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The reprint “Sustainable Healthy Working Life for All Ages—Work Environment, Age Management and Employability” provide an outlet of research contributing to the development of theoretical and practical knowledge influencing people’s working life.…

This is an open access book. In honor of his 75th birthday, we reflect on the impact of the pioneering work of Alan Grodzinsky and his laboratory. This volume includes in-depth discussions of tissue electromechanics, mechanobiology and biomechanics,…

Special Issue “Placenta-Related Pregnancy Disorders” edited by Dr Hiten D. Mistry, Department of Women and Child Health, School of Life Sciences and Population Health Sciences, King's College London, London, UK and Dr Eun D. Lee, Department of…

As we know, strokes are one of the world's leading causes of death, and the cruel aspect of a stroke is that it leaves people with severe functional disability and/or cognitive impairment. Strokes have a significant impact on economies worldwide, as…

ost people get information about child sexual abuse from media coverage, social movements, or conversations with family and friends. Confronting Child Sexual Abuse describes how these forces shape our views of victims and offenders, while also…

This book presents a diversity of themes written by authors related to sports medicine and health varying from clinical issues, such as sports injuries to specific neuropsychological aspects of the athletes’ behaviour regulation and parathletes’…

Prosthesis is an addition or attachment to the body that replicates the function of a lost or dysfunctional limb. Prostheses have evolved over the centuries starting from wooden and metal levers to highly sophisticated robotic limbs. While the design…

Minimally invasive surgery has become a common term in visceral surgery and gynecology. This specialty has almost evolved into its own surgical specialty over the past 20 years. Today, as it is firmly entrenched in every subspecialty of visceral…

This book—titled “New Therapeutic Mechanisms and Approaches for Gynecologic Cancer”—was edited as a Biomedical Special Issue, with a focus on basic research such as genomics, epigenomics, and proteomics, as well as clinical research in the field of…

This small book concentrates on highlighting some basic knowledge, especially those related to infertility and menstruation. Readers will find detailed answers to many controversial issues.