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Open Hearts
Stories of the Surgery That Changes Children's Lives
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Until the 1960s "blue babies" were a striking sight in our streets. Suffering from congenital heart disease offered a bleak outlook to young patients and a heartbreaking experience for parents. Very few would make it to adulthood; now, in the West at least, most have a much higher chance...
Twilight
Losing Sight, Gaining Insight
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2012
In 1992, when Henry Grunwald missed a glass into which he was pouring water, he assumed that he needed new eyeglasses, not that the incident was a harbinger of darker times. But in fact Grunwald was entering the early stages of macular degeneration -- a gradual loss of sight that affects almost 15...
by William B. MacCracken, M. D.
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2013
Normal Sight Without Glasses was first published in 1945. The book was printed by Gazette Press (Berkeley, California).
The author is a physician with over forty years practice of general medicine. After having worn glasses constantly for thirty-seven years, he cures his own eyesight with...
by Barbara Murray
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2013
This ebooklet can change a frightening event into a poignant experience. It is a simple, easy to understand explanation of the shut down process associated with death. It defines death as the separation of the Spirit from the body. It includes the emotional-spiritual-mental aspects, the physical considerations,...
The Boy and His Death
A True Story
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
In the poignant memoir The Boy and His Death, a mother chronicles her three-year journey as her young son is diagnosed with and battles testicular cancer. Marga Beukeboom had never even heard of testicular cancer when her twenty-one-year-old son was diagnosed with the diseaseeven though testicular...
Asleep
The Forgotten Epidemic that Remains One of Medicine's Greatest Mysteries
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2010
A fascinating look at a bizarre, forgotten epidemic from the national bestselling author of The American Plague.
In 1918, a world war raged, and a lethal strain of influenza circled the globe. In the midst of all this death, a bizarre disease appeared in Europe. Eventually known as encephalitis...
by Jillayne Arena
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2013
Too many people can't imagine one good reason. This book offers 45. Direct, practical, compelling, easy-to-read essays offer hope to those facing the blind alleys and bottomless pits of life. Arising from the author's struggle with suicidal thoughts, these short essays range in diversity...
Natural Alternatives to Antibiotics – Revised and Updated
How to treat infections without antibiotics
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2003
‘A long-awaited book that answers many questions.’
Jan de Vries
Antibiotics were developed in the 1940s. Then, they were hailed as a huge breakthrough in the treatment of bacterial infections. Today, they are the most commonly prescribed drugs worldwide. But massive over-prescription of...
Catching Breath
The Making and Unmaking of Tuberculosis
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Tuberculosis is an ancient disease, but it's not a disease of history. With more than a million victims every year – more than any other disease, including malaria – and antibiotic resistance now found in every country worldwide, tuberculosis is once again proving itself to be one of the smartest...
Molecules of Emotion
The Science Behind Mind-Body Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Why do we feel the way we feel? How do our thoughts and emotions affect our health? Are our bodies and minds distinct from each other or do they function together as parts of an interconnected system?
In her groundbreaking book Molecules of Emotion, Candace Pert provides startling and decisive answers...
The Forgetting
Alzheimer's: Portrait of an Epidemic
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2003
**NATIONAL BESTSELLER
A powerfully engaging, scrupulously researched, and deeply empathetic narrative of the history of Alzheimer’s disease, how it affects us, and the search for a cure.**
Afflicting nearly half of all people over the age of 85, Alzheimer’s disease kills nearly 100,000...
by Yap Kee Chong
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2011
No matter how great life treats you there are some days when you just don’t want to get out of bed. But what happens when that occasional day turns into weeks or months on end?
I know that feeling. Up until 5 years ago my life was going good. I had a great, understanding and supportive husband,...
My Never-Ending Acid Trip
Why I Still Hallucinate Years After Taking LSD
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Before Grade 12, Jacob Scheier took a lot of drugs: 200 hits of acid and more than 60 tablets of ecstasy. Then he decided to hit the books and get serious. But five years later, after starting to take medications for depression and anxiety, he became afflicted with disturbing flashbacks. In My Never-Ending...
by Rick and Becky Kraemer
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
One of the worst possible things has happened to you. You’ve gotten the bad news from your wife’s doctor, and the two of you are either facing breast cancer treatments, or are in the middle of them now. We’re here to help.
In 2000, Becky was diagnosed with breast cancer, and completed...