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What the Drug Companies Won't Tell You and Your Doctor Doesn't Know
The Alternative Treatments That May Change Your Life--and the Prescriptions That Could Harm You
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2009
Adverse reactions to over-the-counter and prescription drugs are currently estimated to kill more than 100,000 Americans a year (making this the fourth leading cause of death in the United States behind cancer, heart disease, and stroke).
Drawing on more than twenty years of scientific research, Dr....
Change of Heart
Unraveling the Mysteries of Cardiovascular Disease
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
A Change of Heart is a detailed account of the revolutionary Framingham Heart study — which, over the years, has provided conclusive evidence that cardiovascular disease is largely the result of measurable and modifiable risk factors. First begun in 1948, not long after Franklin Delano Roosevelt...
You Can Heal Yourself
A Guide to Physical and Emotional Recovery After Injury or Illness
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
How to heal faster, better, and stronger during recovery from a serious illness or injury—a Harvard doctor's complete recovery plan
When people are seriously ill or injured, they receive immediate and often life-sustaining treatment. Then at some point they are usually left to their own devices...
by Randi Hutter Epstein, M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
**A Science News Favorite Science Book of 2018
“A sweeping, glorious story of hormones, threaded through with sex, suffering, neurology, biology, medicine, and self-discovery.” —Siddhartha Mukherjee**
Metabolism, behavior, sleep, mood swings, the immune system, fighting, fleeing,...
Ushering in Heaven
A Psychiatrist's Prescription for Healing, Joy, and Spiritual Awakening
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2016
This is a book about transformation. We all yearn to be free, live a joyous life and reach our highest potential, yet something holds us back. We keep searching for answers outside us in the world of form and yet the Heaven we seek is always within us. It is through grace we take a U-turn within...
Perfect Sight Without Glasses
The Cure of Imperfect Sight by Treatment Without Glasses
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
Do you read imperfectly? Can you observe then that when you look at the first word, or the first letter, of a sentence you do not see best where you are looking; that you see other words, or other letters, just as well as or better than the one you are looking at? Do you observe also that the harder...
Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters
The 30-Day Challenge
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2012
Dr. Meg Meeker issues fathers thirty days of challenges to help strengthen their relationships with their daughters. Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters: The 30-Day Challenge is the highly anticipated follow-up companion to the national bestseller, Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters by Dr. Meg Meeker. The...
The Healing Paradox
A Revolutionary Approach to Treating and Curing Physical and Mental Illness
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
Why does Western medicine fail to cure chronic physical and mental illness? Why do so many treatments and drugs work only for a limited time before eventually losing effectiveness or producing harmful side effects?
Dr. Steven Goldsmith's answer is at once counterintuitive and commonsensical:...
The Woman with a Worm in Her Head
And Other True Stories of Infectious Disease
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2002
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...
by Melissa Yuan-Innes, M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2012
The hours are inhumane. Thoracic surgeon: "Never stand when you can sit. Never sit when you can lie down. Never lie down when you can sleep."
Orthopedic surgery resident: "We do 72 hours on call on the weekends...but if you just accept that you'll have no life for five years,...
The Complex Life of a Woman Doctor
Medicine and Motherhood
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2006
Dr. Gloria Schrager has written a revealing memoir about her struggle to become a doctor at a time when women physicians were an anomaly. The era she has lived through has been incredibly eventful: she relates how the Great Depression, World War II, the McCarthy Unamerican Activities Committee, the...
The Bipolar Child (Third Edition)
The Definitive and Reassuring Guide to Childhood's Most Misunderstood Disorder
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2007
Since it first appeared on bookshelves, The Bipolar Child has made an indelible mark on the field of psychiatry and has become the resource that families rely upon. Now, with more than 200,000 copies sold, the first book about early-onset bipolar disorder is completely revised and expanded.
Bipolar...
by Susan Besze Wallace, Monica M.D. Reed
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
New moms run into a host of new challenges once baby arrives, including getting back into shape, developing a parenting style, readjusting schedules, and interacting with their husbands in new ways. With compassion and humor--and always the privilege of motherhood in mind--The New Mom's Guides go...
Autopsy of War
A Personal History
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
On the outside, John Parrish is a highly successful doctor, having risen to the top of his field as department head at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital. Inside, however, he was so tortured by the memories of his tour of duty as a marine battlefield doctor in Vietnam that he...