Product Description: Three diseases are involved in most cases of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD): emphysema, chronic bronchitis, and asthma. All of these diseases are growing in prevalence in the Western world, most likely as a consequence of increased environmental pollution and increased exposure to allergens...read more

Product Description: Its premiere widely praised for its readability and wealth of detail, Essential Allergy's second edition continues in the same tradition as a broad-based practical volume covering the whole of allergy. The text has a large number of short chapters accompanied by many illustrations, colour photographs, and diagrams (single or two-colour) and supported by summaries and headings...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)