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Audio CD

Aging and the Eye

A CD (2 Parts), of Timothy J. Scott, M.D. (Ophthalmology) lecture on Aging and the Eye.

Aging Eye, The

Susan Connolly, M.D., PAMF Ophthalmology

This talk will focus on age-related eye conditions including cataract, glaucoma and macular degeneration. Diagnosis and treatment of these conditions will be discussed.
http://209.242.151.13/mills/mp3/agingeye_pod.mp3

All the Colors

This CD contains 14 songs by local singer, songwriter Ira Marlowe

Autism and Asperger's

Part of the Community Health Resource Center's Community Lecture Series given by Niranjan S. Karnik, M.D., Ph.D.

Brain Injuries: Rehabilitation and Support

Presenters: Norman Banks, M.D., PAMF Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Vicky Fukuhara, M.S., CCC-SP, CCM Donna Schempp, LCSW, Family Caregiver Alliance Clara Roa, Program Director, Peninsula Stroke Association

Panel discussion about brain injurie
http://209.242.151.13/mills/mp3/braininjury_pod.mp3

Cancer Survival Toolbox

six CD's with twelve "programs" to help people with cancer meet the challenges of their illness. Includes information on communicating with others, finding information, making decisions, problem-solving, and much more.

Cardiac Ablation and Device Therapy

A CD (2 Parts), PAMF Physicians, lecture on cardiac ablation and device therapy.

First Step to Cancer Survival, The

A 12 program audio resource program. Programs 1-6 covers Basic Skills that can help people with cancer meet the challenges of their illness. Programs 7-12 covers special topics that may be of interest to you. These programs will probably be most useful

Happiest Baby on the Block, The (CD)

Produced by Dr. Harvey Karp, author of "The Happiest Baby on the Block", this CD contains 5 tracks of calming white noise which provides sounds that help switch on the baby's "calming reflex".

Hearing Loss: A Look at the Physical, Emotional and Social Impact

Sharon Goodson, CCC-A, Au.D., PAMF Audiologist

Hearing loss is a serious and often under-treated problem. Join us to hear about the physical causes of hearing loss, the emotional and social effects of untreated hearing loss, and treatment options incl
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Menopause Update

2 Part audio CD of the Community Health Resource Center's Lecture Series presented by Meg Durbin, M.D.

Mindfulness for Beginners

This audio program (2 CD's) presents five guided meditations by meditation teacher and mindfulness proponent Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn.

PAMF Pulse Series: Anxiety and Depression

This 2-disc audio recording comes directly from our media site, The Pulse. If you don't have time or capability to download, you can now check this out in our Health Resource Center.

PAMF Pulse Series: Is It Alzheimer's or Just Memory Loss?

Cognitive impairment is part of normal aging, but at what point is it an indication of a neurodegenerative disease like Alzheimer's? This talk will focus on recognition of the disease in its early stages, potential preventive measures and treatment options.

PAMF Pulse Series: Meet Your Feet

Meagan Jennings, DPM at the Mountain View Center discusses common foot problems and treatment options.

PAMF Pulse Series: Stress Management in Troubled Times

Chronic stress affects the body in many ways - this lecture review ways stress impacts our mental and physical health by discussing the science of mind-body medicine. Tracy Thompson, M.D., and Betty Runnels, M.A., MFT.

PAMF Pulse Series: Yoga

This 2-disc audio recording comes directly from our media site, The Pulse. If you don't have time or capability to download, you can now check this out in our Health Resource Center.

Prostate Cancer: The Patient Experience

Presented by: A Panel of PAMF Physicians and Prostate Cancer Survivors

A PAMF urologist and a radiation oncologist will present a brief overview of prostate cancer and its treatment options. They will be joined by several prostate cancer survivors
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Relaxation Exercises

During these sessions, relaxation expert Dawn C. Buse, PhD, will introduce you to a series of relaxation exercises to help you experience relief from stress and tension.

Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: the Old and the New

Systemic Lupus Erythematosus is an autoimmune disease that can affect any organ system in the body. The disease most commonly causes fatigue, arthritis and skin rash, but it can also cause inflammation and damage in organs such as the kidneys and blood ve
http://209.242.151.13/mills/mp3/pa_1107_lupus.mp3

Taking the Burn Out of Heartburn

This talk focuses on the latest research on the causes and treatment of acid reflux, also known as GERD. Frank Fazzolari, M.D., PAMF Gastroenterology Lecture from June 10, 2008
http://209.242.151.13/mills/mp3/acidreflux.mp3

total Relaxation

This book presents relaxation techniques organized into five broad categories to facilitate body/mind/spirit relaxation. There is an accompanying 60 minute CD with four guided relaxation techniques.

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Children's Books

Alexander Goes Out to Eat

This children's book is about Alexander the elephant, who is allergic to peanuts, going to eat at a restaurant and the precautions he must. It discusses the issues and emotions involved in having a food allergy in simple and understandable terms.

Alexander Goes to a Birthday Party

In this children's book, Alexander the elephant, who is allergic to peanuts, learns how to politely refuse foods that might cause an allergic reaction and how to watch out for himself. This book deals with the emotions that might occur when dealing with

Alexander Goes Trick-or-Treating

In this children's book, Alexander the elephant goes trick-or-treating and learns to look at food ingredients to avoid his food allergy.

Alexander Learns His Lesson

In this children's book, Alexander the elephant learns his lesson when he eats food that affects his food allergy. This book discusses the dangers of doing so, and the actions that follow.

All About Allergies

Child's storybook about allergies from the AAAAI

All About Asthma

Children's storybook about asthma from AAAAI.

All About Food and Insect Sting Allergies

Child's storybook about food and insect allergies from the AAAAI.

All About My Brother

Written by eight year-old Sarah Peralta, this book offers a child's perspective about her brother's autism and offers advice for other children on how to cope as well as understanding the condition.

Apple Patty Patches

This book is written by an author who has helped hundreds of children and their parents with the difficult task of occlusion therapy.

Arthur's Chicken Pox

This is an easy to read book that talks about chicken pox.

Barney Meets the New Baby

Discusses the joy of being an elder sibling.

Before You Were Born

This book about pregnancy tells the parallel story of mother and baby, from hearing the thumpity-thump of baby's heartbeat to that unforgettable first meeting.

Berenstain Bears' New Baby, The

Easy to read book that talks about bringing home a new baby.

Blueberry Eyes

This book is a developmental model for parents and children to use as they negotiate life's changes, whether that change is an illness, a loss, or a surgery.

Chewy, Gooey, Rumble, Plop! A Deliciously Disgusting Plop-Up Guide to The Digestive System

Humans are hollow! Yes—you are basically just a tube, with a hole at each end. Food goes in one hole and . . . something else comes out of the other. But what goes on in between? This cleverly constructed pop-up book brings the gross, squelchy secrets of

Corduroy Goes to the Doctor

This book talks about a child having a check-up, letting the doctor listen to his heart, and letting the doctor look at his eyes and ears.

Dinosaurs Alive and Well - A Guide to Good Health

This book gives young children a head start on establishing healthy habits that will last a lifetime. In addition, the book includes tips on how to exercise your body and your mind and much more.

Dinosaurs Beware - A Safety Guide

This book helps you teach children safety rules in a easy way. It is a genuinely funny and engaging safety book.

Dinosaurs Divorce - A Guide for Changing Families

This book will help children understand divorce words and what they mean, why parents divorce, living with one parent and much more.

Fall of Freddie The Leaf - A Story of Life For All Ages, The

This book touches children and adults alike, illustrating the delicate balance between life and death.

Germs Are Not For Sharing

This book helps you teach children about germs and ways to stay clean and healthy.

Germs Make Me Sick!

This is a Let's Read and Find Out Science Book for young children.

Glasses for D.W.

Marc Brown's funny story is easy to read and comes with picture stickers galore. Here is an exciting new way to help beginners get in step with reading and at the same time try their hand at creative writing.

Good Enough to Eat - A Kid's Guide to Food and Nutrition

This book is the guide to kids' nutrition written especially for kids. It's a practical, hands-on tool for families who want to eat a healthy diet.

Guess Who Needs Glasses?

This picture book takes children and their parents through the experience of an eye exam, allaying their fears about glasses while addressing their concerns-all in a fun and kidlike way.

Happy, Healthy Monsters - Elmo's Breakfast Bingo

Eating right, keeping fit, and getting enough sleep are all basic components of healthy living, but they sometimes seem tough to tackle on a daily basis. The books in this series are filled with easy and practical tips that will help you and your little

Healthy Body Cookbook, The

Over 50 fun activities and delicious recipes for kids.

Honest Pretzels

In this book, the author speaks directly to children through 65 fully kid-tested, illustrated recipes that require some, but not a lot of, adult assistance. This book is not only about making food, but also about practicing reading, math, and logic skills

How Are You Peeling?

Simple rhyming text and bright array of emotional produce make this the perfect introduction to the complex world of feelings for children.

I Used to Be the Baby

This book is the story of a sibling who suddenly finds himself with a baby brother. This is a easy to read book for older siblings.

I'm a Big Sister

With charm and sensitivity, the author celebrates the warmth and security of family and home - from a big sister's perspective.

It's Time to Learn About Diabetes

This is a workbook on diabetes for children.

Keeping a Secret

In this book, the author helps children understand their symptoms and cope with the consequences of juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA).

Kid-Friendly Food Allergy Cookbook, The

More than 150 recipes that are wheat-free, gluten-free, dairy-free, nut-free, egg-free and/or low in sugar.

Kim Goes to Camp

In this children's book, Kim, a girl with food allergies, learns how to deal with eating with food allergies away from home and taking care of herself.

Kim Learns How to Take Care of Herself

In this children's book, Kim, a girl with food allergies and eczema learns how to take care of herself, eat to avoid affecting her allergy and how to deal with a classmate's teasing.

Lenny Learns About Food Labels

In this children's book, Lenny the lion learns about food labels and how to look at the label to avoid ingredients that will affect his allergy to milk.

Lions Aren't Scared of Shots

This book offers parents advice and tips for encouraging their child to feel comfortable and brave with routine checkups, sick visits, shots, and other medical procedures.

My Sister Rose Has Diabetes

This book fills the gap in the literature for children with diabetes and their families. In addition, this book describes the impact of diabetes on a ten year old girl, not only through Rose's eyes, but also from her twelve year old brother's point of vie

New Baby at Your House, The

This classic book has helped thousands of families to pull together as they talk about what to expect when the new baby comes home.

