Medical Science category: 13998 books
A Machine Called Indomitable
The Remarkable Story of a Scientist's Inspiration, Invention, and Medical Breakthrough
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
The true story of the doctor who invented the MRI: “A fascinating account of how a significant medical development came about” (The New York Times).
Dr. Raymond Damadian was plagued with a mysterious and persistent stomach pain, yet physicians assured him that they could find nothing wrong....
Inheritance
How Our Genes Change Our Lives--and Our Lives Change Our Genes
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Award-winning physician and New York Times bestselling author Sharon Moalem, MD, PhD, reveals how genetic breakthroughs are completely transforming our understanding of both the world and our lives.
INHERITANCE
Conventional wisdom dictates that our genetic destiny is fixed at conception....
by Dr. Ben Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2016
Written by acclaimed integrative oncologist Ben Johnson, MD, DO, NMD, No Ma’am-ogram! Radical Rethink on Mammograms refutes the medical myths and fallacies at the root of today’s conventional breast health care protocols, offering readers safer solutions to breast cancer prevention, diagnosis,...
The Stem Cell Hope
How Stem Cell Medicine Can Change Our Lives
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2011
**A landmark book by the senior science writer at Time magazine introduces us to a medical breakthrough that can save our lives. **
Few people know much about stem cell research beyond the ethical questions raised by using embryos. But in the last decade, stem cell research has made huge...
The Vaccine Race
Science, Politics, and the Human Costs of Defeating Disease
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
**"A real jewel of science history...brims with suspense and now-forgotten catastrophe and intrigue...Wadman’s smooth prose calmly spins a surpassingly complicated story into a real tour de force."—The New York Times
“Riveting . . . [The Vaccine Race] invites comparison with...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2017
This book explores key developments in Non-medical Prescribing in the UK. Addressing the needs of countries in the European Market and beyond, which have been closely watching UK developments and would be interested in embedding or developing counterparts of their own.
Featuring chapters...
Aging Mechanisms
Longevity, Metabolism, and Brain Aging
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
This book brings together the most up-to-date information on recent research results of leading laboratories on aging science in East Asia, particularly in Japan, Korea, and Hong Kong. Starting with a comprehensive overview of various hypotheses on biological mechanisms of aging by Dr. Sataro Goto,...
by Steve Glass, Brian Hatzel, Rick Albrecht
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Move at your own pace with this kinesiology course guide
A required course for majors pursuing sports medicine, exercise science, nursing, or sports therapy degrees, kinesiology is central to a variety of fields. Kinesiology For Dummies tracks an introductory course in the science and imparts...
Meyler's Side Effects of Drugs 15E
The International Encyclopedia of Adverse Drug Reactions and Interactions
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014
Building on the success of the 14 previous editions, this remarkable reference has been extensively reorganized and expanded and now comprises almost 1,500 individual drug articles providing the most complete coverage of adverse reactions and interactions found anywhere. Each article contains detailed...
Heart
The Inside Story of our Body's Most Heroic Organ
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2017
In this lively and informative exploration of all aspects of the heart, Johannes Hinrich von Borstel offers a perfect mix of medical fact and amusing anecdote. A doctor, prospective cardiologist, and former paramedic-as well as a successful science-slammer-von Borstel relates his own experiences to...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2008
Continuing progress has been made in understanding the brain at the molecular, anatomic, and physiological levels in the years following the "Decade of the Brain," with the results providing insight into the underlying basis of many neurological disease processes. In Neuroscience in Medicine,...
The Lost Language of Plants
The Ecological Importance of Plant Medicine to Life on Earth
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2002
This could be the most important book you will read this year. Around the office at Chelsea Green it is referred to as the "pharmaceutical Silent Spring." Well-known author, teacher, lecturer, and herbalist Stephen Harrod Buhner has produced a book that is certain to generate controversy....
Mold
Medical and Legal Elements
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
Mold: Medical and Legal Elements provides a primer covering medical and legal issues involved in mold litigation. A physician attorney who has been a senior public health official and expert witness and a trial attorney wrote this book. His experiences have provided him with unusual insights into...
Metabolomics and Microbiomics
Personalized Medicine from the Fetus to the Adult
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Metabolomics and Microbiomics: Personalized Medicine from the Fetus to the Adult encompasses the most recent advances on the usage of metabolomics and microbiome research to improve disease diagnosis and healthcare. Medicine is changing from epidemiologic, descriptive, reductionist, and reactive approaches...