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When someone you know has dementia : practical advice for families and caregivers
June Andrews - Greystone Books Format: Print book : English
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Across the world, almost 50 million people have dementia. Hundreds of millions of people are affected by the dementia of parents, partners, siblings, or friends. And while many countries are learning to cope with aging populations, dementia is becoming ever more of a challenge for many... |
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The How Not to Die Cookbook: 100 Recipes to Help Prevent and Reverse Disease
MICHAEL M D GREGER - Flatiron Books Format: Hardcover
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From Michael Greger, M.D., FACLM, the physician behind the trusted and wildly popular website Nutritionfacts.org, and author of the New York Times bestselling book How Not to Die, comes a beautifully-designed, comprehensive cookbook complete with more than 120 recipes for delicious,... |
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Cracking the Nursing School Entrance Exams, 2nd Edition
PRINCETON REVIEW. - Princeton Review Format: Paperback
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A revised second edition of this test prep guide that helps students prepare for the nursing school entrance exams.Nursing remains one of the fastest growing professions in America, and in Cracking the Nursing School Entrance Exams, the experts at The Princeton Review help applicants succeed... |
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Medical Medium Liver Rescue: Answers to Eczema, Psoriasis, Diabetes, Strep, Acne, Gout, Bloating, Gallstones, Adrenal Stress, Fatigue, Fatty Liver, Weight Issues, SIBO & Autoimmune Disease
ANTHONY WILLIAM - Hay House Inc. Format: Hardcover
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The #1 New York Times best-selling author and beloved healing authority reveals how taking your liver off overload can help resolve a wide range of symptoms and conditions--and transform your health in ways you've never imagined.What if you could focus on one aspect of your well-being to transform... |
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Cultured: How Ancient Foods Can Feed Our Microbiome
Katherine Harmon Courage - Avery Format: Hardcover
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A revealing look at the 300 trillion microorganisms that keep us healthy - and the foods they need to thrive These days, probiotic yogurt and other "gut-friendly" foods line supermarket shelves. But what's the best way to feed our all-important microbiome - and what is a microbiome,... |
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The Slow Down Diet: Eating for Pleasure, Energy, and Weight Loss
Marc David - Healing Arts Press; 2nd Edition, 10th Anniversary Edition edition Format: Print book
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A revolutionary approach to enhancing metabolism that enables lasting weight loss and facilitates spiritual well-being Presents an eight-week weight-loss program Explains how relaxed eating stimulates metabolic function and how stress hormones encourage weight gain Shows how fully... |
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CNA Study Guide: Exam Preparation Review Book for the Certified Nursing Assistant Exam
Certified Nurse Assistant Review Team - Test Prep Books Format: Paperback
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CNA Study Guide: Exam Preparation Review Book for the Certified Nursing Assistant Exam Developed for test takers trying to achieve a passing score on the CNA exam, this comprehensive study guide includes: * Quick Overview * Test-Taking Strategies * Introduction to the CNA Exam * Role... |
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Depression: A Guide for the Newly Diagnosed
Lee H. Coleman PhD ABPP - New Harbinger Publications; 1 edition Format: Paperback
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Depression is the most common mental health condition in the United States. In fact, up to one in five women and one in ten men will experience it in their lifetimes. Because it’s so prevalent, it’s sometimes called the common cold of psychiatric illnesses. Of course, this flip... |
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Cant Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds
David Goggins - Lioncrest Publishing Format: Audiobook
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For David Goggins, childhood was a nightmare - poverty, prejudice, and physical abuse colored his days and haunted his nights. But through self-discipline, mental toughness, and hard work, Goggins transformed himself from a depressed, overweight young man with no future into a US Armed... |
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Betty Ford: First Lady, Women's Advocate, Survivor, Trailblazer
Lisa McCubbin - Gallery Books Format: Hardcover
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An intimate and insightful biography of Betty Ford, the groundbreaking, candid, and resilient First Lady and wife of President Gerald Ford, from the #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of Five Presidents and Mrs. Kennedy and Me.Betty Ford: First Lady, Women's... |
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Ginger For Health: 100 Amazing and Unexpected Uses for Ginger
Britt Brandon - Adams Media Format: Print book
