Ailments Diseases category: 10428 books
Feeding My Mother
Comfort and Laughter in the Kitchen as My Mom Lives with Memory Loss
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
**#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER
Based on her hugely popular Facebook posts and Instagram photos, Feeding My Mother is a frank, funny, inspirational and piercingly honest account of the transformation in Jann Arden's life that has turned her into the primary "parent" to her mom, who is in...
Brain Trust
The Hidden Connection Between Mad Cow and Misdiagnosed Alzheimer's Disease
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2004
When the cattle-borne sickness known as Mad Cow Disease first appeared in America in 2003, authorities were quick to assure the nation that the outbreak was isolated, quarantined, and posed absolutely no danger to the general public.
What we were not told was that the origins of the sickness may already...
Beating Back the Devil
On the Front Lines with the Disease Detectives of
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2008
The universal human instinct is to run from an outbreak of disease like Ebola. These doctors run toward it. Their job is to stop epidemics from happening.
They are the disease detective corps of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the federal agency that tracks and tries...
Walking in Their Shoes
Communicating with Loved Ones Who Have Alzheimer's Disease
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
"Walking In Their Shoes," is a sociological perspective on communicating with people diagnosed with moderate-severe Alzheimer's disease and where/how negative behaviors originate. This book includes true stories and illustrates how to successfully understand behaviors, resolve conflict,...
From Fatigued & Fat to Fantastic
Weight Loss
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2017
If you want to lose up to 10 pounds in 2 weeks, then keep reading...
Inside this book, you'll discover:
1. How this fast metabolism diet burns stubborn belly fat
2. Secret ways to lose weight fast
3. Why you don't need to diet to lose weight fast
4. Strategies...
No Saints around Here
A Caregiver’s Days
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
When we promise “in sickness and in health,” it may be a mercy that we don’t know exactly what lies ahead. Forcing food on an increasingly recalcitrant spouse. Brushing his teeth. Watching someone you love more than ever slip away day by day. As her husband James’s Parkinson’s disease with...
Healing Through Prayers
Light Workers
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2016
by Angie Gennaro
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2012
Chiari malformation (kee-AHR-ee mal-for-MAY-shun) is a condition in which brain tissue protrudes into your spinal canal. It occurs when part of your skull is abnormally small or misshapen, pressing on your brain and forcing it downward. Chiari malformation is uncommon, but improved imaging tests...
Brain Maker
The Power of Gut Microbes to Heal and Protect Your Brainfor Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
The bestselling author of Grain Brain uncovers the powerful role of gut bacteria in determining your brain's destiny.
Debilitating brain disorders are on the rise-from children diagnosed with autism and ADHD to adults developing dementia at younger ages than ever before. But a medical revolution...
by Valerie Byrne Rudisill
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012
Blindness A world that both horrifies and fascinates. Imagine you find your eyes aren't working quite right one day. You think you need glasses. Instead, over the next few months, while you lose your vision daily, you discover it is caused by a defect in your mitochondrial DNA. It is hereditary. There...
Baby Steps
Facing Up to Fibromyalgia
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
That Polio Season
Lt-Gov David Onley and the epidemic of 1953
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Sixty years ago this summer, the most severe polio epidemic on record claimed more than 8,000 victims across the country. About a quarter of those stricken with so-called infantile paralysis were in Ontario. Three-year-old Davie Onley, who would grow up to be the province's lieutenant-governor, was one....
The Boy and His Death
A True Story
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
In the poignant memoir The Boy and His Death, a mother chronicles her three-year journey as her young son is diagnosed with and battles testicular cancer. Marga Beukeboom had never even heard of testicular cancer when her twenty-one-year-old son was diagnosed with the diseaseeven though testicular...
Natural Alternatives to Antibiotics – Revised and Updated
How to treat infections without antibiotics
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2003
‘A long-awaited book that answers many questions.’
Jan de Vries
Antibiotics were developed in the 1940s. Then, they were hailed as a huge breakthrough in the treatment of bacterial infections. Today, they are the most commonly prescribed drugs worldwide. But massive over-prescription of...