuring chapters on the evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment of patients, the text has been extensively revised throughout. Several chapters have been entirely rewritten by new authors, including those on red and white lesions, pigmented lesions, neuromuscular diseases, renal disease, hematologic disease, and immunology. Others have been extensively rewritten, including those on ulcerative, vesicular and bullous lesions, benign tumors, oral cancer, orofacial pain syndromes, temporomandibular disorders, and salivary diseases. Also included are new chapters on pharmacotherapeutics, headache, and genetic diseases. Illustrated throughout with full-color photographs, and diagrams. The accompanying CD-ROM contains case studies and an expanded bibliography. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Headache in children and adolescents, 2d ed.

Winner, director of the Palm Beach Headache Center, guides readers through practical clinical issues related to diagnosis and treatment of primary and secondary headache disorders in children and adolescents. Early chapters cover epidemiology, classification, and evaluation of headache. Later chapters cover migraine and the childhood periodic syndromes, genetics of migraine headache, and other primary headaches in this population, as well as chronic daily headache, cluster and the trigeminal autonomic cephalalgias, secondary headaches, and medical causes of headache. Further topics are epilepsy and migraine, posttraumatic headache, pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic treatment, complementary and alterative treatments, and menstrual migraine and other headache issues in girls. Cases, questions, and a glossary are included. A video demonstration of headache disorders, keyed to a chapter of case studies, is available on a companion web site. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)