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Discover the power of ginger!Ginger has long been celebrated for its ability to soothe an upset stomach, but its health-boosting properties don't stop there! Ginger for Health shows you how to use the plant in your daily health and beauty routine, from creating a nutritious detox smoothie... |
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Tourette Syndrome: Stop Your Tics by Learning What Triggers Them
Sheila Rogers DeMare - Association for Comprehensive NeuroTherapy Format: Paperback
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From the bestselling author of Natural Treatments for Tics and Tourette's, an unflinching case is made for a new paradigm in the treatment of Tourette syndrome.For more than 40 years, the status quo has blindly endorsed the concept that genetics are the overwhelming and intractable... |
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Why We Dream: The Transformative Power of Our Nightly Journey
Alice Robb - Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Format: Hardcover
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Science journalist and lucid dreamer Alice Robb explores fresh, revelatory research to uncover why we dream and how we can improve our dream life.While on a research trip in Peru, science journalist Alice Robb became hooked on lucid dreaming. With practice, she mastered the uncanny phenomenon... |
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Counting Backwards: A Doctor's Notes on Anesthesia
Henry Jay Przybylo - W. W. Norton & Company Format: Hardcover
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A moving exploration of the most common but most mysterious procedure in medicine.For many of the 40 million Americans who undergo anesthesia each year, it is the source of great fear and fascination. In Counting Backwards, Dr. Henry Jay Przybylo -- an anesthesiologist with more than thirty... |
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Beauty in the Broken Places: A Memoir of Love, Faith, and Resilience
ALLISON PATAKI - Random House Format: Hardcover
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A deeply moving memoir about two lives that were changed in the blink of an eye, and the love that helped them rewrite their future Five months pregnant, on a flight to their "babymoon," Allison Pataki turned to her husband when he asked if his eye looked strange, and watched... |
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Nursing School Entrance Exams
Kaplan. - Kaplan Pub Format: Print book
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Kaplan's Nursing School Entrance Exams is comprehensive review of all tested material on major nursing school entrance assessments, including the TEAS, HESI, PAX-RN, Kaplan, and PSB-RN exams. With focused review and practice for math, reading comprehension, and science - plus quick-reference... |
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Old Age: A Beginner's Guide
Michael E Kinsley - Tim Duggan Books Format: Print book
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Vanity Fair columnist Michael Kinsley escorts his fellow Boomers through the door marked "Exit."The notorious baby boomers - the largest age cohort in history - are approaching the end and starting to plan their final moves in the game of life. Now they are asking: What... |
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Idiot's Guides: Overcoming Type 2 Diabetes
Carrie S. Swift - Alpha Books Format: Paperback
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Approximately 29 million Americans have Type 2 Diabetes, and the numbers keep rising. Idiot's Guides: Overcoming Type 2 Diabetes provides comprehensive information on everything someone with this condition needs to know. A detailed, yet positive, discussion about diabetes, content includes... |
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It's Not Yet Dark: A Memoir
Simon Fitzmaurice - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Format: Hardcover
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"Beautifully written. Utterly life-affirming." - Alan RickmanA luminous memoir in the tradition of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly and a #1 bestseller upon its initial release in Ireland, a young filmmaker gives us "a story of courage, of heart, of coming back... |
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Stay Healthy During Chemo: The Five Essential Steps
Mike Herbert ND - Conari Press Format: Paperback
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Chemotherapy works to beat your cancer, but it also takes its own toll on your body and your health. During treatment, it is more important than ever to do what you can to keep yourself strong and healthy. The best way of doing that is to work with your body's innate healing powers.This... |
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You Are Your Own Best Medicine: A Doctor's Advice on the Body's Natural Healing Powers
Frédérick Saldmann M.D. - Healing Arts Press Format: Print book
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Simple do-it-yourself home remedies for better health and healing * Verifies the common sense of folk medicine with the latest medical research * Reveals easy steps to boost immunity and address common ailments like allergies, sleep disorders, cardiovascular problems, sexual dysfunction,... |
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A Lucky Life Interrupted: A Memoir of Hope
