Visual Diagnosis and Care of the Patient with Special Needs provides a thorough review of the eye and vision care needs of patients with special needs. This book gives you a better understanding of the most frequently encountered...
Medicine, health and fitness
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Author:Taub, Marc B.Summary: - Author:Verkuyl, Margaret, Garcia, Wendy, St-Amant, Oona, Tan, Andy, Lapum, Jennifer L.Summary:
The purpose of this textbook is to help learners develop best practices in vital sign measurement. Its intended audience is students in health-related post-secondary programs as well as healthcare providers. Using a multi-media and...
- Author:Hobbs, Christopher, Haas, ElsonSummary:
Don’t forget to take your vitamins! It’s good advice. But everybody’s needs are different. Age, lifestyle, gender, ethnicity, diet and habits all play a role in determining which vitamins and minerals you need more or less of in your...
- Author:Owen, DavidSummary:
The surprising science of hearing and the remarkable technologies that can help us hear better Our sense of hearing makes it easy to connect with the world and the people around us. The human system for processing sound is a biological...
- Author:Dallaire, RoméoSummary:
At the heart of Waiting for First Light is a no-holds-barred self-portrait of a top political and military figure whose nights are invaded by despair, but who at first light faces the day with the renewed desire to make a difference in...
- Author:Horner, ChristineSummary:
Breast cancer has reached epidemic proportions in the United States. Once a relatively rare disease, it now affects 2 to 3 million American women. What can we do to protect ourselves? Christine Horner, M.D., has the prescription: Eat...
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This collection takes a holistic view of well-being, seeking complementarities between Indigenous approaches to healing and Western biomedicine. Topics include traditional healers and approaches to treatment of disease and illness;...
- Author:O'Grey, Eric, Dagostino, MarkSummary:
Eric was 150 pounds overweight, depressed, and sick. After failed diet attempts and the onset of type 2 diabetes, Eric went to a new doctor, who surprisingly prescribed a shelter dog. That's when Eric met Peety, an overweight, middle-...
- Author:Horton, JillianSummary:
When we need help, we count on doctors to put us back together. But what happens when doctors fall apart? Jillian Horton, a general internist, has no idea what to expect during her five-day retreat at Chapin Mill, a Zen centre in...
- Author:Wooten, James T.Summary:
The global battle against AIDS is set against the life and death of Nkosi Johnson, a young South African boy who, despite having been born with the ailment, became a symbol of the struggle against the disease and the strength of the...
- Author:Waters, AliceSummary:
From chef and food activist Alice Waters, an impassioned plea for a radical reconsideration of the way each and every one of us cooks and eats In We Are What We Eat, Alice Waters urges us to take up the mantle of slow food culture, the...
- Author:Kurian, Marina S., Thompson, Barbara, Davidson, Brian K.Summary:
Sixty percent of individuals over the age of 20 — or 58 million people in the United States — are overweight. As the obesity epidemic continues to grow, many Americans are researching the benefits and complications of weight-loss...
- Author:Werner, Sidney C, Ingbar, Sidney HSummary:
Werner & Ingba's The Thyroid: A Fundamental and Clinical Text, 10th edition has been extensively revised and streamlined to deliver the most comprehensive coverage of the thyroid including anatomy, development, biochemistry,...
- Author:Lee, John R., Hopkins, Virginia, Zava, DavidSummary:
Strategies for preventing a devastating disease that affects millions of women.
- Author:St. Amand, R. Paul, Marek, ClaudiaSummary:
Dr. St. Amand, a renowned endocrinologist at UCLC School of Medicine, has developed a remarkable treatment for a painful disease that affects millions of people.
- Author:Gravelle, KarenSummary:
The book balances information about being a sexual person with that of being a responsible person. The chapter "Girls Are Changing Too" offers detailed information not typically presented in books for males. Other standout chapters...
- Author:Sutherland, ChristineSummary:
Master the art of wheelchair massage. Wheelchairs open a world of mobility to those who use them. Yet the immobility of prolonged sitting can lead to health issues that can greatly impact a wheeler's quality of life. The hands-on...
- Author:Hamilton, JoanSummary:
What do you tell children when a parent has been diagnosed with a serious illness? What should you do? What should you talk about? When do you ell them? What words do you use? This book provides parents and other caregivers with...
- Author:Mezrich, Joshua D.Summary:
Surgeon Joshua D. Mezrich takes us inside the operating room to unlock the process of transplant surgery, a delicate, intense ballet requiring precise timing, breathtaking skill, and at times, creative improvisation. Mezrich examines...
- Author:Gaffigan, JeannieSummary:
In a book that is The Big Sick meets Dad is Fat, Jeannie Gaffigan, writing partner and wife of bestselling author/comedian Jim Gaffigan, writes with humor and heart about the pear-sized brain tumor she had removed, the toll it took on...
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