Now includes access to PLUS!A sound understanding of the structure and function of the human body in all of its intricacies is the foundation of a complete medical education. This classic work -- now enhanced with many new......
The varied personal stories of people living with diabetes and the experiences of their families and medical care providers
Author: Graber, Alan L.
Author: Brown, Anne W.
Author: Wolff, Kathleen
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
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Filled with hundreds of tips, suggestions, and strategies, the Canadian edition of this best-selling guide offers practical medical solutions in clear language. It explains how to develop and maintain exercise and nutrition programs, manage sympto......
There are many superb books on how to do operations but there are few or none on how to assist at them, and none written either by or for medical students or doctors. Therefore, the skills that make an expert...
The book explores a broad range of issues experienced by stroke survivors, from the very practical considerations of managing financial security and understanding medical approaches and terminology to the more personal challenges of coming to term......
In this guide, Allergic Girl Sloane Miller shows how to best handle and address food allergies in your family.Millions of Americans concerned about adverse reactions to food are seeking the advice of medical professionals and receiving a diagnosis......
Strange Harvest illuminates the wondrous yet disquieting medical realm of organ transplantation by drawing on the voices of those most deeply involved: transplant recipients, clinical specialists, and the surviving kin of deceased organ donors. In......
Filled with hundreds of tips, suggestions, and strategies, the Canadian edition of this best-selling guide offers practical medical solutions in clear language. It explains how to develop and maintain exercise and nutrition programs, manage sympto......
In this guide, Allergic Girl Sloane Miller shows how to best handle and address food allergies in your dating life.Millions of Americans concerned about adverse reactions to food are seeking the advice of medical professionals and receiving a diag......
Physical inactivity is a major modifiable risk factor for coronary artery disease (CAD), but the importance of exercise in maintaining patient health is commonly overlooked in medical school criteria. This handbook offers physicians a concise reso......
In this rare, behind-the-scenes look at what goes on in hospitals across the country, a longtime medical insider and international authority on childbirth assesses the flawed American maternity care system, powerfully demonstrating how it fails to......
Pathogen begins as a medical investigation into an unreported toxin that is causing death among children. A Pathologist gathers case studies and tries to correlate the data in an attempt to find a vector: mice, berries, mosquitoes, etc. that cou......
After the shock of discovering that you are pregnant and don't want to be or have just been given the diagnosis that there will be a medical situation with you pregnancy, what are your options for your pregnancy, abortion or...
Completely redesigned for easy reading and fully updated with the latest research and information on current practice, medication, legal matters, and specific conditions, this new edition of a vital resource is full of tips, suggestions, and strat......
Retrain your breathing to manage your asthma medication and stress.A fully revised, updated (and renamed) edition of the successful 2002 Breathing Works for Asthma, this book is the asthma sufferer's indispensable companion. Roughly one person in ......
Description Some 218,000 men and women with severe psychiatric disorders are incarcerated in an American prison or county jail. Most committed violent crimes -- sometimes murder -- while propelled by a crazed mind untreated with medications and t......
The psychiatric emergency room, a fast-paced combat zone with pressure to match, thrusts its medical providers into the outland of human experience where they must respond rapidly and decisively in spite of uncertainty and, very often, danger. In ......
"…The Miracle of Health is for everyone who wants to live better and longer." —Dr. John Ratey, MD, author of Spark, Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School Everyone has heard the "hows" and the "whys" when i......
The debate rages on over how to cope with the rising costs of medical care-proposed solutions range from a single payer system with a broad government control to loosely defined market-driven plans. The authors look at three key elements of...
A terrifying medical thriller in the bestselling tradition of Michael Crichton and Robin Cook. It lies hidden deep in the mist-shrouded rain forest of Central America. A place where a brilliant fertility doctor fulfills dreams for some - and crea......