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by Andy Meyer
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2010
You need to know how to protect your family from the frightening and devastating effects of prescription drug abuse. “Prescription Drug Abuse: Protect Your Family” provides broad strokes suggestions and guidelines for detecting and preventing prescription drug abuse as well has pointing the way to recovery.
Nasty, Brutish, and Long
Adventures in Eldercare
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2009
Read Ira Rosofsky's posts on the Penguin Blog
A candid, humane, and improbably humorous look at the world of eldercare
In nursing homes across the country, members of the Greatest Generation are living out their last days. Life is a succession of pokes and prods, medications, TV, bingo,...
Unforgettable Journey
Tips to Survive Your Parent's Alzheimer's Disease Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2010
"There are many books written about Alzheimer's disease. The concise nature and easy readability of this book will make it an effective tool for family members with a parent who has dementia. The upbeat nature and 'Tips' section at the end of each chapter helps the book read in much the same...
You've Gotta Fight Back!
Winning with serious illness, injury, or disability
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
The heart of this book consists of thirteen, riveting, in-depth stories of people who fought back with courage, humor, and a positive attitude. In doing so, they have provided valuable guidance for you, the readers of this inspiring work.
The seriously ill, their friends and family will gain...
Stricken
Voices from the Hidden Epidemic of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Develop a better understanding of what CFS/CFIDS sufferers are going through!
In the 1980s, a strange emerging epidemic baffled doctors in Incline Village, Nevada. Dismissed by the media as “The Yuppie Flu,” Chronic Fatigue Immune Dysfunction Syndrome (CFIDS) turned out to be neither a...
Recovering The Self
A Journal of Hope and Healing (Vol. III, No. 3) -- Focus on Health
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Recovering the Self: A Journal of Hope and Healing (Vol. III, No. 3) April 2011
Recovering The Self is a quarterly journal which explores the themes of recovery and healing through the lenses of poetry, memoir, opinion, essays, fiction, humor, art, media reviews and psychoeducation. Contributors...
Bird Flu
Everything You Need to Know About the Next Pandemic
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2008
"Marc Siegel is an articulate voice of reason in a world beset by hype and hysteria. We would be well advised to listen closely to what he has to say."
-Jerome Groopman, M.D., staff writer, the New Yorker
"Siegel cuts through the hype about the 'deadly' this and the 'lethal'...
Ebola Pandemic
Current Facts For Preparing & Surviving The Outbreak
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
This book goes right to the questions and topics everyone is asking and talking about. Like, What Is Ebola? Ebola Symptoms & Diagnosis, How to Survive Ebola? How Is It Transmitted? These topics and more are addressed in this new book by Steve Jones.
Body Counts
A Memoir of Politics, Sex, AIDS, and Survival
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
The founder of POZ magazine shares “a captivating…eyewitness account from inside the AIDS epidemic” (Next) and “a moving, multi-decade memoir of one gay man’s life” (San Francisco Chronicle).
As a politics-obsessed Georgetown freshman, Sean Strub arrived in Washington, DC, from...
by Richard Horowitz
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
From one of the country's foremost doctors comes a ground-breaking book about diagnosing, treating and healing Lyme, and peeling away the layers that lead to chronic disease.
You may not know that you have Lyme. It can mimic every disease process including Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia,...
Disease-Proof
Slash Your Risk of Heart Disease, Cancer, Diabetes, and More--by 80 Percent
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
“If you want to build better health and a better future, this book makes an excellent tool kit.”—David A. Kessler, MD, author of The End of Overeating and former commissioner of the FDA
It sometimes seems as if everyone around us is being diagnosed with a chronic illness—and that we...
Your Health Destiny
How to Unlock Your Natural Ability to Overcome Illness, Feel Better, and Live Longer
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
An internist and clinical instructor at Harvard Medical School fuses Eastern practices with cutting edge Western medicine to help you connect body and mind to transform your health today and tomorrow.
Over the course of her decades-long career, Dr. Eva Selhub has discovered a fundamental truth:...
Arthritis Rx
A Cutting-Edge Program for a Pain-Free Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2007
“…a superb collection of practical information and advice for the patient with arthritis.”—Allan Gibofsky, M.D., former president of the American College of Rheumatology
Stop living your life with Arthritis pain. Vijay Vad, M.D., author of Back Rx, has written a comprehensive guide that...
by Pat Carroll
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
This comprehensive, accessible home reference guide addresses a wide range of health concerns-as only a nurse who knows the inside story on healthcare can. From headaches to ankle sprains, asthma to zinc remedies, this authoritative resource reveals what everyone needs to know in order to get healthy-and...