Medical Diseases

AudioLearn Presents What Doctors Know About Heart Disease. Developed by a team of medical doctors and professionally narrated for easy listening, this guide is a great way to learn about everything today’s doctors know about heart disease. The information presented is accurate, up-to-date, and broken down into bite-sized sections. There is a summary after each section to review the most important points.

Life Blood, written by a renowned leukaemia physician, tells unforgettable stories of his leukaemia patients’ battles to be cured but also uniquely describes the stresses that doctors face when looking after extremely ill young people during an extraordinary time in their lives. In reflecting on his long and illustrious career, Professor Marks’ memoir offers frank descriptions of his own medical family, some personal experiences of ill-health and his relationships with colleagues and patients in the NHS. Partly written during the Covid pandemic and as he approached retirement, Life Blood offers highly informed and compassionate views on modern medicine, from a pivotal point in both the author’s own professional life and the history of healthcare.

The thrust of this book is nutrition and complimentary therapies for digital addiction, anxiety, bipolar, depression, and schizophrenia. Useful resources to find authoritative information on all the included mental disorders from the American medical perspective are included. Truisms that have been passed down through the ages about mental health that have stood the rigors of scientific inquiry are presented. The role of nutrition in ameliorating anxiety is discussed.

A story about a doctor helping people suffering from mysterious conditions overcome hopeless situations Dr. Zachary Tannous has a history of working with high-level athletes of all kinds, specializing in enhancing physical performance, treating sports traumas, with a focus in neurology, autoimmune disease, and conditions of severe chronic pain. As an ex-collegiate football and semi-professional rugby player, Dr. Tannous knows about traumatic injury and physical performance from a first-hand perspective.

Mosquito Warrior tells the engrossing story of General William C. Gorgas (1854-1920), the once-renowned pioneer in tropical disease research and public health. His fascinating life illuminates vast transformations in the United States. Carol R. Byerly's balanced and contemporary examination of Gorgas illuminates his complex legacy in medicine and public health, military history, and American ambitions at the dawn of United States global ascendency.

Author and illustrator Hey Gee tells the story of a real-life Mayo Clinic patient. As an aspiring high-school track athlete takes on race after race, she must learn to manage the challenges of sickle-cell anemia. She'll need to work together with her health-care team and her family, along with techniques for self-care, to find success on and off the track.

From a case of hysterical paralysis to a pregnancy puncturing a lung, twenty-five of the most thrilling medical mysteries known to man (and doctor)."Vital Signs," a popular column featured in Discover Magazine, has long been a favorite of readers, showcasing, each month, fascinating new tales of strange illnesses and diseases that baffle doctors and elude diagnosis. Each tale is true and borders on the unbelievable. It's no wonder that throughout the years the column has become an unofficial textbook for medical students, interns, doctors, and anyone interested in human illness and staying healthy.

Baby boomers don't want to get old and will do anything to halt aging. I am committed to informing my listeners of the latest medical and scientific updates and am happy to present Antiaging Insights, which is packed with the tools you'll need to maintain your youth and vitality. In this audiobook, I'll explain how you can take full advantage of information that is available to help you eliminate your chance of disease and to drastically slow down the aging process - starting right now.

Medical masks have been proven effective time and time again in the defense against dangerous, deadly airborne pathogens, but these necessary facial accessories are becoming harder and harder to find. But, with this audiobook, you’ll never have to worry about running out or not being able to find a face mask ever again. This audiobook will teach you step-by-step how to make your own medical grade face masks so that you can keep yourself and your family safe against whatever life throws at you.

While it might seem unusual to see a book title on the subject of offering Christian encouragement to thyroid patients, it really shouldn't be considered unusual at all. Statistics by reputable polling organizations have shown that 75% of the U.S. population claims to be of the Christian faith and some medical estimates have revealed that over 30-million Americans are experiencing thyroid diseases.

