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Part of Headline's expert-led health series, Coping with Chronic Pain examines the science behind why some people suffer from different types of pain and the treatments available. Many people live with chronic pain. For some, it's an occasional inconvenience but, for others, it's a huge burden...

Congratulations! You've created this amazing new being - but at the same time, your breasts are unrecognisable, your pelvic floor feels surprisingly untrustworthy, you're leaking from almost everywhere and you can't even contemplate the idea of resuming intimacy within the next decade. The...

From the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of Medical Apartheid, the gripping, untold stories of three unsung Black physicians and their critical contributions to the field of medicine and American culture. Between 1847 and 1952, three New York City doctors transformed medicine...

With remarkable insight and vulnerability, a leading researcher and cancer advocate distills the lessons for living that he's learned as a doctor and as a patient, after being diagnosed with his own terminal illness—based on his enormously popular Stanford class. Over the course of his...

A dramatic tale of explorers of the 1930s racing to find and harvest a poisonous Amazon vine, and how their work plundered local tribes and spurred the invention of new medicines. In the fall of 1938, a young, frail American explorer set off down a river in the western Amazon in search of curare...

Before I can tell you about the shock treatment, I should tell you about the horse tranquilizer. Ted Scheinman has struggled with depression through his whole life, and gone to great lengths in his search for relief. As antidepressants prove less and less effective, he turns to the powerful...

In this deeply personal and empowering audiobook, longtime patient and advocate Gwen Mayes reveals the hidden emotional toll of living with chronic illness—and how resilience, self-awareness, and emotional intelligence can transform the journey. Written with candor, empathy, hope, and humor and drawing on her own decades-long experience with heart disease, she explores the profound mind-body connection, the gaps in our healthcare system, and the strategies that help patients stay grounded when their physical health feels unpredictable.

In the vein of Alexandra Robbins's The Teachers, this gripping, intimate story of four nurses in four different US healthcare centers shows that not all parts of the system are broken and offers a roadmap to find and give better care. Theresa Brown worked as a oncology nurse for years before...

An urgent indictment of the food we eat, how it is making us sick, and the choices that led us here, and a call for a revolutionary new food system that can mend our health, economy, and planet, from a world-renowned expert in nutrition, medicine, and public policy The food we eat is making us...

"Raj Panjabi is one of the smartest people around on health issues... and one of the best-placed people to guide us through this terrain and keep us safe." —Nicholas Kristof The only playbook you will ever need for planning and dealing with emergency situations, from floods to illness, from...

From the acclaimed author of Billion Dollar Molecule and The Antidote, a revisionist, passionate history of the pharmaceutical industry, detailing how the nascent industry ushered in an age of cures. The Age of Cures is the in-depth history of the birth of the pharmaceutical industry in the...

Media darling and director of Memory and Healthy Aging at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Dr. Zaldy Tan’s What to Remember When You Are Forgetting shares the definitive guide to thriving with dementia for the recently diagnosed and their caregivers. Renowned memory and Alzheimer’s disease...

In underserved communities across the United States, violence, food insecurity, unstable housing, lead poisoning, and other factors such as racist redlining policies negatively impact young people's everyday experiences―and their futures. What opportunities are available to young Black people living in these neighborhoods? What are their survival expectations? Who can they look to for support? Lorece V. Edwards offers a thought-provoking and timely account of the day-to-day experience of living in America's neglected neighborhoods.

It’s been six years since the COVID-19 pandemic threw the world into organized chaos. And though the masks are largely gone, the plexiglass has been taken down, and even as we have returned to normalcy in many senses of the word, nobody can deny that everything has changed. Herein lies the heart of the issue, how exactly did the CDC and other supposed experts get so many things so wrong? Can the fog of uncertainty that surrounds a novel pandemic explain how off-course our leaders found themselves during the early years of the 2020s?

People have always traveled for health, but as industrial pollution increased in nineteenth-century Britain, doctors started ordering their patients abroad in ever-growing numbers. This work explores the intensity and sheer strangeness of life in these colonies, governed by illness, but where patients (before the rise of the sanatorium) could move around freely, and even indulge in winter sports. Focusing on Menton on the Riviera and Davos in the Swiss Alps, from the 1860s to the 1920s, In Quest of a Cure explores the literary and medical cultures of these resorts.

本書は、「関係のよくない親を、どう見送るか」がテーマの本です。40代から60代にかけて直面する、親の老いと死。親との関係がよくても不安になる人も多いのに、関係のよくない親なら、なおさら不安や怖い気持ちになるのも当然です。

If you've ever cared for someone with dementia, you might empathize with Alice, who tumbled down a rabbit hole and discovered herself in an unhappy world where time moved oddly, animals and plants spoke, but mostly to berate you. Familiar objects became terribly out of scale. If you're caring for someone with dementia now, you might feel like someone changed the rules of reality and that you need a guide, preferably someone kinder than the perennially late rabbit.

How to Live Well with Dementia: Expert Help for People Living with Dementia and their Family, Friends, and Care Partners provides an array of essential guidance about the different aspects of dementia for all whose lives are touched by dementia, including people living with dementia and their...

The untold story of Albert Sabin, who developed the oral polio vaccine and became a controversial public health advocate for children worldwide Jonas Salk may be the name most associated with the polio vaccine, but it was Albert Sabin's oral vaccine that made the goal of global eradication of...

Transform the fear of death into a sense of wonder. In Undiscovered Country, embark on a riveting exploration of the final frontier and unraveling the mysteries of our last hours. This insightful narrative delves into the complexities of death, dissecting the gradual disintegration of order and...