Ailments category: 10428 books
The Autism Sourcebook
Everything You Need to Know About Diagnosis, Treatment, Coping, and Healing--from a Mother Whose Child Recovered
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Practical advice and information from the world's foremost experts on autism -- and a mother's own hard-won lessons from helping her son recover from the disorder
When Karen Siff Exkorn's son, Jake, was diagnosed with autism, she struggled to pull together comprehensive information about the...
Cancer, chimio, champagne !
Un livre de confidences
Language: French
Release Date: November 4, 2016
Le témoignage saisissant d'un combat contre la maladie.Cancer, Chimio... Champagne ! Mon crédo, ma façon de vivre cette maladie. Je vous livre ici mes craintes, mais aussi mes folies. Ma joie de vivre m'a permis d'affronter ce Crabe et de faire la peau aux idées reçues. Ce n'est pas parce qu'on...
Dear Cancer, Love Victoria
A Mum's Diary of Hope
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
Fully updated to include a new introduction by Lynda Thomas, CEO of Macmillan Cancer Support.
'I can't bear not to be with these three most important people in my life. I can't bear not to be there alongside Mark as my children grow up. My bright, funny, affectionate boys who are never embarrassed...
Gott und der Paradiesvogel
Szenarische Essays über den Weg in den Tod zurück in das Leben
Language: German
Release Date: April 25, 2019
Die schillernde, strahlende Künstlerin Isabella Bogner-Bader erhält völlig überraschend die erschütternde Diagnose „Leukämie“. In ihren Aufzeichnungen, vom Krankenbett aus geschrieben, wird nichts beschönigt, nicht die nagende Angst, die aufkommende Verzweiflung, die Trostlosigkeit und...
Silent Body, Vibrant Mind
Living With Motor Neurone Disease
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
In 2001 Peter Anderson was 37 and had the perfect life: very much in love and recently married with an infant daughter he adored; an intelligent and sensitive man working a job he loved as a popular secondary school teacher and a talented sportsman training for a marathon...
The bubble was...
Zu früh, um aufzugeben!
Wie ich lernte, mein Leben wieder in die Hand zu nehmen
Language: German
Release Date: September 22, 2018
"An einem ganz normalen Neujahrstag steht mein Leben plötzlich Kopf: Alles beginnt mit meiner linken Hand, die sich nicht mehr bewegen lässt. Daraus wird ein Kampf - gegen den Krebs, die Behörden und mich selbst. Ich habe den Weg von den ersten Anzeichen bis zur Genesung aufgeschrieben, um...
A Twisted Fate
My life with Dystonia
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
Brenda Currey Lewis was a typical, active child. But when she was seven years old her life changed dramatically. Generalized dystonia (dystonia musculorum deformans) turned her muscles against her. This rare neurological movement disorder causes muscle groups to tug and twist the body into abnormal postures....
We Know How This Ends
Living while Dying
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
2010 had been a very good year for Bruce H. Kramer. But what began as a floppy foot and leg weakness led to a shattering diagnosis: he had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. ALS is a cruel, unrelenting neurodegenerative disease where the body’s muscles slowly weaken, including those used to move, swallow,...
Probably Someday Cancer
Genetic Risk and Preventative Mastectomy
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2019
After learning that she inherited a BRCA2 genetic mutation that put her at high risk for breast and ovarian cancer, Kim Horner’s doctors urged her to consider having a double mastectomy. But how do you decide whether to have a surgery to remove your breasts to reduce your risk for a disease you...
by Fraser Sherman
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2012
ABOUT THE BOOK The Emperor of All Maladies not only describes the nature and biology of cancer, it discusses a topic most readers care just as much, if not more about: The possibility of a cure. For close to a century, doctors have been hoping for and working on creating a magic bullet, a...
by Marie-Paule Fayt-Davin
Language: French
Release Date: March 20, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: March 20, 2014
Un A.V.C. (accident vasculaire cérébral) ne prévient pas et frappe soudainement à votre porte sans crier gare. Dans ce récit poignant, émouvant, Marie-Paule Fayt-Davin raconte comment sa vie a basculé en 2003. Voilà dix ans qu'elle lutte, qu'elle combat, chaque seconde qui passe, ce spectre...
Tooth Sense
Uncovering Hidden Secrets of Better Dentistry and Living
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
The prospect of dental care for many presents no problem, yet for others it does. Jeffrey A Oras, DMD, has looked beyond age old stereotypes attached to anxiety about dentistry, widening his understanding of what makes this anxiety unique both to dental care and at the same time related to how all...
Sickle Cell Disease / Sickle Cell Trait
The Triumphant Struggle of One Man
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
This book is based on a disease that has plagued the Cushite race from the dawn of existence: sickle cell or trait sickle cell, for which experts continue to say there is no cure. As a victim of this disease, I prayed I would be provided with the answers to overcome this serious health condition....
Sin Bravely
A Memoir of Spiritual Disobedience
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
**An NPR Best Book of 2017
"Rowe deftly juxtaposes dark humor with raw emotion without ever yanking the reader out of the story." —*The Guardian***
As a young girl, Maggie Rowe took the idea of salvation very seriously. Growing up in a moderately religious household, her fear of...