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The Human Superorganism
How the Microbiome Is Revolutionizing the Pursuit of a Healthy Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
"Eyeopening... Fascinating... may presage a paradigm shift in medicine.”
—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"Teeming with information and big ideas... Outstanding.”
—Booklist (starred review)
The origin of asthma, autism, Alzheimer's, allergies, cancer, heart disease, obesity,...
The Peanut Allergy Epidemic, Third Edition
What's Causing It and How to Stop It
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Essential reading for every parent of a child with peanut allergies-third edition with a foreword by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Why is the peanut allergy an epidemic that only seems to be found in western cultures? More than four million people in the United States alone are affected by peanut...
Crying Babies and Food
In the early years
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
This second e-book, Crying babies and food in the early years, was the third part of a larger (840 pages) hardback, Milk Matters: infant feeding and Immune disorder, which is available as a hardback reference text from major retailers. This e-book is intended as a practical guide to dealing with the...
Too Much of a Good Thing
How Four Key Survival Traits Are Now Killing Us
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
Dean of Columbia University's medical school explains why our bodies are out of sync with today's environment and how we can correct this to save our health.
Over the past 200 years, human life-expectancy has approximately doubled. Yet we face soaring worldwide rates of obesity, diabetes, high...
Enigmas of Health and Disease
How Epidemiology Helps Unravel Scientific Mysteries
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
This book is the principal account of epidemiology's role in the development of effective measures to identify, prevent, and treat diseases. Throughout history, epidemiologists have challenged conventional knowledge, elucidating mysteries of causality and paving the way for remedies. From the outbreak...
I Have Something to Tell You
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2009
For ten years, Regan Hofmann lived a double life. To the world, she was a woman from Princeton who went to prep school, summered in the Hamptons and rode Thoroughbred horses. She had a great job, a loving family and friends and looks that made men turn their heads. From the outside, she seemed to...
by Ron Barrett, George Armelagos (the late)
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013
This book traces the social and environmental determinants of human infectious diseases from the Neolithic to the present day. Despite recent high profile discoveries of new pathogens, the major determinants of these emerging infections are ancient and recurring. These include changing modes of subsistence,...
A Simplified Guide to Autonomic Dysfunction
Why the Brain Fails to Repair Itself
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Suffering from symptoms no one can understand.? Then this is the book you need.
A Simplified Guide to Autonomic Dysfunction provides the reader with an insightful look at why they are experiencing symptoms from chronic damage to their autonomic nervous system.
This guide will help you...
by Melinda Sharma
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
Autism is a complex, heterogeneous condition whose incidence is skyrocketing. It is becoming increasingly clear that a subset of children diagnosed with autism suffer from treatable physical illness. Although autism is diagnosed based on a constellation of behavioral symptoms, when underlying physical...
The Robber of Memories
A River Journey Through Colombia
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2013
“An adventure story and a travel narrative, but also an excursion into memory itself.” —Booklist
When travel writer Michael Jacobs began traversing the Magdalena, a river that courses through the heart of Colombia, he was determined to leave modern conveniences aside—with the exception...
Seeking the Cure Unknown
A Report from the Lymelands
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
The brand-new final chapter from the revised edition of CURE UNKNOWN, the definitive, award-winning investigation into Lyme disease
Since its original publication in 2008, CURE UNKNOWN has become known as a nuanced, groundbreaking picture of the intense controversy and crippling uncertainty...
Being a Surgeon
The Ten Commandments
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
'Being a Surgeon' is a heartfelt exploration of surgical discipline. It is intended to help surgeons and other stakeholders around the world make a difference in the care of surgical patients. It would serve trainees and training programs, and help improve the culture and practices of surgery.
The...
by Gillian Hubble
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
There is more to the back pain epidemic than you think…Are you considering drugs, procedures, or even major surgery for your back pain? If you value your future back health, don’t do anything until you’ve read this book.For the first time, get an evidence-based look at back pain...
by James Garner
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
Filariasis, an infectious tropical and sub-tropical disease ,is posing threat of infection to more than one billion people in 83 countries of the world -- including the USA and Europe. Most of the cases worsen due to lack of education and awareness of the disease. The alarming number of victims infected...