Medical

The Cystic Fibrosis Passport

by Dominic A, Dr Fitzgerald

Professor Dominic Fitzgerald is a paediatric respiratory and sleep specialist working at The Children's Hospital at Westmead in Sydney. For 15 years he has worked closely with infants and children with cystic...

Tales from the Tail End: Adventures of a Vet in Practice

by Emma Milne

James Herriot meets Bridget Jones in this honest, no-holds-barred account of the ups and downs of a vet's life

Misty was ecstatic to see her owner but to the nurse's surprise her owner just stood there and said,...

Curing Meralgia Paresthetica

by Godfree, Ed.D. Roberts

Curing Meralgia Paresthetica is for people in pain who want immediate relief, long-term cure, and something to discuss with their physician. Written by a Meralgia sufferer, it helps you find your way out of...

Chloroform: The Quest for Oblivion

by Linda Stratmann

Linda Stratmann traces the social, medical and criminal history of chloroform, from early medical practices to create oblivion through the discovery of chloroform and its discovery, its use and misuse in the...

Memory, Wisdom and Healing: The History of Domestic Plant Medicine

by Gabrielle Hatfield

Historians have largely neglected domestic medicine in favour of 'official medicine'. In this book, the author has gathered material from manuscripts, letters, diaries and personal interviews to produced a detailed...

50 Vetoes: How States Can Stop the Obama Health Care Law

by Michael F. Cannon

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) remains vulnerable to repeal, largely because Congress and the Supreme Court have granted each state the power to veto major provisions of the law before...

Remember When?

by Scientific American Editors

We don’t often marvel at the process of remembering—that is, until we forget. What allows us to remember, and how do we forget? Most importantly, why do we remember certain things and not others? In this...

Old Red: Pioneering Medical Education in Texas

by Heather Green Wooten

Tucked away in a corner of the University of Texas Medical Branch campus stands a majestic relic of an era long past. Constructed of red pressed brick, sandstone, and ruddy Texas granite, the Ashbel Smith Building,...

Nursing Assistant / Nurse Aide Exam

by Learning Express

This newly expanded and completely revised guide provides all the comprehensive information needed to master the official certification exams. Inside are:

Five complete practice exams based on the National Nurse...

Overdosed America

by John Abramson

Using the examples of Vioxx, Celebrex, cholesterol-lowering statin drugs, and anti-depressants, Overdosed America shows that at the heart of the current crisis in American medicine lies the commercialization...

Ayurvedic remedies

by Satish Venkatesan

Ayurveda, the science of life, represents the awareness in living. Considered by many the most ancient medicine system in the world, its roots can be seen still in our days. As certified practitioner in Ayurveda...

Natural spa

by Margaret Riley

Natural spa is a multi-purpose resource for spa professionals and consumers alike. Each part of the book presents an array of ingredients found in nature that are nowadays in use in the most famous spa around...

Hot stone massage therapy

by Margaret Riley

A user-friendly, easy-to-follow book meant to give hot stone massage habitué more insights on this ancient treatment. The book covers the most important aspects for giving a hot stone massage including the...

Natural handmade soaps

by Mandy Chang

Preserving the ancient craft of soap making, soap maker Mandy Chang provides instruction and guidance to all levels of soap makers. Using natural ingredients, readers will be able to experience the gratification...

QuickFACTS Lung Cancer

by American Cancer Society

More than 221,000 people will be diagnosed with lung cancer in the United States this year alone, and this book emphasizes that all patients should be well-informed decision-makers in planning their own treatment....

I Hear a Song In My Head: A Memoir In Stories of Love, Fear, Doctoring, and Flight

by Nergesh Tejani

Set in Uganda of the sixties with bookends in India and New York, this doctor's story tells of a turbulent political time when colonial Uganda graduated to self-rule. It is also the personal story of an Indian...

Hard Choices for Loving People: Cpr, Artificial Feeding, Comfort Care, and the Patient with a Life-Threatening Illness

by Hank Dunn

"Hard Choices for Loving People" is a guide for helping patients and families with end-of-life decisions like whether or not to use CPR or feeding tubes. After exploring treatment options, the concluding pages...

From Calcedonies to Orchids: Plays Promoting Humanity in Health Policy

by Jeff Nisker

Jeff Nisker has been writing plays since the early 1990s. He did this in order to bring audiences to the position of persons immersed in the vortex of new scientific capacity and its social implications. Jeff...

Curing Hepatitis C: Fight to the Finish

by Stephen Marek

My deeply personal journey and daily patient accounting through the side effects associated with triple drug therapy.

Treating Arthritis - The Supplements Guide

by Julia Davies

There are 200 types of arthritis which affects 1 in 5 adults in the UK, and one in four of all GP consultations in the UK relates to a musculoskeletal problem. Arthritis and related conditions are the second...