Ailments Diseases category: 10428 books
The Public Health Crisis Survival Guide
Leadership and Management in Trying Times
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2018
Firefighters are taught to battle flames. Police learn to respond quickly to 911 calls. So why are so few health officials prepared for public health crises? The Public Health Crisis Survival Guide is here to help. Whether it's an infectious disease outbreak, a scathing news report, or a sudden budget...
The Blink of an Eye
A Memoir of Dying—and Learning How to Live Again
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2019
“A highly personal, deeply affecting account of what it is to be yanked from a happy, well-ordered life and thrust into a sudden, unimaginable, terrifying darkness. Rikke Schmidt Kjærgaard has done the impossible of putting into words an experience that would seem to be beyond expressing.”—from...
The Hearts of a Girl
The Journey Through Congenital Heart Disease & Heart Transplant
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
A riveting medical memoir about a family’s journey through multiple surgeries, and a determined battle for survival.
Jessica Carmel was born with a severe congenital heart condition. When she was just four days old, her parents learned she would need heart surgery.
They had no idea that her...
Adrenal Fatigue Cure Guide (Beat Chronic fatigue): Restoring your Hormones and Controling Thyroidism
Adrenal Fatigue Cure Guide (Beat Chronic fatigue): Restoring your Hormones and Controling Thyroidism
Restoring your Hormones and Controling Thyroidism
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Adrenal Fatigue is a state of the body wherein the Adrenal Glands begin functioning at sub par levels resulting in excessive stress, mood swings, chronic infections, influenza, bronchitis and pneumonia. Here is a boxed set of three books tackling the subject to help you combat the problem.
Changing Planet, Changing Health
How the Climate Crisis Threatens Our Health and What We Can Do about It
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2011
Climate change is now doing far more harm than marooning polar bears on melting chunks of ice—it is damaging the health of people around the world. Brilliantly connecting stories of real people with cutting-edge scientific and medical information, Changing Planet, Changing Health brings us to places...
by Michelle Montgomery
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
"'The doctor tells me I have Alzheimer's.' The truth of my husband's words shook our world. This is my diary written for a time during the ten years of his spiral into another space."
There's no question Alzheimer's is a horror for those who are afflicted by it. But what about those...
Where the Light Gets In
Losing My Mother Only to Find Her Again
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
“The relationship between a mother and daughter is one of the most complicated and meaningful there is. Kimberly Williams-Paisley writes about her own with grace, truth, and beauty as she shares her journey back to her mother in the wake of a devastating illness.” —Brooke Shields
Many...
You Don't Look Sick!
Living Well With Chronic Invisible Illness
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
You Donít Look Sick chronicles one personís true-life story of illness and her physicians compassionate commentary as they journey through the four stages of chronic illnessóGetting Sick, Being Sick, Grief and Acceptance and Living Well. The authors address such practical aspects as hiring a doctor,...
Nasty, Brutish, and Long
Adventures in Eldercare
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2009
Read Ira Rosofsky's posts on the Penguin Blog
A candid, humane, and improbably humorous look at the world of eldercare
In nursing homes across the country, members of the Greatest Generation are living out their last days. Life is a succession of pokes and prods, medications, TV, bingo,...
You've Gotta Fight Back!
Winning with serious illness, injury, or disability
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
The heart of this book consists of thirteen, riveting, in-depth stories of people who fought back with courage, humor, and a positive attitude. In doing so, they have provided valuable guidance for you, the readers of this inspiring work.
The seriously ill, their friends and family will gain...
Stricken
Voices from the Hidden Epidemic of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Develop a better understanding of what CFS/CFIDS sufferers are going through!
In the 1980s, a strange emerging epidemic baffled doctors in Incline Village, Nevada. Dismissed by the media as “The Yuppie Flu,” Chronic Fatigue Immune Dysfunction Syndrome (CFIDS) turned out to be neither a...
by Richard Horowitz
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
From one of the country's foremost doctors comes a ground-breaking book about diagnosing, treating and healing Lyme, and peeling away the layers that lead to chronic disease.
You may not know that you have Lyme. It can mimic every disease process including Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia,...
Sports Injuries
Handout on Health
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2013
This booklet is for athletes at all ages and levels, for people who exercise, as well as for health care professionals, coaches, and others who want to find out more about sports injuries. This booklet describes the different types of sports injuries, how they can be treated and prevented, and recent...
Memory's Last Breath
Field Notes on My Dementia
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2017 BY NPR
"For anyone facing dementia, [Saunders'] words are truly enlightening.... Inspiring lessons about living and thriving with dementia."---Maria Shriver, NBC's Today Show
A "courageous and singular book" (Andrew Solomon), Memory's Last...