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Second Suns: Two Doctors and Their Amazing Quest to Restore Sight and Save Lives
David Oliver Relin · Random House; 1 edition
Format: Book
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From the co-author of Three Cups of Tea comes the inspiring story of two very different doctorsmdashone from the United States the other from Nepalmdashunited in a common mission to rid the world of preventable blindness In this transporting book David Oliver Relin shines a light on the work... |
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Men's Health Concerns Sourcebook
Sandra J. Judd · Omnigraphics Inc; 4 edition
Pages: 655
Format: Hardcover
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"Provides basic consumer health information about health conditions of concern to men, along with tips for maintaining physical and mental wellness. Includes index, glossary of related terms, and other resources"-- |
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Missing Microbes: How the Overuse of Antibiotics Is Fueling Our Modern Plagues
Martin J Blaser · Henry Holt & Co
Pages: 273
Format: Book
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A critically important and startling look at the harmful effects of overusing antibiotics, from the field's leading expert Tracing one scientist's journey toward understanding the crucial importance of the microbiome, this revolutionary book will take readers to the forefront of trail-blazing... |
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Pregnancy Day By Day, 3rd Edition
DK. · DK
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover
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For expectant parents who want to know everything about their developing baby at every stage, Pregnancy Day by Day provides a daily countdown to the date of delivery. Covering each day of pregnancy in detail, as well as labor, birth, and life with a new baby, Pregnancy Day by Day is an unprecedented... |
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Eat Yourself Pregnant: Essential Recipes to Boosting your Fertility Naturally
Zita West · Duncan Baird Publishers; Reprint edition
Format: Kindle Edition
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Zita West, midwife to Cate Blanchett, Stella McCartney and Kate Winslet, shares her expertise in nutrition to help you and your baby stay healthy naturally throughout your pregnancy. It is crucial to eat an optimum diet during pregnancy. Your levels of nutrients need to be high in order... |
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What If It's Not Alzheimer's?: A Caregiver's Guide To Dementia
Gary Radin · Prometheus Books; 3 edition
Format: Paperback
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Although the public most often associates dementia with Alzheimer's disease, the medical profession now distinguishes various types of "other" dementias. This book is the first and only comprehensive guide dealing with frontotemporal degeneration (FTD) , one of the largest... |
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The DASH Diet Younger You: Shed 20 Years--and Pounds--in Just 10 Weeks
Marla Heller · Grand Central Life & Style
Pages: 252
Format: Hardcover
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The DASH Diet Way to a Younger You -Ranked #1 Best Diet 5 Years in a Row!The most trusted name in diets-the DASH diet-has helped millions of people lower blood pressure, lose weight, and improve their health. Now, in this groundbreaking new program, it can help you look and feel 20 years... |
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12,000 Canaries Can't Be Wrong: What's Making Us Sick and What We Can Do About It
John Molot · ECW Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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How does our environment impact our health, and what can we do about it? 12,000 Canaries Can’t Be Wrong is a culmination of Dr. Molot’s 30 years of experience seeing more than 12,000 patients with environmentally linked illnesses. He explains how the environment contributes... |
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In the Kingdom of the Sick: A Social History of Chronic Illness in America
Laurie Edwards · Walker & Company; 1 edition
Format: Print book
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Thirty years ago, Susan Sontag wrote, "Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship in the kingdom of the well and the kingdom of the sick ... Sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place." Now more than 133 million... |
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Moods, Emotions, and Aging: Hormones and the Mind-Body Connection
Phyllis J. Bronson · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers; 1 edition
Pages: 156
Format: Hardcover
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Despite the backlash against hormone replacement therapy, the depletion of natural hormones in the female body continues to be a problem for women at middle age and beyond. Remedying the problem has proved difficult for women and doctors who are unaware of, or reluctant to prescribe, bioidential... |
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Witches of America
Alex Mar · Sarah Crichton Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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"Witches are gathering."When most people hear the word "witches," they think of horror films and Halloween, but to the nearly one million Americans who practice Paganism today, witchcraft is a nature-worshipping, polytheistic, and very real religion. So Alex Mar discovers... |
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In the Mind Fields: Exploring the New Science of Neuropsychoanalysis
Casey Schwartz · Pantheon
Format: Hardcover
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"Everywhere I looked it seemed that we were being defined by what our brains were doing . . . Everywhere, there were hucksters and geniuses, all trying to colonize the new world of the brain." "I'd never been a science person," Casey Schwartz declares at the beginning... |
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Extreme Measures: Finding a Better Path to the End of Life
JESSICA NUTIK M D ZITTER · AVERY PUB Group
Pages: 352
Format: Print book
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An ICU and Palliative Care specialist featured in the Netflix documentary Extremis offers a framework for a better way to exit life that will change our medical culture at the deepest levelIn medical school, no one teaches you how to let a patient die. Jessica Zitter became a doctor because... |
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