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Patients Beyond Borders Focus On: Bumrungrad International

by Josef Woodman

Patients Beyond Borders,TM the best-selling consumer reference guide for medical tourism, is pleased to announce the release of FOCUS ON: Bumrungrad International Hospital, profiling the renowned Asian destination...

The Buena Salud Guide for a Heathy Heart

by Jane L. Delgado

Available in both English and Spanish-language editions, The Buena Salud™ Guides present the best in health advice and cutting-edge science, with real-life stories featured throughout. Written by the president...

The Latina Guide to Health: Consejos and Caring Answers

by Jane L. Delgado

Written by Dr. Jane L. Delgado, the nation's leading expert on Hispanic health, The Latina Guide to Health features cutting-edge medical information and advice for all Hispanic women. With a deep understanding...

Hair!: Mankind's Historic Quest to End Baldness

by Gersh Kuntzman

Hair! Mankind's Historic Quest to End Baldness is a social history of one of humanity's most irksome problems: male pattern baldness.

Throughout the centuries, Man (not his real name) has tried everything to...

How We Survived Prostate Cancer: What We Did and What We Should Have Done

by Victoria Hallerman & Peter S. Albert

In this unflinchingly honest account of one couple's struggles through prostate cancer, told from the wife's point of view, Victoria Hallerman writes poignantly of the six-year journey that changed the landscape...

Menopause For Dummies, Pocket Edition

by Marcia L. , PhD Jones & Theresa , MD Eichenwald

Get a handle on changes in your body

Every woman goes through menopause. This handy pocket guide demystifies what's going on and explains how to relieve symptoms, offering up-to-date advice on hormone and non-hormone...

Health Professionals and Trust

by Mark Henaghan

An ever increasing number of codes of conduct, disciplinary bodies, ethics committees and bureaucratic policies now prescribe how health professionals and health researchers relate to their patients. In this...

The Essential Hospital Handbook: How to Be an Effective Partner in a Loved One’s Care

by Patrick Conlon

Hospitalization is often as dismaying and frightening for family members as it is for the patient. And despite a heartfelt desire to understand what is happening and to comfort a sick or injured loved one, too...

The Prostate Health Program: A Guide to Preventing and Controlling Prostate Can

by Daniel Nixon, Max Gomez & The Reference Works

What foods should you eat if you want to keep your prostate healthy? How does sexual activity affect the health of your prostate? What are ways you can prevent prostate cancer? What should African-American men...

The Core Program: Fifteen Minutes a Day That Can Change Your Life

by Peggy Brill & Gerald Secor Couzens

Introducing the fitness program designed by a physical therapist exclusively for women — proven to increase strength, tone muscles and reduce aches and pains in just 15 minutes a day!

Few women realize that...

Body Drama: Real Girls, Real Bodies, Real Issues, Real Answers

by Nancy Amanda Redd

"You’d think a Miss America swimsuit winner would feel completely confident about her body, right? Not always! So I decided to write the book I wish I’d had as a teen and in college—an honest, funny, practical,...

The transformation of children's services

by Joan Forbes & Cate Watson

Can we imagine different ways of working together to secure better outcomes for children and families? What are the complex issues that underlie the apparently simple call for 'joined-up' services?

Children's...

Introduction to Vocational Rehabilitation

by Clive Langman

This text provides an overview of vocational rehabilitation (VR) practice, making it the perfect companion for students and practitioners with an interest in supporting people back to work and improving their...

The Simple Guide to Having a Baby: What You Need to Know

by Penny Simkin, Janelle Durham & Janet Whalley

Here’s what you need to know about having a baby!

Using clear language and lots of pictures, this book helps you make smart choices as you get ready to have a baby. You’ll find:

• advice on what to do...

From Birth to Sixteen

by Helen Cowie

From Birth to Sixteen outlines children's physical, social, emotional and language development from infancy through to adolescence. In both its practical application of research and its contribution to the assessment...

Voices of the Women's Health Movement, Volume 2

by Barbara Seaman & Laura Eldridge

An unprecedented and definitive collection of rabble-rousing writings on women’s health, Voices of the Women’s Health Movement explores a range of provocative topics from reproductive rights to sexuality...

Voices of the Women's Health Movement, Volume 1

by Barbara Seaman & Laura Eldridge

An unprecedented and definitive collection of rabble-rousing writings on women’s health, Voices of the Women’s Health Movement explores a range of provocative topics from reproductive rights to sexuality...

Hybrid Training: The Most Powerful Secret in Fitness

by Nick Nilsson

Have you ever wondered how to REALLY maximize every single moment of every single rep of every single set to build muscle and strength FASTER? Standard exercise technique is NOT the answer!

If you're interested...

Spartan Warrior Circuit Training: The 300 Workout

by Jim McHale & Chohwora Udu

Spartan Warrior Circuit Training: The 300 Workout is a no-nonsense approach to high intensity fitness training based on the workout used by the cast of the film 300. This workout is intense, diverse, creative,...

Singapore's Ageing Population

by Wing-Cheong Chan

A rapidly ageing population is the most significant demographic issue confronting Singapore in our lifetime. This has created new and increasing demands on Singapore's healthcare system and on the families of...