Fully updated and presented in a two-colour format, this new edition has been written in simple and easy-to-understand language. It offers a logical sequence of events to aid learning and memorization and contains lists of laboratory tests, normal ranges and their clinical applications.

Four new chapters have been included in this new edition: Free Radicals and Antioxidants, Radioisotopes in Medicine, Biochemistry of AIDS, and Biochemistry of Cancer. Revisions have been made throughout and new diagrams, flow charts, and tables have been incorporated. Each chapter begins with a summary and ends with self-assessment questions that involve short answer questions, case studies and multiple choice questions (MCQs) with answers.

This exam-oriented book is an invaluable resource for students of nursing, pharmacy and allied health sciences.