Kenneth: 4007 books

Friedreich ataxia is a rare disease and the most frequent inherited ataxia.It is a degenerative disorder that mainly affects the nervous system, muscles and the heart.It is often linked with cardiomyopathy or diabetesThere is progressive ataxia (in-coordination of muscles), dysarthria, reduced proprioception,...

The Overactive Bladder is defined as urgency to pass urine with or without urge incontinence and usually with frequency and nocturia.Overactive bladder is a medical disorder in which the bladder squeezes urine out at the wrong time.An overactive bladder is present if you have two or more of the following...

The spleen is an organ present in all humans.Similar in structure to a large lymph node, it acts primarily as a blood filter.Thus life is possible after the spleen is removed.The spleen plays important roles in regard to red blood cells and the immune system.It removes old red blood cells and holds...

Neuropathic pain (neuralgia) is the medical symptom of sharp, shocking pain that follows the path of a nerve and is due to irritation or damage to the nerve. Causes of Neuropathic pain Pressure on a nerve (intervertebral disc or injury) Nerve inflammation by herpes zoster virus (shingles...

Multiple Sclerosis is a progressive degenerative disease of the central nervous system with recurrent episodes of neurologic dysfunction disconnected in time and space and associated with evidence of demyelization of the central nervous system.It affects the patient in different areas of the nervous...

Clinical Cardiac Pacing, Defibrillation and Resynchronization Therapy, 4th Edition, by Drs. Kenneth A. Ellenbogen, Bruce L. Wilkoff, G. Neal Kay, and Chu-Pak Lau, helps you deliver superior clinical outcomes using the latest, most successful cardiac electrophysiology techniques. Expertly and practically...

Halitosis (Bad Breath) is the medical disorder when a person suffers from chronic bad breath.Halitosis (Bad Breath) indicates that the patient has an unpleasant odor in the breath that other people observe when the patient talks or exhales.A major problem with halitosis is that often the only person...

Wolff-Parkinson-White (WPW) syndrome is a congenital heart disorder in which an additional electrical connection in the heart can cause episodes of rapid heart rate (tachycardia)WPW syndrome is one of the most frequent causes of fast heart rate disorders in infants and children.Wolff-Parkinson-White...

Angina pectoris is a medical symptom that literally means "strangling in the chest."Patients complain that the angina symptom is a squeezing, suffocating or burning feeling in their chest but the episode of angina is not a heart attack.The heart muscle is not injured permanently and the pain normally...

The role of capital punishment in America has been criticised by those for and against the death penalty, by the judiciary, academics, the media and by prison personnel. This book demonstrates that it is the inconsistent and often incoherent jurisprudence of the United States Supreme Court which accounts...

In the 21st century United States, law is the continuation of politics by other means, perhaps more so than at any previous time in American history.” For the past 25 years, veteran legal affairs journalist Kenneth Jost has had a front-row seat in Washington as legal issues, big and small, came...

Barnestorming the Outdoors by Kenneth Edward Barnes is a collection of stories and articles, some of which have been published. Many, however, have never been read before. Some are from his newspaper columns and magazines. Others are from his book Life on Pigeon Creek. Many of the stories are heartwarming,...

Burning mouth syndrome (BMS) is a non-inherited, non-infectious chronic medical disorder that is characterized by a burning intra-oral painful sensation.The burning sensation can be serious, as though the patient has scalded the mouth.Burning mouth syndrome can occur suddenly or develop slowly over...

Turner Syndrome is an inherited disorder of the sex chromosome in which one of the X chromosomes is missing (XO)It happens only in females and is linked with amenorrhea and infertility.Turner syndrome is a rare genetic disorder.Turner syndrome can be also described as loss or abnormality of the father’s...