Global Health

Big Pharma is more interested in profit than health. This was made clear as governments rushed to produce vaccines during the Covid pandemic. Behind the much-trumpeted scientific breakthroughs, major companies found new ways of gouging billions from governments in the West while abandoning the Global South. But this is only the latest episode in a long history of financializing medicine—from Purdue's rapacious marketing of highly addictive OxyContin through Martin Shkreli's hiking the price of a lifesaving drug to the 4.5 million South Africans needlessly deprived of HIV/AIDS medication.

In medical school, Paul Farmer found his life’s calling: To cure infectious diseases and to bring the lifesaving tools of modern medicine to those who need them most. Tracy Kidder’s magnificent account shows how one person can make a difference in solving global health problems through a clear-eyed understanding of the interaction of politics, wealth, social systems, and disease.

The Long Tale of Tears and Smiles explores an immigrant oncologist’s journey of triumphs and struggles, from growing up in Syria, to the tragic death of her brother, to her experiences as a young immigrant medical student and trainee in the USA. Walk through her anguish witnessing the civil war in Syria and its devastation; see her become a practitioner, watching the field of oncology evolves throughout the years.

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Do you want to take control of your emotional and physical well-being? Are you looking to elevate your mood, increase your energy, improve cognition, and reduce stress? Then Hack Your Happy Hormones is the perfect book for you! This book provides a comprehensive guide to help you naturally boost the power of the four happy hormones—serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin, and endorphins.

From Hiroshima to Chernobyl, Fukushima to the growing legacy of lethal radioactive waste, humanity's struggle to conquer atomic energy is rife with secrecy, deceit, human error, blatant disregard for life, short-sighted politics, and fear. Fallout is an eye-opening odyssey through the first eight decades of this struggle and the radioactive landscapes it has left behind. We are, Pearce finds, forever torn between technological hubris and all-too-human terror about what we have created.

Mataio (Matt) Faafetai Malietoa Brown offers the men in his barbershop a haircut with a difference: a safe space to be seen and heard without judgement. As the creator of My Fathers Barbers, Matt has inspired a new generation of New Zealand men to break free from the cycle of abuse - and those men have in turn inspired Matt and his wife, Sarah, to create the global anti-violence movement She Is Not Your Rehab.

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Self awareness is a fundamental principle in changing your mindset and loving yourself, especially when years of therapy, antidepressants and self-help books fall short. As a functional depressive, Dr. Andrea Pennington enjoyed a high powered media career with all the outer appearances of success. But she was miserable inside. After years of battling ‘Imposter Syndrome’ and constantly striving for perfection, a spiritual awakening prompted her to break free and live as her Authentic Self.

Dr. Ann McLannly blames herself for her niece’s tragic death. And after her mother dies, this young doctor volunteers with an international aid organization for a mission in Rwanda. Pressed into a grueling work schedule with limited facilities, she has little time to adjust. Still, she forges relationships with the remarkable people she meets and finds herself drawn into a relationship with a priest, who introduces her to a Catholic orphanage that needs a physician to care for the growing number of orphans.

Approximately 90 percent of caregiving situations at home occur with little or no warning. This book outlines, from the author's experience over a six-year caregiving period, those things that you should consider to ease the stress of caregiving; these include financial planning to afford the cost of in-home private care, estate planning to ensure your heirs receive the maximum value of your estate, the benefits of long-term healthcare insurance, outfitting your home to minimize accidents, and obtaining household support so you can focus your time and efforts on the patient. 

Hands sanitizers are agents put on the hands to be able to remove illness-causing pathogens. Usually, hands sanitizers are created in foam, gel, wipes, or liquid forms. Despite the fact that the using of hands sanitizer is broadly flexible, it is drafted as a moderate means of contamination control in a variety of settings which range from colleges to healthcare facilities and supermarkets. Hands sanitizers are transparent (commonly), waterless water products that tend to be used instead of conventional soap and water for cleansing the hands and work for killing bacteria.

From an award-winning science journalist comes a lively, informative, and humorous deep dive into the future of the toilet - from creative uses for harvested “biosolids”, to the bold engineers dedicated to bringing safe sanitation to the billions of people worldwide living without.

This everything guide to managing type 2 diabetes provides easy-to-follow advice on all areas of coping with diabetes.

La psicología oscura es cada vez más utilizada por aquellos que quieren controlar tus acciones, para conseguir lo que quieren. La estructura actual de la sociedad contribuye al aumento de la manipulación a través del uso de la intimidación, señales no verbales, hipnosis y más. Con todo esto, es bastante claro que el conocimiento de este tema es necesario para la supervivencia diaria. Secretos de la Psicología Oscura es una exploración del comportamiento antisocial en la sociedad y cómo contrarrestarlo. 

Carte Blanche is the alarming tale of how the right of Americans to say "no" to risky medical research is eroding at a time when we are racing to produce a vaccine and treatments for COVID-19. This medical right that we have long taken for granted was first sacrificed on the altar of military expediency in 1990 when the Department of Defense asked for and received from the FDA a waiver that permitted it to force an experimental anthrax vaccine on the ranks of ground troops headed for the Persian Gulf.

In this book, veteran constitutional lawyer Jonathan W. Emord explains the intellectual origins of freedom of speech from the Age of Enlightenment to the founding of the American republic. Today, government censorship of health information worldwide relies on the same mechanisms of prior restraint that were used in Europe from the 16th to the 18th centuries.

What is the role and importance of nutrition in the development, management and recovery from Covid-19? This book takes us through findings that NNEdPRO Global Institute's Covid-19 international task force members have provided our medical community through and beyond the pandemic. As with all aspects of COVID-19, ongoing research yields more new information each day and it is difficult to keep pace with novel findings. Nonetheless there are core topics worthy of continued discussion in the context of nutrition in healthcare.

Neuroscience research is producing an almost constant stream of new discoveries that are unlocking the secrets of how our brains work. For those of us directly involved in this research of the human brain, it is a very exciting time. However, very few people outside of the neuroscience community understand these discoveries well enough to take advantage of them or apply them to their own lives in a way that gets meaningful results

Fear is ubiquitous but slippery. It has been defined as a purely biological reality, derided as an excuse for cowardice, attacked as a force for social control, and even denigrated as an unnatural condition that has no place in the disenchanted world of enlightened modernity. In these times of institutionalized insecurity and global terror, Facing Fear sheds light on the meaning, diversity, and dynamism of fear in multiple world-historical contexts, and demonstrates how fear universally binds us to particular presents.