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“A brave and illuminating journey inside the mind, heart, and life of a person with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease.”—Lisa Genova, author of Still Alice Wendy Mitchell had a busy job with the British National Health Service, raised her two daughters alone, and spent her weekends running...

Emma was diagnosed with Parkinson's, a degenerative neurologcal condition, at the age of 29. Defiant against 'little p' she began a one-woman crusade to show it who's boss. Dropping the P Bomb charts the highs and lows of Emma's first year with the condition, through big life events and day-to-day...

If You Want To Know About High Blood Pressure, Exercise, Preventing, Control Blood Pressure, Blood Pressure Numbers, Blood Pressure Medication and More!

"This book gives you a detailed insight into the nature, causes and management of asthma.It is a skilful yet simple presentation of the medical facts about asthma, culled from the knowledge and experience of many doctors and scientists.Buy the book for greater awareness and better control of the ailment.It...

Have you ever wondered what life is like with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD).  It is one of the last taboo's and most patients suffer in silence.  Never Give Up is the author's frank diary of life with IBD plus several rounds of surgery and convalescence.  It also looks at the...

Too many Americans die each year as a result of preventable medical error—mistakes, complications, and misdiagnoses. And many more of us are not receiving the best care possible, even though it’s readily available and we’re entitled to it. The key is knowing how to access it. The Patient’s...

In this intimate history of the extraordinary Black Plague pandemic that swept through the British Isles in 1665, Evelyn Lord focuses on the plague’s effects on smaller towns, where every death was a singular blow affecting the entire community. Lord’s fascinating reconstruction of life during plague...

What appears to have been a miracle antibiotic drug to relieve the painful symptoms of Diverticulitis proves to be problematic as an adequate treatment. He goes on to experience many, many debilitating side effects from the drug. The antidote is worse than the original condition. The result is mental...

Description of meningitis and subsequent hospitalization of it.

Wilson examines the global response to a deadly outbreak and exposes the current holes in a global health system that is unprepared to handle the next big outbreak. The heartbreaking story of the devastation wrought in three desperately poor countries — and the heart stopping truth about how close the world came to a global pandemic.

When Dr. Daniel Baxter arrived in Botswana in 2002, he was confident of the purity of his mission to help people with AIDS, armed with what he thought were immutable truths about life—and himself—that had been forged on his AIDS ward in New York City ten years earlier. But Baxter’s good intentions...

EARLY ONSET ALZHEIMER’S: A LOVE STORY It started with strange behavior—a hostile outburst here, a peculiar lapse of memory there. Then it became violent. The beautiful, vivacious Carmen Moffett was behaving in ways her husband Pat could not understand. Their marriage had been a long love...

Fascinating, very creative. Congratulations to this great lady of courage and determination! Elizabeth Lancaster, executive director Hillsborough County Unit American Cancer Society I Had Two When I Came In is one womans confrontation with cancer of the breast. It reveals a very personal...

The Parents’ Guide to Hip Dysplasia is the only consumer guide to one of the most common birth defects in our nation! Now instead of having to comb through medical texts or scour the internet for information, concerned parents of children with hip dysplasia can have all the information they need...