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Written by experts and authorities in the field and professionally narrated for easy listening, this crash course is a valuable tool both during school and when preparing for the USMLE, or if you're simply interested in the subject. The audio is focused and high-yield, covering the most important topics you might expect to learn in a typical medical school psychiatry course. Included are both capsule and detailed explanations of critical issues and topics you must know to master the course.

With 40 tracks, this premium audiobook gives you the world's largest, most comprehensive collection of certified soundscapes. If you want to quickly relax and melt stress away at the push of a button, keep reading... The constant sound of white noise, pink noise, and brown noise can work wonders for us in daily life.

Our understanding of cancer is slowly undergoing a revolution, allowing for the development of more effective treatments. For the first time ever, the death rate from cancer is showing a steady decline...but the “War on Cancer” has hardly been won. In The Cancer Code, Dr. Jason Fung offers a revolutionary new understanding of this invasive, often fatal disease - what it is, how it manifests, and why it is so challenging to treat.

Every two minutes someone is diagnosed with cancer. Every four minutes someone dies from cancer. Whether we like it or not, cancer will soon be a part of everyone’s life – whether they are affected personally or know someone who is. In The Cancer Roadmap, cancer surgeon, consultant and patient Dr Liz O’Riordan tackles the big cancer myths and truths, breaking down the science and giving readers evidence-based, undisputed facts to help them make informed decisions that are right for them.

Hot flashes, vaginal dryness, leaky bladders, weight gain, hair loss, inability to orgasm? Nothing is off limits in these fact filled, solution-driven and often surprisingly funny podcasts that address the specific symptoms women face as they navigate perimenopause and post-menopause. Each segment is like having an in-depth consultation with Dr. Lauren Streicher, a nationally recognized menopause expert and the founding Medical Director of the Northwestern Medicine Center for Sexual Medicine and Menopause. Guests will include other experts on all things menopause. So strap in- it’s going ...

Journey into the realm of deep sleep, relaxation, and spiritual awakening with Indigenous medicine woman, Asha Frost. Immerse yourself in the wisdom and nurturing energy of bear, buffalo, and thunderbird medicine through this integrative collection of guided meditations, offering a sacred pathway to profound healing, manifestation, and self-discovery.

Trying to get pregnant is enough to make any woman impatient. The Impatient Woman's Guide to Getting Pregnant is a complete guide to the medical, psychological, social, and sexual aspects of getting pregnant, told in a funny, compassionate way, like talking to a good friend who's been through it all. And in fact Dr. Jean Twenge has been through it all - the mother of three young children, she started researching fertility when trying to conceive for the first time.

Awakenings - which inspired the major motion picture - is the remarkable story of a group of patients who contracted sleeping sickness during the great epidemic just after World War I. Frozen for decades in a trance-like state, these men and women were given up as hopeless until 1969, when Dr. Oliver Sacks gave them the then-new drug L-DOPA, which had an astonishing, explosive, "awakening" effect. Dr. Sacks recounts the moving case histories of his patients, their lives, and their extraordinary transformations.

This audiobook is nothing but the pure, beautiful sounds of thunderstorms. Relax and close your eyes as you let the experience of Pure Thunderstorm Sounds wash over you and feel the stress melt away. Perfect for sleep, insomnia, relaxation, and background noise.

When caring for someone with dementia, your own mental stability can be the single most critical factor in your loved one’s quality of life. The Caregiver's Guide to Dementia brings practical and comprehensive guidance to understanding the illness, caring for someone, and caring for yourself. From understanding common behavioral and mood changes to making financial decisions, this book contains bulleted lists of actions you can take to improve your health and your caregiving.

Produced by McGraw Hill, Harrison's Podclass delivers illuminating and engaging discussions led by Drs. Cathy Handy Marshall and Charlie Wiener of The John Hopkins School of Medicine on key topics in medicine, featuring board-style case vignettes from Harrison's Review Questions and chapters from the acclaimed Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine – available on AccessMedicine from McGraw Hill.

Join us on "The Oprah Ozempic Odyssey," where we explore the intriguing world of weight loss through the lens of Oprah Winfrey's recent remarks about the weight loss drug, Ozempic. Dive into the heated debate surrounding the use of weight loss drugs, and discover the pros and cons of Ozempic as we break down its potential benefits and side effects. Through thoughtful discussions and a touch of humor, we help you navigate this complex topic, providing insights and considerations to make informed decisions on your own weight loss journey. Join us as we dissect the stigma associated with weight ...

In this distilled version of his best-selling Life Without Diabetes, Professor Roy Taylor offers a brilliantly concise explanation of what happens to us when we get type 2 and how we can reverse it permanently. Taylor's research has demonstrated that type 2 is caused by just one factor - too much internal fat in the liver and pancreas - and that to reverse it you need to strip this harmful internal fat out with rapid weight loss.

Approximately one out of every 10 women has endometriosis, an inflammatory disease that causes chronic pain and may lead to infertility. Despite the disease’s prevalence, the average woman may suffer for a decade or more before receiving an accurate diagnosis. Once she does, she’s often given little more than a prescription for pain killers and a referral for the wrong kind of surgery. Beating Endo arms women with what has long been missing - even within the medical community - namely, cutting-edge knowledge of how the disease works and what the endo sufferer can do....

Learn from Dr. Sarah Mitchell, an experienced sleep coach and member of the Society of Behavioral Sleep Medicine, how to put your baby to sleep with ease. If you are tired of the sleepless nights, the endless cycles of soothing, and the exhaustion that's taking a toll on your family, then this book is your ultimate lifeline.

How to Make Disease Disappear is Dr. Rangan Chatterjee’s revolutionary, yet simple guide to better health - a much-needed, accessible plan that will help you take back control of your health and your life. A physician dedicated to finding the root cause of ill health rather than simply suppressing symptoms with drugs, Dr. Chatterjee passionately advocates and follows a philosophy that lifestyle and nutrition are first-line medicine and the cornerstone of good health.

En l'an deux mil, mon conjoint a reçu un diagnostic de cancer du poumon et des os, stade 4. Il était inopérable et avait une espérance de vie de 30 jours. Quinze ans plus tard, mon mari est toujours en vie, sans aucune récidive. La grande question : "Mais qu'est-ce qu'il a fait pour s'en sortir ?" C'est ce que je vous présente aujourd'hui.

Oliver Sacks' The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat tells the stories of individuals afflicted with fantastic perceptual and intellectual aberrations: patients who have lost their memories and with them the greater part of their pasts; who are no longer able to recognize people and common objects; who are stricken with violent tics and grimaces or who shout involuntary obscenities; whose limbs have become alien; who have been dismissed as retarded yet are gifted with uncanny artistic or mathematical talents.

Et si tout venait de notre microbiote intestinal ? Chaque jour, de nouvelles études scientifiques montrent en tout cas que notre santé y est étroitement liée. Il est même probable que, dans les prochaines années, l'analyse de votre microbiote sera pour votre médecin aussi importante qu'une prise de sang ou un scanner, afin de mieux vous soigner ! Dans cet ouvrage illustré, le Dr Julien Scanzi vous emmène découvrir les fabuleux pouvoirs de votre deuxième cerveau et vous explique comment en prendre soin.

This theta healing composition is designed with pleasant frequencies to enable our mind to release stress and find a moment of true relaxation and focus. For a solid 9 hours our sound waves produce a gentle, pleasant, and very calming sensation that listeners will want to repeat over and over while sleeping, meditating, and working. Take a step back from our busy world, put on your headphones, steady your breathing, and allow yourself to be whisked away into a pleasantly relaxed state of mind.