Search this site  Kaiser Permanente Healthwise Handbook Author: Kaiser Permanente ISBN: 1-932921-08-7 Pages: 388 Format: Paperback Publisher: Healthwise Published: 2004 Condition: Price: USD $2.29 Sweet Suicide An Expose of America's Silent & Best-Hidden Killer Author: Wright, Gene ISBN: 0-922066-23-X Pages: 208 Format: Hardcover Publisher: Wynwood Press Published: December 1989 Condition: Price: USD $2.29 An Expose of America's Silent and Best-Hidden Killer. Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-200).   Monitoring Your Health Author: Clayman, Charles B. (Editor) ISBN: 0-89577-383-X Pages: 144 Format: Hardcover Publisher: Readers Digest Published: August 1991 Condition: Price: USD $2.29 At head of title: The American Medical Association. Includes index. Dr. Earl Mindell's Live Longer & Feel Better With Vitamins & Minerals Author: Mindell, Dr. Earl ISBN: 0-87983-652-0 Pages: 119 Format: Paperback Publisher: Keats Publishing, Inc. Published: December 1994 Condition: Price: USD $1.49 A complete program for vibrant well-being by the author of the million-copy bestsellers "Earl Mindell's Vitamin Bible", "Earl Mindell's Herb Bible" and "Food As Medicine" Includes index.   The Antidepressant Survival Guide The Clinically Proven Program to Enhance the Benefits and Beat the Side Effects of Your Medication Author: Hedaya, Robert J. / Kotz, Deborah ISBN: 0-609-80541-X Pages: 292 Format: Paperback Publisher: Three Rivers Press Published: February 13, 2001 Condition: Price: USD $2.29 Book Description: "Now patients can have the best of both worlds -- freedom from depression and freedom from side effects. Dr. Robert Hedaya offers a wealth of wisdom drawn from years of clinical experience, research, and teaching. This book is a much-needed lantern in the darkness." -- Norman Rosenthal, M.D., author of St. John's Wort: The Herbal Way to Feeling Good * Restore the vital vitamins, minerals, and hormones necessary to maintain good health. * Optimize your body's metabolic system. * Restore your ability to experience pleasure in life. An estimated twenty-five million Americans take antidepressants to combat depression, but most continue to cope with a host of debilitating side effects that equal, and sometimes outweigh, the medication's obvious benefits. Many doctors consider side effects such as weight gain, lethargy, and sexual dysfunction to be necessary evils. Finally, there is a doctor who refuses to trade a patient's total well-being for the treatment of depression. Clinical psychiatrist Robert J. Hedaya, M.D., has developed a comprehensive mind-body program to restore lost vitality and sex drive and control weight. A Washington Post bestseller in hardcover, his book offers a proven program of nutrition, exercise, stress reduction, and hormone supplementation that not only lessens the side effects of antidepressants but enhances their benefits as well. Now everyone can benefit from the prescription that has worked wonders for his own patients. The Everyday Arthritis Solution Food, Movement, and Lifestyle Secrets to Ease the Pain and Feel Your Best Author: Laliberte, Richard / Kraus, Virginia Byers / Rooks, Daniel S. ISBN: 0-7621-0476-7 Pages: 239 Format: Hardcover Publisher: Readers Digest Assn. Published: 2004 Condition: Price: USD $2.99 Book Description: Take charge of your arthritis with exercises, supplements, and recipes. This guide is filled with hundreds of nutritional hints and tips, over 50 recipes, and 5 to 15 minute exercise routines for your particular needs and abilities. Combine the right foods with the right exercises and reduce or even eliminate pain. --This text refers to the paperback edition.   Men's Health Today 2005 Author: Deanna Portz (Editor) ISBN: 1-59486-080-7 Pages: 310 Format: Hardcover Publisher: Rodale, Inc. Published: 2005 Condition: Price: USD $2.29   Outdoor Emergency Care Comprehensive First Aid for Non-urban Settings Authors: Bowman, Warren D. / Ayers, Rebecca W. / Bitter, Reata ISBN: 0-929752-01-5 Pages: 546 Format: Paperback Publisher: National Ski Patrol System - Lakewood, CO. Published: August 1993 Condition: Price: USD $2.69 Includes index. The Good Health Fact Book Author: Reader's Digest Editors ISBN: 0-89577-416-X Pages: 480 Format: Hardcover Publisher: Readers Digest Published: September 1, 1992 Condition: Price: USD $2.29 From Publishers Weekly: Offering a strong focus on prevention, this is a well-thought-out, upbeat look at how one can achieve a healthier style of living. By way of example, see comprehensive chapters on smart eating and keeping fit, even self-care. The editors did not overlook, either, the necessary lifestyle transitions that people must make in their middle and later years. Chronic health problems such as arthritis, heart disease and hypertension are addressed, and chapters on mental health and sex and family life are included. Numerous charts, checklists and quizzes help readers to achieve their health and fitness goals and increase understanding of potentially complex issues. What's more, the editors discuss health insurance options--even who's who and who does what at hospitals. Another topic is environmental health: thought-provoking coverage of such timely concerns as VDT safety on the job and the possibility of radon in the basement. Although some readers may balk initially at the Q & A format (1000 questions and answers), it makes for easy browsing. Illustrated. Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Library Journal: What makes this latest entry into the self-help book arena appealing is its common-sense approach coupled with an eye-catching and attractive presentation. Addressing ways to get and stay healthy in a question/answer format, The Good Health Fact Book uses personal case histories to illustrate successful behavior changes. From chapters on diet, exercise, chronic health problems, and staying mentally healthy to choosing your doctor and environmental issues, this book treats a wide variety of subjects relevant to life in the 1990s. Of particular value is the A-to-Z guide on emergency medical situations, as well as the appendix of professional and government health organizations. While similar in scope to "Prevention's" Giant Book of Health Facts ( LJ 12/90), this volume takes a more proactive, personal approach to living and staying well. For those wishing more in-depth information, Donald Louria's Your Healthy Body, Your Healthy Life: How To Take Control of Your Medical Destiny ( LJ 10/15/89) may be useful. Recommended for consumer health collections and health science center libraries. - Janet M. Coggan, Univ. of Florida Libs., Gainesville Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.   Voice and Voice Therapy Author: Boone, Daniel R. ISBN: 0-13-943100-4 Pages: 244 Format: Hardcover Publisher: Prentice Hall Published: May 1977 Condition: Price: USD $1.99 Book Description: The best-selling voice book that contains the most complete voice treatment material in the field has a new look and a new sound. While The Voice and Voice Therapy, Sixth Edition boasts the most up-to-date facilitation techniques and the best tested clinical stimulation approaches available today, the accompanying CD-ROM illustrates voice problems in children and adults, and methods of relevant therapy. This edition divides voice disorders into three causal areas (functional, organic and neurogenic) with a separate chapter devoted to each area. Evaluation procedures are then presented with some emphasis given to particular evaluation strategies for identified causal areas. Disorders not often addressed, including sulcus vocalis, muscle tension dysphonia, and paradoxial vocal fold dysfunction are also covered in this text. This book also presents facilitating approaches in table form, detailing when a particular approach is useful, listing the sequence of therapy steps for that approach, and illustrating the outcome using the approach with a particular patient. These therapy approaches are also illustrated on the CD-ROM, making the therapy process come alive. For Speech-Language Pathology practitioners. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Making Miracles An Exploration into the Dynamics of Self-Healing Author: Roud, Paul C. ISBN: 0-446-39118-2 Pages: 288 Format: Paperback Publisher: Warner Books Published: November 1990 Condition: Price: USD $1.69 From Publishers Weekly: These firsthand accounts by survivors once diagnosed as terminally ill will appeal to those who found comfort in Norman Cousins's Anatomy of an Illness. In informative, inspiring commentaries, Massachusetts psychologist Roud writes that those who overcome cancer or other fatal diseases share a will to live, positive mental attitude and the ability to alter lifestyle. As one patient here notes, "It was either change or die." This outlook is the key, according to Roud, to these "miracles." Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From Library Journal: According to psychologist Roud, medical science grossly understates the incidence of extraordinary recovery from serious illness. To bridge this "information gap," Roud interviewed in depth 11 men and women who have conquered overwhelming medical odds--against cancer, heart disease, cystic fibrosis, and severe mental illness. Although each found his or her own way back to health, the factor that Roud sees as setting them apart from others who were not so fortunate was their ability to change and grow. Readers looking for easy answers will not find them here, nor will they find the sheer exuberance that they find in the books of Roud's friend, Dr. Bernie Siegel, but those looking for hope that they too can change their lives, that they too can overcome tremendous medical odds, will find it. Recommended for public libraries.-- Marcia G. Fuchs, Guilford Free Lib., CT. Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.   