When you or someone you love is diagnosed with cancer it feels like your whole world is falling apart. Not knowing what will happen next is terrifying, and that is the main reason I wrote this book, hoping that my experience could help others. The first title of this book was, “My body is weak but my mind is strong”, starting out as a story about my personal battle with cancer, and that was the mantra I used to hype myself up before my final chemotherapy session.

¿Está cansado de vivir con presión arterial alta y sentir que se ha apoderado de su vida? Es hora de tomar el control y solucionar el problema de una vez por todas. Vivir con presión arterial alta es una experiencia abrumadora. Da la sensación de estar siempre caminando por la cuerda floja, preocupándose constantemente por los riesgos de complicaciones y luchando por encontrar los medicamentos adecuados y los cambios en el estilo de vida que funcionen para usted.

A health crisis is one of the most challenging situations you will experience in your lifetime. It leaves you frightened, confused, and asking, “Why did this happen to me?” Transformation coach Rory Reich knows this feeling personally. He experienced his first healing crisis when he was 25, and, without anyone to guide him, he struggled to find the answers that would give him back his health and happiness.

Leaving London to return home to rural South Wales, Robyn finds that it's her old life - same teddy bears resting on her pillow, their bodies tucked under the duvet; same view of the garages behind which she'd had her first cigarette and first kiss - but so much has changed. Her dad, the proud, charmingly intelligent self-made man who made people laugh, was in the grip of early onset Alzheimer's. His brilliant mind, which saw him building power stations and literally bringing light into the lives of others, had succumbed to darkness.

Discover how you can lead your own fight against diabetes instead of just managing it in this empowering book on diabetes.

In 2014, I was diagnosed with avascular necrosis of the hips. That’s when my nightmare began. What is avascular necrosis? Avascular necrosis (AVN), also known as osteonecrosis of the femoral head, occurs when the blood supply to the bone is decreased. This interruption in blood supply causes small cracks and breaks in the bone. If the AVN is left untreated, the bone will eventually die and collapse. Over 20,000 people acquire AVN every year, typically between 20 and 50 years old.

Bradwel reminds us that the centenary of this apparent "wonder drug" should be no cause for celebration. Insulin often remains inaccessible to those who need it most: elusive prescriptions, uneven availability and sky-high prices result in rationing and desperate do-it-yourself research and development. In the face of bootstraps rhetoric and "Pharma Bro" capitalists, patients across the world are left to fend for themselves. There is a long way to go in the twenty-first century until insulin truly fulfills the extraordinary promises made by its discovery.

If you have Lyme disease, you know firsthand the desperation that comes from being misdiagnosed, misunderstood, and misdirected. You need straight answers and real solutions, but all you get is the runaround. Riding high as a hard-driving entrepreneur in the solar industry, Taylor Nelson contracted Lyme disease in his mid-twenties. Spiraling down swiftly, he tried everything to feel like himself again, turning himself into a human guinea pig. Taylor shares his deeply personal story, what he tried, how it worked, and how to live a full life in the face of a devastating disease.

Bettina Greschner hat sich lange Zeit ihres Leben nicht erwünscht und nie gut genug gefühlt. Das Leben ging nicht gerade zimperlich mit ihr um. Aufgewachsen mit einem alkoholabhängigen Elternteil, der tödliche Verlust des Lebenspartners kurz vor der geplanten Hochzeit, 2011 die Diagnose "Brustkrebs" und zeitgleich die Selbständigkeit mit einem Möbelgeschäft, welche damals unter keinem guten Stern stand. Was nun? Warten bis es noch schlimmer wird und noch weiter bergab geht? Nein! Das war keine Option.

Cancer can result from abnormal proliferation of any of the different kinds of cells in the body, so there are more than 100 distinct types of cancer, which can vary substantially in their behavior and response to treatment. Cancer occurs when cell division gets out of control. One of the fundamental features of cancer is tumor clonality, the development of tumors from single cells that begin to proliferate abnormally. Rare cancers are any tumors that involve a small percentage of the population in any age group.