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Summary & Study Guide – Eat to Beat Disease
The New Science of How Your Body Can Heal Itself
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2019
Let food be thy medicine—Discover the new science of how your body heals itself.
The must-read summary of “Eat to Beat Disease: The New Science of How Your Body Can Heal Itself," by William W. Li, MD.
Five defense systems in our body keep our cells and organs functioning. By focusing...
by K. Salfelder
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Early diagnosis of parasitic diseases, especially of the opportunistic infections, is gaining importance daily and pathologists now have the chance to make rapid diagnoses of these disorders by examining tissues and body fluids. Though parasitic infections and infestations occur mainly in subtropical...
by Yang Kuang, John D. Nagy, Steffen E. Eikenberry
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
Introduction to Mathematical Oncology presents biologically well-motivated and mathematically tractable models that facilitate both a deep understanding of cancer biology and better cancer treatment designs. It covers the medical and biological background of the diseases, modeling issues, and existing...
by Tim Davis
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
Is There a Way to Prevent Alzheimer’s and Dementia? Alzheimer’s and Dementia is a debilitating way to spend the last years of a person’s life. When someone starts to lose their memory and is no longer able to take care of themselves, it’s sad to see any of our loved ones going through...
by Lawrence R. Freedman
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The most important example of intravascular infection is infective endocarditis (IE), a common and serious disorder in man. In the past, these infections were uniformly fatal, but since the development of potent antimicrobial agents, bac teriological cure has become practical and predictable. So,...
by Diane Keaton, Anna Quindlen
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
Janet Maslin, The New York Times • People • Vogue
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR
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Mom loved adages, quotes, slogans. There were always...
The Songaminute Man
A Tribute to the Unbreakable Bond Between Father and Son
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
A powerful and emotional memoir about family and memory from the father-son singing sensation whose heartwarming carpool karaoke video took social media by storm.
At first, Simon’s beloved father, Ted, suffered sudden bad moods and forgetfulness. Then the diagnosis: Alzheimer’s.
Ted...
A Common Struggle
A Personal Journey Through the Past and Future of Mental Illness and Addiction
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
In this New York Times bestseller Patrick J. Kennedy, the former congressman and youngest child of Senator Ted Kennedy, details his personal and political battle with mental illness and addiction, exploring mental health care's history in the country alongside his and every family's private struggles.
On...
Brain on Fire
My Month of Madness
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING CHLOË GRACE MORETZ
An award-winning memoir and instant New York Times bestseller that goes far beyond its riveting medical mystery, Brain on Fire is the powerful account of one woman’s struggle to recapture her identity.
When twenty-four-year-old...
Slow Dancing with a Stranger
Lost and Found in the Age of Alzheimer's
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
A New York Times Bestseller
Emmy-award winning broadcast journalist and leading Alzheimer’s advocate Meryl Comer’s Slow Dancing With a Stranger is a profoundly personal, unflinching account of her husband’s battle with Alzheimer’s disease that serves as a much-needed wake-up call to...
Cure Unknown
Inside the Lyme Epidemic
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
The groundbreaking, award-winning investigation into Lyme disease—the science, history, medical politics, and patient experience—now with a brand new chapter.
When Pamela Weintraub, a science journalist, learned that her oldest son tested positive for Lyme disease, she thought she had found...
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One man's Harvard-documented remission of incurable cancer using only natural methods
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2016
Twenty-five years ago my doctors had no cure for my cancer. So I went on a quest to find my own treatment. This is my story...
In 1991, Glenn Sabin was a 28-year-old newlywed diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL)–a disease doctors called “uniformly fatal.” Treatments could...
Living in the Labyrinth
A Personal Journey Through the Maze of Alzheimer's
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2011
Living In The Labyrinth is the story of how one woman found the strength and the courage to cope with a devastating disease that has afflicted five million Americans. Far from being an exercise in self-pity or a standard autobiography, this is an unflinching and ultimately uplifting look at a debilitating...
Take Care, Son
The Story of My Dad and his Dementia
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Hi Dad . . . can we have a chat about your dementia . . . Can you remember how it started?
When Ron Husband started to forget things - dates, names, appointments . . . daft things, important things - it took a while to realise that this was 'a different form of forgetting'. But it was just the first...