Chicken Soup for the Soul Heart Disease Authors: Canfield, Jack / Hansen, Mark Victor / Rackner M.D., Vicki ISBN: 0-7573-0271-8 Pages: 132 Format: Paperback Publisher: Health Communications Published: April 2006 Condition: Price: USD $1.49 Book Description: Endorsed and supported by the Hope Heart Institute! This new series from Chicken Soup for the Soul - inspirational stories followed by positive, practical medical advice for caregivers and patients - is the perfect blend of emotional support and vital information about heart disease including: Understanding your diagnosis working with your doctor blood pressure and cholesterol the DASH diet smart exercise alternative treatments surgery and other options attitude and health cardiac rehab living better with heart disease than you ever have before About the Author: Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen are joined by Maida Rogerson, Martin Rutte, and Tim Clauss, speakers and consultants who are committed to innvative business practices and spiritual development. Vicki Rackner, M.D. is a contributor for the following Health Communications, Inc. The Wrinkle Cure Unlock the Power of Cosmeceuticals for Supple, Youthful Skin Author: Perricone, Nicholas ISBN: 0-446-67776-0 Pages: 207 Format: Paperback Publisher: Grand Central Publishing Published: May 1, 2001 Condition: Price: USD $1.69 Amazon.com: "Plastic surgery isn't the only way to keep the aging process at bay. With the proper care you can have fabulous skin in your forties, fifties, sixties and beyond," promises author Nicholas Perricone, M.D., assistant clinical professor of dermatology at Yale University School of Medicine. In his opening chapters, Perricone explains why skin wrinkles and sags--a combination of factors including the passage of time, stress, poor nutrition, excess alcohol consumption, sleep deprivation, and exposure to cigarette smoke, sunlight, and pollution. Ultimately, however, it all boils down to damage caused by those renegade free radicals. The bulk of his book is then devoted to a clearly presented skin care regimen that involves oral and topical antioxidant therapy. On the oral front, he emphasizes eating antioxidant foods, such as cantaloupe and dark green leafy vegetables, and avoiding "bad carbohydrates" (high in the glycemic index) such as pasta, sugar, and pancakes. And if you want to look good for a big event within a few days he suggests eating "fish, fish and more fish." On the topical level, he recommends nutritional skin products such as his DMAE (dimethylaminoethanol) cream ("an instant anti-aging face-lift"), a product that can only be purchased at specific places, such as selected Nordstrom stores or www.Sephora.com. Perricone's tie-in with his personal line of "cosmeceuticals" makes the book feel a tad self-serving. (He even includes an index of where to buy his products.) However, most of his advice is based on solid research and common sense, which gives this celebrity doctor credibility as well as a huge following. --Gail Hudson --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.   The Best Treatment Author: Rosenfeld, Isadore ISBN: 0-671-69339-5 Pages: 332 Format: Hardcover Publisher: Simon & Schuster Published: October 15, 1991 Condition: Price: USD $2.29 From Publishers Weekly: In what could have been just another look at medicine, but most certainly isn't, Rosenfeld (Symptoms) outlines what he considers the best treatments and remedies for a variety of conditions, ranging from chlamydia infections and asthma to psoriasis and migraines. Item: he cites more effective ways to prevent and treat osteoporosis in menopausal women than ingesting calcium supplements. The doctor, a cardiologist and professor of medicine at the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center in Manhattan, also notes that aspirin may not always be the safest--nor the smartest--way to reduce a fever. Rosenfeld acknowledges that his preferences are not necessarily "better" than another doctor's; however, readers will surely benefit from broadened knowledge of possible treatment options. The style is breezy and accessible, especially well suited to those who need immediate advice. Final chapters recommend brand-name supplies to keep on hand, urge the importance of exercise and delineate the differences among painkillers. Ad/promo; QPB and BOMC HomeStyle alternates, Prevention Book Club. Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Library Journal: At first glance these two titles seem similar, as they both are guides to the best treatment options for various illnesses and injuries. However, Oppenheim's book cannot be recommended as it is superficial, condescending, and, in some areas, not particularly up-to-date. (The treatment most recommended for depression is electroshock, with antidepressants mentioned only in passing, and the chapter on allergies fails to mention the highly effective steroid nose sprays). The Best Treatment is definitely superior. Rosenfeld, the author of Symptoms (S. & S., 1989), covers more topics in considerably more detail and writes in a readable, informative way. As is true of almost any medical guide, Rosenfeld's work could be more comprehensive and focused. Various psychiatric disorders, some infections, and conditions such as non-migraine headaches would benefit from more information. Some diseases without significant advances in treatment (such as pancreatic cancer) are included. The Best Treatment should probably be supplemented by a more extensive medical guide such as the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons Complete Home Medical Guide (Crown, 1989) and one or more of the consumer medical newletters such as the Harvard Health Letter (Harvard Medical School Health Publications Group). Recommended for popular medical collections. - Mary Chitty, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Allied Health Sciences, Boston Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.   