Tom Brokaw - Random House Format: Print book
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * WITH A NEW PREFACE BY THE AUTHOR * From Tom Brokaw, the bestselling author of The Greatest Generation, comes a powerful memoir of a year of dramatic change - a year spent battling cancer and reflecting on a long, happy, and lucky life.Tom Brokaw has led a fortunate... |
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The DASH Diet Younger You: Shed 20 Years--and Pounds--in Just 10 Weeks
Marla Heller - Grand Central Life & Style Format: Print book
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The New York Times BestsellerDASH Your Way to a Younger YouThe most trusted brand 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 younger Marla... |
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The Patient Will See You Now: The Future of Medicine Is in Your Hands
Eric J Topol - Basic Books Format: Print book
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A trip to the doctor is almost a guarantee of misery. You'll make an appointment months in advance. You'll probably wait for several hours until you hear "the doctor will see you now" - but only for fifteen minutes! Then you'll wait even longer for lab tests, the results... |
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Essential Oils: Ancient Medicine
Josh Axe - Destiny Image Format: Paperback
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Transform Your Health with the Power of Essential Oils Instead of relying on prescription medications with numerous dangerous side effects, what if you could opt for a safer, natural alternative to address your health concerns? And instead of using common household cleaners and personal... |
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Epilepsy in Children
Orrin Devinsky MD - Demos Health Format: Print book
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For the parent of a child with epilepsy, an easy-to-read guide to understanding and managing the disorder while helping your child achieve and maintain a high quality of life. From a leading neurologist, experienced nurse practitioner, and registered dietitian comes the complete guide... |
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The DASH Diet Younger You: Shed 20 Years--and Pounds--in Just 10 Weeks
Marla Heller - Grand Central Life & Style 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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A Creative Toolkit for Communication in Dementia Care
Karrie Marshall. - Jessica Kingsley Publishers Format: eBook
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How can carers and relatives support a person's identity, relationships and emotional wellbeing through changes that occur in the later stages of dementia?Drawing on over ten years' experience of working with people with dementia, Karrie Marshall provides a toolkit of tried and tested... |
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Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction
Judith Grisel - Doubleday Format: Hardcover
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From a renowned behavioral neuroscientist and recovered drug addict, this is the authoritative and accessible guide to understanding drug addiction that we've been waiting for: clearly explained brain science and vivid personal stories combine to reveal how addiction happens and what can be done... |
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Black Death at the Golden Gate: The Race to Save America from the Bubonic Plague
David K. Randall - W. W. Norton & Company Format: Hardcover
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A spine-chilling saga of virulent racism, human folly, and the ultimate triumph of scientific progress.For Chinese immigrant Wong Chut King, surviving in San Francisco meant a life in the shadows. His passing on March 6, 1900, would have been unremarkable if a city health officer hadn't... |
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2016 Physicians' Desk Reference, 70th Edition
PDR Staff - PDR Network; 70th Edition edition Format: Hardcover
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Physicians' Desk Reference has been the authoritative source on prescription drugs for 70 years. Found in virtually every physician's office, pharmacy, clinic, and library, no medical reference is more current, more recognized, or more respected. Now in its 70th edition, PDR contains... |
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The Probiotic Cure: Harnessing the Power of Good Bacteria for Better Health
Martie Whittekin CCN - Square One Format: Print book
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In 1982, it was discovered that the vast majority of stomach ulcers are caused by H. pylori, nasty little bacteria found in the gut. In spite of the evidence, it took the U.S. medical community ten years to accept this finding and change their treatment of ulcers. In 2015, scientists have... |
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McGraw-Hill Education 5 TEAS Practice Tests, Third Edition
KATHY A ZAHLER - McGraw-Hill Education Format: Paperback
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Get the intensive practice needed to ace the TEAS and get into the nursing school of your choiceThis book will help you achieve the high score you need on the TEAS to get into the nursing school of your choice. Written by a test-prep expert, this book provides you with the intensive practice... |
