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The Death of Cancer
After Fifty Years on the Front Lines of Medicine, a Pioneering Oncologist Reveals Why the War on Cancer Is Winnable--and How We Can Get There
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Cancer touches everybody’s life in one way or another. But most of us know very little about how the disease works, why we treat it the way we do, and the personalities whose dedication got us where we are today. For fifty years, Dr. Vincent T. DeVita Jr. has been one of those key players: he has...
Her-2
The Making of Herceptin, a Revolutionary Treatment for Breast Cancer
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
Two years after she underwent a mastectomy and chemotherapy, Barbara Bradfield's aggressive breast cancer had recurred and spread to her lungs. The outlook was grim. Then she took part in Genentech's clinical trials for a new drug. Five years later she remains cancer-free.
Her-2 is the biography...
Life Script
How the Human Genome Discoveries Will Transform Medicine and Enhance Your Health
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2002
With the decoding of the human genome, researchers can now read the script in which evolution has written the program for the design and operation of the human body. A new generation of medical treatments is at hand. Researchers are developing therapies so powerful that there is now no evident obstacle...
Summary & Study Guide - The Emperor of All Maladies
A Biography of Cancer
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
You will never look at cancer the same.
The must-read summary of "The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer" by Siddhartha Mukherjee.
This book chronicles a fascinating "biography" of cancer—from its first documented appearance five thousand years ago through...
by Ant Hive Media
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2016
This is a Summary of David D. Burns’ Feeling Good: The New Mood TherapyThe good news is that anxiety, guilt, pessimism, procrastination, low self-esteem, and other ′black holes′ of depression can be cured without drugs. In Feeling Good, eminent psychiatrist David D. Burns, M.D. outlines...
by Martin McGregor
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
My story of living with BPD and how it affected those closest to me.
Understanding how the disorder emerges.
The factors considered in diagnosis.
Testing.
Self help.
Effective treatments.
Advice for those living with sufferers.
You can beat this disorder, and live a normal life.
Stop self doubt.
Stop damaging your body.
Filling the void.
by Hugh Macnab
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2012
hugh macnab is a psychotherapist who is working in rural cheshire, england and has a personal mission to help as many people as possible recover from anxiety or depression.
the normal methods hugh uses so effectively in private practice have been adapted for delivery by video and are available...
It Takes a Worried Man
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
Hilarious and heartbreaking, profane and profound, It Takes a Worried Man is the true story of a young husband and father whose life is changed forever by his wife’s breast cancer diagnosis. Following Brendan Halpin’s cranky, irreverent and lustful thoughts through the diagnosis and treatment...
by R.T. Kumar
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
Despite battling depression in his mid-teens, Rohit Kumar fulfilled his beloved parents’ dream of becoming a doctor in 1990. He was one of Canada’s first hospitalists before setting up a highly successful private practice, and acquired specialized expertise in treating patients with chronic pain...
Trapped
My Life with Cerebral Palsy
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
A revelatory memoir of one woman’s life with disability, depression, acceptance, and ultimately, love.
Fran Macilvey’s life had a difficult path from the moment she came into the world. Her mother, living in the Belgian Congo in the 1960s, had known she was pregnant with a daughter. But she...
Pandora's DNA
Tracing the Breast Cancer Genes Through History, Science, and One Family Tree
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Would you cut out your healthy breasts and ovaries if you thought it might save your life? That’s not a theoretical question for journalist Lizzie Stark’s relatives, who grapple with the horrific legacy of cancer built into the family DNA. It is a BRCA mutation that has robbed most of her female...
by Jim Plautz
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
This is a story about a courageous woman who is Fighting Back against long odds. On 3/5/11 Rosann Plautz underwent emergency brain surgery. A nonsmoker, she had lung cancer that had already spread to the brain. The operation left her weak and legally blind, 900 miles from home Doctors told her she...
Epigenetics
The Death of the Genetic Theory of Disease Transmission
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
The book EPIGENETICS is a global update of Darwin's book The Origin of Species. There is no other book that embraces all of the events (political, socially, biologically, nutritionally, chemically and genetically) that have been spawned since the publication of The Origin of Species by Darwin more than...
The Psychobiotic Revolution
Mood, Food, and the New Science of the Gut-Brain Connection
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Written by the leading researchers in the field, this information-rich guide to improving your mood explains how gut health drives psychological well-being, and how depression and anxiety can be relieved by adjusting your intestinal bacteria.
This groundbreaking book explains the revolutionary...