New Baby, The

Addresses the major issues of growing up.

Once Upon a Potty

Your child will be empowered by Joshua as he learns to use his new potty.

Open Wide

This is a fact-filled, sure-fire, kid-centric introduction to dental health.

Otto Learns About His Medicine

This book is ideal for helping young children understand their difficulties. It includes a story about medication for children with ADHD.

Paper Chain, The

This is a wonderful book to help families cope with an ill parent.

Peanut Butter Jam, The

This book hopes to help readers better understand the seriousness of food-allergies.

Pretend Soup

The authors bring the grown-up world of real cooking to a child's level. Young children can become head chef while an adult serves as guide and helper.

Salad People

With the help of this book, children as young as three can roll up their sleeves and cook real food with pleasure and pride.

Science Experiments You Can Eat

Transform your kitchen into a laboratory. These science experiments have a quick and easy way to clean up at the end of the day...eat them!

Solve Your Child's Sleep Problems

The author discusses the causes of most sleep problems from birth to adolescence and recommends an array of proven solutions for each so that parents can choose the strategy that works best for them.

Take Charge of Your Child's Sleep

This book is the essential, all-in-one guide to understanding and solving your child's sleep problems.

Taking Seizure Disorders to School

This children's book is about a young girl and her experience with epilepsy, and the impact it has on school.

What a Baby Needs

This is a book that takes a warm look at how life in the family changes to accommodate the needs of a newborn.

What Mommies Do Best

This book talks about how a mother can teach her child to ride a bike, sew a loose button on the teddy bear, and read a cozy bedtime story.

What to Expect When the New Baby Comes Home

Answers questions about what the new babies look like, what they do and don't do, and what having one around the house will be like.

What to Expect When You Go to the Doctor

Everyone needs to go to the doctor for checkups and for a child who doesn't understand what staying healthy means and why it's important, a visit to the doctor can be a bewildering experience. This book can provide you with answers to your child's questio

Why I Cough, Sneeze, Shiver, Hiccup & Yawn

This is a Let's Read and Find Out Science Book for young children.

You Can't Make a Move Without Your Muscles

This is a Let's Read and Find Out Science Book for young children about muscles and how they work.

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Medical Reference Texts

5-Minute Sports Medicine Consult, The

The 5-Minute Sports Medicine Consult is your reference for current diagnosis and treatment for on-field and long-term management of sports-related problems. You'll find more than 280 topics arranged alphabetically containing the information you need to a

Allergies Sourcebook

This book provides updated information about the causes, triggers, treatments, and prevalence of common allergic disorders, including rhinitis, sinusitis, conjunctivitis, hives, dermatitis, eczema, and anaphylaxis. It discusses the immune system and its

Atlas of Common Pain Syndromes

This book offers complete coverage on the majority of common pain syndromes you encounter in practice.

Atlas of Human Anatomy

A complete human anatomy atlas.

Atlas of Pediatric Physical Diagnosis

This text provides a complete guide to anatomic signs and laboratory and radiologic findings for pediatric disorders.

Breast Cancer

Written by highly eminent authors, Breast Cancer is produced in full color and is richly illustrated throughout, providing a review of each cancer including its incidence, epidemiology, etiology and histopathology, together with the clinical features. Di

Clinical Dermatology

This book covers in-depth topics for dermatology.

Clinical Gynecologic Endocrinology and Infertility

Clinical Ophthalmology

This book discusses in-depth eye disorders, diseases and other eye related issues with pictures and illustrations.

Drugs in Pregnancy and Lactation

This reference provides the latest, practical, reliable informaion on more than 1,000 drugs that may be used by pregnant and lactating mothers. Recommendations for each drug entry classify the level of risk to the embryo, fetus or nursing infant.

Ear, Nose, and Throat Disorders Sourcebook

Basic consumer health information about disorders of the ears, hearing loss, vestibular disorders, nasal and sinus problems, throat and vocal cord disorders, and otolaryngologic cancers, including facts about ear infections and injuries, genetic and conge

Encyclopedia of Autoimmune Disease, The

This text provides clear and comprehensice information about each of the more than 80 autoimmune diseases, as well as their suspected causes, clinical features, treatment strategies, and current research.

Encyclopedia of Mental Health, The

This is a one-stop reference for key topics regarding contemporary mental health concerns.

Essential Atlas of Heart Diseases

A comprehensive text covering anatomy and functions of the heart, as well as heart diseases.

General Ophthalmology

A classic reference covering the diagnosis and treatment of all major ophthalmic diseases and disorders, as well as neurological and systemic diseases causing visual disturbance.

Gray's Anatomy

Classic anatomy text with many black and white drawings.

Griffith's Instructions for Patients

This book discusses everything the patients need to know about their condition-from basic descriptions of illnesses, and frequent signs and symptoms, to preventive measures and expected outcomes.

Harrison's Principle's of Internal Medicine

A physician's guide to internal medicine.

Hurst's The Heart: Manual of Cardiology

When you need definitive and authoritative answers to diagnosis and treatment of heart disease, Hurst's The Heart is the name clinicians know and trust. Portable, powerful, pocket-friendly, and affordable, Hurst's is now better than ever.

Nutrition and Diagnosis - Related Care

Developed by well-known author and nutritionist Sylvia Escott-Stump, the Sixth Edition of this classic text provides timely, pertinent medical nutrition therapy information for the care of patients with over 360 diseases, disorders, and conditions. Each e

Obstetrics and Gynecology

This text provides basic, practical information in obstetrics, gynecology, and women's health.

Ophthalmology

This book talks about ophthalmology in great detail.

Physicians' Desk Reference

Podiatry Sourcebook

This text provides basic information about the many diseases, disorders, deformities, and injuries that affect the foor and ankle. These include calluses, corns, arch problems, bunions, heel pain, neuromas, athlete's foot, plantar warts, fungal infection

Practical Approach to Radiology, A

This text offers expert guidance on the diagnostic imaging issues associated with each body region.

Practical Gastroenterology

An in-depth medical text covering common conditions and diseases in gastroenterology.

Sports Injuries & Athletic Problems

A guide to sports injuries and athletic problems.

Williams' Basic Nutrition and Diet Therapy

This book shows you how health and disease are related to eating habits, how modern research has changed our views, and how nutritional needs change with age. This is a easy to read book and it provides the latest nutrition information.

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Printed Material

1-2-3 Magic

The author discusses ways to get your kids to STOP doing what you don't want them to do (arguing, whining, tantrums, sibling rivalry), and get them to START doing what you want them to do (cleaning their room, going to bed, homework, etc.) how to handle m

100 Questions & Answers about Brain Tumors

This book provides authoritative, practical answers to questions about treatment options, post-treatment quality of life, sources of support and much more for those persons afflicted with a brain tumor. The author of the book, a brain tumor survivor, team

100 Questions & Answers About Breast Cancer

What causes breast cancer? Is there anything I can do to prevent breast cancer? What are the options available for the treatment of breast cancer? These and other questions are answered in a Q & A format.

100 Questions & Answers About Caring for Family or Friends with Cancer

Helpful when caring for a friend or family member who has been diagnosed with cancer. Informative and supportive answering those questions you always wanted to know but were afraid to ask.

100 Questions & Answers About Hypertension

This book addresses hypertension, or high blood pressure: what it is, how it can be prevented, how it is diagnosed and treated. It also deals with diet, exercise, medications, and potential complications of hypertension.

100 Questions & Answers About Lung Cancer

This book provides you with all the answers you need to your questions about lung cancer. It represents a great concept and has been put together in a most helpful question/answer format.

100 Questions & Answers About Melanoma and Other Skin Cancers

Whether you're a newly diagnosed skin cancer patient, a survivor, or a friend or relative of either, this book offers help. It gives you authoritative, practical answers to your questions about treatment options, post-treatment quality of life, sources o

100 Questions & Answers About Prostate Cancer

Answers questions about treatment options, post-treatment quality of life, and sources of support.

100 Questions & Answers About Sleep and Sleep Disorders

Whether you're a newly diagnosed patient with a sleep disorder or are a friend or relative of someone suffering from a sleep disorder, this book offers help. It gives you authoritative, practical answers to your questions. Written by an expert on the su

101 Consejos para estar snao teniendo Diabetes

Evite las complicaciones del corazon, rinones, ojos, pies y piel. Mantenga niveles saludables de azucar en lasangre. APrenda a estar sano toda su vida y mucho mas.

101 Essential Tips: Yoga

Bite-size points you can grasp in an instant

101 Foot Care Tips for People with Diabetes

This book is a practical guide to skin care; nail care; footwear; treating minor problems; identifying major problems; exercise; avoiding complications, and more.

101 Great Low fat Mexican Dishes: Hot, Spicy & Healthful

Love Mexican Food but hate the fat in most recipes? Let Margaret Martinez show you how to cook Mexican dishes in a healthful way.

101 Tips for Improving Your Blood Sugar

101 Tips for Improving Your Blood Sugar is a collection of tricks, ideas, strategies, and common sense approaches to the daily challenge of maintaining normal blood sugar levels.

101 Tips for Staying Healthy with Diabetes

This book offers tips, techniques and strategies for preventing and treating diabetes complications.

12 Steps: Recovering from Addictions, The

This book explains the 12 Steps originated for Alcoholics Anonymous in 1939 and proven useful for a wide array of problems outside of alcohol and chemical addictions. Uses a workbook approach with true stories of twelve people in recovery.

12 Things You Must Know About Diabetes Care -- Right Now

If you have been diagnosed with diabetes this book will guide you through twelve issues of importance for good self-management, including glucose management, pregnancy, eye care, neuropathy, nephropathy, exercise, and more.

125 Most Asked Questions About Adoption (and the Answers)

The author of this book clarifies technical, legal, and emotional aspects of the adoption process, helping future parents approach adoption with confidence. He draws on information from dozens of organization and agencies, as well as personal interviews

15,000 + Baby Names

A list of the most popular girls' and boys' names, variations, and nicknames.

150 Most-Asked Questions About Osteoporosis

Using the results of national survey and questionnaires from more than 25,000 women, the author explains how to tell if you're at risk for osteoporosis; how diagnostic test are done; how diet and vitamins can help; which exercises can protect bones; the p

2002 Pocket Book of Infectious Disease Therapy

This medical reference covers all aspects of antibiotic therapy, with dosage, trade names, indications for use, side effects, interactions, use in pregnancy, and kidney failure.

