New genetic technologies cut across a range of public regulatory domains and private lifeworlds, often appearing to generate an institutional void in response to the complex challenges they pose.

The management of the obstructed pediatric airway continues to be a great responsibility and challenge for otolaryngologists. It is one aspect of our field for which our expertise is universally recognized by medical practitioners outside our specialty and is likely to remain that way for the foreseeable future.

This issue provides a state-of-the-art review of Sleep and Neurologic Disorders. The following key topics are covered: Parkinson's Disease and Sleep, Multiple System Atrophy and Sleep, Sleep Disturbances in Dementia, Prion Disorders and Sleep, Auto-Immune Neurological Disorders and Sleep, Sleep Disturbances in Central Nervous System Malignancies, Sleep and Epilepsy, Sleep Disordered Breathing and Stroke, Sleep Disordered Breathing in Neuromuscular Disease, Sleep Apnea: A Neurologic Disease?, Sleep and Headache Syndromes, Sleep Disturbances and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Sleep Disturbances and Autism.

Themis is a hidden goddess. She is not one of the twelve Olympians who sit on their golden thrones and carry the very de?nition of the gods of the Greeks. But in a sense she is below and above them all.

This handbook summarizes the research on communicative processes as they relate to health and health care, and provides directions for future research. For scholars & professionals in health communication, public health, psychology, & related areas.

All mental health and addiction practitioners want to provide their patients with the most effective treatment available. But with this brings the challenge of wading through an overwhelming amount of complex scientific research.

Near-death experiences (NDEs) fascinate everyone, from theologians to sociologists and neuroscientists. This ground breaking book introduces the phenomenon of NDEs, their personal impact and the dominant scienti?c explanations.

This volume deals w ith nervous system injuries, repair and therapeutic approaches, and some neurodegenerative diseases not covered in other volumes of the Handbook.

This book brings together findings from research and clinical practice with a multi-disciplinary perspective regarding the important aspects of epilepsy in persons with intellectual disabilities.

This is the definitive, one-stop resource on preclinical drug evaluation for potential mitochondrial toxicity, addressing the issue upfront in the drug development process.

* Research has shown that inhaling fine particles is a greater health risk than breathing larger particles. Title is "very timely...needed NOW," according to one reviewer
* Covers a "controversial" but important topic, for which there is a lack of literature and hence guidance for those professionals affected by it
* Covers legislative background and gives insight into regulatory and technical matters such as measurement and control of fine particle emissions
* Combines the practical, theoretical, and regulatory areas of fine particulate monitoring, with "reference to the regulated community"
* Written by a recognized authority with over 30 years of pollution control experience

Psoriasis is an inherited skin disease that has been diagnosed in 4.5 million adults in the United States. About 10 percent to 30 percent of people with psoriasis also develop psoriatic arthritis, which causes pain, stiffness and swelling in and around the joints.

With updated acoustical measures of voice profiles (phonetograms, the audiogram of the voice), and the fundamental frequency of the tone range, new standards have been reached. Especially the comparison to normal pediatric and hormonal development underlines the statistical scientific validity of the voice parameters. The relation to hormones and the predictive values for voice development opens new and interesting perspectives for experts.