Hammersmith Health Books imprint: 45 books

This essential guide for carers, be they professional or friends and relations, provides guidance around a range of concerns associated with end of life. The book tackles this difficult subject in a practical and caring way, showing how appropriate arrangements can be made to ensure the dying person's...

Mary Jordan brings together the findings of a wealth of research papers and other sources that together give strong pointers as to how changes in diet and lifestyle might reduce the risk or mitigate the consequences of dementia. Currently there is no cure or known cause for dementia, but the book...

Do you have vitamin B12 deficiency? Do you know what the cause is? Are you getting B12 replacement injections? Then you should be back to normal - simple? This is what most doctors believe - that simply providing standard B12 replacement-treatment will return sufferers to 'normal' and that they will...

Why Am I So Exhausted? can help you by explaining the many possible causes of chronic fatigue, how these causes can be systematically investigated and what to do about problems identified; practial and realistic it shows there is rarely a single cause and never a magic bullet

Have you ever, unsuccessfully, tried low-calorie dieting? There are very good reasons why it doesn't work, but somehow they remain a secret... After more than 35 years of clinical practice and helping many hundreds of patients to live at their ideal weight, Dr John Mansfield shares his unique approach:...

The Smart Guide to Infertility provides an authoritative companion to seeking help from specialists, giving clear but indepth guidance as to the causes of infertility, the pros and cons of currently available treatments, and an approach to deciding what is right for you, unbiased by any commercial interests

self-help guide to coping with diabetes as a teenager

This practical guide to protecting and straightening your back will help you understand the causes of the condition, the range of treatments available and how best to avoid future episodes.

Do you have a close relative who has died from, or is experiencing, aggressive breast, ovarian or prostate cancer? Have they been tested for the BRCA gene mutation? Have you? At the age of 35 and following the death of her mother from ovarian cancer, Clarissa Foster was found to carry a harmful mutation...

In the late '80s, NASA studied houseplants as a way to purify the air in space facilities. They found a range of plants that filter out common volatile organic compounds. In the same way, these plants can help clean the indoor air here on Earth, which is typically far more polluted than outdoor air...

Get Tough with Type 2 Diabetes is a cutting-edge yet practical guide for newly-diagnosed and established type 2 diabetes patients and their families, by one of the UK’s leading diabetes physicians. It discusses ideas that have emerged over the past 20 years about the fundamental problems that cause...

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is the term that includes Crohn’s disease (which can affect any part of the gut) and ulcerative colitis (which affects the colon and rectum) – two chronic auto-immune conditions that cause gut pain, weight loss, whole-body symptoms and poor digestion leading to...

The 'D' Word starts with the premise that Dementia is here to stay - a simple cure is not going to be found that will make it a condition of the past. As such it is a social problem, not a medical one. We have to learn to live with Dementia and, as it will affect nearly all of us either as carers...

Dementia may be progressive and incurable, but there is much that can be done to make life easier for people with the condition and for their carers. This book is about how to do just that, from diagnosis on. Mary Jordan has been supporting people with dementia and their carers for seven years while...