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Medical Billing & Coding Demystified, 2nd Edition
Marilyn Burgos - McGraw-Hill Education / Medical Format: Paperback
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Completely updated to reflect the massive changes to healthcare law! Medical Billing and Coding Demystified clearly explains the practices used by medical offices, hospitals, and healthcare facilities to encode medical services in order to receive payment from government agencies and insurance... |
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The Autoimmune Solution
Amy Myers - HarperOne Format: Print book
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Over 90 percent of the population suffers from inflammation or an autoimmune disorder. Until now, conventional medicine has said there is no cure. Minor irritations like rashes and runny noses are ignored, while chronic and debilitating diseases like Crohns and rheumatoid arthritis are handled... |
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Thinner in 30: Small Changes That Add Up to Big Weight Loss in Just 30 Days
Jenna Wolfe - Grand Central Life & Style Format: Print book
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A month from now, you'll wish you had started today. Yes, a month is all it takes to see long-term results. And seriously-even YOU can lose that weight Food and exercise fads come and go, mainly because they just aren't sustainable. After a few days, you're hungry, bored, or hungry AND bored.... |
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The Eczema Detox
Karen Fischer - Exisle Publishing Format: Hardcover
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Eczema sufferers are sensitive to many artificial chemicals, but did you know natural food chemicals also trigger eczema? This is why regular detoxes, which are rich in phytochemicals, can cause red, flaky, and incredibly itchy skin.The Eczema Detox is your guide to cutting your total chemical... |
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Old age : a beginner's guide
Michael E Kinsley - Tim Duggan Books
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"Vanity Fair columnist Michael Kinsley escorts his fellow Boomers through the door marked "Exit." The largest age cohort in history--the notorious baby boomers--is approaching the end and starting to plan their final moves in the game of life. Now they are asking: What was that... |
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Hysterectomy: Exploring Your Options
Edward E. Wallach - Johns Hopkins University Press Format: Paperback
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Hysterectomy is the second most common major surgical procedure performed on women in the United States. For some women, the decision to have a hysterectomy is an easy one; for others, it is a difficult choice associated with concerns about risks, discomfort, and female identity. Yet many... |
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MERCK MANUAL OF DIAGNOSIS AND THERAPY
- Merck Format: Hardcover
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Back by popular demand! The world's most widely used medical reference is now in its 20th edition. The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy now in its 20th edition has been thoroughly updated and thoughtfully expanded with a new larger trim size to include 40% new and revised content.... |
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Healing Ways: An Integrative Health Sourcebook
Dr. Matilde Parente - Barron's Educational Series Format: Paperback
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When it comes to your health, it's important to know and understand all the options available to you. Should you stick with Western medicine alone? What are the benefits and dangers of alternative medicine? Can acupuncture, massage therapy, or meditation really help? In Healing Ways:... |
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Crohn's and Colitis: Understanding and Managing IBD
Hillary Steinhart - Robert Rose Format: Paperback
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A newly updated edition from one of the most respected and authoritative experts on Crohn's and colitis. For anyone who suffers from Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis, an understanding of inflammatory bowel disease is the key to developing effective management strategies. Crohn's... |
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Your Child's Asthma: A Guide for Parents
John Hunt - John F. Hunt Format: Print book
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Asthma is not a diagnosis. If you or your doctor thinks your child might have asthma, your next question should be: "What disease is causing my child to have asthma?" It's a question often forgotten.There are many diseases that cause asthma, and these diseases require different... |
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The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After
Julie Yip-Williams - Random House Format: Hardcover
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As a young mother facing a terminal diagnosis, Julie Yip-Williams began to write her story, a story like no other. What began as the chronicle of an imminent and early death became something much more - a powerful exhortation to the living. That Julie Yip-Williams survived infancy was a miracle.... |