2003 Medical Management of HIV Infection

This medical reference book is a guide to the current treatments used for HIV infections

2008 Special Report on Combating Memory loss

This small booklet discusses common problems and treatment for memory loss. It will discuss what is memory loss, age related associations, dementia, Alzheimer's disease, detection and treating and ways to help your health.

36-Hour Day, The

This is a family guide to caring for persons with Alzheimer Disease, related dementing illnesses, and memory loss in later life. This revised edition has updates on the latest scientific research and care delivery.

50 Signs of Mental Illness

A practical guide for anyone struggling with the questions of mental illness.

50 Ways to Lower Your Cholesterol

Everything you need to know about the difference between good and bad cholesterol, nutritional supplements, the latest medical treatments, and proper diet and exercise.

8 Steps to a Pain-Free Back

Nearly 90% of American adults suffer from back pain. Why does this condition affect so many people in the industrialized world, while in some countries on 5% of adults report back pain? The author's research took her Burkina Fasso, rural Portugal and vill

800-Cocaine

Informative manual for anyone who wants to know more about cocaine: user case histories, physical, psychological, and emotional effects, types of use, and more.

A Good Night's Sleep

Dr. Lawrence J. Epstein of Harvard Medical School reveals his proven 6-step plan to maximize your nights and energize your days. He explains the health benefits of sleep and identifies signs of sleep problems.

AARP

This magazine talks about various everyday topics.

Achieving Optimal Memory

Provides information on why memory problems and describes simple things you can do to prevent memory loss.

ACOG Guide to Planning for Pregnancy, Birth, and Beyond

Describes preconception care, pregnancy changes, special pregnancies, labor and delivery.

ADA Complete Food & Nutrition Guide

Thorough reference for everyday and special nutritional information.

ADA Complete Guide to Carb Counting

This book is a guide for individuals with diabetes, to help you learn what foods will make your blood sugar rise and how high. It also includes information on carb counting for insulin pump users; strategies for eating out; a whole week of meal plans; rec

ADA Guide to Eating Right When You Have Diabetes

Provides the basics of diabetic food planning, but also includes fast-food and ethnic food guides. Contains a guide to glycemic index foods.

ADA Guide to Healthy Restaurant Eating (3rd edition)

The most complete easy to use guide for people with diabetes, pre-diabetes, heart disease and weight challenges. Along with nutrition facts, this book provides the skill & strategies you need to find healthy choices in the restaurants that line America's

ADD-Friendly Ways to Organize your Life

This book addresses the special organizational needs & dilemmas of adults with ADD. Helpful tips and strategies for organizing the adult with ADD's life.

ADHD & Me: what I learned from lighting fires at the dinner table

The author was diagnosed with ADHD at the age of five. In this book, which he wrote during his last two years in high school, the author shares how he learned to live with both the good and bad sides of life with ADHD. This book provides information and

Adolescence: The Survival Guide for Parents and Teenagers

this book offers family advice for both parents and teenagers, with sections on major topics of adolescence. Includes case histories, questionnaires and true-to-life dialogues and tactics for negotiating solutions acceptable to both sides.

Adolescent Depression: A Guide for Parents

In Adolescent Depression: A Guide for Parents, Johns Hopkins psychiatrist Francis Mondimore helps parents understand that serious depression in adolescents is an illness - an illness that can be effectively treated. He describes the many forms of depress

Adoption Reader, The

This book features the stories and interviews of over thirty birth mothers, adoptive mothers, and adoptive daughters. Some issues that are explored are open and closed adoption, cross-cultural adoption, the birth record debate, the experience of biracial

Adult Asthma - Special Report from Harvard Medical School

This report is geared toward adults with asthma. Topics include an explanation of what asthma is and the causes of asthma, as well as information on asthma triggers, medications and management strategies.

Adult Children of Alcoholics

This author tries to help us gain greater understanding of what it means to be the child of an alcoholic, and how this process evolves over time. Also useful for children of other types of dysfunctional families.

Advanced Breast Cancer (formerly titled : Holding Tight, Letting Go)

This book is designed for women with metastatic breast cancer. It covers all aspect of dealing with the disease: coping with the shock of recurrence, seeking information, making treatment decisions, and communicating effectively with medical personnel.

Advances in Obstetrics and Gynecology

This reference book covers four major topics: gynecology, reproductive endocrinology, obstetrics, and gynecologic oncology, and presents practical information, current practices and techniques, and significant developments in producers and clinical resear

After Breast Cancer

This updated edition addresses recent changes in the standard of care for breast cancer, and covers a range of topics to help you navigate the possibilities and challenges.

After Cancer: A Guide to Your New Life

Written by a physician, herself a cancer survivor, for the layperson. She discusses the physical and medical factors involved in recovery, but also the financial, emotional, and day-to-day issues.

After Surgery, Illness, or Trauma

Reading this book is like having a most welcome visit from an interested, intelligent, and caring friend. The author encourages an approach of compassion and self-forgiveness.

After the Death of a Child

The author lost her son in a train accident when he was eighteen years old. Several years later, she found she was feeling better and wondered whether this feeling was what was meant by "recovery". She learned that a child's death is disorienting, makes n

After the Diagnosis: Six Stages to Emotional Wellness

The author, diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis herself, describes the emotional journey from the crisis of diagnosis to living with a chronic illness.

Aftershock: What to do When the Doctor Gives You - or Someone You Love - a Devastating Diagnosis

Social psychologist Jessie Gruman offers a practical and sensitive approach to moving through the initial period after a serious diagnosis. With tips on navigating the healthcare system, getting second opinions, finding the best information, this book is

Age Erasers for Women

This book is designed to show women how they can look and feel younger longer. Medical experts write on metabolism, injury, arthritis and osteoporosis, sexuality, weight loss, etc.

Aging Mothers and Their Adult Daughters: A Study in Mixed Emotions

The mother/daughter tie is one that persists well past childhood and it takes on unique characteristics as daughters enter midlife and mothers enter old age. Incorporating vivid descriptions by mothers and daughters about their relationship, this book add

Aging Parents: The Family Survival Guide

This book is designed to help adult children be prepared to care for their parents. Includes sections to help you: respond quickly to your parent's crisis; organize all your family and community resources; develop a plan to get through the crisis, stabil

Aging with Grace

In 1986 the author, an epidemiologist, started a scientific study to find links between levels of education and two aspects of aging: longevity and active life expectancy. Called the "Nun Study" because the 678 participants were all Catholic sisters aged

AHA Cookbook, 5th Edition

Contains recipes with nutritional analysis, guidelines for shopping and cooking food.

AICR Science Now

This newsletter talks about the news on reducing cancer risk through nutrition and physical activity.

Alchemy of Love and Lust, The

The book acts as a guide to our sexual peaks and cycles, the desires that drive and frustrate us, the bonds we make, the love we give and take, and the mystery of attraction -- aspects all related to the ever changing chemicals in our bodies. Introduces

Alexander Goes Out to Eat

This children's book is about Alexander the elephant, who is allergic to peanuts, going to eat at a restaurant and the precautions he must. It discusses the issues and emotions involved in having a food allergy in simple and understandable terms.

Alexander Goes to a Birthday Party

In this children's book, Alexander the elephant, who is allergic to peanuts, learns how to politely refuse foods that might cause an allergic reaction and how to watch out for himself. This book deals with the emotions that might occur when dealing with

Alexander Goes Trick-or-Treating

In this children's book, Alexander the elephant goes trick-or-treating and learns to look at food ingredients to avoid his food allergy.

Alexander Learns His Lesson

In this children's book, Alexander the elephant learns his lesson when he eats food that affects his food allergy. This book discusses the dangers of doing so, and the actions that follow.

All About Allergies

Child's storybook about allergies from the AAAAI

All About Asthma

Children's storybook about asthma from AAAAI.

All About My Brother

Written by eight year-old Sarah Peralta, this book offers a child's perspective about her brother's autism and offers advice for other children on how to cope as well as understanding the condition.

All That She Can Be

In this book, the authors show parents how they can help their daughters regain their self-confidence before they get caught in a cycle of disappointment and failure. They also show that the problems of adolescence can be overcome if parents and daughters

All You Need to Know About Joint Surgery: Get Ready for Surgery, Recovery and an Active New Lifestyle

Now more than ever, people with painful, debilitating arthritis are having joint replacements and other types of joint surgery. This book describes the newest surgical techniques, easy steps you can take to make surgery more successful, when you should de

Allergic Diseases...Diagnosis and Treatment

This professional reference book offers an up-to-date guide to diagnosis and treatment of allergic diseases.

Allergies Sourcebook

This book provides updated information about the causes, triggers, treatments, and prevalence of common allergic disorders, including rhinitis, sinusitis, conjunctivitis, hives, dermatitis, eczema, and anaphylaxis. It discusses the immune system and its

Allergies: What You Need to Know

Most allergies are annoying, many can ruin your pleasure in life, and some can be life-threatening. Whether your allergies are seasonal or year-round; or because of something in the food you eat, or drugs you take, or insects around you, this book gives y

Alternative Medicine Handbook, The

The author was a founding member of the Advisory Council to the NIH Office of Alternative Medicine. The book has chapters on spirituality; dietary remedies; mind/body connection; biological therapies; bodywork; sensory therapies; external energy forces.

Alzheimer's Answer: Reduce Your Risk and Keep Your Brain Healthy, The

The Alzheimer's Answer presents the most promising data to date about a disease that affects 4.5 million Americans. The author's unique access to ongoing developments in the field provides readers with the most up-to-date information on Alzheimer's and it

Alzheimer's: A Love Story

In 1990, the author's husband, a prominent physiology professor at Stanford Medical School, was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. This is the story of one critical year, when the author and her husband learned to live with his increasing dementia. It is

Am I Hungry?: What to do When Diets Don't Work

This book offers a holistic, no-diet, commonsense approach to healthier eating and physical activity that addresses body, mind, and spirit. Readers learn valuable tools for knowing when, what, and how much to eat and to gain freedom from obsessing about f

American Cancer Society's Guide to Colorectal Cancer (American Cancer Society)

A comprehensive guide through the colorectal cancer experience, from testing to diagnosis to thinking about the future and allowing you to make decisions for managing your disease and living well after cancer.

American Diabetes Association Complete Guide to Diabetes, 4th Edition

This reference provides information on diabetes, including: managing diabetes, preventing complications, managing blood glucose levels, handling emergencies, nutrition, exercise, medications, insulin pumps and even information regarding insurance.

