New medical/healthcare titles from Taylor & Francis and Elsevier.Elsevier Science (St. Louis, MO) will begin the publication of Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology and Medicine with an issue in March. The new journal will be produced quarterly and an annual subscription costs $69 for individuals and $129 for institutions. Elsevier said that Nanomedicine is the first journal to be devoted exclusively to nanomedicine, that is, the emerging science of using molecular machines to treat human disease. The title will publish research and articles in basic and clinical nanomedicine, diagnostic advances and applications, pharmacologic pharmacologic /phar·ma·co·log·ic/ (-kah-loj´ik) pertaining to pharmacology or to the properties and reactions of drugs. pharmacological, pharmacologic pertaining to pharmacology. nanomedicine, engineering and biotechnology for clinical applications. Editorial will also include reviews of specific topic areas, reports on new equipment and techniques, and regular features on commercialization, ethics ethics, in philosophy, the study and evaluation of human conduct in the light of moral principles. Moral principles may be viewed either as the standard of conduct that individuals have constructed for themselves or as the body of obligations and duties that a and funding opportunities for research. Subscribers will have full access to content on an accompanying web site. Also, Taylor & Francis (Philadelphia, PA) has begun the publication of the International Journal of Prisoner Health with an issue this month. An annual subscription to the new quarterly title costs $248. The journal is designed to provide a platform for an interdisciplinary in·ter·dis·ci·pli·nar·y adj. Of, relating to, or involving two or more academic disciplines that are usually considered distinct. interdisciplinary Adjective approach to prisoners' health. It is being targeted to researchers, scholars and practitioners in such areas as nursing, medicine, criminology criminology, the study of crime, society's response to it, and its prevention, including examination of the environmental, hereditary, or psychological causes of crime, modes of criminal investigation and conviction, and the efficacy of punishment or correction (see , social work, law, psychology, health education and occupational therapy. Content includes information relevant to the issues that impact on health in prison such as HIV/AIDS HIV/AIDS Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome , hepatitis, substance abuse and suicide. It also carries research into general prison population health issues, the prison culture, staff health, holistic Holistic A practice of medicine that focuses on the whole patient, and addresses the social, emotional, and spiritual needs of a patient as well as their physical treatment. Mentioned in: Aromatherapy, Stress Reduction, Traditional Chinese Medicine alternatives and health policy development. |
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