Our Therapeutical Handbook will be published in the autumn of 2005 in its completely revised 3rd edition. Over more than a thousand pages, this Pschyrembel® reference work will offer interdisciplinary medical knowledge arranged in encyclopaedic form and with full descriptions. Doctors and medical students will find precise instructions for therapeutical action; trainees and practitioners in specialist healthcare occupations, as well as those with interest in medical matters or affected by them will receive profound information on the most important and frequent diseases and therapy options from all specialist areas of medicine. The most significant innovations in the 3rd edition: - all entries have been checked, revised, updated and supplemented by over 200 specialists in individual disciplines - diseases of increasing significance have been newly added and the list of therapeutic methods and active ingredients extended - all therapeutical phased plans that guarantee a quick overview of available therapeutic possibilities have been completely revised, amended and standardized to make them more rapidly understood and easy to follow - illustrations and tables have been extensively revised and amended - layout has been optimized and brought into line with the other current dictionaries in the Pschyrembel® family, so as to provide improved orientation