Demos Health imprint: 137 books
Cooking through Cancer Treatment to Recovery
Easy, Flavorful Recipes to Prevent and Decrease Side Effects at Every Stage of Conventional Therapy
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2015
For cancer patients undergoing treatment, foods that prevent and reduce side effects, promote healing, and increase your quality of life.
Written by a naturopathic physician and a certified nutritionist specializing in complementary cancer care, Cooking through Cancer Treatment to Recovery...
Sleep Soundly Every Night, Feel Fantastic Every Day
A Doctor's Guide to Solving Your Sleep Problems
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2014
If you have insomnia, always feel tired, or can't sleep because of a restless or snoring partner, help is here.
Do you have trouble getting to sleep?
Do you take a long time to get up and get going in the morning?
Do you wake up feeling like you barely slept at all?
If...
Epilepsy, 199 Answers
A Doctor Responds To His Patients Questions
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2008
Andrew N. Wilner is a recipient of the Click 2008 AAN Journalism Fellowship Award!
The Epilepsy Foundation estimates that 2.7 million Americans have epilepsy, and that an additional 181,000 new cases are diagnosed every year. Being diagnosed with any chronic disease can cause confusion and...
IBS
365 Tips for Living Well
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2015
Improve your health and quality of life with expert advice and strategies to outsmart IBS.
Filled with practical tips and support to help you deal with the stress and lifestyle changes that come with living with IBS each day, IBS: 365 Tips for Living Well will show you how to:
Find ways...
Being Single, with Cancer
A Solo Survivor's Guide to Life, Love, Health, and Happiness
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2014
Filled with practical tips, resources and personal stories, an empowering and candid guide to dealing with cancer as a single person/p>
Diagnosed with a rare form of ovarian cancer seven years ago, Tracy Maxwell understands the unique swirl of hopes and fears, insecurities and triumphs of...
Arthritis
300 Tips for Making Life Easier
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2008
Arthritis: 300 Tips for Making Life Easier is a compendium of tips, techniques, and life-task shortcuts all learned from personal experience. Author Shelley Peterman Schwarz has lived with a chronic disease for years and as a result had to develop these creative ideas to make her life easier.
These...
The Power of Wagging Tails
A Doctor's Guide to Dog Therapy and Healing
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2011
Foreword Reviews 2011 Book of the Year Honorable Mention (Health Category)
Medical studies have consistently shown that patients benefit from therapy dog visits. One recent study of 59 adults showed that following a therapy dog visit their energy levels increased, respiratory rated calmed significantly...
Yoga and Parkinson's Disease
A Journey to Health and Healing
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
Ease stiffness, improve strength and balance, and relieve stress with gentle, easy yoga postures.
Yoga is one of the most beneficial complementary therapies for Parkinsonís disease (PD), helping to increase flexibility, correct posture, loosen tight, painful muscles, build confidence, and...
by Lorraine Steefel, RN, MSN
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
Live the best quality of life possible with this expert guide to chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS)
CFS is not ìall in your head.î Written by a registered nurse and parent of a child with chronic fatigue, What Nurses Know: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome provides compassionate support and practical...
It's Not All in Your Head
Anxiety, Depresson, Mood Swings, and MS
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2010
One of the greatest challenges people face when dealing with an unpredictable disease such as Multiple Sclerosis is learning to overcome the psychological burden of not knowing what each day will bring. MS is a true roller coaster of emotions and dealing with these feelings is a critical issue for...
Hepatitis C Treatment One Step at a Time
Inspiration and Practical Tips for Successful Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013
Hepatitis C is the most common blood-borne virus in the U.S. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that 3.2 million Americans are chronically infected with the chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV). Treatment for HCV is long, sometimes lasting a year or more with success rate currently...
Multiple Sclerosis, Fifth Edition
A Guide for the Newly Diagnosed
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2017
An MS diagnosis is not an endpoint. This is the place to begin your education and manage your future.
Now in its fifth edition, Multiple Sclerosis: A Guide for the Newly Diagnosed is the best-selling guide to multiple sclerosis (MS) for newly diagnosed patients and their families. Written in...
by Patricia Kennedy, RN, CNP
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012
Incorporating exercise, nutrition, and positive thinking, the Guide to Lifestyle Empowerment shows you how to move the focus from what you canít do by putting it on what you can do to live fully with multiple sclerosis. When Olympic champion Jimmie Heuga founded the Can Do Multiple Sclerosis non-profit...
Understanding Pain
What It Is, Why It Happens, and How It's Managed
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2006
An estimated 50 million Americans suffer from chronic pain, and an additional 25 million experience acute pain as a result of surgery or injury. Many people assume they must live with pain, but this is simply untrue. Most pain can be managed or greatly eased with proper pain management; however, the...