American Medical Association Family Medical Guide, 4th Edition

Comprehensive home medical reference with illustrations.

Anatomy of an Illness

This is the story of the author's successful fight against a crippling disease. It is a story of a partnership between a doctor and his patient and how together they were able to beat back the odds. The doctor's genius lay in helping the patient use his o

Anatomy--Descriptive and Surgical

This reference work is designed to furnish the student and practitioner with an accurate view of the anatomy of the human body, and more especially the application of this science to practical surgery. Originally published in 1858.

And Baby Makes Three

This book helps to understand the relationship problems that can occur after bringing home a new baby and provides some real life examples, exercises, and questionnaires to show you how to avert relationship meltdown and enhance romance and passion.

And the Passenger Was Death

In this book a father shares his journey of grief after the death of his son and his path to healing.

Anemia and Heavy Menstrual Flow

This book provides facts and information about the causes, symptoms and diagnosis of anemia and heavy menstrual bleeding, a workbook format that assists you to identify the important signs, symptoms, and risk factors of these conditions, and effective sel

Another Chance: Hope and Health for the Alcoholic Family

This book offers insights and solid steps toward recovery for the family of alcoholics. It shows what is happening with the alcoholic, within the alcoholic family, and within the world of professional treatment for chemical dependents, their co-dependent

Another Chance: Managing Coronary Artery Disease

This book is written by physicians, dieticians, and educators who specialize in the treatment of lipid disorders. The book promotes a very low-fat diet, regular physical activity, and stress management.

Another Country

The landscape of aging is that of Another Country. The author takes us on a hopeful, helpful guide through the emotional terrain of old age, and shows us how to bring our parents and grandparents and subsequent generations closer to one another, by sharin

Another Country - Navigating the Emotional Terrain of our Elders

A field guide to the rough terrain of aging for a generation of baby boomers who are finding themselves unprepared to care for those who have always cared for them.

Answers to Distraction

The authors of "Driven to Distraction" respond to the most frequently asked questions about Attention Deficit Disorder. (ADD is also referred to as ADHD without hyperactivity)

Anxiety & Phobia Workbook, The

This workbook is a comprehensive guide offering help to anyone who is struggling with panic attacks, agoraphobia, social fears, generalized anxiety, obsessive-compulsive behaviors, or other anxiety disorders. Includes step-by-step guidelines, questionnai

Anxiety and Stress Self-Help Book

This book offers new thinking on the causes, symptoms and the diagnosis of anxiety and stress related conditions. It contains a workbook for evaluating your condition and easy to follow self help programs including information about vitamins, herbs, miner

Apple Patty Patches

This book is written by an author who has helped hundreds of children and their parents with the difficult task of occlusion therapy.

Approaching Death: Improving Care at the End of Life

When end of life approaches, people should be able to expect reliable, humane, and effective care giving. This book looks at where, when and how Americans die. It examines issues such as determining diagnosis and prognosis and communicating these to patie

Are You Eating Right?

A reference book listing the nutrient content of more than 5,000 foods. There are a number of worksheets to help you analyze your nutrition status.

Art of Aging, The

In The Art of Aging, Dr. Nuland steps back to explore the impact of aging on our minds and bodies, strivings and relationships. Melding a scientist's passion for truth with a humanist's understanding of the heart and soul, Nuland has created a wise, fran

Art of Getting Well: Maximizing Health & Well-being When You Have a Chronic Disease, The

This book is written to inspire and help people who are overcoming illness and want to improve there quality of life. It explains how to change the very things in your life that contribute to your illness and rob you of motivation in the face of a chroni

Arthritis

This magazine tells you about rheumatoid arthritis and your eyes, fall-proofing your life, and about arthritis and quality of life.

Arthritis - The Johns Hopkins White Papers, 2007

This White Paper contains the most recent developments and information on osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis. A section on rheumatoid disorders is also included. Topics covered include: effect of new osteoarthritis treatments on disease progression,

Arthritis Foundation's Guide to Good Living with Osteoarthritis, The

Learn to take control of osteoarthritis and live a full life: simple exercises; medications; herbs and supplements; weight loss; stress management, and more.

Arthritis Foundation's Guide to Pain Management, The

Discover what happens in your body to cause pain, learn to use pain charts to measure your pain's intensity, evaluate the pros and cons of the latest drugs and high-tech treatments, explore natural and alternative options for treating pain, exercise to ea

Arthritis Help Book, The

This book guides arthritis sufferers in coping with joint pain through tested advice, useful hints, and an emphasis on self-management -- helping people with arthritis and fibromyalgia to achieve their own goals. Includes information on: understanding th

Arthritis in Black and White

This is a book on arthritis as seen on X-ray. Medical reference.

Arthritis Self-Management

Bi-monthly journal

Arthritis Today

This magazine teaches you 6 steps to stop the pain of arthritis.

Arthritis: A Take Care of Yourself Health Guide

This book provides information on more than 100 types of arthritis and related conditions, such as fibromyalgia and gout. It explains the different ways that joints become painful, and all of the medications, operations, and other remedies available. Th

Arthur's Chicken Pox

This is an easy to read book that talks about chicken pox.

Ask the Doctor: Breast Cancer

This book is designed to clear up the issues of breast cancer for women. It details the steps involved in a thorough diagnosis, the medical treatments that are most effective, the risk factors associated with the disease, and what can be done by patient

Assess Your True Risk of Breast Cancer

Evaluate your heredity and lifestyle risks, find out what the statistics really mean, what you need to know about genetic testing, hormone replacement therapy, and tamoxifen as prevention.

Asthma: Questions You Have, Answers You Need

This book uses a question and answer format to inform about types of asthma, triggers, tests, medications, and self-care.

At the Will of the Body - Reflections on Illness

The author, a medical sociologist, survived two serious illnesses: a heart attack at the age of thirty-nine and cancer, diagnosed a year later. He tells us how illness affects us and what it can teach us about life.

Athletic Training and Sports Medicine, 2nd ed.

Medical text with information on diagnosing and treating sports-related injuries. Also has information on preventing injuries and exercises for rehabilitation.

Atlas of Common Pain Syndromes

This book offers complete coverage on the majority of common pain syndromes you encounter in practice.

Atlas of Heart Disease, Volume X

A book providing a comprehensive and detailed collection of tables and pictures of all aspects of atherosclerosis, which causes 40% of deaths in the U.S. and Western Europe. Risk factors, management, as well as cost and benefits of various treatment modal

Atlas of Human Anatomy

This reference book is an atlas of gross anatomy, organized by systems and regions. Made up of color illustrations.

Atlas of Pediatric Physical Diagnosis

This text provides a complete guide to anatomic signs and laboratory and radiologic findings for pediatric disorders.

Atlas of Rheumatology

Reference book on rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis

Babies With Down Syndrome: A New Parent's Guide

Comprehensive, compassionate guide offering information and support for the new parents of a child with Down Syndrome. Covers a wide range of topics from emotions to health concerns to legal issues.

Baby 411

Contains useful information about your baby's health, sleep and nutrition. The book contains 6 sessions that cover these areas: Preparing for the new one, care & feeding, sleep, development & discipline, sickness & how to avoid it, top 12 problems & solu

Baby Book, The

The Baby Book presents a practical, contemporary approach to parenting that reflects the way we live today. The Searses acknowledge that there is no one way to parent a baby, and they offer the basic guidance and inspiration you need to develop the paren

Baby On the Way

This book is informal, yet informative...upbeat, yet realistic. This is an appealing book for older siblings, with helpful notes for parents and caregivers.

Baby Proofing Basics

This practical guide contains childproofing tips for every room in the house and for outdoors, backyard, beach, camping, hiking, and travel of all kinds. It provides illustrations and information on children’s safety at playtime, mealtime, and holidays, a

Back Pain Remedies for Dummies

Discusses ways to prevent back problems, all the treatment options, both traditional and complementary, and surgical options.

Back Sense

Back pain may begin with a physical injury, but it's tight muscles that cause pain to last and stress causes tight muscles. These authors teach you how to break the cycle.

Baking Soda

Baking soda gets its due in this fun collection gathered by Vicki Lansky and her readers over more than twenty years. From making an omelets extra fluffy or deodorizing those musty household smells, to improving flossing and mouth freshness or washing cla

Balanced Healing

This book is the reference guide for millions of Americans who want to take advantage of safe and effective alternative healing methods without giving up the high-tech benefits of modern medicine.

Barney Meets the New Baby

Discusses the joy of being an elder sibling.

Basic and Clinical Endocrinology

A comprehensive source for current concepts of endocrine pathophysiology.

Bay Area Mama Handbook, Peninsula Edition 2008/2009

A reference guide for mothers and families in San Mateo County. The book includes 23 chapters with information on places to go, things to do, outdoor activities, community services, emergency preparedness and more.

Bay Area Mama, Silicon Valley North Edition 2008/2009

A resource guide for parents, with information ranging from places to go and things to do, the outdoors, community services, libraries, emergency preparedness and more.

Be a Survivor - Colorectal Cancer Treatment Guide

Experts offering help for surviving colorectal cancer.

Be a Survivor - Your Guide to Breast Cancer Treatment

Includes clear explanations, color graphics, lists of questions to ask your healthcare professionals and candid testimonials by patients who have "been there before".

Be Good To Your Gut

This book offers a variety of simple suggestions for lifestyle adjustments that help promote good digestion. Provides background information that helps the reader understand what causes digestive problems, what aggravates them, and what can be done to av

Beauty and Cancer: Looking and Feeling Your Best

This handbook is designed to help women improve their appearance and comfort during and after cancer therapies. It provides information and resources for looking great while experiencing the side effects of chemotherapy, radiation, and surgery.

Beck Diet Solution: Train Your Brain to Think Like a Thin Person

Using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques, author Judith Beck outlines a plan to help you learn the skills to maintain weight loss in a sensible fasion.

Becoming a Grandmother

The author explores the joys and anxieties of one of life's momentous transitions. Drawing on interviews with women throughout the world, she discusses the myths and realities of grand motherhood today. She gives advice on how to establish a good relation

Becoming the Parent You Want to Be

Laura Davis and Janis Keyser take a straightforward, real, and respectful approach to parenting and children. The book gives solid information on sound child development as well as specific tips that run the gamut from getting your child to sleep to deali

Before You Were Born

This book about pregnancy tells the parallel story of mother and baby, from hearing the thumpity-thump of baby's heartbeat to that unforgettable first meeting.

