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Memory: The Boxed SetBy Kristy ClarkThree Unabridged Volumes in One Comprehensive CollectionBook #1Memory Loss: Understanding and Preventing Memory LossScience is making major breakthroughs in the area of memory loss associated with Alzheimer’s and other diseases...

Memory Loss: Understanding and Preventing Memory Loss.This is volume 1 in a series of 5 Memory Loss books.29 pages.If you're a person experiencing memory loss and wants to know the secrets of memory loss, memory help, and memory boost, then you're about to discover how to improve...

When the body is in a stress condition, it will fight to stay in balance. In order to fight, the body needs a lot of energy. The energy for the body is sugar. To provide the body with the necessary sugars, the adrenal glands will produce more cortisol. The hormone cortisol will take care of enough...

This practically oriented book provides an up-to-date overview of all significant aspects of the pathogenesis of sepsis and its management, including within the intensive care unit. Readers will find information on the involvement of the coagulation and endocrine systems during sepsis and on the use...

My personal story of how Lyme Disease tried to destroy my life. It put me in a wheelchair , it cost me my job,my home, my ability to walk, and on certain days my ability to talk. I had to fight for almost six years to try and get treatment here in Illinois. I was told over and over " We did not...

Parasites threaten the health of animals and humans alike. Especially in times of increasing globalization and global warming, parasites can enlarge their “kingdom” by spreading. At the same time many of the existing medical products have become ineffective. As these products have been used for...

This volume details our current understanding of the architecture and signaling capabilities of known canonical and non-canonical inflammasome complexes and highlights their action, in particular in response to infection with important bacterial model organisms and the corresponding disease pathologies....

This concise, clinically focused handbook offers a complete overview of tuberculosis and reviews the latest guidelines, treatment options, clinical trials and management of this disease. Handbook of Tuberculosis is a well-rounded book written by renowned researchers at the Johns Hopkins Center for...

The aim of this book is to publicise and bring to a wider audience the concept that the cause of two neurological diseases, namely multiple sclerosis (MS) and “mad cow disease” also known as “bovine spongiform encephalopathy” are related through exposure to a common microbe Acinetobacter which...

The purpose of this book is to provide an overview of the biology of the planorbid snail Biomphalaria glabrata mainly as related to the snail’s role as a host of larval trematodes . This snail is of great importance in medical and economic zoology as a vector of important trematode (fluke) diseases...

The respiratory tract is a frequent target of infections caused by a wide range of organisms. The book provides reader-friendly information on aspects of pulmonary infections, including comprehensive accounts of bacterial and viral diseases, therapeutic approaches, molecular and classical culture-related...

My lifetime encompasses the postwar subsidence in the early 1920s of the greatest influenza pandemic in history, direct encounters with FM1 virus at Fort Mon­ mouth in 1947, the care of influenza patients in the 1950s, the pursuit of the in­ fluenza virus through the modern pandemics of 1957 and...

Prevention is the first line of defence in the fight against infection. As antibiotics and other antimicrobials encounter increasing reports of microbial resistance, the field of decontamination science is undergoing a major revival. A Practical Guide to Decontamination in Healthcare is a comprehensive...

This book describes Breast Abscess, Diagnosis and Treatment and Related Diseases A few years ago I had a menopausal Malay woman who has a breast swelling about the size of a grape on the left breast near the nipple. Her husband had passed away and she had 3 grown up children. She had seen the Government...