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A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK The dramatic story of the Flint water crisis, by a relentless physician who stood up to power. “Stirring . . . [a] blueprint for all those who believe . . . that ‘the world . . . should be full of people raising their voices.’”—The New York Times...

Antibiotics are powerful drugs that can prevent and treat infections, but they are becoming less effective as a result of drug resistance. Resistance develops because the bacteria that antibiotics target can evolve ways to defend themselves against these drugs. When antibiotics fail, there is very little else to prevent an infection from spreading. Unnecessary use of antibiotics in both humans and animals accelerates the evolution of drug-resistant bacteria, with potentially catastrophic personal and global consequences. 

To be alive is to be in perpetual change: growing, healing, learning, aging. In Shapeshifters, award-winning writer and doctor Gavin Francis considers the transformations in mind and body that continue across the arc of human life. Some of these changes we have little choice about. We can't avoid puberty, the menopause, or our hair turning grey. Others may be welcome milestones along our path - a much-wanted pregnancy, a cancer cured, or a long-awaited transition to another gender.

When a powerful mystic steps on the hand of a radical young hippie doctor from Detroit, it changes lives and the world. Sometimes Brilliant is the adventures of a philosopher, mystic, hippie, doctor, groundbreaking tech innovator, and key player in the eradication of one of the worst pandemics...

The author of the highly acclaimed Overdiagnosed describes seven widespread assumptions that encourage excessive, often ineffective, and sometimes harmful medical care. You might think the biggest problem in medical care is that it costs too much. Or that health insurance is too expensive, too uneven, too complicated - and gives you too many forms to fill out. But the central problem is that too much medical care has too little value.

Every man has the potential for a great body, insane sex, and an unreal life. (Seriously) Want to lose body fat? That's easy—you can drop 20 pounds in 6 weeks. Want bigger muscles? Done. A 50-pound increase to your bench press, coming right up. Want to be smarter? Not a problem—the...

Are you sick and tired of diets and weight loss programs that don't work or are too complicated and time-consuming? Forget about dieting and torturing yourself with unrealistic fads. It's not about perfection. It's about progress. Focus on where you are today and what your goals are for a more healthful lifestyle, a lifestyle that you deserve. Are you ready to start feeling like the best version of yourself? Healthy, slim, energized, brimming with joy and positive energy? Let's get started - what do you have to lose?

Unconditional love is the most powerful stimulant of the immune system. The truth is: love heals. Miracles happen to exceptional patients every day—patients who have the courage to love, those who have the courage to work with their doctors to participate in and influence their own recovery...

Pandora's Lab takes us from opium's heyday as the pain reliever of choice to recognition of opioids as a major cause of death in the United States; from the rise of trans fats as the golden ingredient for tastier, cheaper food to the heart disease epidemic that followed; and from the cries to ban DDT for the sake of the environment to an epidemic-level rise in world malaria.

In the spirit of Oliver Sacks and the inspiration for the NBC drama New Amsterdam, this memoir from a Medical Director of Bellevue Hospital looks poignantly at patients' lives, highlighting the complex mind-body connection. "As intensely involving as any scripted for a television medical drama."...

What did 19th-century cities smell like? And how did odors matter in the formation of a modern environmental consciousness? Smell Detectives follows the 19th-century Americans who used their noses to make sense of the sanitary challenges caused by rapid urban and industrial growth.

Acclaimed journalist Cathryn Jakobson Ramin takes readers on a lively journey to explain what happens to memory and attention in middle age. Anyone older than forty knows that forgetfulness can be unnerving, frustrating, and sometimes terrifying. With compassion and humor, Jakobson Ramin sets...

Covid, i primi vaccinati, la speranza di una vita normale: Vaccino, la risposta biotech dell'Occidente di Maurizio Molinari, La paura del vaccino e il senso della comunità di Massimo Recalcati.

Vaccino anti-Covid - Tempi e destinatari: Nell'hub del vaccino: "I sette passaggi chiave perché tutto funzioni", di Fabio Tonacci; Virus, sì della Ue al primo vaccino. Le consegne alla vigilia di Natale, di Alberto D'argenio; Noi, le tribù svelate dal vaccino, di Gabriele Romagnoli; Sì dell'Aifa, il vaccino arriva. Rischio furti, in campo i Servizi, di Giuliano Foschini e Fabio Tonacci; Peste, colera e vaiolo. Tutte le volte che i vaccini hanno cambiato la storia di Corrado Augias.

Coronavirus: scenari per la seconda ondata: Contagi verso quota tremila. E il Viminale manda i militari, di Paolo Brera; Conte e i contagi: "Attenzione altissima ma interverremo con proporzionalità", di Concetto Vecchio; Coronavirus, gli scienziati disegnano quattro scenari per la seconda ondata del virus, di Michele Bocci; Coronavirus, il governo blinda le frontiere. La Campania è la regione più a rischio, di Tommaso Ciriaco; Coronavirus, il governo vuole subito le mascherine all'aperto se ci si avvicina a non conviventi, di Michele Bocci e Tommaso Ciriaco.

Es imposible calcular el alcance exacto de la crisis del Coronavirus en nuestra economía, salud y forma de vida a partir de ahora. Lo único que sabemos es que salimos a un mundo distinto al que hemos conocido, y eso no tiene que ser necesariamente malo. Para vivir esta nueva era llena de...

Unser Gesundheitssystem steht unter hohem Veränderungsdruck: Wir leben aufgrund bahnbrechender medizinischer Fortschritte immer länger, jedoch führt unser zunehmend ungesunder Lebensstil dazu, dass wir immer häufiger an chronischen Krankheiten leiden. Dies treibt die Kosten im...

Sie sind für uns Helfer in der Not und manchmal lebensnotwendig, Medikamente bergen aber auch Risiken und Nebenwirkungen. Die Pharmazeutin Christine Gitter kennt sie ganz genau: die Fragen und Sorgen all jener, die eine Apotheke aufsuchen. Wie soll man es schaffen, eine riesige Kapsel zu schlucken? Woher weiß die Kopfschmerztablette, dass sie in den Kopf soll und: Gibt es diese Pille auch vegan? Jetzt hat sie ihr gesammeltes Apothekenwissen aufgeschrieben.

Deux jeunes médecins présentent les nouvelles recherches sur l'importance de la graisse corporelle et montrent le chemin pour vivre en harmonie avec elle. Ni trop, ni pas assez !

A very wise physician has said that "every illness has two parts - what it is, and what the patient thinks about it." What the patient thinks about it is often more important and more troublesome than the real disease. What the patient thinks of life, what life means to him is also of great importance and may be the bar that shuts out all real health and happiness. The following pages are devoted to certain ideals of life which I would like to give to my patients, the long-time patients who have especially fallen to my lot.