Ailments Diseases category: 10428 books
Real Life Diaries
Living with Rheumatic Diseases
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Rheumatoid arthritis. Lupus. Polymyalgia rheumatica. Psoriatic arthritis. These are but a few of the over 100 rheumatic diseases that cause the immune system to attack a person’s joints, muscles, bones and organs. The pain and inflammation make simple tasks such as walking, getting dressed, and...
by Zdenek Hubálek, Ivo Rudolf
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2010
This book presents the state of art in the field of microbial zoonoses and sapronoses. It could be used as a textbook or manual in microbiology and medical zoology for students of human and veterinary medicine, including Ph.D. students, and for biomedicine scientists and medical practitioners and...
Epidemiology
Key to Public Health
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2019
This unique textbook presents the field of modern epidemiology as a whole; it does not restrict itself to particular aspects. It stresses the fundamental ideas and their role in any situation of epidemiologic practice. Its structure is largely determined by didactic viewpoints.
Epidemiology...
Pathology of Infectious Diseases E-Book
A Volume in the Series: Foundations in Diagnostic Pathology
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2014
Pathology of Infectious Diseases, by Gary W. Procop, MD, A Volume in the Foundations in Diagnostic Pathology Series, packs all of today's most essential information on infectious disease pathology into a compact, high-yield format! Well-organized and segmented by type of infectious organism, the book's...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Studying the epidemiology, identification, pathogenesis and clinical features of diseases associated with herpes simplex viruses, this important reference evaluates the latest treatment regimens, mechanisms of immune response and evasion, and research related to vaccines for the prevention and reduction...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
At the present time there are renewed global efforts to control the major tropical infections and to stem the tide of malnutrition, the two serious, often intertwined, problems that contribute to much of the morbidity and mortality in under privileged populations. Many international organizations...
by Peter Piot
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2012
The story of a microbiologist’s remarkable career, from identifying ?the Ebola virus to pioneering AIDS research and policy.
When Peter Piot was in medical school, a professor warned, “There’s no future in infectious diseases. They’ve all been solved.” Fortunately, Piot ignored him,...
by Kara Rogers
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Outbreaks of infectious disease pose some of the greatest public health risks to humans across the globe. Although an increasing number of preventative measures and cures are available against a number of these threats, many are still untreatable or have no remedy. However, the human response to these...
by Vasundhara Raghavan
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2018
The Kidney Warriors, centred around chronic kidney disease (CKD), offers an insightful glimpse into life of people with kidney disease. Through numerous narrations of individuals’ true stories of battle and survival, this book details different aspects of kidney diseases as well as the challenges...
Rx for Survival
Why We Must Rise to the Global Health Challenge
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2007
A New York Times reporter?s eye-opening call to arms in the fight against epidemic diseases
We face a great choice. Philip Hilts, a prizewinning journalist for the New York Times and the Washington Post, argues in this report on global epidemic diseases that the world?s leading nations now...
The Autoimmune Solution
Prevent and Reverse the Full Spectrum of Inflammatory Symptoms and Diseases
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
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 Crohn's and rheumatoid arthritis are handled with...
When Germs Travel
Six Major Epidemics That Have Invaded America and the Fears They Have Unleashed
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2009
The struggle against deadly microbes is endless. Diseases that have plagued human beings since ancient times still exist, new maladies like SARS make their way into the headlines, we are faced with vaccine shortages, and the threat of germ warfare has reemerged as a worldwide threat.
In this...
Deadly Outbreaks
How Medical Detectives Save Lives Threatened by Killer Pandemics, Exotic Viruses, and Drug-Resistant Parasites
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
Portrays epidemiologists as disease detectives who tirelessly hunt for clues and excel at deductive reasoning. Even Sherlock Holmes would be proud of this astute group of professionals.”-Booklist
Despite advances in health care, infectious microbes continue to be a formidable adversary...
Suffering the Silence
Chronic Lyme Disease in an Age of Denial
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
Allie Cashel has suffered from chronic Lyme disease for sixteen years—but much of the medical community refuses to recognize her symptoms as the result of infectious disease. In Suffering the Silence: Chronic Lyme Disease in an Age of Denial, Cashel paints a living portrait of what is often called...