Ailments Diseases category: 10428 books

Cancer is an illness we all dread simply because it is very difficult to cure. Massive amounts of money have been spent not only trying to find a cure but to help potential victims prevent the disease from occurring in the first place. Following on the heels of the discovery of DNA’s double helix,...

Your body has trillions of cells, and each one has the complexity and dynamism of a city. Your life, your thoughts, your diseases, and your health are all the function of cells. But what do you really know about what goes on inside you? The last time most people thought about cells in...

Are you the caregiver of someone who has dementia? Does your loved one suffer from dementia? Families and caregivers of a person suffering from dementia face many challenges in terms of care. People suffering from dementia due to conditions such as Alzheimer’s and other related diseases normally...

Immunobiology of the Complement System: An Introduction for Research and Clinical Medicine provides an introduction to the complement system. The intention was to create a primer that would provide the basic knowledge of complement required for either research or clinical medicine in diseases involving...

Syringomyelia is a disorder in which a cyst forms within the spinal cord This cyst called a syrinx puts pressure on the spinal tissues and nerve blocks Damage to the spinal cord often leads to progressive weakness In the back, shoulders, and extremities, syringomyelia can cause stiffness. Congenital...

What is Deafness? Deafness is the inability to hear. What are the causes of Deafness? The causes of Deafness are: A. Conductive hearing loss Here sound waves cannot be transmitted from the external environment to the cochlea. The problem may lie in the external...

Although in theory the term "cardiomyopathy" could apply to almost any disease affecting the heart, in practice it is usually reserved for "severe myocardial disease leading to heart failure". Cardiomyopathies can be categorized as extrinsic or intrinsic. An extrinsic cardiomyopathy...

Heel pain is the pain which is felt in the heel either when standing too long or when walking. It occurs more in women than in men maybe because they tend to wear high heel shoes more than in men. What are the causes of Heel Pain? The most common cause is Plantar fascilitis...

Master pulmonary procedures with Murray & Nadel’s Image-Guided Thoracic Case Studies eBook - the first-ever eBook derived from the highly popular, preeminently authoritative Murray and Nadel's Textbook of Respiratory Medicine, 5th Edition. Because this pulmonology reference was "born digital" rather...

Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this excellent book by the U.S. Army is a biography of the life and career of Surgeon General George Sternberg.Even stripped of the myth and hagiography that characterizes much of what is written about Sternberg...

Britain like the rest of the developed world is in the grip of a silent plague. Its thousands of victims can no longer make sense of the world and are contained for their own safety in fading Victorian piles and nondescript redbrick detention centres around the country. For them the present is a foreign...

Understanding the importance of vitamin D deficiency in yourself and your family can be critical in keeping them safe. Vitamin D can help protect your family from a wide variety of diseases, including osteoporosis. However, with recent studies showing positive effects on reducing risks of serious diseases...

Millions are suffering with Lyme disease while being drained further by a predatory medical industry, criminal CDC and fraudulent pharmaceutical industry. You probably know some if you aren't one. They're being treated for bipolar disorder, fibromyalgia, MS, Alzheimer's, MS, schizophrenia, personality...

If you think you know how vaccination began - think again - because its dawn is clouded in myth and misrepresentation. Not a ‘discovery or an ‘invention’, vaccination was a development of what had gone before. Man’s battle against infectious disease had started in the Far East long ago with...