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In 2006, the Wall Street pioneer and philanthropist Ray Chambers flicked through some holiday snapshots taken by a friend and remarked on the placid beauty of a group of sleeping Malawian children. "They're not sleeping," his friend told him. "They're in malarial comas. A few days later, they were all dead." This moment sparked Chambers' determination to coordinate an unprecedented, worldwide effort to eradicate a disease that has haunted humanity since before the advent of medicine.

In Remembering the Music, Forgetting the Words, Kate Whouley strips away the romantic veneer of mother-daughter love to bare the toothed and tough reality of caring for a parent who is slowly losing her mind. Yet, this is not a dark or dour look at the demon of Alzheimer’s. Whouley shares the trying, the tender, and the sometimes hilarious moments in meeting the challenge also known as Mom.

Stephen Heywood was 29 years old when he learned that he was dying of ALS - Lou Gehrig's disease. Almost overnight, his older brother, Jamie, turned himself into a genetic engineer in a quixotic race to cure the incurable. His Brother's Keeper is a powerful account of their story, as they travel together to the edge of medicine.

Compared to the diagnoses of forty years ago, the choices and information offered by today's doctors leave you to make the final decision that can, and often does, change your life. In Port in the Storm, neurosurgeon Cole Giller MD, guides you through the difficult and confusing maze of medical choices and tradeoffs, helping you weigh your options with confidence and make a decision you can live with.

Despite extensive evidence highlighting the influence of genetics in the business world, this critical connection has been glossed over by corporate leaders and management gurus. Now, for the first time, author Scott Shane explains why genes matter, and how an understanding of their relationship to behavior is of vital importance to employers, employees, and policy makers.

It’s the business of saving lives. Miracle Medicines goes behind the scenes of the pharmaceutical industry and into the high-security laboratories to tell the stories of the men and women - chemists, physiologists, medical and clinical researchers, engineers - who have chosen to toil for years in the lab in order to transform scientific theories into new lifesaving medicines. You’ll witness the day-to-day labors, victories and defeats of the dedicated professionals who are waging a war against the diseases that still plague mankind.

Here is a moving story of personal triumph - and a prescription for how to tame a disease that afflicts millions of Americans and is doubling among children. The former Miss America, a diabetic herself, offers an inspirational guide to living with diabetes, discussing the need for early detection and treatment of the disease and explaining how, with proper diet, exercise, medication, and attitude, to cope with it.

Does your blood pressure surge if the car in front of you turns without signaling? Do your neck veins pulsate when a cashier takes too long to ring you up? Does relaxing seem like it'll have to wait until you're dead? Then your name could very well be Brian Frazer. On paper, Frazer is the world's healthiest guy. He eats right, exercises regularly, gets plenty of sleep, has never smoked and has missed only one day of flossing in the last five years. But inside he's a swirling vortex of angst, capable of contracting a new malady every month.

If you’ve ever had a friend, relative, or colleague with cancer, this is the book for you. Wondering what to say, how to help, and/or what to know about your friend with cancer? Now, for the first time, your questions will be answered in this supportive and instructional guide on how to be there for your loved one in his or her time of need.

Whether it results from injury, osteoporosis, or an unusually intense weekend golf game, back pain is an all-too-common cause of serious discomfort that can debilitate even your most dedicated effort to maintain a healthy and active lifestyle. It doesn't have to be that way. Dr. Harris H. McIlwain has devoted his career to bringing relief to sufferers of back pain and arthritis, and in The Pain-Free Back, he shares his clinically proven six-step program for achieving and maintaining a healthy back.

Lina was a precocious toddler - charming, chatty, joyful. At the age of three, in the aftermath of her second MMR vaccine, first came a seizure, and then, to her parents’ horror, the loss of Lina’s ability to play, use language, and control her impulses. Over the next few years they continued to lose Lina. She communicated her acute discomfort by biting, screaming, hitting, laughing maniacally, and throwing violent tantrums.

