Ailments category: 10428 books
by J. Warren Lunne
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2015
The Backroad to Cloud 9 (or what Carcinoid Cancer has taught me) is the author's story of his battle with carcinoid cancer. From repeated misdiagnoses through multiple surgeries to understanding how wonderful his family and friends are, this book discusses many of the realities of carcinoid cancer...
Holy Shift! Everything's a Gift
A Spirit-Led Journey through Illness to Wellness
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2018
New Thought Advocate and well-known musician and workshop facilitator, Lauren Lane Powell, discovered she had developed Stage 3C Ovarian Cancer in the prime of her life. When she went within for guidance she heard, "Do it differently." Follow Lauren's different journey, from diagnosis, through...
Racing Heart
A Runner's Journey of Love, Loss and Perseverance
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2018
What do you do when you’re forced to give up the thing you love?
Kate Mihevc Edwards was a passionate runner for years and lived for endurance sports. Until the day doctors told her she’d have to stop—or possibly die. After being diagnosed with arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy...
Patient H69
The Story of My Second Sight
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
Imagine how it would feel to one day wake up and find your vision descending swiftly into darkness. Your fingertips are turning numb, and, as the world closes in around you, you realise there is nothing you can do to stop it. This is what happened to Vanessa Potter.
In the space of 72 hours,...
My Age of Anxiety
Fear, Hope, Dread, and the Search for Peace of Mind
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
A riveting, revelatory, and moving account of the author’s struggles with anxiety, and of the history of efforts by scientists, philosophers, and writers to understand the condition
As recently as thirty-five years ago, anxiety did not exist as a diagnostic category. Today, it is the most common...
by Tish Davidson
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Providing scientifically accurate, detailed, and accessible information to students and general readers, this book presents the history of vaccination; describes the administration, manufacturing, and regulation of vaccines in the United States; and explains the most recent scientific findings about...
From My Heart
The Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
'While I don’t have any choice in how long I have to live, I do have a choice in how I spend the time I have. And I’ve chosen not to spend it constantly stressing about cancer. I’ve chosen to enjoy the little things. I’ve chosen to laugh. And I’ve chosen to look back on my life and thank...
by Dr. Ben Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2016
Written by acclaimed integrative oncologist Ben Johnson, MD, DO, NMD, No Ma’am-ogram! Radical Rethink on Mammograms refutes the medical myths and fallacies at the root of today’s conventional breast health care protocols, offering readers safer solutions to breast cancer prevention, diagnosis,...
Cancer Is a Bitch
Or, I'd Rather Be Having a Midlife Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2009
Gail Konop Baker was a runner, yoga practitioner, doctor's wife, and lifelong subscriber to Prevention magazine. But right before her forty-sixth birthday, she heard the words that would forever change her life: Just to be safe, I think we should biopsy. It was the beginning of her yearlong battle...
Pain Recovery for Families
How to Find Balance When Someone Else's Chronic Pain Becomes Your Problem Too
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Addresses an often overlooked aspect of chronic pain—the stress and strain on family members. There is a lack of resources to help those who care for someone with chronic pain cope with their own suffering and stay balanced, and this book fills that need.
Can be used as a companion to Pain...
Feeding My Mother
Comfort and Laughter in the Kitchen as My Mom Lives with Memory Loss
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
**#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER
Based on her hugely popular Facebook posts and Instagram photos, Feeding My Mother is a frank, funny, inspirational and piercingly honest account of the transformation in Jann Arden's life that has turned her into the primary "parent" to her mom, who is in...
Deadly Outbreaks
How Medical Detectives Save Lives Threatened by Killer Pandemics, Exotic Viruses, and Drug-Resistant Parasites
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
Portrays epidemiologists as disease detectives who tirelessly hunt for clues and excel at deductive reasoning. Even Sherlock Holmes would be proud of this astute group of professionals.”-Booklist
Despite advances in health care, infectious microbes continue to be a formidable adversary...
Inside the Outbreaks
The Elite Medical Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2010
The “fascinating” story of the CDC’s intrepid investigators, who travel the world to protect us from deadly pathogens (Chicago Tribune).
Since its founding in 1951, the Epidemic Intelligence Service has waged war on every imaginable ailment. When an epidemic hits, the EIS will be there...
Brain Trust
The Hidden Connection Between Mad Cow and Misdiagnosed Alzheimer's Disease
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2004
When the cattle-borne sickness known as Mad Cow Disease first appeared in America in 2003, authorities were quick to assure the nation that the outbreak was isolated, quarantined, and posed absolutely no danger to the general public.
What we were not told was that the origins of the sickness may already...