Berenstain Bears' New Baby, The

Easy to read book that talks about bringing home a new baby.

Best Alternative Medicine...What Works? What Does Not?, The

Proponents of alternative medicine spent $3.77 billion on over-the-counter products in the U.S. between 1991-1996. Evidently consumers are not waiting for the experts to say that it is okay to use alternative therapies. Stanford Medical School's Pelletier

Best feeding: Getting Breastfeeding Right for You

The author uses pictures to demonstrate techniques, checklists, and lots of basic information and problem-solving.

Best Friends Approach to Alzheimer's Care, The

This book is about new ways to solve problems, encourage positive behavior, and improve communications. It helps you learn how to make every day consistently reassuring, enjoyable, and secure. Be a friend - a Best friend - to someone with Alzheimer's Dise

Best of Diabetes Self-Management, The

This book by the publishers of Diabetes Self-Management magazine covers a broad range of topics of interest for individuals with diabetes: * Blood glucose control * Meal planning guidelines * Cholesterol guides for people with diabetes * Prevention of com

Better Breather's News

This article is written by the cardiovascular and pulmonary wellness center of El Camino Hospital.

Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance

The bestselling author of Complications, examines, in riveting accounts of medical failure and triumph, how success is achieved in a complex and risk-filled profession.

Beyond Anger: A Guide for Men

This book helps men understand their anger and how it negatively impacts their families, friends and co-workers. The author provides simple exercises that will help men control their anger and develop new habits to prevent it from starting.

Beyond Baby Talk

From sounds to sentences- a parents complete guide to language development. Easy methods to evaluate & monitor your child's language development, understand & deal with environmental impacts, recognize the signs of language development & much more.

Beyond Rage: Mastering Unavoidable Health Changes

For those affected by or caring for someone who has chronic illness, has been handicapped by an accident, or facing a difficult recovery from illness. The author discusses six stages of emotional responses to health changes.

Beyond the Blues

This book serves as a guide to risk factors, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of mood disorders in pregnancy and postpartum.

Bipolar Child, The

Bipolar disease manifests itself differently in children than adults and in children there is an overlap of symptoms with other childhood psychiatric disorders.

Bipolar Disorder...A Guide for Patients and Families

A comprehensive guide to the symptoms, diagnosis and treatment of this illness, formerly know as "manic depression". The author describes how the illness in women may be affected by the menstrual cycle, pregnancy, and childbirth; how it may manifest itsel

Birth Your Way

Many women are choosing to give birth outside a hospital setting. This book is a guide to every woman considering her options.

Blending Families- A Guide for Parents, Stepparents, Grandparents and Everyone Building a Successful Family

This guide provides the reader with problem-solving guidelines to help new families with their members' unique problems and needs.

Blueberry Eyes

This book is a developmental model for parents and children to use as they negotiate life's changes, whether that change is an illness, a loss, or a surgery.

Bodily Harm: The Breakthrough Healing Program For Self-Injurers

This book is the most authoritative examination of the alarming syndrome of self-injury and the first to offer a comprehensive treatment regimen. Written by the directors of S. A. F. E. (Self Abuse Finally Ends) Alternatives, it clearly defines what cutti

Body Betrayed: Women, Eating Disorders, and Treatment, The

The author of this book covers factors of eating disorders, such as bulimia and anorexia nervosa, that many people do not know are associated with these diseases, including physical and sexual abuse, chemical dependency, pregnancy, and athletics. She al

Body Drama

Written in a language young women understand and through photos of real young women, this book addresses the many faces of normal and what women's bodies naturally go through. Body Drama discusses the issues that trouble young women in a straight-forward,

Boning Up on Osteoporosis

This book from the National Osteoporosis Foundation is a guide to prevention and treatment of osteoporosis. Topics include risk factors, prevention of bone loss, detection and treatment of osteoporosis, and tips for living with osteoporosis, including saf

Bound for your Good Health - A Collection of Age Pages

This book was developed by the National Institute on Aging to answer basic health questions on diseases and how to stay healthy. The reader will find useful information on getting good health care, staying safe and planning ahead.

Bowes & Church's Food Values of Portions Commonly Used

This book provides comprehensive and relevant information about the nutritional values of food. Includes a quick-reference, tabular format; discussion of brand name products and general foods; conversion tables, U.S. recommended daily allowances, mean he

Boy Who Couldn't Stop Washing, The

This book is about obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), a disease that affects up to six million Americans. Sufferers feel powerless to stop rituals such as cleaning, counting, avoiding, checking? which they repeat until they feel the have "gotten it righ

Brain Disorders Sourcebook, The

This is an easy-to-understand guide to the structure and function of the brain, how problems occur, and what treatments are available. It addresses stroke, Parkinson's Disease, Alzheimer's Disease, multiple sclerosis, brain tumors, and traumatic brain inj

Brain Lock...Free Yourself from Obsessive-Compulsive Behavior

You may be one of the millions of Americans suffering from these disorders. Do you perform unnecessary rituals every day? Are you a hoarder, reluctant to throw anything out? Are you facing runaway thoughts? Through this book you learn the author's Four-St

Brainstorms: Epilepsy in Our Words

What it's like to have a seizure...told by the people who have experienced them.

Brand Name Fat and Cholesterol Counter

This book provides thousands of alphabetized entries divided into the same sections you'll find at your supermarket; listings of only those foods that meet the American Heart Association criteria for total fat, saturated fat, and cholesterol; the AHA Diet

Breast Cancer

Reference textbook .

Breast Cancer - Beyond Convention

This book is a resource guide that lays out traditional and alternative approaches to treating breast cancer. It deals with how to find the right caregiver and how to best complement conventional medical treatment with alternative medicine. How to be heal

Breast Cancer Husband

This book gives partners the useful and sensitive answers they need to so many of the how-tos, what-ifs, and when-wills that come up along the way.

Breast Cancer Journey, A

Includes updated information on diagnosis and treatment and addresses special needs of young and pregnant women, women of color, and men with breast cancer. Also provides questions to ask your providers at each step.

Breast Cancer Resource Guide - Fourth Edition

A guide through the risks, facts, breast care, diagnosis, financial and legal assistance and a list of cancer centers/organizations to educate, treat and support patients.

Breast Cancer Resource Guide, Third Edition

Guide to services in the Bay Area related to breast cancer.

Breast Cancer Survival Manual

A step-by-step guide for the woman with newly diagnosed breast cancer.

Breast Cancer: The Complete Guide

This book guides a breast cancer patient through the various stages of fighting the disease. It includes information on diagnosis, prognosis, and what happens after the initial course of treatment. Includes a section on the experiences of patients in co

Breastfeeding Your Baby

This book provides information and advice for new mothers and mothers-to-be who want knowledge, encouragement and self-confidence to breastfeed their babies. The author discusses techniques of breastfeeding, and encourages women to take part in this act

Breastfeeding: A Parent's Guide

A practical, step-by-step guide for today's parents-parents who wonder if breastfeeding will work in their busy lives. Friendly, personal, and honest, this book separates breastfeeding facts from myths. It answers the questions most often asked about b

Brushing My Teeth

Card book with photographs showing young children the right (fun) way to care for their teeth.

But I Didn't Say Good-Bye

This book tells the story of Alex, a young child who experiences a significant loss by suicide. It is filled with questions, thoughts, and observations that a young child might have in that situation, along with gentle responses that can bring comfort to

Can I Still Kiss You?

A father, newly diagnosed with cancer, has to deal with the daunting task of telling his young sons about cancer. Culled from conversations with his sons and the experiences of other cancer survivors, this book provides answers to some of the questions ch

Cancer Clinical Trials Experimental Treatments and How They Can Help You

This book is aimed in helping persons consider the range of treatment options available through clinical trials; it includes information about structure, administration and ethical guidelines, how to read the informed consent document and trial protocol.

Cancer and Genetics

Genetic testing may be available for some cancers, but is it make sense for everyone? This book discusses breast, ovarian, colon and rare cancers. Family issues; discrimination and privacy in insurance and workplace are discussed. Lists of genetic counsel

Cancer as a Turning Point

Cancer as a Turning Point shows how psychological change , together with medical treatment immobilizes a compromised immune system. Get the most out of your immune system with hands on exercises.

Cancer Patient's Guide to Overcoming Depression & Anxiety, A

A cancer diagnosis can be frightening. Your doctor can provide you with ever-more effective treatments for the disease, but what can you do about the depression and anxiety that can come with both the diagnosis and the treatment? This book offers a gent

Cancer Supportive Care: A Comprehensive Guide for Patients and Their Families

This book is for patients diagnosed with cancer and their families. It covers topics such as the patient-physician relationship; nutrition and exercise; the role of creative expression, visualization and spirituality; stress and emotional well-being; sexu

Cancer: Principles & Practice of Oncology

Two-volume reference books.

Care & Keeping of You: The Body Book for Girls, The

This "head-to-toe" guide answers question about hair care to healthy eating, bad breath to bras, periods to pimples, and more.

Care giving: A Step-By-Step Resource for Caring for the Person with Cancer at Home

This guide offers practical solutions to the many questions you may have when taking care of a loved with cancer at home: physical and emotional conditions, dealing with health care providers and insurance carriers, and taking care of your own needs as we

Caregiver's Guide to Alzheimer's Disease: 300 Tips For Making Life Easier, A

A Caregiver's Guide to Alzheimer's Disease will help readers understand what is physically happening to the brain so they can empower their own special skills and talents throughout the disease process. Chapters cover legal and financial issues, family fo

Caring for a Person with Alzheimer's Disease

This is an easy-to-use book from the National Institute on Aging designed as a guide for caregivers of people with Alzheimer's Disease.

Caring for Elderly Parents

This book is focused on specific care giving issues faced by adult children with aging parents. Each chapter addresses a particular issue, using personal anecdotal material to illustrate the text, which explores a wider range of questions, alternative so

Caring for the Diabetic Soul

This book addresses the emotional challenges of diabetes such as denial, anger, stress, and building self-esteem.

Caring for The Mind

This book describes everything one needs to know to help oneself or a loved one cope with a mental disorder. It describes signs and symptoms, diagnosis, treatment and prognosis. Conditions such as depression, anxiety, OCD, eating disorders, alcohol /subst

Caring for the Patient with Cancer at Home: A Guide for Patients and Families

This is a guide book for people who are caring for cancer patients at home. Includes information on physical problems, as well as emotional issues, such as telling children and neighbors about the illness.

