Medical

The New Sugar Busters!(r) Shopper's Guide

by H. Leighton Steward

SUGAR BUSTERS!® forever changed the way Americans eat, offering a delicious new approach to diet and health. The SUGAR BUSTERS!® Shopper’s Guide soon followed–and made finding SUGAR BUSTERS!®-friendly...

Natural Treatments for Arthritis

by Christine Craggs-Hinton

More than nine million people in the UK have arthritis and there are over 200 kinds of rheumatic disease. While it is not clear what causes arthritis, or what might cure it, plenty can be done to take control...

QuickFACTS Melanoma Skin Cancer: What You Need to Know-NOW

by American Cancer Society

This pocket-sized reference covers everything from the risk factors of melanoma skin cancer to the diagnosis procedure to living well after treatment. With greater public awareness, early detection of melanoma...

The Wildwater Walking Club

by Tim Johnson

In today’s world, there are many hot-button topics that generate equal parts debate and confusion. At the top of that list is healthcare. For most Americans, finding out “the truth” about current problems...

Menopause: The Drug-Free Way

by Juliet Bressan

Doctors are traditionally keen to medicalise the menopause, but, in the face of ongoing controversy about HRT, there is an increasing call for a natural menopause. Written by a GP, Menopause the Drug Free Way...

HIV and AIDS

by Scientific American Editors

On June 5, 1981, the scientific community received a wake-up call from the CDC regarding a terrible and mysterious new illness that caused immune system failure. A year passed before it had a name: AIDS. Reported...

In Search of the Real Me: Achieving Personal Balances

by PH.D, David French

Realistic, achievable self-healing is attainable with Dr. French's "Search for Personal Balance" technique. With this method of stress reduction, the internal and external sources of stress are identified and...

How We Do Harm

by Otis Webb Brawley, MD & Paul Goldberg

How We Do Harm exposes the underbelly of healthcare today—the overtreatment of the rich, the under treatment of the poor, the financial conflicts of interest that determine the care that physicians’ provide,...

The Whole Story

by Toby Murcott

Alternative medicine is a fifty billion dollar per year industry, yet it continues to generate strong opposition by the orthodox medical establishment. The Whole Story rounds up the latest evidence on the placebo...

The Checklist Manifesto

by Atul Gawande

The New York Times bestselling author of Better and Complications reveals the surprising power of the ordinary checklist

We live in a world of great and increasing complexity, where even the most expert professionals...

Discover The Joy of Good Health

by M.D., John Inzerillo

Liberate yourself from the guilt that prevents you from asking for what you want and need and learn to stay in the present instead of focusing on past hurts and future expectations. Discover the Joy of Good...

Forensics and Fiction

by D. P. Lyle

How long can someone survive in a cold, damp cave without food or water? How was diphtheria treated in 1886? Can Botox kill? Can DNA be found on a knife years later? How are mummified corpses identified? How...

Into the Breach

by J. A. Karam

Into the Breach is the true story of paramedics, emergency medical technicians, and heavy-rescue specialists fighting to control trauma and medical emergencies in one of America's toughest and most violent cities:...

Julia's Mother

by William Bonadio

A real-life pediatric emergency room doctor reveals the trials, heartbreaks, and triumphs of his work.

It's a place of intense human drama, life's highest hopes and deepest despairs. A place we rarely get to...

The Dark Threads

by Jean Davison

A vivid memoir of one young woman's psychiatric treatment in the Sixties which raises questions, that are still relevant today.

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,...

Dictionary and Phrasebook of French Medical Terms: With An Introduction to the French Medical System

by Richard Whiting

Essential language for communicating with pharmacies, doctors, and hospitals in France

A clear introduction to this reference explains the French medical system, the procedure to follow, and your entitlements,...

Body Count: How they turned AIDS into a catastrophe

by Peter Gill

With 20 million dead and another 40 million infected, AIDS is the world's worst epidemic, but the catastrophe could have been prevented. This book shows how millions could have been saved and many millions more...

Chekhov's Doctors: A Collection of Chekohov's Medical Tales

by Jack Coulehan

In his brief but distinguished life, Anton Chekhov was a doctor, a documentary essayist, an admired dramatist, and a humanitarian. He remains a nineteenth-century Russian literary giant whose prose continues...

Cancers of the Mouth and Throat: A Patient's Guide to Treatment

by MD, William M., MD Lydiatt & Perry Johnson

William Lydiatt, M.D. and Perry Johnson, M.D., have worked with hundreds of mouth and throat cancer patients. They understand the emotional turmoil patients and their families go through after a cancer diagnosis,...