Diagnosis category: 297 books
by Otfried Spreen, Anthony H. Risser
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2002
Spreen and Risser present a comprehensive, critical review of available methods for the assessment of aphasia and related disorders in adults and children. The authors explore test instruments and approaches that have been used traditionally for the diagnosis of aphasia, ranging from bedside screening...
Look It Up!
What Patients, Doctors, Nurses, and Pharmacists Need to Know about the Internet and Primary Health Care
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Doctors Pierre Pluye and Roland Grad, internationally recognized experts in the fields of knowledge translation and health information studies, along with bestselling author and journalist Julie Barlow, take readers behind the scenes to show how online information is affecting self-care and primary health...
A Twisted Fate
My life with Dystonia
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
Brenda Currey Lewis was a typical, active child. But when she was seven years old her life changed dramatically. Generalized dystonia (dystonia musculorum deformans) turned her muscles against her. This rare neurological movement disorder causes muscle groups to tug and twist the body into abnormal postures....
by José Manuel Moreno Villares
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Ante el vertiginoso ajetreo científico aparece este libro. Un libro que permite detenernos durante unos instantes y reposar la mirada en el otro; ese otro que es el "niño diferente".Pocas personas como José Manuel Moreno han sabido ver en el "niño diferente" al "niño...
by Susan F. Wilson, RN, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
Today’s nursing students are busier and more pressed for time than ever. The good news is that Health Assessment for Nursing Practice, 6th Edition caters to your needs by focusing only on the information you need to master the core assessment skills and thrive in clinical practice. In addition to...
Stricken
Voices from the Hidden Epidemic of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Develop a better understanding of what CFS/CFIDS sufferers are going through!
In the 1980s, a strange emerging epidemic baffled doctors in Incline Village, Nevada. Dismissed by the media as “The Yuppie Flu,” Chronic Fatigue Immune Dysfunction Syndrome (CFIDS) turned out to be neither a...
The Laws of Medicine
Field Notes from an Uncertain Science
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
Essential, required reading for doctors and patients alike: A Pulitzer Prize-winning author and one of the world’s premiere cancer researchers reveals an urgent philosophy on the little-known principles that govern medicine—and how understanding these principles can empower us all.
Over...
Deadly Outbreaks
How Medical Detectives Save Lives Threatened by Killer Pandemics, Exotic Viruses, and Drug-Resistant Parasites
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
Portrays epidemiologists as disease detectives who tirelessly hunt for clues and excel at deductive reasoning. Even Sherlock Holmes would be proud of this astute group of professionals.”-Booklist
Despite advances in health care, infectious microbes continue to be a formidable adversary...
Routine Miracles
Personal Journeys of Patients and Doctors Discovering the Powers of Modern Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2009
“This book covers medical advances that would once have been called miracles but have now become routine. The patients’ stories within this book yield hope, optimism, and triumph. This is the best time ever to come out of medical school and training. This fact will inspire and uplift everyone...
by Sunny O’Flynn
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
The health of populations within communities is challenged daily, almost at an alarming rate. -----The ABCs of Program or Project Planning will help students of health care understand organizational development for a workable community health care plan. ----In order to offset the many dilemmas health...
Quand une cellule déraille
Comprendre le cancer
Language: French
Release Date: August 5, 2014
Un guide pratique pour tout savoir sur le cancer.Cet ouvrage s'adresse à toute personne qui veut en savoir plus sur le cancer. Étape par étape, le lecteur est informé de ce qu'est précisément le cancer, comment cette maladie apparaît dans le corps, comment la tumeur se développe et les conséquences...
Your Amazing Itty Bitty Concussion Book
15 Vital Things You Should Know About Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBI)
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2016
You Don’t Need To Be A Major League Football Player To
Suffer a Life-threatening Head Injury
15 Vitally Important Things You Must Know About...
Invasion of the Prostate Snatchers
No More Unnecessary Biopsies, Radical Treatment or Loss of Sexual Potency
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2010
Every year almost a quarter of a million confused and frightened American men are tossed into a prostate cancer cauldron stirred by salespeople representing a multibillion-dollar industry. In this flourishing business, the radical prostatectomy is still the most widely recommended treatment option....
Identity Denied
I have kept faith, although I say, "I suffer exceedingly"
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
Denny Donaghy's life was influenced by external world events in ways he could never have imagined. He was born in Victoria, Australia, in the middle of the infamous Black Tuesday stock market crash and the ensuing depression. He subsequently grew up in a crowded terrace house with seven and sometimes...