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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.

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?

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.

「スマホで失明」って大げさな、と思ったあなたへ　失明=全盲、ではありません　「はじめに」の「ある高校生に起こった悲劇」だけでも読んでください

Écoutez ce livre audio... et faites de beaux rêves. Stop aux idées reçues ! Le rituel du coucher n'est pas l'apanage des enfants. Oui, les adultes aussi ont besoin de belles histoires pour trouver le sommeil. Elles seront comme un nid douillet où l'esprit viendra se poser après une journée de travail, pour apaiser l'âme et le corps.

Growing up the good girl in an Irish American family full of drinkers and terrible sleepers, Kathleen Frazier was 12 when her seemingly innocent sleepwalking turned dangerous. Over the next few years, she was a popular A+ student by day, the star of her high school musical. At night she both longed for and dreaded sleep. Frazier moved to Manhattan in the 1980s, hoping for a life in the theater but getting a run of sleepwalking performances instead.

During and after several long hospital stays for what should have been a simple knee replacement but turned into something much more exhausting, writer Robert Ungar reflects on his deep intrigue with the way hospitals are managed. In Hospital Impressions, Ungar delves into the roles of nurses and doctors, the day-to-day madness visited upon the patients, and his own personal history with the medical world.

Living in the Belgian Congo with her husband in the 1960s, Fran’s mother became pregnant with a daughter. However, right after she gave birth in the hospital, she felt strange. Unbeknownst to anyone, another daughter was on the way, but before anybody responded, an hour had passed. Because of the delay, Fran was born with cerebral palsy. Growing up with her siblings in Africa, Fran always felt different. When everyone else was playing and having fun, she would watch and wish she could join in.

Autism has attracted a great deal of attention in recent years, thanks to dramatically increasing rates of diagnosis, extensive organizational mobilization, journalistic coverage, biomedical research, and clinical innovation. Understanding Autism, a social history of the expanding diagnostic category of this contested illness, takes a close look at the role of emotion - specifically, of parental love - in the intense and passionate work of biomedical communities investigating autism.

As a woman used to traveling and living the high life in Bangkok, Leanne Shirtliffe recognized the constant fodder for humor while pregnant with twins in Asia's sin city. But in spite of deep-fried bug cuisine and nurses who cover newborn bassinets with plastic wrap, Shirtliffe manages to keep her babies alive for a year with help from a Coca-Cola deliveryman, several waitresses, and a bra factory. Then she and her husband return home to the isolation of North American suburbia.

Desde las primeras civilizaciones, los sueños nos han intrigado y nos han servido de guía para la vigilia. Vistos por nuestros ancestros como mensajeros de los dioses, y por la moderna psicología como valiosas pistas del inconsciente, en este audiolibro ahondaremos en esta “vida alternativa” que todos desplegamos durante las horas de descanso. Para ello contaremos con la piscoterapeuta jungiana Leonor Fernández, con más de tres décadas de experiencia en el análisis de los sueños y de su fascinante simbología.

A todos nos sucede: a veces nuestro "runrún" interior no nos deja descansar, porque tenemos un tiovivo de pensamientos recurrentes girando por nuestra cabeza. ¿Cómo podemos "apagar" ese ruido mental para aumentar el reposo y la creatividad? De la mano de Xavier Guix, uno de los grandes psicólogos del momento, aprenderemos cómo funciona nuestra mente para hacernos amigos de ella y acallar estos procesos que nos desgastan.

Muchos científicos han afirmado que conocemos mejor el universo exterior que el que tenemos dentro de nuestra cabeza. La doctora en neurociencia Estefanía Estévez, reconocida divulgadora y conferenciante, nos lleva de viaje a los secretos de nuestro cerebro durante el descanso. Narrada por esta joven investigadora, comprender cómo opera el dispositivo más sofisticado del universo nos ayudará a cuidarlo mejor de modo que trabaje a nuestro favor.

Intrigante prostate, c’est l’histoire d’un médecin qui s’autodiagnostique un cancer de la prostate à soixante-cinq ans, un peu par hasard, sans y croire vraiment. Avec ce témoignage sincère, tantôt drôle, tantôt philosophique, le Dr Routy raconte sa traversée de l’autre côté du miroir : ses angoisses, l’acceptation de sa maladie, le fait d’apprendre à ralentir… et à parler aux autres. Il brise plus d’un tabou en expliquant les dessous de cette maladie que l’on surnomme « le cancer des hommes ».

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.