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The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis

Maria Smilios - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover

New York City, 1929. A sanatorium, a deadly disease, and a dire nurse shortage. So begins the remarkable true story of the Black nurses who helped cure one of the world's deadliest plagues: tuberculosis.. During those dark pre-antibiotic days, when tuberculosis killed one in seven people,...
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A New War on Cancer: The Unlikely Heroes Revolutionizing Prevention

Kristina Marusic - Island Press
Format: Hardcover

For more than fifty years, we have been waging, but not winning, the war on cancer. We're better than ever at treating the disease, yet cancer still claims the lives of one in five men and one in six women in the US. The astonishing news is that up to two-thirds of all cancer cases...
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The Sleep Prescription: Seven Days to Unlocking Your Best Rest (The Seven Days Series)

Aric A. Prather PhD - Penguin Life
Format: eBookDigital original(Digital original)

"Vastly knowledgeable and genuinely brilliant . . . An easy yet most effective how-to guide on sleep." - Dr. Matthew Walker, New York Times bestselling author of Why We Sleep. From renowned sleep scientist Dr. Aric Prather, a book that offers a simple yet powerful plan to improve...
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