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"Research on the efficacy of nonpharmacological treatments for the various anxiety disorders has been ongoing for over three decades at our institutions, the Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders at Boston University and the University of California, Los Angeles, Anxiety Disorders Behavioral Research Program. Developments in the conceptualization of panic attacks and panic disorder (PD) in the 1980s and 1990s made possible significant improvements in the psychological treatment of PD and the development of panic control treatment (PCT), a treatment for panic disorder. Since then a...

Placing crucial information at patients' fingertips, this series provides the necessary knowledge, compiled by expert doctors, so that patients can approach their health prepared and informed. Written in simple laymans terms, the books include information about symptoms, medications, treatments, side effects, pain management, and how to live with various chronic illnesses that often alter daily activities. Al brindar informaci�n crucial al alcance de la mano de los pacientes, esta serie provee el conocimiento necesario, compilado por expertos m�dicos, de modo que los pacientes puedan...

ÍNDICE: Introducción. La aorta abdominal. Aneurisma de la aorta abdominal: definición; etiología y prevalencia; manifestaciones clínicas; tasa de crecimiento y riesgo de ruptura; métodos de imagen diagnóstica para la detección y el seguimiento de la AAA. Aneurismas de arterias viscerales. Isquemia mesentérica. La vena inferior. Bibliografía

Spanish translation of "AIDS". How do we care for these terminally ill? Using letters from patients, questions and answers between patient and doctor, and other compassionate tools, Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, the world's foremost expert on death and dying, shows us how to comfort the seriously ill and help AIDS patients through the critical "stages of dying". She addresses the stigma of AIDS as a "gay disease" and makes a special plea for prisoners with AIDS, for women and children with AIDS, and for babies with AIDS.