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Stronger After Stroke, Third Edition: Your Roadmap to Recovery
PETER G LEVINE - Demos Health Format: Paperback
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Now in its third edition, Stronger After Stroke puts the power of recovery in the reader's hands by providing simple-to-follow instructions for reaching the highest possible level of recovery. The book's neuroplastic recovery model stresses repetition of task-specific practice,... |
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The Super Carb Diet
BOB HARPER - St. Martin's Press Format: Hardcover
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How do you prevent those constant food cravings and feelings of deprivation when trying to lose weight? Host of The Biggest Loser and celebrity trainer Bob Harper's Super Carb Diet is the answer. Harper focuses on nutrient-dense foods that are big in flavor and allow certain kinds of carbohydrates... |
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The Choice: Embrace the Possible
Edith Eger - Scribner Format: Hardcover
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Winner of the 2017 National Jewish Book Award and 2018 Christopher Award "Edith's strength and courage are remarkable ... her life and work are an incredible example of forgiveness, resilience, and generosity." - Sheryl SandbergIt's 1944 and sixteen-year-old ballerina and gymnast... |
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The Complete Diabetes Cookbook: 400 Kitchen-Tested Recipes for Eating What You Love
America's Test Kitchen (Firm) - America's Test Kitchen Format: Paperback
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Take control of managing diabetes with 400-plus healthy and creative diabetes-friendly recipes. Meticulously tested recipes limit unhealthy carbs and fats, sodium, and added sugars and maximize nutrition and flavor. Every recipe lists complete nutritional information for easy reference.Cooking... |
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Medical Assistant Exam Prep: Practice Test Proven Strategies
Kaplan Nursing - Kaplan Publishing Format: Paperback
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Kaplan's Medical Assistant Exam Prep provides the in-depth content, comprehensive review, and targeted practice you need to pass the Certified Medical Assistant and Registered Medical Assistant exams. Whether you're a first-time test taker or you're studying for recertification,... |
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The Dubrow Diet: Interval Eating to Lose Weight and Feel Ageless
Heather Dubrow - Ghost Mountain Books Format: Hardcover
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When you've tried practically every diet and have struggled for years to reach and maintain a healthy weight, what do you do next? If you're Heather and Terry Dubrow, MD, you create your own diet based on cutting-edge and Nobel-prize winning science that promises not just unprecedented... |
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Help Me!
Marianne Power - Grove Press Format: Hardcover
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I wanted to find out what would happen if I really did follow the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People? Really felt The Power of Now? Could life be transformed? Could I get rich? Skinny? Find love? Be more productive and fulfilled? Because I really did want all the things these books... |
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Cataract Surgery: A Guide to Treatment
Bret L Fisher - Addicus Books Format: Paperback
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Are you having cataract surgery? If so, you join the nearly 3 million Americans who have cataracts removed each year. In fact, it's the most commonly performed surgery in the nation. And, the numbers are expected to increase--by the year 2020, nearly 30 million Americans will have cataracts.... |
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The Diabetes Code: Prevent and Reverse Type 2 Diabetes Naturally
JASON FUNG - Greystone Books Format: Paperback
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From acclaimed author Dr. Jason Fung, a revolutionary guide to reversing diabetes. Dr. Jason Fung forever changed the way we think about obesity with his best-selling book, The Obesity Code. Now he has set out to do the same for type 2 diabetes.Today, most doctors, dietitians, and even... |
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Drug Dealer, MD: How Doctors Were Duped, Patients Got Hooked, and Why It's So Hard to Stop
Anna Lembke - Johns Hopkins University Press Format: Print book
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Three out of four people addicted to heroin probably started on a prescription opioid, according to the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In the United States alone, 16,000 people die each year as a result of prescription opioid overdose. But perhaps the most frightening... |
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Vision Correction Surgery: The Latest in LASIK and Other Surgeries to Improve Your Vision
Robert K. Maloney MD - Addicus Books, Inc. Format: Print book
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Nearly 3.6 million Americans have their vision surgically corrected annually; it is the most commonly performed surgery in the nation. Even so, many people find themselves feeling anxious about the procedure. Author Robert K. Maloney is an experienced ophthalmologist who has performed thousands... |
