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Profits support the Horizons for Homeless Children in Boston Want to lower cholesterol levels? Want to increase your life span? Just want to read this book to kill time? Well, congratulations because you have found the correct book. Please do not find the number of pages intimidating...

The parents of children with autism know that research is a full-time job. For parents with limited time, ability, or resources to do this, Ken Siri and Tony Lyons have compiled the latest in autism research and treatment. Cutting-Edge Therapies for Autism contains contributions from more than eighty...

Dr. Merrill Edmonds was born in the Philippine Islands to missionary parents who believed God was micromanaging their lives and had a specific plan for each person. In school, though, he learned that life functioned according to the laws of nature. Scientific methodology assumed these natural laws...

Is your doctor making you sick? If you have been told that you have high blood pressure, low thyroid or diabetes, you may be a victim of one of the most common medical scams of our time. Are these conditions really diseases, or could they be clever methods for medicine to drum up business? Internationally...

Jaundice is the symptom of yellowish discoloration of the skin, mucous membrane and sclera due to accumulation of bile pigments in tissues associated with the increase in serum bilirubin level. Bilirubin is the breakdown product of hemoglobin during the end of life span of a red blood cells. The...

Fibromyalgia, also called Fibrositis, is characterized by chronic pain and fatigue condition that can cause soreness, stiffness, and tenderness in the muscles, tendons, and joints.  Although a relatively common muscular disorder, what causes the onset of the syndrome is still unknown. Meanwhile,...

An estimated 4 million people are living with Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) in America today, with approximately 370,000 new cases diagnosed every year. AD patients live anywhere from 5 to 20 years after their diagnosis; and their inability to care for themselves grows more dramatic as the disease progresses,...

What do you know about Ebola and how are you planning on fighting it in case it comes to your neighborhood? This book is made to teach you everything there is to know about Ebola fever, making sure that you don’t mistake this serious contagious disease with “zombie apocalypse” as some of the misinformed...

A History of Epidemics in Britain (Volume II of II) : From the Extinction of Plague to the Present Time This volume is the continuation of ‘A History of Epidemics in Britain from a.d. 664 to the Extinction of Plague’, and is the completion of the history to the present time. The two volumes...

Among The Most Exclusive eBooks On Malaria.  This Book Gives You The Best Information on Malaria Treatment, Is Malaria Contagious, What Causes Malaria, Malaria Parasites, Malaria Methods Protocols and General Facts.   

Paul Farmer has battled AIDS in rural Haiti and deadly strains of drug-resistant tuberculosis in the slums of Peru. A physician-anthropologist with more than fifteen years in the field, Farmer writes from the front lines of the war against these modern plagues and shows why, even more than those of...

Respiratory tract infections (RTIs) are the most common acute medical problem encountered in primary care. Not only are RTIs very common, the spectrum of disease is wide. Clinical management differs according to the characteristics of the infected host and infecting pathogen. Despite these features,...

There are many infectious diseases which kill millions of children every year the world over, but polio is not one of them. So why did the World Health Assembly in 1988 choose the eradication of polio as a global goal? This is the key question that William Muraskin asks and it inexorably leads to...

In this third edition of Manual of Travel Medicine, Australasian healthcare professionals will continue to find the information and advice they need to care for travellers. The Manual is structured as follows:  principles of pre-travel healthcare; ...