Medical

QuickFACTS Prostate Cancer: What You Need to Know-NOW

by American Cancer Society

With greater public awareness, early detection of prostate cancer is on the rise and mortality rates are declining, and this book emphasizes that all patients should be well-informed decision makers in planning...

Protecting Your Family's Assets in Florida: How to Legally Use Medicaid to Pay for Nursing Home and Assisted Living Care, Second Edition

by J.D., LL.M., John R. Frazier

In Florida, private-pay costs at nursing facilities can exceed $6,000 per month. Many families cannot afford to pay such excessive amounts - which can total more than $70,000 per year. The Florida Medicaid program...

Our Bodies, Ourselves: Pregnancy and Birth

by Boston Women's Health Book Collective & Judy Norsigian

ALL THE INFORMATION YOU NEED TO MAKE WISE DECISIONS ABOUT YOUR PREGNANCY AND THE BIRTH OF YOUR CHILD -- FROM THE EDITORS OF THE CLASSIC "BIBLE OF WOMEN'S HEALTH"

Pregnancy and birth are as ordinary and extraordinary...

Fifty Years in the Service of Addiction Treatment: An Evolution in Paradigm and Policy

by David E. Smith

Addiction medicine in the US from the 1960s to 2012, when healthcare reform requires parity for addiction treatment.

SureCount, Diabetes Management In Your Hands, A Carb Counter and Meal Planner

by Melanie Weiss

Eat Carbs With Confidence! It is important to eat about the same amount of carbohydrates during each meal or snack to keep your blood glucose levels within a targeted range. But you may wonder what foods contain...

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...

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....

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...

A Look Back

by Scientific American Editors

It’s hard to believe 2012 is coming to a close. Lucky for us, this year has seen some amazing science, and in this eBook, we’ve compiled Scientific American’s best stories of 2012 with an eye on content,...

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...

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...

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...

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.

When Love in Not Enough, the Caregiver's Companion: What to Do When Your Parents Are Loosing Their Independence

by Stella Mesode Nsong

Steps to take and actions plans to put in place when your parents are loosing their independence and you want to give them the best quality of life and the best care possible without loosing yourself in the...

Replacing Obamacare: The Cato Institute on Health Care Reform

by Michael F. Cannon & Michael D. Tanner

This new eBook assembles the best of the Cato Institute's work on ObamaCare, and on how free markets are the only way to make health care better, more affordable, and more secure. These articles, written by...

QuickFACTS Colorectal Cancer

by American Cancer Society

Colorectal cancer is the second most prevalent form of cancer in the world, and this book emphasizes that all patients should be well-informed decision-makers in planning their own treatment. Covering everything...

QuickFACTS Basal and Squamous Cell Skin Cancer: What You Need to Know-NOW

by American Cancer American Cancer Society

Complete with the most up-to-date patient treatment guidelines, this medical guide covers every aspect of basal and squamous cell skin cancer, from what the risk factors are to the benefits of early diagnosis...

21 Words for Nurses

by Jeanine Young-Mason

This book highlights selected words which have particular relevance for nursing. They reflect ways of thinking about being and becoming a compassionate nurse.

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...

The Slim Book of Health Pearls: Symptoms Never to Ignore

by Sheldon Cohen M.D. & Keana Texeira

There is danger in delaying the evaluation of an unexplained medical symptom.

The author lists thirty-four such symptoms, describes them in detail, lists the possible diagnoses the symptoms may represent, their...