Caring for your Baby and Young Child Birth to Age 5

This book provides information on how to care for a child from birth through age five. Includes resources such as: a basic emergency medical manual; a health encyclopedia for illnesses, injuries, congenital diseases and other disabilities; emotional, soc

Caring for Your Premature Baby

The premature birth of a baby often takes parents by surprise, leaving them unprepared for he puzzling emotions and medical complications that may follow early deliveries. This book is a comprehensive look at everything from state of the art medical infor

Caring for Your School-Age Child: Ages Five to Twelve

This book provides information on caring for a school-age child, such as: your school-age child's physical, emotional, and intellectual growth, what's normal and what's not; evaluating your child's readiness to begin school; keeping your child safe from i

Caring: A Feminine Approach to Ethics and Moral Education

The author describes a philosophy of caring based on natural caring, rooted in receptivity, relatedness, and responsiveness. She describes what it means to care and be cared for, the ethics of caring, and moral education.

Cataract in Adults: Management of Functional Impairment

Guidelines for clinical practice in the management of cataracts.

Celebrity Chefs Across America: The Ingredients for Managing Diabetes

A diabetes cookbook.

Celiac Disease: A Guide to Living With Gluten Intolerance

The only book on this topic to be co-authored by a nurse, dietitian, and clinical pharmacist, this book offers a highly informed guide to a wheat-free, gluten-free lifestyle. You will find complete and clear coverage of all aspects of this disease includ

Changes in You & Me: Mostly for Boys

This book addresses questions frequently asked by pubescent boys, such as: What is happening to my body and what does it mean? How do I take proper care of my body? Why should I avoid taking steroids to build my muscles? Why am I having strange thoughts a

Changes in You and Me: Puberty Mostly for Girls

This book explains the process of puberty, mostly for a girl's benefit. It answers questions such as: What is happening to my body and what does it mean? What will happen when I get my period? How do I know when I am in love? Why am I having strange t

Changing Bodies, Changing Lives

This book provides body education and sexual education to young people. Includes information on relationships, birth control, toxic shock syndrome, suicide, AIDS, and food and drug abuse.

Chemotherapy & Radiation Therapy Survival Guide, The

This book provides information, suggestions and support to help you get through chemotherapy and radiation treatments.

Chemotherapy Survival Guide, The

This book is for individuals undergoing chemotherapy. It explains what you need to know about treatment, including what to expect at each stage of chemotherapy and what can be done to minimize side effects. The authors offer practical suggestions including nutritional advice, relaxation skills and other techniques to help strengthen the body and calm the mind.

Chewy, Gooey, Rumble, Plop! A Deliciously Disgusting Plop-Up Guide to The Digestive System

Humans are hollow! Yes—you are basically just a tube, with a hole at each end. Food goes in one hole and . . . something else comes out of the other. But what goes on in between? This cleverly constructed pop-up book brings the gross, squelchy secrets of

Child and Adolescent Mental Health

This reference book is designed to help the primary care pediatrician in the effective assessment, treatment, and referral of young patients with mental health problems. It covers many clinical topics such as ADHD (ADD), sleep disorders, eating disorders,

Child Behavior

Child Behavior offers the basics of child development, addressing exactly how children's bodies can affect their behavior. The authors advise parents on how they can prevent many common and more serious behavior problems.

Child Behavior: The Classic Child Manual

This book discusses the basics of child development, addressing exactly how children's bodies can affect their behavior. The authors discuss what to do to treat specific behavior problems and advise parents on how, in many instances, they can prevent many

Child Is Born, A

This book provides photographs and information on every stage of pregnancy, from fertilization through birth.

Child of Mine - Feeding With Love and Good Sense

Offers information and guidance about nutrition, feeding, child development and parenting. Ellyn Satter offers parents a practical, common-sense and empowering guide to fostering a loving relationship between them and their child around food.

Child of Mine: Feeding with Love and Good Sense

This book covers child nutrition. The author discusses topics such as: breast or bottle; eating right during pregnancy; solid foods for your baby; avoiding food fights with your toddler; and preventing obesity and eating disorders.

Childhood Leukemia A Guide for Families, Friends and Caregivers

This book contains updates on treatment including bone marrow transplants and chemotherapy; updated resources for medical information, emotional support, and financial assistance, also information on how to form a partnership with the health team.

Childhood Cancer Survivors

More than 250,000 children, teens and adults in the US are survivors of childhood cancer. The number of survivors is growing rapidly because cure rates for childhood cancer continue to increase. More than 100 survivors and parents share their experience w

Childhood Cancer: A Parent's Guide to Solid Tumor Cancers

This book offers information on medical terminology, chemotherapy, and common side effects of treatment in addition to practical advice on how to deal with procedures, hospitalization, school, family, friends, and social and financial issues.

Choices - Realistic Alternatives in Cancer Treatment

This book is designed to educate the individual diagnosed with cancer about choices in treatment. It provides facts about symptoms and stages, medicines and nutrition, surgical and nonsurgical treatments and therapies, a variety of alternative medical str

Choices in Healing

This book offers information and guidance for the whole life cycle of cancer -- from the initial shock of diagnosis to decisions about choosing a physician, conventional therapies, selecting complementary therapies, coping with treatment, and the art of l

Cholesterol: Your Guide for a Healthy Heart

This book discusses blood cholesterol and its affect on heart disease. Also looks at practical lifestyle changes to decrease the risk of heart disease. Contains the fat and cholesterol content of common foods and recipes.

Choosing a Wheelchair

Long-time wheelchair user and ergonomics consultant guides you through the selection process to help you identify the chair that can provide you with optimal independence.

Chronic Fatigue and Tiredness: A Self Help Program

This book provides facts and information about the causes, symptoms and diagnosis of chronic fatigue, in a workbook format that assists you to identify the important signs, symptoms, and risk factors of these conditions, and effective self-help treatment

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: The Hidden Epidemic

This book covers Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and it's various symptoms.

Chronic Fatigue: Your Complete Exercise Guide

This book describes chronic fatigue syndrome and gives four complete exercise programs to help you work moderate exercise into your daily life.

Ciba Collection of Medical Illustrations, Vol. 5: Heart

Illustrated medical reference on the heart.

Clean & Green

Clean & Green is filled with new and traditional ideas for living free of hazardous household products.

Cleveland Clinic Heart Book

This book describes the latest in cardiac research; prevention and risk factors; diagnosis; how to be a smart patient; advanced rehabilitation strategies; and hundreds of heart-healthy tips.

Climb Back From Cancer

The first book in the proposed "Climb Back from Cancer Collection"…Climb Back from Cancer - A Survivor and Caregiver's Inspirational Journey is both a gripping true adventure story and a touching love story. At the age of 42, international bestselling aut

Clinical Care in the Rheumatic Diseases

Reference text book

Clinical Dermatology

This book covers in-depth topics for dermatology.

Clinical Evidence Concise

This is a pocketbook that presents a succinct account of the current state of evidence on the prevention and treatment of a wide variety of clinical conditions.

Clinical Gynecologic Endocrinology and Infertility

This reference book provides information on basic data (anatomical, physiological, and biochemical) and factual knowledge and systematic approaches to clinical problems of women.

Clinical Management of Hypertension

Medical reference for approaches to the treatment of high blood pressure.

Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology

Provides research-based clinical reference information in the area of obstetrics and gynecology.

Clinical Ophthalmology

A reference book covering multiple eye disorders and their treatments.

Close to the Bone

The author explores what it means when serious illness brings one

Colon and Rectal Cancer: A Comprehensive Guide for Patients and Families

This book addresses the diagnosis, staging and current treatment options; coping with the impact of treatment on libido, sexual function and fertility; learning to care for an ostomy, whether temporary or permanent; and stories from people who are living

Colon Cancer - The John's Hopkins White Papers 2007

This White Paper reports on the current information and advances in the prevention and treatment of colorectal cancer. An overview of colorectal cancer including its causes, symptoms, screening and diagnostic tests, preventative strategies and treatments

Color Atlas and Synopsis of Clinical Dermatology

This reference book provides information for the diagnosis of skin disorders and systemic diseases with skin manifestations. For each condition, it includes several photographs along with a concise summary of treatment, an overview of etiology, and guidel

Color Textbook of Pediatric Dermatology

Illustrations of childhood skin disorders.

Colorectal Cancer (American Cancer Society)

More than 95,000 new cases of this cancer were diagnosed in 1998 alone. If detected early, there is a 92% survival rate. This books contains general information about these related cancers, from diagnosis to treatments and procedures. It also provides emo

Commonsense Guide to Weight Loss for People with Diabetes, The

This book is a guide to how to lose weight - and keep it off - using medically proven techniques from weight-loss experts. No fads, no gimmicks, no food tortures, no fasting, no kidding!

Complete Book of Food Counts, The

Are you aware of the calories, carbohydrates, fat, fiber, cholesterol, and sodium in your diet? This book provides information about a very large variety of foods, be they generic or brand-name foods, fresh or frozen, fast-food, or gourmet and health food

Complete Book of Pregnancy and Childbirth

This book provides information on physical and emotional preparation for giving birth. Topics of information include conception; first signs of pregnancy; choosing where to have your baby; fetal development; diet and weight gain; common problems; the fath

Complete Diabetes Prevention Plan, The

This book explains what prediabetes is, who most at risk is and how the disease process can be arrested. Information on dietary guidelines, weight-loss and exercise is provided along with recipes that emphasize good carbs, healthful fats, and controlled c

Complete Drug Reference

This reference book is a guide to more than 10,000 prescription and over-the-counter drugs. Includes information on more than 100 important, newly approved drugs; profiles of more than 10,000 prescription and over-the-counter drugs; a color chart of 1678

Complete Eldercare Planner, 2nd Ed., The

Comprehensive guide covering such topics as finding the right housing, low-cost/free resources, best insurance, legal issues, and much more.

Complete Food and Nutrition Guide - American Dietetic Association

This books explains everything you need to know about eating healthy, with simple, practical tips and flexible guidelines designed to help you choose nutritious, flavorful, and fun foods to suit your needs and lifestyles at any age.

Complete Food and Nutrition Guide - The American Dietetic Association

This book explains how to eat healthy, provide reliable answers to all your food and nutrition questions. It will help you to make healthy food choices, give you practical tips and flexible guidelines to organize healthy, nutritious, flavorful meals.

