Diseases category: 10428 books
The Shriver Report: A Woman's Nation Takes On Alzheimer's
A Groundbreaking Look At This Mind-Blowing Disease And Its Effect On Women As Patients, Caregivers, And Advocates
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2010
The Shriver Report: A Woman’s Nation Takes on Alzheimer’s will be the first comprehensive multi-disciplinary look at these questions at this transformational moment. The Report will digest the current trends in thinking about Alzheimer’s, examine cutting-edge medical research, look at societal...
by Randi Hutter Epstein, M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
**A Science News Favorite Science Book of 2018
“A sweeping, glorious story of hormones, threaded through with sex, suffering, neurology, biology, medicine, and self-discovery.” —Siddhartha Mukherjee**
Metabolism, behavior, sleep, mood swings, the immune system, fighting, fleeing,...
My Two Elaines
Learning, Coping, and Surviving as an Alzheimer's Caregiver
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
Former governor of Wisconsin Martin J. Schreiber has seen his beloved wife, Elaine, gradually transform from the woman who gracefully entertained in the Executive Residence to one who no longer recognizes him as her husband. In My Two Elaines: Learning, Coping, and Surviving as an Alzheimer’s Caregiver,...
Demon in My Blood
My Fight with Hep C - and a Miracle Cure (Hepatitis C)
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2017
Until recently, hepatitis C-which infects 170 million people throughout the world-was always fatal. But today there is finally a remarkable cure.
Elizabeth Rains describes how she was likely infected with hepatitis C during her wild hippie days, how she was diagnosed more than four decades...
by Paul J. Donoghue, Mary E. Siegel
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2000
Unlike a leg in a cast, invisible chronic illness (ICI) has no observable symptoms.
Consequently, people who suffer from chronic fatigue, chronic pain, and many other miseries often endure not only the ailment but dismissive and negative reactions from others. Since its first publication, Sick...
Dread
How Fear and Fantasy Have Fueled Epidemics from the Black Death to Avian Flu
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2009
Deaths from epidemic disease are rare in the developed world, yet in our technically and medically advanced society, an ever-present risk of disease has created an industry out of fear.
As Philip Alcabes persuasively argues in Dread, our anxieties about epidemics often stray from the facts...
The Woman with a Worm in Her Head
And Other True Stories of Infectious Disease
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2002
A normal, healthy woman becomes host to a pork tapeworm that is burrowing into her brain and disabling her motor abilities.
A handsome man contracts Chicken Pox and ends up looking like the victim of a third degree burn.
A vigorous young athlete is bitten by an insect and becomes a target...
by Marnie Peterson
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2014
The latest Ebola outbreak is the worst in history. What happens if the infection is spread further into the U.S.?
Although officials clam a worldwide pandemic is unlikely, maybe that is not a risk you should be willing to take.
Don't just sit idly and regret it when the stakes are raised....
by Constantine N. Nana PhD
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
The Zaire Ebola virus appeared out of nowhere and then disappeared into thin air after killing scores of humans in West Africa. In The Ebola Outbreak in West Africa, author Constantine N. Nana attempts to better understand the outbreak and answer the question: why?
Through meticulous research,...
Tuberculose
Les Grands Articles d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: September 19, 2016
Le terme tuberculose englobe toutes les manifestations pathologiques susceptibles d'être provoquées dans l'organisme par un agent pathogène bactérien spécifique, le bacille de Koch (Mycobacterium tuberculosis). De toutes les localisations de cette affection, la tuberculose pulmonaire (cf...
by Frank Bowden
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Frank Bowden, a specialist in the field of infectious disease and sexual health, looks at one bug at a time, weaving around them the stories of his patients and their families, the doctors and the difficulties they face and the horrors and successes of hospitals and health care programs. Through Bowden’s...
by Alexander Fromm
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
MRSA (Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) is an infection caused by the microbe Staphylococcus aureus “staph”.
What makes MRSA (Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) different from a regular staph infection is that a staph infection is usually treated with Methicillin,...
Mémoire, ma petite mémoire
Un témoignage d'espoir sur la maladie d'Alzheimer
Language: French
Release Date: April 10, 2015
Dans la peau d'une personne diagnostiquée AlzheimerVicky a été diagnostiquée Alzheimer en 2012. À force d’exercices, de sorties et d’activités, elle vit sa maladie sereinement. Son espoir : une stabilisation définitive.Dans ce livre, elle raconte ses réflexions quotidiennes, la manière...
J'y pense et puis j'oublie
Mémoires d’Alzheimer
Language: French
Release Date: September 6, 2017
Alzheimer décrit de l'intérieur...Annie-Claude Nakau est atteinte du syndrome de Benson, pathologie proche de l’Alzheimer. Auteure et narratrice, elle raconte comment elle perd la vue à une vitesse vertigineuse et se trouve destituée progressivement de ses capacités intellectuelles et physiques.Ce...