Ailments category: 10428 books
by Nancy N. Rue
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2009
How can God let bad things happen? Sophie's baby sister, Hope, is born with Down syndrome, and the Flakes dis her over an annoying new girl. Even her research as medical expert Dr. Devon Downing won't fix things, but Sophie learns love is at work even when she can't see it.
by Kara Rogers
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
As the world’s population expands, so too does the risk of communicable disease and global pandemics. Consequently, healthcare has assumed a greater centrality in the public consciousness both in the United States and around the world. With various national and international organizations dedicated...
Crisis in the Red Zone
The Story of the Deadliest Ebola Outbreak in History, and of the Outbreaks to Come
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2019
The 2013–2014 Ebola epidemic was the deadliest ever—but the outbreaks continue. Now comes a gripping account of the doctors and scientists fighting to protect us, an urgent wake-up call about the future of emerging viruses—from the #1 bestselling author of The Hot Zone, now a National Geographic...
The Plant Paradox
The Hidden Dangers in "Healthy" Foods That Cause Disease and Weight Gain
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
"I read this book... it worked. My autoimmune disease is gone and I'm 37 pounds lighter in my pleather." --Kelly Clarkson
Most of us have heard of gluten—a protein found in wheat that causes widespread inflammation in the body. Americans spend billions of dollars on gluten-free diets in an...
by Mariah L Schwarz
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2018
I didn’t just lose my voice. I lost everything that I was and everything I had to give. After a first lifetime of travel and books and moving and culture and art and family and friends. After all that I’d become: I lost myself. Just South of the Solar Plexus, a memoir, is a story about growing...
Remembering the Music, Forgetting the Words
Travels with Mom in the Land of Dementia
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
From the author of the much-loved memoir Cottage for Sale, Must Be Moved comes an engaging and inspiring account of a daughter who must face her mother’s premature decline.
In Remembering the Music, Forgetting the Words, Kate Whouleystrips away the romantic veneer of mother-daughter love to bare...
January First
A Child's Descent into Madness and Her Father's Struggle to Save Her
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
Michael Schofield’s daughter January is at the mercy of her imaginary friends, except they aren’t the imaginary friends that most young children have; they are hallucinations. And January is caught in the conflict between our world and their world, a place she calls Calalini. Some of these hallucinations,...
by Bob Greene, John J. Merendino Jr., M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
Bob Greene has helped millions of Americans become fit and healthy with his life-changing Best Life plan. Now, for the first time, Oprah's trusted expert on diet and fitness teams up with a leading endocrinologist and an expert dietitian to offer a Best Life program tailored to the needs of people...
by Casey Watson
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
The fifth book from bestselling author and specialist foster carer Casey Watson. A recent census shows that there are at least 175,000 child carers in the UK, 13,000 of whom care for more than 50 hours a week. Many remain invisible to a system that would otherwise help them. Abigail is one of those...
Child Molestation Stories: Voices of Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse (Molestation, Rape, and Incest)
Child Molestation Stories: Voices of Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse (Molestation, Rape, and Incest)
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2011
Male and female survivors of child molestation, rape, and incest share their stories to let other victims know that they are not alone.Hear stories from girls and boys abused in . . .~ Brief Incidents . . . when I was in the hospital . . . walking home from school . . . in a rest room . . . at the...
Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Cancer Book
101 Stories of Courage, Support and Love
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2011
Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Cancer Book delivers 101 powerful stories of courage, hope, support, and love to help cancer patients and their families. A bonus memoir by a cancer patient bound in, with intimate and helpful words of advice.
A support group you can hold in your hand, this loving...
Before I Forget
Love, Hope, Help, and Acceptance in Our Fight Against Alzheimer's
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
**“A powerful portrait of Alzheimer’s…marked by strong emotions and often bleak honesty.”
—The Washington Post
“The vulnerability, courage, and honesty in Before I Forget are heart-opening. Fear can be paralyzing…yet B. and Dan beautifully demonstrate that there is a different...
Healing Fibroids
A Doctor's Guide to a Natural Cure
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
An exciting new approach to regaining health without surgery!
Fact: By the time they reach menopause forty percent of American women have at least one uterine fibroid; 600,000 women are diagnosed each year.
Fact: Fibroids are the leading cause of hysterectomy, the second most common surgical...
Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies
The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2008
Autism is an epidemic: It has spiked 1,500 percent in the last twenty years. ADHD, asthma and allergies have also skyrocketed over the same time period. One of these conditions now strikes one in every three children in America. But there is hope. Leading medical innovator Kenneth Bock, M.D., has...