Hammersmith Books Limited: 45 books
Fighting Fatigue
a practical guide to managing the symptoms of CFS/ME
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
This practical manual comes from a nationally recognized centre for CFS/ME and is jointly written by health professionals and their patients. They give straightforward and specific expert advice, accompanied by real life stories, on managing different aspects of everyday life that can affect energy...
by Martyn Hooper
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Based on responses to his earlier books - Pernicious Anaemia: the forgotten disease, and Living with Pernicious Anaemia - and on the daily enquiries and cries for help that come to the Pernicious Anaemia Society, Society-founder Martyn Hooper brings together the essential knowledge that sufferers...
by Manoj Ramachandran, Max Ronson
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Do you know: How to tell if a murder victim was left- or right-handed? More than 100 euphemisms for unmentionable parts of the body? Who has played Doc Holliday in the movies? Which famous doctor shares your birthday? (though we couldn't quite find someone for every day of the year...) Read this book...
The PK Cookbook
Go Paleo-ketogenic and get the best of both worlds
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
Dr Sarah Myhill has been helping sufferers from debilitating chronic conditions for over 30 years with an approach that combines all the benefits of current scientific knowledge and medical testing and treatments with an expanding appreciation of the importance of nutrition and lifestyle. Her book...
Suburban Shaman
tales from medicine's frontline
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
Medicine is not just about science. It's also all about stories, and about the mingling of narratives among doctors, and between them and their patients.' So writes Cecil Helman after 27 years as a family practitioner in and around London interlaced with training and research as a medical anthropologist,...
Your Thyroid and How to Keep it Healthy
Second edition of The Great Thyroid Scandal and How to Avoid It
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
In this updated (2012) second edition of this acclaimed book, you will learn how to recognize thyroid dysfunction and its many associated problems. Do you have a constant battle with weight? Do you have inexpicably high cholesterol? Do you feel cold and tired all the time? Is your hair thinning? Do...
by Barry Groves, Joel Kaufman
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Natural Health and Weight Loss explains in non-scientific language, supported by a huge body of evidence from clinical trials and population studies, what really constitutes a healthy diet, not just to prevent and cure obesity, but also to lead a long and healthy life. The author can claim to be one...
Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Navigating your way to recovery
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2015
With symptoms that range from merely annoying to completely debilitating, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is compromising the lives of many thousands of people who suffer in silence with symptoms that can be acutely embarrassing and completely unpredictable. Dr Megan Arroll and Professor Christine...
Pernicious Anaemia: The Forgotten Disease
The causes and consequences of vitamin B12 deficiency
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
self-help guide to vitamin B12 deficiency and pernicious anaemia
What's Up With Your Gut?
why you bloat after eating bread and pasta… and other gut problems
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
Do you get bloating when you eat pasta? Is your social life restricted by uncertainty about your bowels? Is your ability to work affected? This book will help you find out what your underlying gut problem is and understand how to make things better. With 80% of our immune system in our gut, sorting...
Anorexia Nervosa
hope for recovery
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Anorexia nervosa is a potentially fatal disorder that is notoriously difficult to treat and provokes feelings of great frustration in carers, families and friends. Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist, Dr Agnes Ayton FRCPsych, offers a new perspective, bringing together what is currently known and...
The Dementia Whisperer
scenes from the frontline of caring
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
Agnes Juhasz, writing with great humanity and understanding, draws on many years of working with people with dementia to show how she has learned to communicate and work collaboratively with sufferers and find the essence of the person hiding behind the symptoms of the disease. Based around real-life...
I Will Need to Break Your Other Leg
tales of medical adventure and misadventure
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
In these often hilarious, and always thought-provoking tales of medical intrigue and misadventure, drawn from the author's experiences as a doctor in rural Nepal and the inner-city wildernesses of the UK, Prasanna Gautam encounters medical conundrums with some very surprising outcomes. But there is...
End of Life
the essential guide for carers
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
This essential guide for carers, be they professional or friends and relations, provides guidance around a range of concerns associated with end of life. The book tackles this difficult subject in a practical and caring way, showing how appropriate arrangements can be made to ensure the dying person's...