Leonore Dvorkin shares her experiences with breast cancer and the fruit of her extensive research on the subject. Her story is presented in factual, but personal manner. On the journey from chilling diagnosis through her decision to undergo a mastectomy, then 10 years of life after the surgery, her story is an uplifting voyage of personal discovery sure to inspire all who listen to it.

The average individual is far more likely to die in a car accident than from a communicable disease...yet we are still much more fearful of the epidemic. Even at our most level-headed, the thought of an epidemic can inspire terror. As Philip Alcabes persuasively argues in Dread, our anxieties about epidemics are created not so much by the germ or microbe in question - or the actual risks of contagion - but by the unknown, the undesirable, and the misunderstood.

Technological innovation is deeply woven into the fabric of American culture, and is no less a basic feature of American health care. Medical technology saves lives and relieves suffering, and is enormously popular with the public, profitable for doctors, and a source of great wealth for industry. Yet its costs are rising at a dangerously unsustainable rate. The control of technology costs poses a terrible ethical and policy dilemma. How can we deny people what they may need to live and flourish?

A shocking expose of the reckless proliferation of bioweapon research and development facilities across the U.S. - and the threat this poses to everyday Americans. Battling a new generation of corporate giants and uncovering threats right in our own backyard, Kenneth King’s Germs Gone Wild reveals the massive expansion of America’s biodefense research labs and the culture of deception surrounding hundreds of facilities that have opened since 9/11.

Nulla è più misterioso della nostra mente quando dormiamo. Accadono infatti cose che neanche la fervida fantasia di un grande scrittore saprebbe immaginare, e molte sono le domande che tutti ci facciamo, senza però trovare risposta. Com'è possibile guidare una macchina, parlare lingue misteriose o camminare per ore durante il sonno? Da dove vengono quelle inquietanti visioni di demoni, folletti e spettri che infestano la nostra stanza? Che cosa spinge i bambini a gridare terrorizzati nel cuore della notte? Perché alcune volte abbiamo l'impressione di cadere da una sedia e ci svegliamo?

Seconda causa di morte della popolazione e prima causa di invalidità, l'ictus cerebrale è oggi un vero problema sociale oltre che medico. La prevenzione è certo il primo pilastro per arginarne le conseguenze. Al tempo stesso gli avanzamenti della ricerca hanno messo a disposizione strategie terapeutiche efficaci nella fase acuta che permettono di ottenere un recupero neurologico in più del 50% dei casi. In questo volume: le cause, i fattori di rischio, la prevenzione, i nuovi modelli assistenziali, come le Stroke Unit, e le novità terapeutiche insieme a quelle attese nel futuro.

Di fronte a una malattia per la quale non è ancora disponibile un rimedio risolutivo, pazienti, familiari e medici si trovano a intraprendere un cammino lungo e impegnativo. Che cos'è il Parkinson? Come si manifesta? Come è possibile affrontarlo? Il libro descrive le varie fasi della malattia, gli aspetti diagnostici, le terapie, ma anche le modalità per rendere meno ardua la vita dei malati e dei loro familiari, senza dimenticare uno sguardo al domani e alla ricerca.

Che cos'è la sindrome di Down, perché può nascere un bambino con la trisomia 21, e come aiutarlo a crescere fino a farne una persona autonoma e integrata nel mondo della scuola e del lavoro? Il volume, dedicato a genitori, insegnanti, operatori, ripercorre la storia di vita delle persone con sindrome Down e della loro famiglia.

Hoy en día, el estar permanentemente ocupado se ha convertido en una insignia de honor y de prestigio. Queremos decir y mostrar al mundo que estamos ajetreados, pero al mismo tiempo nos sentimos agotados. Este contrasentido resulta muy pernicioso para nuestra salud física y mental, por lo que hemos de empezar a tomarnos en serio el descanso como método de autocuidado, y este libro puede ayudarnos a descubrir cómo hacerlo. El arte del descanso se basa en una investigación innovadora en la que colaboró la autora, Claudia Hammond.