Ailments Diseases category: 10428 books
The Joslin Guide to Diabetes
A Program for Managing Your Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
An indispensable, up-to-date resource for managing your diabetes from the global leader in diabetes research, care, and education.
Finding out that you have diabetes immediately raises questions about the condition, its treatment, and its impact on your future. Why did I get diabetes? What...
Thriving with Diabetes
Learn How to Take Charge of Your Body to Balance Your Sugars and Improve Your Lifelong Health - Featuring a 4-Step Plan for Long-Lasting Success!
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
Thriving with Diabetes empowers you to take charge of your diabetes, so you don't just deal with your symptoms, but change the way you think to improve your health, happiness, and quality of life. Through a simple four-step process, you'll learn how to intuitively understand your blood sugars and...
by Christine Bryden
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
Christine Bryden was 46 years old when she was diagnosed with dementia, and in this book she describes her remarkable emotional, physical and spiritual journey in the three years immediately following. Offering rare first-hand insights into how it feels to gradually lose the ability to undertake tasks...
by Mark Crislip
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
H1N1. Staph aureus. Traveler's diarrhea. All examples of human interaction with the microbial world, which counts viruses, bacteria, and parasites too numerous to mention. Infectious Disease doctor Mark Crislip has a strange relationship with this world-he spends most of his time trying to kill it,...
by C. Gale Perkins
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2011
The Babys Cross is a memoir about a tuberculosis survivor named Gale, a young girl who fought many obstacles in her life. She was born prematurely and with the help of a neighbor, she survived. At age two, a fall down the stairs was to take her life in a direction that seemed almost impossible to endure...
Pale Rider
The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
In 1918, the Italian-Americans of New York, the Yupik of Alaska and the Persians of Mashed had almost nothing in common except for a virus--one that triggered the worst pandemic of modern times and had a decisive effect on the history of the twentieth century.
The Spanish flu of 1918-1920 was...
Keep Out of Reach of Children
Reyes Syndrome, Aspirin, and the Politics of Public Health
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2015
This will be the first book-length history of Reye’s syndrome, and there is nothing else outside of the professional medical literature that chronicles even part of the story that made headlines and caused panic in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.
Keep Out of Reach of Children addresses many...
by Phyllis Whitsell
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
Two separate lives, one heartbreaking secret
When Phyllis Whitsell was just eight months old, her mother died of tuberculosis. At least, that what’s Phyllis grew up being told. But Phyllis never believed it was true. She prayed every night for God to take care of her birth mother, holding...
by Richard N Scott
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2014
In Chronic Pain and Me, author Richard Scott chronicles his fourteen-year struggle with intense, chronic pain. His life changed forever on October 3, 2000, when he fell down a set of concrete and steel stairs. From that day forward, he went through many x-rays and MRIs, followed by medical device...
Parkinson's Lite
the Laughable Side
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
Parkinson’s Lite is a non-fiction funny book about a not-so-funny disease. It brings to light Marie and Pat, a married couple, who in an attempt to cope with Parkinson’s, wind up switching roles. Pat, the retired cop accustomed to great Italian meals and lots of pampering to being the caretaker,...
How to Become a Schizophrenic
The Case Against Biological Psychiatry
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2003
demonstrates the physical, psychological, and social harm resulting from the label schizophrenic and the continuous need to reexamine the underpinnings and attitudes of psychiatry.
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Of all the books written about schizophrenianone is more comprehensive, accurate, thorough, and...
How to Heal Teeth Naturally & Cure Tooth Decay
The book on holistic dental care, healing cavities, toothaches, dental pains, oil pulling and more...
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
"For The Person Who Wants to Wage War Against Cavities, Tooth Decay, Bad Breath, Gum Diseases etc. -- Without Going to the Dentist!"
I don't know about you, but I hate dentists! I hate the painful teeth drilling, needles, and various other SCARY dental procedures. As much as possible...
by Deborah Wolbrette, MD
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2015
This issue of Medical Clinics of North America, Guest Edited by Deborah Wolbrette, MD is devoted to Cardiovascular Disease. Dr. Wolbrette has assembled a group of expert authors to review the following topics: Syncope due to Autonomic Dysfunction: Diagnosis and Management; 2013 Lipid Guidelines;...
Deadliest Enemy
Our War Against Killer Germs
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
We are facing an overwhelming army of deadly, invisible enemies. We need a plan -- before it's too late.
Unlike natural disasters, whose destruction is concentrated in a limited area over a period of days, and illnesses, which have devastating effects but are limited to individuals and their...