Understanding Diabetes Author: Chase M.D., H. Peter ISBN: 0-9675398-3-8 Pages: 326 Format: Paperback Publisher: Childrens Diabetes Foundation Published: September 1, 2002 Condition: Price: USD $3.29 Book Description: This book is the New 10th edition (2002). Please note that the book is the same but the title has changed from Understanding Insulin Dependent Diabetes to Understanding Diabetes. The material found in the 28 chapters has been updated and covers all aspects of diabetes concerns. Included are two new chapters, one featuring type 2 diabetes and the other featuring pregnancy and diabetes. It is written at a level easily understandable to the young adolescent and his/her family. About the Author: Dr. Chase is a Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center and was the Clinical Director of the Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes from its opening in 1980 to 2000. He has published over 150 research articles and is also the author of all ten editions of the book "Understanding Insulin-Dependent Diabetes" (the "Pink Panther Book"). He will also be the recipient of the American Diabetes Association's 2001 Outstanding Physician Clinician in Diabetes Award. Taking Care Self-Care for 100 Common Symptoms  and 20 Long-Term Ailments Author: Jacobs, Michael B. ISBN: 0-679-77794-6 Pages: 272 Format: Paperback Publisher: Random House Published: May 20, 1997 Condition: Price: USD $2.29 Book Description: The most important member of your health care team is you. As a more effective medical consumer, you'll get the best care at the most reasonable cost, avoiding time-consuming, unnecessary trips to the doctor. Taking Care will help you take charge of your health and medical care. HELP FOR WHAT AILS YOU Is your headache, rash, or other symptom nothing to worry about? Or should you bring it to the attention of a health professional? Part I describes common symptoms, from headache, fever, and rash to weight gain or loss, abdominal pain, and heartburn. Each symptom is explained, with possible causes and a simple flow chart of treatment options. You'll know when to call a doctor or nurse information service, seek emergency care, or apply self-care measures. COPING WITH CHRONIC CONDITIONS If you have a long-term ailment, you know that understanding your condition, following your treatment program, and monitoring your progress can have an impact on your quality of life. Part II explains how to manage chronic ailments, from asthma, low back pain, and Alzheimer's disease to depression, heart disease, and diabetes. You'll learn about symptoms, possible causes, prevention, the latest treatment information, how you can effectively manage your condition, and when to seek professional advice. AND THESE SPECIAL FEATURES, TOO: Take Charge of Your Health Your rights as a health care consumer as well as how to find the right doctor, make the most of each doctor visit, choose the right health care program, and more Ten Strategies for a Healthy Lifestyle How to prevent illness and stay fit Treating Your Child Special advice on caring for the health needs of children This essential guide has been reviewed by faculty members of the renowned Stanford University School of Medicine. The straight-talking health information and practical guidance in Taking Care will make you an effective, active participant in quality health care. Card catalog description: Taking Care will help you take charge of your health and medical care. Part I describes common symptoms. Each symptom is explained, with possible causes and a simple flow chart of treatment options. You'll know when to call a doctor or nurse information service, seek emergency care, or apply self-care measures. Part II explains how to manage common chronic ailments. You'll learn about symptoms, possible causes, prevention, the latest treatment information, how you can effectively manage your condition, and when to seek professional advice. Take charge of your health: your rights as a health care consumer as well as how to find the right doctor, make the most of each doctor visit, choose the right health care program, and more; ten strategies for a healthy lifestyle: how to prevent illness and stay fit; and treating your child: special advice on caring for the health needs of children. This essential guide has been reviewed by faculty members of the renowned Stanford University School of Medicine. On Death And Dying Author: Kubler-Ross, Elisabeth ISBN: 0-02-089141-5 Pages: 260 Format: Paperback Publisher: Scribner Published: August 2, 1993 Condition: Price: USD $2.49 Review: Medical Opinion & Review On Death and Dying can help us face, professionally and personally, the end of life. --This text refers to the paperback edition. Cocaine Authors: Wagner, Heather Lehr / Triggle, David J. ISBN: 0-7910-7260-6 Pages: 100 Format: Library Binding Publisher: Chelsea House Publications Published: March 2003 Condition: Price: USD $4.49 Annotation: Drugs are everywhere--on our streets, in our homes, and in our schools--but straight facts about drugs are not. Drugs: The Straight Facts fills this void with candid discussions that emphasize a historical and scientific approach to learning about drugs, their use, and their effect on the user's health. 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