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Sports Injuries
Handout on Health
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2013
This booklet is for athletes at all ages and levels, for people who exercise, as well as for health care professionals, coaches, and others who want to find out more about sports injuries. This booklet describes the different types of sports injuries, how they can be treated and prevented, and recent...
by Burma Bertozzi
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2012
How To Get Rid of HPV
The launch of Gardasil and other vaccinations against the human papillomavirus has raised awareness of the virus. Strains of HPV can cause genital warts, and some strains are believed to cause cervical cancer. But vaccinations don't work after you already have the virus....
Rx for Survival
Why We Must Rise to the Global Health Challenge
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2007
A New York Times reporter?s eye-opening call to arms in the fight against epidemic diseases
We face a great choice. Philip Hilts, a prizewinning journalist for the New York Times and the Washington Post, argues in this report on global epidemic diseases that the world?s leading nations now...
Are Common Heart Skip Palpitations Dangerous?
Premature Ventricular and Atrial Contractions (PVCs and PACs)
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Skipped heartbeats occur in most, if not 100% of the general population, at some point during their lives. Some medical sources state that about half of us experience them on a relatively frequent basis. For some people however, these heart palpitations called “Premature Ventricular Contractions”...
The Enabled Life
Christianity in a disabling world
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013
As a much-published author, social commentator and academic, Roy McCloughry is ideally placed to make the latest theological thinking about disability accessible to a wide audience. As a person living with epilepsy who regards his condition, as a 'strange gift' from God - he brings rich personal experience...
Memory's Last Breath
Field Notes on My Dementia
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2017 BY NPR
"For anyone facing dementia, [Saunders'] words are truly enlightening.... Inspiring lessons about living and thriving with dementia."---Maria Shriver, NBC's Today Show
A "courageous and singular book" (Andrew Solomon), Memory's Last...
The Man He Used To Be
Dementia and My Mad Dad
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
'This is a wonderful, rather special book: funny, warm and loving but also thought-provoking and deeply moving. Absolutely unforgettable - ironically.'
ADAM KAY, Sunday Times bestselling author of This Is Going To Hurt
Inadvertent cross-dressing. Attempted murder. Jail break. A waltz at a funeral....
by Kathy Brandt, Max Maddox
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
2014 Colorado Independent Publishers Book Award2014 Pikes Peak Library Golden Quill Award2014 KINDLE BOOK AWARD-Semifinalist.A mother/son memoir by Kathy Brandt & Max Maddox In Walks on the Margins, Kathy Brandt offers a valiant and unapologetic struggle of a mother trying to find a semblance of her...
Journey Through Brain Trauma
A Mother's Story of Her Daughter's Recovery
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1998
Journey Through Brain Trauma is the true story of Louise Morningstar's struggle to help her daughter recover from devastating brain damage. The Morningstars' heroic story will inspire and inform all those who are struggling with rehabilitation from a brain injury.
by Nicole McCance
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
Are you tired? Do you feel unmotivated? Are you moody? Do you find it difficult to recognize the person you see in the mirror? Have you withdrawn from your friends and family? Have you lost interest in almost everything? You may feel ashamed and wonder if other people are starting to notice how you...
I'm Still Here
A New Philosophy of Alzheimer's Care
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2009
A revolutionary new approach to Alzheimer’s care, focusing on a patient’s strengths to maintain connections with others and the world
There currently is no cure for Alzheimer’s disease— though it can be treated. For the last fifteen years, John Zeisel, Ph.D. has spearheaded a movement...
The Alzheimer's Action Plan
The Experts' Guide to the Best Diagnosis and Treatment for Memory Problems
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2008
Is it really Alzheimer's? How to find out and intervene early to maintain the highest quality of life
"Most of us will either get Alzheimer's or care for a loved one who has. This action plan can empower you to make a difference."---Mehmet C. Oz, M.D.
What would you do if your...
Finding Life in the Land of Alzheimer's
One Daughter's Hopeful Story
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2007
Previously published in Hardcover as Dancing With Rose
One journalist's riveting and surprisingly hopeful in-the-trenches view of Alzheimer's
Nearly five million people in the United States are living with Alzheimer's. Like many children of Alzheimer's sufferers, Lauren Kessler, an accomplished...
What the hell happened to my brain?
Living Beyond Dementia
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2016
Kate Swaffer was just 49 years old when she was diagnosed with a form of younger onset dementia. In this book, she offers an all-too-rare first-hand insight into that experience, sounding a clarion call for change in how we ensure a better quality of life for people with dementia.
Kate describes...