Adolescence is a period full of strange and exciting happenings. Yet, due to inept handling by adults, these wonder years can be marred by unpleasant experiences that may leave scars for life. In a question-answer format this book brings the message home to everyone who interacts with adolescents – parents, teachers, doctors and other community worker – that all adolescents deserve their love and care.

Parenting can be demanding as well as fun. From infancy to adolescence the child lives through a range of emotions and physical changes, some do rapid that the parents are often at their wits’ end and exhausted. In an attempt to answer your questions and clear your occasional doubts, this book aims to reaffirm your faith as a caretaker and make parenting an enjoyable experience.

Parenting can be demanding as well as fun. From infancy to adolescence the child lives through a range of emotions and physical changes, some do rapid that the parents are often at their wits’ end and exhausted. In an attempt to answer your questions and clear your occasional doubts, this book aims to reaffirm your faith as a caretaker and make parenting an enjoyable experience.

Parenting can be demanding as well as fun. From infancy to adolescence the child lives through a range of emotions and physical changes, some do rapid that the parents are often at their wits’ end and exhausted. In an attempt to answer your questions and clear your occasional doubts, this book aims to reaffirm your faith as a caretaker and make parenting an enjoyable experience.

This book provides a comprehensive guide to the diagnosis and management of jaundice. Advocating optimal selection of diagnostic and therapeutic techniques based on meticulous clinical assessment, the book adopts a rational approach to a patient with jaundice. It presents common principles involved in the management of apparently dissimilar conditions in a cohesive manner. This book will help physicians, surgeons, haematologists, paediatricians and general practitioners in adopting logical diagnostics and management algorithms in their clinical practice..

Clinical Approach to Oncology aims to bridge the gap created by the rapid progress in the field of oncology over the past few years. The book gives a concise yet comprehensive overview of cancer medicine. It provides a systematic approach to the diagnosis, treatment and follow-up of different types of cancers, with special emphasis on malignancies that are not detectable and require a high index of suspicion. Beginning with an introduction to cancer, the book covers the basics of oncology, site-specific systemic cancers, paediatric tumours, haemato-oncology and special issues....

This handbook presents a culture-specific and culturally appropriate perspective to psychiatry in South Asian countries. Though trained in the western tradition, the contributors include practising psychiatrists and teachers of reputed institutes from across the region. The highlights of the book include:
• Latest techniques of disease treatment
• Issues of mental health planning in developing countries
• Religion and psychiatry

The stigma attached to HIV and AIDS, and the sexual connotations associated with the condition, usually come in the way of seeking clear and reliable information. This book puts together the questions asked on the DoctorNDTV website by people in complete anonymity, which have been answered by a panel of experts. By aiming to dispel incorrect beliefs and even myths about the condition, the book tackles a wide variety of issues related to HIV and AIDS so that people know how to protect themselves and when not to worry.

Pregnancy is a time for anticipation and celebration. It is also the time for the family to cope with the major change. This book informs women (and their partners) on what to do and expect when they planning or going through a pregnancy. While there can be no substitute for advice and examination by a trained physician, this book builds up a scientifically validated knowledge base in a simple question-answer format to make visits to the doctor more interactive and meaningful.

This volume of progress in Clinical Neurosciences comprises review articles on various aspects of movement disorders and cerebrovascular diseases in Neurology, and vascular surgery and neuro-oncology in Neurosurgery. Besides these, there are chapters on the Consumer Protection Act, normal pressure hydrocephalus and miscellaneous topics. The authors of these chapters are well recognized for their work and the exhaustive review of the literature contained in the chapters will benefit not only postgraduate students but will also update the knowledge of practising clinicians.

Health and happiness are as much a part of sex as are myths and fallacies, taboos and fantasies. In a simple question-answer format this book aims to clear the myriad doubts that exist in young minds and at times lead to risky behaviour. By stressing the need for a healthy expression of this energy within us, this user-friendly guide puts sex education in a scientific perspective.