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Beating Back the Devil
On the Front Lines with the Disease Detectives of
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2008
The universal human instinct is to run from an outbreak of disease like Ebola. These doctors run toward it. Their job is to stop epidemics from happening.
They are the disease detective corps of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the federal agency that tracks and tries...
The Fatal Strain
On the Trail of Avian Flu and the Coming Pandemic
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2009
In 2009, Swine Flu reminded us that pandemics still happen, and award- winning journalist Alan Sipress reminds us that far worse could be brewing. When a highly lethal strain of avian flu broke out in Asia in 2003 and raced westward, Sipress, as a reporter for The Washington Post, tracked the virus...
Shouting Won't Help
Why I--and 50 Million Other Americans--Can't Hear You
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
For twenty-two years, Katherine Bouton had a secret that grew harder to keep every day. An editor at The New York Times, at daily editorial meetings she couldn't hear what her colleagues were saying. She had gone profoundly deaf in her left ear; her right was getting worse. As she once put it, she...
Cancer on Five Dollars a Day (chemo not included)
How Humor Got Me Through the Toughest Journey of My Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2008
In the spring of 2000, stand-up comedian Robert Schimmel was diagnosed with stage III non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, and soon the fire of his white-hot career started to fizzle.
But Schimmel never lost his sense of humor, his searing honesty, and most of all, his passion to make people laugh. Indeed,...
You Only Live Twice
Sex, Death and Transition
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
YOLT explores two artists’ lives before and after transitions: from female to male, and from near-dead to alive.
The unspoken promise was that in our second life we would become the question to every answer, jumping across borders until they finally dissolve. Man and woman. Queer and straight.
What...
How to Survive a Plague
The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
A definitive history of the successful battle to halt the AIDS epidemic, here is the incredible story of the grassroots activists whose work turned HIV from a mostly fatal infection to a manageable disease. Almost universally ignored, these men and women learned to become their own researchers, lobbyists,...
The Brain
In This Human Brain Book You'll Discover Hidden Brain Facts, Brain Teasers, Brain Parts, Brain Functions and How The Brain Fitness Program Will Skyrocket Your Intelligence
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
This easy to read guide is known as the nation's leading book on the brain. Packed with premier content you'll learn about brain facts, brain functions, brain parts, brain teasers and more.
by Crystal Conway
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
Crystal Conway-Gottwald’s story is one of incredible resilience and unbelievable strength.Diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma at age fourteen, she was thrust into adulthood, forced to make decisions that would affect her entire life. And her troubles were just beginning.By age thirty,...
by Ricky Sides
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2011
In the mid-nineties, my wife was diagnosed with invasive breast cancer, which had metastasized to her lymph nodes. The essay “Coping with Breast Cancer” details what happened in the wake of that diagnosis. We decided to release this composition in the hopes of helping other couples confronted...
by Maverick Devereux
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
A brain tumor is a mass or growth of abnormal cells in your brain.
Many different types of brain tumors exist. Some brain tumors are noncancerous (benign), and some brain tumors are cancerous (malignant). Brain tumors can begin in your brain (primary brain tumors), or cancer can begin in...
by George Geisinger
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
The experience of being in various institutions long enough to become institutionalized.
Cancer
You Can Live With It
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
I believe we all have cancer every day of our lives. I think on a daily basis, our immune system beats it back, and we live for another day. Then the day comes when we have suffered a great loss, and are mentally exhausted, the cancer wins the day.
by Chuck Collins
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2014
The Symptoms! Would you know if you had a dangerous growth in your brain? this author found out and not in a typical fashion.
by Marty Wilson, Gary Bertwistle
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Every 29 seconds, someone in the world is diagnosed with cancer and, in an instant, they have to come to terms with a whole new future. What I Wish I Knew about Cancer talks with survivors, pre-viviors, partners, husbands, wives, children, researchers, and medical professionals and asks them all, If...