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Until recently, hepatitis C-which infects 170 million people throughout the world-was always fatal. But today there is finally a remarkable cure. Elizabeth Rains describes how she was likely infected with hepatitis C during her wild hippie days, how she was diagnosed more than four decades...

Deaths from epidemic disease are rare in the developed world, yet in our technically and medically advanced society, an ever-present risk of disease has created an industry out of fear. As Philip Alcabes persuasively argues in Dread, our anxieties about epidemics often stray from the facts...

A normal, healthy woman becomes host to a pork tapeworm that is burrowing into her brain and disabling her motor abilities. A handsome man contracts Chicken Pox and ends up looking like the victim of a third degree burn. A vigorous young athlete is bitten by an insect and becomes a target...

The latest Ebola outbreak is the worst in history. What happens if the infection is spread further into the U.S.? Although officials clam a worldwide pandemic is unlikely, maybe that is not a risk you should be willing to take. Don't just sit idly and regret it when the stakes are raised....

The Zaire Ebola virus appeared out of nowhere and then disappeared into thin air after killing scores of humans in West Africa. In The Ebola Outbreak in West Africa, author Constantine N. Nana attempts to better understand the outbreak and answer the question: why? Through meticulous research,...

Le terme tuberculose englobe toutes les manifestations pathologiques susceptibles d'être provoquées dans l'organisme par un agent pathogène bactérien spécifique, le bacille de Koch (Mycobacterium tuberculosis). De toutes les localisations de cette affection, la tuberculose pulmonaire (cf...

Frank Bowden, a specialist in the field of infectious disease and sexual health, looks at one bug at a time, weaving around them the stories of his patients and their families, the doctors and the difficulties they face and the horrors and successes of hospitals and health care programs. Through Bowden’s...

MRSA (Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) is an infection caused by the microbe Staphylococcus aureus “staph”. What makes MRSA (Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) different from a regular staph infection is that a staph infection is usually treated with Methicillin,...

Dans la peau d'une personne diagnostiquée AlzheimerVicky a été diagnostiquée Alzheimer en 2012. À force d’exercices, de sorties et d’activités, elle vit sa maladie sereinement. Son espoir : une stabilisation définitive.Dans ce livre, elle raconte ses réflexions quotidiennes, la manière...

Alzheimer décrit de l'intérieur...Annie-Claude Nakau est atteinte du syndrome de Benson, pathologie proche de l’Alzheimer. Auteure et narratrice, elle raconte comment elle perd la vue à une vitesse vertigineuse et se trouve destituée progressivement de ses capacités intellectuelles et physiques.Ce...

“A brave and illuminating journey inside the mind, heart, and life of a person with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease.”—Lisa Genova, author of Still Alice Wendy Mitchell had a busy job with the British National Health Service, raised her two daughters alone, and spent her weekends running...

Emma was diagnosed with Parkinson's, a degenerative neurologcal condition, at the age of 29. Defiant against 'little p' she began a one-woman crusade to show it who's boss. Dropping the P Bomb charts the highs and lows of Emma's first year with the condition, through big life events and day-to-day...

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"This book gives you a detailed insight into the nature, causes and management of asthma.It is a skilful yet simple presentation of the medical facts about asthma, culled from the knowledge and experience of many doctors and scientists.Buy the book for greater awareness and better control of the ailment.It...