Ailments Diseases category: 10428 books

“Kathie Swift [is] a leader in the functional nutrition and functional medicine revolution.” —Susan S. Blum, MD, MPH, author of The Immune System Recovery Plan The latest research on the gut microbiome, the bacteria that lives in the gut, confirms what Kathie Madonna Swift has known for...

Common Disorders ~ Natural Remedies is a guide that will provide recommendations, suggestions and/or options for such common ailments as allergies, increasing metabolism, lowering cholesterol, arthritis and much more. Often times, many individuals are either opposed to a medication for every type of...

Panic Stations along The Bi-Polar Express ….. continues the roller-coaster ride of mania, depression, panic and anxiety with mother and daughter. Panic Stations – Natasha’s Ride From a break-down to a break-up. From the city to the mountains. From mental illness to physical...

NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Janet Maslin, The New York Times • People • Vogue ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR Financial Times • Chicago Sun-Times •The Independent • Bookreporter •The Sunday Business Post Mom loved adages, quotes, slogans. There were always...

A powerful and emotional memoir about family and memory from the father-son singing sensation whose heartwarming carpool karaoke video took social media by storm. At first, Simon’s beloved father, Ted, suffered sudden bad moods and forgetfulness. Then the diagnosis: Alzheimer’s. Ted...

In this New York Times bestseller Patrick J. Kennedy, the former congressman and youngest child of Senator Ted Kennedy, details his personal and political battle with mental illness and addiction, exploring mental health care's history in the country alongside his and every family's private struggles. On...

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING CHLOË GRACE MORETZ An award-winning memoir and instant New York Times bestseller that goes far beyond its riveting medical mystery, Brain on Fire is the powerful account of one woman’s struggle to recapture her identity. When twenty-four-year-old...

A New York Times Bestseller Emmy-award winning broadcast journalist and leading Alzheimer’s advocate Meryl Comer’s Slow Dancing With a Stranger is a profoundly personal, unflinching account of her husband’s battle with Alzheimer’s disease that serves as a much-needed wake-up call to...

The groundbreaking, award-winning investigation into Lyme disease—the science, history, medical politics, and patient experience—now with a brand new chapter. When Pamela Weintraub, a science journalist, learned that her oldest son tested positive for Lyme disease, she thought she had found...

Twenty-five years ago my doctors had no cure for my cancer. So I went on a quest to find my own treatment. This is my story... In 1991, Glenn Sabin was a 28-year-old newlywed diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL)–a disease doctors called “uniformly fatal.” Treatments could...

Living In The Labyrinth is the story of how one woman found the strength and the courage to cope with a devastating disease that has afflicted five million Americans. Far from being an exercise in self-pity or a standard autobiography, this is an unflinching and ultimately uplifting look at a debilitating...

Hi Dad . . . can we have a chat about your dementia . . . Can you remember how it started? When Ron Husband started to forget things - dates, names, appointments . . . daft things, important things - it took a while to realise that this was 'a different form of forgetting'. But it was just the first...

"Louie what?" John's dad, Pete, was already diagnosed with Parkinson's disease when he began to have some very strange experiences, not least of which was the little red-haired girl who followed him around the house. Eventually diagnosed with Lewy Body Dementia (LBD), his hallucinations...

§　這是一本讓孩子提早認識「失智症」的繪本　§ 這位新同學好不一樣！ 「她的背比一般同學還要駝、眼睛比一般同學還要瞇， 頭髮比一般同學還要白，皺紋還比許老師多！」 　　我們都叫許老師「晴男」，最近許老師常請假，聽說是家裡出了些問題；有天，許老師說要介紹一位新同學給我們……這位新同學是我們的第二十一位同學，而且她……非常「不一樣」！ 　　從《第21個學生》體會同理不同、感受家人失去記憶而帶來的不便、懂得珍惜與至親相處的每分每秒…… -- 高雄市市長　陳菊、高雄市文化局長　尹立 台灣失智症協會秘書長　湯麗玉、 圖文暨設計創作者　Croter 還有還有……陳滿足的同學們　溫暖推薦 -- 　　「一本難得的書。我發現「宣導」失智症有關的正確觀念是最重要的！許多困境源自不了解或一知半解，導致延遲就醫、誤會、衝突、排斥、意外事件，甚至家庭的悲劇。」 台灣失智症協會秘書長　湯麗玉 「很多難題的解法通常是愛。」 圖文暨設計創作者　Croter 來自陳滿足同學的感心推薦 「我希望阿嬤能早日恢復健康出院，我知道『阿茲海默症』是一種不會好的病，但還是希望陳滿足也能身體健康，一直快快樂樂地當我們的同學，就算一直叫許老師爸爸也沒關係。」 《聯合文學》雜誌總編輯　王聰威 「我想，如果我是這故事裡的孩子之一，我會扮演類似櫻桃小丸子裡的野口那樣平時沉默、觀察力卻很敏銳的角色，最後就像是童話故事《國王的新衣》的孩子一樣，說出一句關鍵的話戳破大人世界的假象，讓那些大人們感到羞愧而無地自容。」 導演　楊力州 「而陳滿足...