Each book in this series offers practical guidelines to aid diagnosis and management of common disorders seen in primary care offices. The consistent format promotes efficient study and quick reference.

Completely revised and updated, Blackwell′s Primary Care Essentials: The Complete Guide 4e is your resource for fast and easy access to the most important primary care information. The fourth edition contains over 6000 fact–specific references and clinical pearls.

This issue of Medical Clinics of North America, guest edited by Paul S. Pottinger and Christopher A. Sanford, is devoted to Travel and Adventure Medicine. Articles in this issue include: Immunizations; Malaria; Personal Protection Measures; Traveler's Diarrhea; Urban Medicine and Trauma; Care of the Healthcare Provider; Evaluation of the Ill Returned Traveler; The Ethics of Medical Volunteerism; High-Altitude Medicine; Dive Medicine; Wilderness Medicine, Including First Aid & Hypo/Hyperthermia; The Medical Kit; Adventure Sports: Spelunking, water exposures; and Resources for the Provider and Opportunities in Further Training in Travel and Adventure Medicine.

Every 3rd issue is a quarterly cumulation.