Health Care Issues category: 1336 books
Genomics and Personalized Medicine
What Everyone Needs to Know®
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
In 2001 the Human Genome Project succeeded in mapping the DNA of humans. This landmark accomplishment launched the field of genomics, the integrated study of all the genes in the human body and the related biomedical interventions that can be tailored to benefit a person's health. Today genomics,...
Master Manipulator
The Explosive True Story of Fraud, Embezzlement, and Government Betrayal at the CDC
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
“Unique in the canon of autism literature . . . A book which examines at length the political culture in which this epidemic has been allowed to happen” (Age of Austism).
In 2000, the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) carried out a secret mission to bury, skew, and manipulate data in...
The Women's Health Book
A Guide for the Irish Woman
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
Following on from the success of The Men's Health Book, The Women's Health Book is a comprehensive and informative guide to female health written by GP and owner of the Women's Health Clinic in Dun Laoghaire Dr Rachel Mackey.
The Women's Health Book:
Addresses the lack of a thorough...
Serious Games for Healthcare
Applications and Implications
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
With advances in technologies and revolutions in patient, trainee, and public expectations, the global healthcare sector is increasingly turning to serious games to solve problems. Serious games are applications with serious purposes, developed using computer game technologies more often associated with...
by V. Tellis-Nayak PhD, Mary Tellis-Nayak RN MSN MPh
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
While advances in medical science and disease treatments are always welcome, real transformation of healthcare requires us to focus on whole persons, not just maladies. Our responsibilities to ill people, and frail elders, including those with dementia, are not merely obligations, but also response-abilities. Beyond...
by John Perry, T. Debey Sayndee
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
The Ebola virus disease represented a grave crisis for Liberia. After many years of civil conflict its health system had been weakened and there were too few physicians and health care workers who were willing and able to deal effectively with the disease which spread far beyond Africa to Europe and...
Remaking Policy
Scale, Pace, and Political Strategy in Health Care Reform
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2018
One of the most persistent puzzles in comparative public policy concerns the conditions under which discontinuous policy change occurs. In Remaking Policy, Carolyn Hughes Tuohy advances an ambitious new approach to understanding the relationship between political context and policy change.
Focusing...
The Illness of Medicine
Experiences of Clinical Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
The book examines and reviews how one experiences medical treatment from both sides of the table. The significant obstacles patients endure, as well as the exasperation many of the truly dedicated medical professionals feel, has been assessed. The controlling arrogance of the insurance industry...
Taking Charge of Cancer
What You Need to Know to Get the Best Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
A critical resource for anyone with a cancer diagnosis. Written by a radiation oncologist and cancer researcher, Taking Charge of Cancer offers an insider’s guide to understanding and receiving the best treatment options, choosing the right medical team, and approaching this difficult time with...
by Dede Callichy
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
You have probably opened What I did to HEAL GUM DISEASE NATURALLY because you or someone in your life has a problem with your gums, as I once did. This little book summarises briefly and accurately how I nursed my gums back to excellent health.
On a routine oral health checkup, my dentist explained...
by Liz Helms
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Helms takes us through her unfiltered, uplifting story of chronic pain and severe depression to becoming a nationally recognized coalition builder and health care advocate as she battled to change a system that had failed millions. With stark honesty, she describes her personal struggle for appropriate...
by Dr. Giang Phung Tuan, Dr. Biswaroop Roy Chowdhury
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2015
India and Vietnam are well known for their ancient medical care wisdom. Here in this book Dr. Giang Phung Tuan who has a rich history of 16 generations of traditional medical care practice in Vietnam and Dr. Biswaroop Roy Chowdhury who is an internationally well known Indian Diabetes expert, have...
by Dr. Deane Waldman, MD MBA
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
"Is Obamacare the Answer" lists the promises made by President Obama for his namesake reform of healthcare and then compares those promises to evidence-of-effect––documented with proof not opinion. The book then asks the reader to "score" Obamacare for himself or herself: Is it your answer or...
Personalized Medicine
Empowered Patients in the 21st Century?
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
Inside today's data-driven personalized medicine, and the time, effort, and information required from patients to make it a reality
Medicine has been personal long before the concept of “personalized medicine” became popular. Health professionals have always taken into consideration the...