Complete German Commission E Monographs, The

In 1978, the German government created the Commission E committee to evaluate the safety and efficacy of herbs and phytomedicines. This 680-page book looks at 380 herbs, their approved uses, contraindications, side-effects dosage & drug interactions. In

Complete Guide to Carb Counting

Would you like to learn what foods will make your blood sugar rise and how high? Wherever you are, whatever meal you eat, the answer is in the amount of carbohydrate you eat. Carb counting unlocks the secrets of blood sugar levels and helps you avoid th

Complete Guide to Colorectal Cancer

Includes prevention, detection, diagnosis, treatment options, complementary & alternative therapies, your health care team, coping, living well with cancer - care giving and more!

Complete Guide to Complementary & Alternative Cancer Therapies

This book is an invaluable resource for anyone thinking about using complementary or alternative therapies for cancer prevention and treatment. It gives an in-depth look at more than 200 therapies, based on the best medical evidence available and cuts th

Complete Guide to Diabetes

This reference book explains different aspects of diabetes, such as symptoms and causes, diagnosis and treatment, how to handle emergencies, achieving glucose control, self-monitoring for blood glucose levels, diabetes complications and prevention, etc.

Complete Guide to Men's Health

A comprehensive reference for: *staying healthy at any age *overview so body systems: heart and lungs, reproductive system, brain and nervous system, urinary system, bones and joints, and immune system *explanation of major diseases: heart, diabetes, high

Complete Guide to Preventing and Reversing Heart Disease, The Johns Hopkins

This book addresses risk factors for high cholesterol in childhood and adulthood, and helps you to assess your risk for heart attack. The role of diet, exercise and medications is discussed in detail.

Complete Guide to Relieving Cancer Pain And Suffering, The

The authors demonstrate methods that can be used to cope with pain, nausea, constipation, and other symptoms related to cancer and cancer treatment, and describe all of the pain-relieving options available.

Complete Guide to Sports Nutrition, The

This book offers guidance on maximizing endurance, strength and performance, formulas for calculating optimal calorie needs, carbohydrates and protein requirements, how to improve body composition, sports nutrition for women, vegetarian eating, and 30 act

Complete Idiot's Guide to Healing Back Pain, The

This book provides information on identifying the causes of your back pain, advice on how to sit and stand properly, descriptions of surgical and non-surgical treatment options.

Complete Kid's Allergy & Asthma Guide: The Parent's Handbook for Children of All Ages, The

This book, from The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, gives parents comprehensive information with common-sense guidelines and recommendations for dealing with children's allergies and asthma. Included are chapters on food allergies, skin conditions,

Complete Medicinal Herbal, The

This book features photos of more than 120 medicinal herbs and plants with therapeutic properties, showing different parts and explaining how they are used. It also includes over 250 safe, effective home remedies for a wide range of common ailments, from

Complete Single Mother, The

This book provides information and support for women who are raising their family on their own. Includes information on concerns such as time and money management; how to talk to an absent dad; collecting child support; the uninvolved father; raising boys

Complete Thyroid Book, The

This book combines the expertise of two pioneers in thyroid disease and together they provide you with all the information you need to understand your thyroid disorder, treatment, and options.

Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

In gripping accounts of true cases, surgeon Gawande explores the power and the limits of medicine, offering an unflinching view from the scalpel's edge. Complications lays bare a science not in its idealized form but as it actually is - uncertain, perple

Composing a Life

This book examines the biographies of five women, and the life experiences that helped them grow and change. The author argues that interruptions, conflicted priorities, and exigencies are a part of our lives that can, and should, be seen as a source of

Conquering Headache

Headache is an illness largely misunderstood, misdiagnosed and mistreated. This is an illustrated guide to understanding the treatment and control of headache. The authors dispel common myths, and show that with proper information and guidelines, headache

Conquering Heart Disease

Dr. Simon's book outlines his program for fighting heart disease. His program advocates nutritional supplements such as antioxidants and soluble fiber, and he explains why recent controversial studies of antioxidants may be misleading. Features the late

Consumer Guide to Long-Term Care

This is guide to choosing nursing homes, home care, assisted living, and other options; how to protect your rights and ensure high standards of care; how to pay for care, including Medicare and managed care, and more.

Consumer Handbook on Hearing Loss and Hearing Aids: A Bridge to Healing, A

This book offers practical tips and useful information on how to handle the problems faced by people with hearing loss, including overcoming obstacles associated with the use of hearing aids.

Consumer Reports Complete Guide to Health Services for Seniors

This guide helps navigate the maze of health care services and long-term care facilities. Easy-to-use worksheets and tables, explanation of Medicare coverage and insurance options, resources, and state-by-state information.

Consumer Reports on Health

This newsletter covers nutrition and healthy lifestyle issues.

Consumers Guide to Cancer Drugs (American Cancer Society)

This book lists descriptions, side effects and precautions for over 200 cancer-related drugs; how they work; how they are administered; which are FDA approved and which are experimental. It also describes various cancer treatment terminology in everyday l

Contemporary Diagnosis and Management of Lipid Disorders

Reference book describing risk assessment; treatment options varying from diet and lifestyle changes to medications; and special populations such as women, young people, the elderly, and diabetics, etc.

Contemporary Diagnosis and Management of the Patient With Epilepsy

Reference book on the diagnosis and treatment of epilepsy.

Contraceptive Technology

Comprehensive guide to sexuality, methods of contraception, STDs, impaired fertility, preconception care, and future methods of birth control.

Control of Communicable Diseases Manual

Comprehensive reference book for communicable disease prevention.

Controlling Cholesterol for Dummies

Straightforward comprehensive explanation of cholesterol and strategies for controlling the levels.

Controlling Your Fat Tooth

This book discusses the link between excess dietary fat and heart disease, stroke and diabetes; difference between fats; how to make smart food choices and lose weight without dieting; how to beat your fat cravings.

Cooking for Baby

Wholesome, homemade, delicious foods for 6-18 months.

Cooking with Fragile Hands

This book, written by an occupational therapist, is intended for individuals with conditions such as arthritis or multiple sclerosis which may limit mobility in their hands. It has a large section of recipes, and a section dedicated to hints and tips arou

Cooking with Heart and Soul

This booklet contains recipes for traditional foods that have been modified to be heart healthy. Also included is general information on exercise and strategies for healthier eating.

Coping with Glaucoma

Glaucoma is the most preventable cause of blindness, affecting about 3 million Americans. This book is a guide to understanding this condition: what it is, how it is diagnosed, and how to use medications with most effect and fewest side effects.

Coping with Kidney Disease

If you have been diagnosed with kidney failure, this book could save your life. It helps you: understand kidney failure, recognize early warning signs of kidney failure, get a proper diagnosis, and much more.

Coping with Lymphedema

Lymphedema affects 100 million women, men and children around the world. It occurs as a result of damage to the lymphatic system, and causes swelling, pain, decreased mobility, and increased susceptibility to infection. The authors discuss the condition,

Coping with Panic: A Drug-Free Approach to Dealing with Anxiety Attacks

In this book, the author provides a plan to help panic attack and anxiety sufferers identify attacks, recognize their cause, and learn to overcome them without the use of drugs.

Coping with Prednisone* (*and other cortisone-related medicines)

Prednisone and related drugs (glucocorticoids) are used to treat illnesses ranging from asthma and arthritis to kidney disease and organ transplants. While they may be the only treatment for serious or life-threatening illnesses, they may have serious sid

Corduroy Goes to the Doctor

This book talks about a child having a check-up, letting the doctor listen to his heart, and letting the doctor look at his eyes and ears.

Coronary Artery Disease in Women: What All Physicians Need to Know

This reference book from the American College of Physicians addresses heart disease in a special population group: women. It is divided into three major sections: Prevention, Diagnosis, and Management. Topics include smoking, obesity, hypertension, exerci

Coronary Artery Disease: Advances in Detection & Treatment

This report will teach you about coronary artery disease (CAD). You will learn what tests are done to diagnose CAD, including recent advances in non-invasive and invasive diagnostic testing. The report discusses treatment options which include medications

Coronary Heart Disease: A Guide to Diagnosis and Treatment

Coronary heart disease is on of the most common - and most serious - diseases in the nation, affecting 12 million Americans. If you have been diagnosed with CHD, you can do much to improve your health. The first step is learning all you can about it so

Courage to Heal, The

This is a inspiring, comprehensive guide that offers hope and encouragement to every woman who was sexually abused as a child-and those who care about her.

Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse

This book helps female victims of childhood sexual abuse to heal and come to terms with their past. It provides clear explanations, practical suggestions, a map of the healing journey, and personal experiences.

Courage to Laugh, The

This author uses stories and anecdotes to demonstrate the power of humor at the end of life to add dignity and compassion to this experience.

Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis

Dr. Saibil begins by describing the normal gastrointestinal system and then explains what goes wrong in someone with IBD. He then goes on to provide travel tips and other useful strategies for living with IBD. He explains possible complications of the disease and the special problems of children with IBD.

Cuando Fallan sus Rinones: Un Manual Para Pacientes y Sus Familiares

Entre los temasque se cubren, se encuentran los principios de la funcion renal, los metodos de tratamiento y los recursos fincieros disponibles pare los pacientes.

Cultural Foods

"Cultural Foods" explores the cuisine of Native Americans, Europeans, Africans, Latinos, Asians, South Asians, Southeast Asians, Pacific Islanders, and the people of Greece and the Middle East, as well as the menus common to different regions of the US.

Current Medical; Diagnosis & Treatment

Reference book on more than 1000 common diseases and disorders.

Curse of the Good Girl: Raising Authentic Girls with Courage and Confidence

The Curse of the Good Girl is a new, essential guide to modern girl culture. Author Rachel Simmons challenges the reader to change how we we raise our young girls to empower and enlighten them in this contemporary environment.

Dance as a Healing Art

The author offers the wisdom of her life experience as a dancer, teacher and facilitator for healing. She tells her own story as a cancer survivor and the stories of many others with deep compassion and clarity. This book serves as a guide to understandin

Dance of Connection, How to Talk to Someone When You Are Mad, Hurt Scared, Frustrated, Insulted, Betrayed or Desperate, The

Dr. Harriet Lerner teaches us how to restore love and connection with the people who matter to us the most. In this book we learn what to say and not say.

Dare to Be 100

In this book, the author explains how and why everyone should strive to be centenarians. He breaks down his program into the categories of diet, attitude, renewal, and exercise, and emphasizes quality of life in the struggle for longevity.

