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by Suzette Brown
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2013
This book is for all of the caregivers out there who slowly found themselves in the position of taking care of a loved one who may no longer even recognize them due to the ravages of Alzheimer's. Through Brown's experience watching from the sidelines as her mother slowly declined, to the day-to-day...
by Hamilton Hall
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2011
The latest advice from the original bestselling Back Doctor
Twenty-five years ago, Dr. Hamilton Hall wrote the book that changed the way back-pain sufferers deal with their affliction. In The Back Doctor, he advocated activity instead of bed rest. In place of braces and girdles, he suggested...
by Kenneth Kee
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2013
Neuralgia
What is Neuralgia?
Neuralgia is any form of pain along a nerve.
What are the causes of Neuralgia?
Pressure on a nerve (intervertebral disc or trauma)
Inflammation of the nerve by herpes zoster virus ( shingles or herpes zoster)
Unknown cause...
by Kenneth Kee
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2012
This book is about the true stories about a family doctor's 40 years practice in the hospital and in his own family practice.
Case notes of some of the interesting cases are taken from his medical records from his family clinic. No name of patients are mentioned in the book.
It is impossible to write...
Vocation : Pédiatre
Autobiographie médicale
Language: French
Release Date: May 19, 2015
Né dans une famille juive en 1928, l’auteur évoque ses années de jeunesse qu’il vécut, en Allemagne, dans des conditions difficiles. La famille a pu échapper au régime nazi et s’est réfugiée en Belgique. Il décrit les nombreux et périlleux épisodes de la vie d’un enfant caché. Cette...
L'attrape-chance
Le récit d'un homme qui s'est battu contre le cancer
Language: French
Release Date: December 3, 2014
Pour lutter contre un cancer, il est prêt à tout expérimenter C’était l’unique et dernière chance Envahi par un cancer inguérissable, Dominique Eudes se soumet, dans la « Clinique d’expérimentation humaine » de Bethesda, aux violences d’un traitement révolutionnaire dont les résultats...
by Sheldon Cohen M.D. FACP
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
A medical error occurs when a healthcare provider chooses an improper method of care, or inappropriately executes a correct method of care. Medical errors result in death and disability. More often than not, the medical error results from a system failure, a lack of coordination amongst those responsible...
The Sinus Cure
7 Simple Steps to Relieve Sinusitis and Other Ear, Nose, and Throat Conditions
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2008
AT LAST--THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE FOR SINUS SUFFERERS!
If you're one of the thirty-eight million who endure from sinus problems, you know the debilitating effects this condition can bring--from pounding headaches, runny nose, and chronic fatigue to asthma, halitosis, even serious lung disease and...
No More Digestive Problems
The Answers Every Woman Needs--Real Solutions to Stop the Pain and Achieve Lasti ng Digestive Health
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2008
A staggering one in four women suffers some kind of gastrointestinal disorder. Some conditions, like irritable bowel syndrome, afflict more than twice as many women as men. Yet all too often, women suffer in silence—or fail to benefit when they receive the same treatment as men.
Now, in this...
by Ace McCloud
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
There is help for kidney stones!
Whether you want to (1) relieve the excruciating pain, (2) discover a treatment that works, or (3) prevent a recurrence of kidney stones, this book will teach you everything you need to know.
Kidney stones are a real pain!
Discover a wealth of...
My Schizophrenic Life
The Road to Recovery From Mental Illness
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
Vancouver artist Sandra Yuen MacKay has an abnormality of the brain - a disease called schizophrenia. As she says, "my life is schizophrenic because I have schizophrenia. It will always be there". Much of her life has been a struggle to cope with the symptoms of her disease and the side...
Rethinking Aging
Growing Old and Living Well in an Overtreated Society
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2011
For those fortunate enough to reside in the developed world, death before reaching a ripe old age is a tragedy, not a fact of life. Although aging and dying are not diseases, older Americans are subject to the most egregious marketing in the name of "successful aging" and "long life,"...
The Forgotten Cure
The Past and Future of Phage Therapy
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2011
Before the arrival of penicillin in the 1940s, phage therapy was one of the few weapons doctors had against bacterial infections. It saved the life of Hollywood legend Tom Mix before being abandoned by Western science. Now, researchers and physicians are rediscovering the treatment, which pits phage...
The Big Squeeze
A Social and Political History of the Controversial Mammogram
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2012
In 2009, an influential panel of medical experts ignited a controversy when they recommended that most women should not begin routine mammograms to screen for breast cancer until the age of fifty, reversing guidelines they had issued just seven years before when they recommended forty as the optimal...