This book provides a comprehensive summary of all routine blood tests used in modern primary and secondary health care by explaining the rationale for, and value of, each individual blood test. It provides a valuable guide for health care providers in a time when multidisciplinary roles are being embraced.

Semiconductor lasers possess unique features in terms of performance, size and impact, and user-friendliness. From a team of international experts this book provides readers with a solid reference of the fundamentals of these devices through to the technologies and applications in bio-optics and biophotonics.

This book contains chapters providing interpretations of principles in ICH E17 and new ideas of implementing MRCTs. Authors are from different regions, and from academia and industry. This book will be of particular interest to biostatisticians working in late stage clinical development of medical products.

This edited book looks at the role technology has played to monitor, map and fight the COVID-19 global pandemic. The vital role that intelligent advanced healthcare informatics has played during this crucial time are explored, as well as e-healthcare, telemedicine, and life support systems.

The book provides details of applying intelligent mining techniques for extracting & pre-processing medical data from various sources, for application-based healthcare research. Moreover, different datasets are used, thereby exploring real-world case studies related to medical informatics.

This book focuses on clinical trial design and monitoring with time-to-event endpoints. Detail of subjects of the book are included in book contents. This book not only provides a comprehensive review of existing methods. The book also presents a general group sequential method for trial monitoring which has not been published in any book.

This book presents an interdisciplinary approach to stem cell research, starting with the breakthrough discovery up through the present day controversy. The book will help the non-scientist understand the biology, research regulations and funding; and it will help the scientist better comprehend the full spectrum of ethical, religious, and policy debates.