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The Clean 20: 20 Foods, 20 Days, Total Transformation
Ian Smith - St. Martin's Press Format: Hardcover
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New York Times bestsellerFrom the New York Times bestselling author of SHRED and Blast the Sugar Out, the ultimate guide to clean eating!What is clean eating? In his newest diet book, Dr. Ian K. Smith teaches readers the benefits of clean eating and how to implement... |
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The Merck Manual of Womens and Mens Health
Various - Gallery Books Format: Paperback
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Adapted from the bestselling title The Merck Manual of Medical Information, this comprehensive guide provides women and men with in-depth information on sexuality and problems that affect the reproductive organs. . From a world leader in breakthrough medical discoveries comes a comprehensive... |
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Live Long And . . .: What I Learned Along the Way
William Shatner - Thomas Dunne Books Format: Book
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Star Trek legend and veteran author William Shatner discusses the meaning of life, finding value in work, and living well whatever your age."I have always felt," William Shatner says early in his newest memoir, that "like the great comedian George Burns, who lived... |
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Children and Environmental Toxins: What Everyone Needs to Know
Philip J Landrigan - Oxford University Press Format: Hardcover
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More than 80,000 new chemicals have been developed and released into the global environment during the last four decades. Today the World Health Organization attributes more than one-third of all childhood deaths to environmental causes, and as rates of childhood disease skyrocket -- autism,... |
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2017 Physicians' Desk Reference 71st Edition
PDR Staff - Physicians Desk Reference Format: Print book
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The Physicians' Desk Reference has been the authoritative source on prescription drugs for 71 years. Found in virtually every physician's office, pharmacy, clinic, and library, no medical reference is more current, more recognized, or more respected.Now in its 71st edition, PDR contains... |
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Between Breaths: A Memoir of Panic and Addiction
Elizabeth Vargas - Grand Central Publishing Format: Print book
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From the moment she uttered the brave and honest words, "I am an alcoholic, " to interviewer George Stephanopoulos, Elizabeth Vargas began writing her story, as her experiences were still raw. Now, in BETWEEN BREATHS, Vargas discusses her accounts of growing up with anxiety-which... |
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Hysterectomy: Exploring Your Options
Edward E. Wallach - Johns Hopkins University Press Format: Hardcover
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Hysterectomy is the second most common major surgical procedure performed on women in the United States. For some women, the decision to have a hysterectomy is an easy one; for others, it is a difficult choice associated with concerns about risks, discomfort, and female identity. Yet many... |
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In This Together: My Story
Ann Romney - Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2015. Format: Print book
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When Mitt and Ann Romney met in their late teens, a great American love story began. And their life together would be blessed: five healthy sons, financial security, and a home filled with joy. Despite the typical ups and downs, they had a storybook life.Then, in 1998, Ann was diagnosed... |
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Recovery: Freedom from Our Addictions
Russell Brand - Macmillan Audio Format: Audiobook
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This program is read by the author.A guide to all kinds of addiction from a star who has struggled with heroin, alcohol, sex, fame, food, and eBay, that will help addicts and their loved ones make the first steps into recovery."This manual for self-realization comes not from a mountain... |
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The Breakthrough: Immunotherapy and the Race to Cure Cancer
CHARLES GRAEBER - Twelve Format: Hardcover
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Bestselling author of The Good Nurse, Charles Graeber details the discovery of cancer's secret weakness, and how a new generation of scientists finally cracked the code on how the human immune system can fight -- and beat -- the disease. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font:... |
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Admissions: Life as a Brain Surgeon
Henry Marsh - Macmillan Audio Format: Audiobook
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This program is read by the authorAn international best sellerHenry Marsh has spent a lifetime operating on the surgical front line. There have been exhilarating highs and devastating lows, but his love for the practice of neurosurgery has never wavered. Following the publication of his celebrated... |
