Clearly elucidating many of the key issues found in the disparate literature on sex-based differences in health and illness, Women's Health in Clinical Practice provides primary care clinicians with a practical, up-to-date source of information that can lead to optimal, targeted care for women. This volume concisely addresses those issues that, through different risk factors, disease presentations, or gender differences, can distinctly affect female patients. Among the topics examined in this volume are contraception, menopause, osteoporosis, coronary heart disease, diabetes, cervical cancer, thyroid disorders, eating disorders, psychiatric disorders, and intimate partner violence. Comprehensive and thorough, Women unk]s Health in Clinical Practice will become an indispensable resource for all clinicians treating women of any age.

This book clearly elucidates many of the key issues found in the disparate literature on sex-based differences in health and illness. It provides primary care clinicians with a practical, up-to-date source of information that can lead to optimal, targeted care for women. Among the topics examined in this comprehensive volume are treating and preventing osteoporosis, diabetes, cervical cancer, eating disorders, and more.

Hormone Therapy: A Clinical Handbook provides a comprehensive overview on hormone replacement therapy, with a range of key features that differentiate it from other titles on the topic. This concise, handy title presents an interdisciplinary approach to the subject, acknowledging that sex hormones affect more than reproductive organs and hot flushes for a deeper understanding of how hormones function. The authors provide a breadth and depth of practical prescribing experience, including many helpful tables and algorithms as well as directions for prescribing hormone therapy in the most effective and safest ways possible. Targeted and easy to read, Hormone Therapy: A Clinical Handbook offers all clinicians the state-of-the-art information they need to prescribe hormone therapy and hormone replacement therapy.