This volume comprises the invited plenary lectures and contributed papers presented at the WorldMedLab and the EuroMedLab in Berlin, May 2011 with more than 5.000 participants. The contributions in this volume provide a valuable and wide-ranging overview of current research in Laboratory Medicine and cognate disciplines.Special focus is given to Aging Society (neurological diseases), Tumors, Organ specific dysfunctions and Future of Laboratory Medicine.

Pharmaceutical companies are spending increasing amounts of money on drug discovery and development. Nevertheless, attrition rates in clinical development are still very high, and up to 90% of new compounds fail in clinical phase I - III trials, which is partially due to lack of clinical efficacy. This indicates a strong need for highly predictive in vitro and in vivo models. The "50th International Workshop of the Ernst Schering Research Foundation" focussed on "Animal Models of T Cell-Mediated Skin Diseases". Such animal models should have impact not only on inflammatory dermatoses but also on other inflammatory disorders due to their model character. The current volume summarises recent advances in animal research that are important for anti-inflammatory drug discovery.

This book provides medical students at the first clinical stage with comprehensive knowledge for the examination subject of clinical chemistry, laboratory diagnostics, hematology, also with regard to exam preparation. A unique feature are the diagrams of cardinal symptoms (19 cardinal symptoms in all, such as pain, temperature, high blood pressure, etc.) which provide a guide from symptom to diagnosis using decision trees. Such overviews are also useful for practicing physicians. The most important methods and techniques are defined in the glossary.

Lehrbuch und Nachschlagewerk fur eine praxisnahe und moderne Allergiediagnostik, -therapie und -pravention. Umfangreiche Darstellung der Klinik und der Diagnostik mit allen Haut- und Provokationstests, der In-vitro-Serumdiagnostik und der zellularen Diagnostik. Der Weg zu einer erfolgreichen Therapie wird mit allen modernen Methoden gezeigt und die Moeglichkeiten der Pravention u.a. anhand von Patientenschulungen erlautert. Die neuesten Forschungsergebnisse finden sich in Grundlagenkapiteln zu Immunologie und Allergenen wieder. Alle klinischen Bilder aus Dermatologie, Pneumologie, Padiatrie, HNO- und Augenheilkunde, Gastroenterologie sowie aus anderen wichtigen Bereichen, wie der Psychosomatik und Berufsallergologie, werden dargestellt. Die vollstandig aktualisierte 2. Auflage ist ideal fur Allergologen in Klinik und Niederlassung und hervorragend geeignet fur die Ausbildung.