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The Body: A Guide for Occupants
Bill Bryson - Doubleday Format: Hardcover
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Bill Bryson, bestselling author of A Short History of Nearly Everything, takes us on a head-to-toe tour of the marvel that is the human body. As compulsively readable as it is comprehensive, this is Bryson at his very best, a must-read owner's manual for everybody.Bill Bryson once... |
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Another Kind of Madness: A Journey Through the Stigma and Hope of Mental Illness
Stephen Hinshaw - St. Martin's Griffin Format: Paperback
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WINNER: Best Autobiography/Memoir, 2018 Best Book Awards, sponsored by American Book Fest Glenn Close says: "Another Kind of Madness is one of the best books I've read about the cost of stigma and silence in a family touched by mental illness. I was profoundly moved by Stephen... |
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Hepatitis C: A Complete Guide for Patients and Families
Paul J Thuluvath - Johns Hopkins University Press Format: eBook
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The liver is the body's workhorse. It makes proteins and bile, processes fats, and detoxifies drugs and alcohol. The liver is a resilient organ, but it is susceptible to damage from a number of sources, including viral infections. Such infections cause inflammation of the liver, called... |
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What You Must Know About Thyroid Disorders & What To Do About Them: Your Guide to Treating Autoimmune Dysfunction, Hypo- and Hyperthyroidism, Mood ... Loss, Weight Issues, Celiac Disease & More
Pamela Wartian Smith - Square One Pub, 2015. Format: Print book
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It is estimated that one in twenty people have a thyroid problem, with the majority of sufferers being women. To make matters worse, many who are affected by thyroid dysfunction are unaware that they have a problem, and typically, they go undiagnosed for years. In the meantime, they experience... |
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Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything
Lydia Kang - Workman Publishing Company Format: Hardcover
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What won't we try in our quest for perfect health, beauty, and the fountain of youth? Well, just imagine a time when doctors prescribed morphine for crying infants. When liquefied gold was touted as immortality in a glass. And when strychnine - yes, that strychnine, the one used... |
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Practical Paleo, 2nd Edition
Diane Sanfilippo - Victory Belt Publishing Format: Print book
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With more than half a million copies sold, the first edition of Practical Paleo revolutionized the way we think about food and our bodies. Dubbed "The Paleo Bible" by readers, it explained how simply eating real, whole foods and avoiding processed, refined foods can improve our health... |
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Mental health disorders sourcebook : basic consumer health information about healthy brain functioning and mental illnesses, including depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety disorders, posttraumatic stress disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, psychotic and personality disorders, eating disorders, impulse control disorders, and more ; along with information about medications and treatments, mental health concerns in specific groups, such as children, adolescents, older adults, minority populations, and people in poverty, a glossary of related terms, and directories of resources for additiona
Omnigraphics Inc. - Omnigraphics Format: Print book : English : Sixth editionView all editions and formats
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"Provides basic consumer health information about the signs, symptoms, and treatment of various mental illnesses, and the special mental health concerns of children and adolescents, older adults, the LGBT community, and immigrant populations. Along with tips for maintaining mental... |
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The Traumatized Brain: A Family Guide to Understanding Mood, Memory, and Behavior after Brain Injury
Vani Rao - Johns Hopkins University Press Format: Print book
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A traumatic brain injury is a life-changing event, affecting an individual's lifestyle, ability to work, relationships -- even personality. Whatever caused it -- car crash, work accident, sports injury, domestic violence, combat -- a severe blow to the head results in acute and, often,... |
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Heart Matters: A Memoir of a Female Heart Surgeon
Kathy Magliato M.D. - Harmony; Reprint edition Format: Paperback
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An inspiring, surprising, sometimes shocking, and ultimately deeply informative memoir of the high-stakes, high-pressured life of a female heart surgeon Dr. Kathy Magliato is one of the few female heart surgeons practicing in the world today. She is also a member of an even more... |
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