Ailments Diseases category: 10428 books
Untangling Alzheimer's
The Guide for Families and Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
A gerontologist explains dementia and Alzheimer's disease, from diagnosis to death in terms family and professional caregivers can understand. The stages of dementia, the history of Alzheimer's and the physiology of the disease are explained. Communication techniques, working with and tracking combative...
日本精神科名醫一個月，從癌症生還
心靈多強大，成功抗癌的機率就多大！焦慮控管＋渡部式飲食，身心雙管齊下的成功抗癌日記
Language: Chinese
Release Date: August 31, 2017
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Dementia Reimagined
Building a Life of Joy and Dignity from Beginning to End
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
The cultural and medical history of dementia and Alzheimer's disease by a leading psychiatrist and bioethicist who urges us to turn our focus from cure to care.
Despite being a physician and a bioethicist, Tia Powell wasn't prepared to address the challenges she faced when her grandmother,...
Brain Fitness
The Easy Way of Keeping Your Mind Sharp Through Qigong
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
In Brain Fitness Dr. Aihan Kuhn shares her expertise in tai chi, qigong, and medicine, giving readers exercises designed to prevent brain aging. This book represents a synthesis of Dr. Kuhn’s studies in martial arts as well as Eastern and Western healing
Tai chi and qigong practitioners around...
Rabid
A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
A maddened creature, frothing at the mouth, lunges at an innocent victim—and, with a bite, transforms its prey into another raving monster. It’s a scenario that underlies our darkest tales of supernatural horror, but its power derives from a very real virus, a deadly scourge known to mankind from...
by Robert G. Lahita, Robert H. Phillips
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2004
A rheumatologist and a psychologist offer an informative and compassionate perspective on coping with lupus for patients and their families.
Lupus is a chronic autoimmune disease that is difficult to diagnose, and the symptoms-from achy joints to skin rashes-often mimic those of other diseases....
Superbug
The Fatal Menace of MRSA
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2010
LURKING in our homes, hospitals, schools, and farms is a terrifying pathogen that is evolving faster than the medical community can track it or drug developers can create antibiotics to quell it. That pathogen is MRSA—methicillin-resistant Staphyloccocus aureus—and Superbug is the first book to...
by Bob Kern
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2017
It is pure torture to watch a loved one slowly lose everything and know there is nothing that can be done for them.
It is so important to reassure your loved ones during the early stages of this disease. The more worked up they get, the more inept and useless they feel. Nobody should feel...
by Gluten Dude
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
So many in the celiac community continue to struggle, even years after they've been diagnosed. They get their diagnosis and the only instructions they receive from their doctor is "Don’t eat gluten" (thanks Doc). So they walk out of the doctor’s office a bit terrified of their new life in front...
by Catherine Walker
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
Do you want to maintain psychological and physical wellbeing? Now, if your answer is yes… then, Aromatherapy is one of the best options you can go for. The reason is not farfetched: it is natural and involves using the volatile oils derived from plants.
In fact, the process triggers certain...
The Imaginations of Unreasonable Men
Inspiration, Vision, and Purpose in the Quest to End Malaria
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2010
A small cadre of scientists-collaborators and competitors-are determined to develop a vaccine for malaria-a feat most tropical disease experts have long considered impossible. Skepticism, doubt, and a host of logistical and financial obstacles dog their quest. Success may ultimately elude them. Why,...
Rain on a Distant Roof
A Personal Journey Through Lyme Disease in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
Rain on a Distant Roof takes readers inside the frightening but fascinating world of Lyme disease in Canada. This is the story of one woman's struggle to understand the disease that’s destroying her body and mind. Armed with a confusing diagnosis, a baffling array of symptoms, and a body that’s...
by J. F. C. Hecker
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
A 19th Century analysis of two of the 14th Century's most devastating pandemics: The Black Death, which is usually thought to be a form of bubonic plague, and the Dancing Mania, an unexplained epidemic that caused thousands of people to literally dance themselves to death.
Through the Shadowlands
A Science Writer's Odyssey into an Illness Science Doesn't Understand
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
Julie Rehmeyer felt like she was going to the desert to die.
Julie fully expected to be breathing at the end of the trip—but driving into Death Valley felt like giving up, surrendering. She’d spent years battling a mysterious illness so extreme that she often couldn’t turn over in her...