Ailments Diseases category: 10428 books
Creativity and Communication in Persons with Dementia
A Practical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
Providing people with dementia with opportunities to engage in creative activity can play a crucial role in maintaining and enhancing communication, and in reinforcing personhood and identity. This thoughtful book describes how people with dementia, and the people who work with and care for them,...
Speaking Our Minds
What It's Like to Have Alzheimer's
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2014
"This is the best book I've ever read on Alzheimer's disease . . . Ms. Snyder's work teaches us a deep respect for the uniqueness of each individual with Alzheimer's disease, and that the most profound way to learn is to listen."
—Robyn Yale, LCSW, author of Counseling People with Early-Stage...
by Kenneth Kee
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2015
Baker’s cystA few months ago I had this patient who consulted me over a swelling at the back of his right knee which he felt was growing bigger.Having felt the swelling I suspected that it was a popliteal cyst.To exclude any other possible causes such as tumors or meniscus cyst,...
Childhood Cancer Survivors
A Practical Guide to Your Future
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
More than 325,000 children, teens, and adults in the United States are survivors of childhood cancer. The surgery, radiation, chemotherapy, and stem cell transplants used to cure children can affect growing bodies and developing minds. If survivors know of these potential problems, they can take steps...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2011
Authoritative information and practical advice from the nation's cancer experts about Chronic Myeloproliferative Disorders includes official medical data on signs, symptoms, early detection, diagnostic testing, risk factors and prevention, treatment options, surgery, radiation, drugs, chemotherapy,...
by Shirley Alarie
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2014
HELP and HOPE in a time of need. 'The Road Paved in Pink: A Practical and Personal Guide for Breast Cancer Patients and Their Loved Ones' is a booklet designed to educate and support the newly diagnosed breast cancer patient and her loved ones.
Lovey's nightmare has begun. She's been thrust...
The Key Facts on Coping With Cancer & Cancer Resources
Everything You Need to Know About Coping With Cancer & Cancer Resources
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
The Key Facts on Cancer series provides patients and caregivers with essential information on cancer. In this comprehensive guide, readers will learn about different types of cancer, cancer treatments, the risk factors and causes of cancer, facts on cancer prevention, methods of coping with...
by James A Barker
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015
The Year Book of Pulmonary Disease brings you abstracts of the articles that reported the year's breakthrough developments in pulmonary disease carefully selected from more than 500 journals worldwide. Expert commentaries evaluate the clinical importance of each article and discuss its application...
by Kenneth Kee
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2018
This book describes Myelofibrosis, Diagnosis and Treatment and Related Diseases
This is my 5th book on Fibrosis which as can be is a very destructive disease ending in organ failure or death or needing organ transplant (Lung, liver, heart, kidney and now bone marrow).
Like all organs, the bone marrow...
by Helen S. L., M.B.B.S., F.R.C.P.(C)
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2007
Cancer is one of the world's most dreaded diseases. Yet the past two decades have seen major revolutions in cancer therapy and steadily growing hopes for a cure. This book, written in easily understood language, provides an extensive look at the way medical professionals are treating the disease today....
Asian Aphrodisiacs
From Bangkok to Beijing - The Search for the Ultimate Turn-on
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
"Tiger penis soup? Rhino horn on the oyster half shell? Give me a break!" So says bestselling author Jerry Hopkins as he meets the people, visits the places, and "road tests" dozens of Asia's most popular aphrodisiacs in the first definitive survey of the region's best and worst...
by Brenda Webster
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Two emotionally fraught and complex themes collide in this powerful, moving novel: Alzheimer’s disease and the psychological aftermath for survivors of the Auschwitz concentration camp. The story chronicles the intellectual decline of Renzo, a once-brilliant Roman writer and filmmaker. Aware that...
Friday's Child
The Heartbreaking Story of a Mother's Love and a Family's Loss
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2008
In 2004, Jessica Palmer died suddenly of septicaemia, just six days after giving birth to her second child. Distraught, her husband Ben struggled to comprehend his loss and to care for their two young children. It later came to light that Jessica's condition can usually be easily detected and prevented...
The End of Memory
A Natural History of Aging and Alzheimer’s
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
It is a wicked disease that robs its victims of their memories, their ability to think clearly, and ultimately their lives. For centuries, those afflicted by Alzheimer's disease have suffered its debilitating effects while family members sit by, watching their loved ones disappear a little more each...