Dash Diet Action Plan

The complete guide to controlling hypertension and pre-hypertension through diet, exercise and weight loss. The DASH diet is rich in fruits, vegetables, whole grains, low-fat and nonfat dairy, lean meats, fish, poultry, beans, and nuts - a combination that has been proven to help reduce blood pressure.

Deal With It

This book addresses physical, emotional and social issues facing girls from puberty to adulthood. Each chapter is followed by a large resource section of books and organizations.

Dealing Creatively with Death

This book deals with many death-related problems: social, emotional, philosophical and practical. It covers topics such as death education, living with dying, bereavement, the right to die, simple burial and cremation, death ceremonies, and more.

Dealing With Food Allergies

Presenting up-to-date information on current diagnostic methods and treatment options, this guide describes the effects of food allergies on the skin, mucous membranes, and respiratory and digestive tracts; discusses treatment by allergists and other heal

Dear Barbara, Dear Lynne

This book is composed of letters from two women to each other during the years they struggled with infertility and adoption.

Dear Birthmother

This book attempts to identify, explain, and dispel the social myths surrounding adoption, both for the birthmother and the adopting parents. It advocates pregnancy counseling and open adoption.

Decoding Darkness

The hypothesis that Alzheimer's dementia is the result of a renegade protein has led scientists to find the gene responsible for its production. This book offers insight into the world of molecular genetics, the obstacles that threaten to derail it, and t

Defending Our Lives

In this book, the author presents a comprehensive guide to the options available to abused women as well as to the family and friends who want to help them. She guides women through the process of protecting themselves from domestic violence and stalking

Delivered from Distraction

Attention deficit disorder, the authors point out, is a misleading description of an intriguing kind of mind. Original, charismatic, energetic, often brilliant, people with ADD have extraordinary talents and gifts embedded in their highly charged but easi

Demystifying Anorexia Nervosa

This book serves as a guide to understanding anorexia nervosa, how it evolves, its' warning signs and how it is treated.

Depression and Anxiety - The Johns Hopkins White Papers, 2007

This White Paper describes the causes, symptoms, diagnoses, and treatments of depression, bipolar disorder and anxiety disorders. Topics include: deep brain stimulation, trends in psychotherapy, depression and anxiety in caregivers, compulsive hoarding, s

Depression and Its Treatment

Is depression inherited? Is it caused by a chemical imbalance? Do children get depressed? Are antidepressant medications safe? This book addresses these and other issues in an easy-to-follow Q & A format. It helps to identify signs and symptoms, and profe

Depression Sourcebook, The

A guide to depression, from chronic, mild forms to manic depression; discussion of treatment options from psychotherapy to medications, natural compounds to alternative methods. Includes list of resources, books and videos.

Desperate Hope

One of the toughest, most disorienting challenges life can throw us is the diagnosis of breast cancer. Questions and fears race through our minds. Why me? Where is God? What will happen next? This book acts as a spiritual companion to the woman and her f

Diabetes A to Z (1997 edition)

This book provides simple yet informative answers to all your questions, whether you're newly diagnosed or you've had diabetes for several years.

Diabetes A to Z (2003 edition)

This book will provide simple yet informative answers to all your questions. It includes the latest information on diabetes self care, including new medications, and treatment guidelines.

Diabetes and Pregnancy - What to expect

This is a comprehensive guide for the woman with type 1 diabetes who is pregnant or is thinking about having a baby. This book explains the important elements of proper diabetes care during pregnancy, including meal planning, exercise, insulin therapy, an

Diabetes and Pregnancy: What to Expect

This is a guide for women with type 1(insulin-dependent) diabetes who are pregnant or who are thinking about having a baby. It explains the important elements of proper diabetes care during pregnancy, including meal planning, exercise, insulin therapy, a

Diabetes Burnout: What to Do When You Can't Take It Anymore

Do you get depressed about having to deal with diabetes day in and day out? Do you worry about complications, get angry about self-care chores, and feel frustrated by poor results after all your hard work? If so, you may be suffering from "diabetes burnou

Diabetes Carbohydrate and Fat Gram Guide, The

Published by the American Diabetes Association and The American Dietetic Association, this is a book for individuals with diabetes to learn the carbohydrate and fat content of the foods they eat, and their important role in living well with diabetes, whet

Diabetes Danger: What 200 Million American at Risk Need to Know

The author explores questions such as : * What is diabetes, and how did it grow from an almost unknown disease to today's epidemic? * How does our genetic makeup combine with our modern lifestyle to almost guarantee that an American will contract the dise

Diabetes Education: Gestational Diabetes - What to Expect

This book provides answers about gestational diabetes and teaches you how to stay well and have a healthy baby.

Diabetes Education: When Diabetes Hits Home: The Whole Family's Guide to Emotional Health

This book addresses the importance of a healthy lifestyle, but also explores the entire spectrum of emotional issues you may struggle with and outlines effective strategies for keeping your emotions - as well as your body - in good health.

Diabetes Forecast

This magazine teaches you 9 stress soothers and about healthy living.

Diabetes Information for Teens

This book provides information about the different types of diabetes, risk factors, diagnostic, procedures and strategies used to manage the disease, including use of insulin self monitoring blood glucose. It also deals with prevention, changing lifestyle

Diabetes Meal Planning Made Easy

Diabetes Meal Planning Made Easy helps you learn about diabetes nutrition recommendations and master the intricacies of each food group in the Diabetes Food Pyramid. From starches, at the pyramid's base, to fats, sweets and alcohol at the pyramid's tip,

Diabetes Problem Solver, The

This book addresses diabetes problems by answering five crucial questions: What is the problem? Am I at risk? Do I have the symptoms? What’s the best treatment? How can I prevent this problem from occurring again? There is even an easy-to-read chapter de

Diabetes Self-Management

This magazine tells you how to manage your diabetes.

Diabetes Tipo 2...Su guia para una vida saludable

Consejos, tecnicas y recomendaciones practicas para vivir teniendo diabetes.

Diabetes Travel Guide (The)

This book takes the worry out of traveling for people with type diabetes 1 and 2 by completely organizing the process. It helps you create a diabetes survival kit, find insurance to cover your medical expenses while you travel, and plan for every situatio

Diabetes Type II: Self-Management Program

Basic introductory manual covering many aspects of self-care. Includes explanations of insulin and oral hypoglycemics, acute and long-term complications, emotional impact, and special needs.

Diabetes: A Guide to Living Well

This book includes nutrition advice that reflects the research and guidelines from the American Diabetes Association, information on medications and insulin pump therapy. It will help you design a program of individualized self-care that fits your lifest

Diabetic Man, The

As a diabetes specialist and diabetic man, the author shares information to help you understand and control diabetes. The book includes inspiring stories of engineers, athletes and entertainers who did not let diabetes get in the way of their success.

Diabetic Meals in 30 Minutes - Or Less!

A diabetic cookbook.

Diabetic Meals In 30 Minutes or Less

Tested, diabetes-friendly recipes; also includes five full menus, complete with their own recipes.

Diabetic Woman, The

This book is designed to help women with diabetes understand their disease and cope with its symptoms through all the phases of their lives. Includes a section on family life and a section on dietary guidelines.

Diabetic's Book, The

This book will teach you what diabetes is, why you have it and what you need - and don't need - to do to prevent complications. It also has a section solely devoted to those who want to help their loved ones with diabetes.

Diabetic's Total Health Book, The

This book shows how to improve your diabetes care by controlling stress, how to enjoy a variety of delicious meals, how to use exercise for mental and physical well-being and how to enrich the quality of your life.

Diagnosis and Management of Otitis Media

This medical reference addresses the pathophysiology, immunology and natural history of middle ear infection. It addresses diagnosis and the basis for first-fourth line antibiotic selection, tube placement, complications of otitis media, and prevention of

Diagnosis and Management of Parkinson's Disease, 5th Edition

A reference book containing information on the pathophysiology, diagnosis, treatment, and management of Parkinson's disease.

Diagnosis and Management of Type 2 Diabetes

This reference text contains information on diabetes statistics, classification, diagnosis, nutrition, exercise, oral and insulin therapy, acute and long-term complications. Prevention is also addressed.

Dictionary of First Names

Looking for a baby name? This book offers more than 10,000 names for boys and girls.

Dictionary of Medical Acronyms and Abbreviations

This book provides definitions of medical acronyms and abbreviations.

Dieting for Dummies

If you are tired of the fad diet roller coaster, then this guide is for you. Prepared under the supervision of the American Dietetic Association, it explains how to move beyond gimmicks--and develop a lifetime eating plan that will take the weight off and

Difficult Child, The

This book offers advice on raising a temperamentally difficult child. It includes information on how to identify your child's difficult temperament; manage typical conflict situations expertly and kindly; make discipline more effective and get better resu

Digestive Disorders - The Johns Hopkins White Papers, 2007

This White Paper contains the latest information on conditions that affect the digestive tract including diseases of the esophagus, stomach, liver, gallbladder, pancreas, bile ducts, small and large intestines and rectum and anus. Topics include: GERD, me

Dinosaurs Alive and Well - A Guide to Good Health

This book gives young children a head start on establishing healthy habits that will last a lifetime. In addition, the book includes tips on how to exercise your body and your mind and much more.

Dinosaurs Beware - A Safety Guide

This book helps you teach children safety rules in a easy way. It is a genuinely funny and engaging safety book.

Dinosaurs Divorce - A Guide for Changing Families

This book will help children understand divorce words and what they mean, why parents divorce, living with one parent and much more.

Disability is Natural

Written for parents of children with disabilities, it provides a new way of looking at disabilities. Rejecting the idea of labels and dependency, this author, herself the mother of a disabled child, empowers the parents as the "experts". Ways to lead a "n

Disability: The Obesity-Diabetes Epidemic that Threatens America and What We Must Do to Stop It.

Disability takes us to the front lines of obesity and type 2 diabetes and the fight against this preventable but deadly disease. The author details the tools for change we must make at every level.

Discipline the Brazelton Way

This book offers practical advice to parents in dealing with all kinds of misbehaviors. The authors are always mindful of the child's developmental stage and experience.

Discipline without Stress, Punishments, or Rewards

This book was written with teachers and parents in mind. It can be read as individual chapters as they discuss positive methods to reduce stress, motivate, increase responsibility for actions, and promote learning.

Disney Encyclopedia of Baby and Child Care: Vol. 1 -- Infant and Child Development

This book concerns infant and child development, including the basics of first aid and a section on common childhood symptoms Includes guidelines for the physical, emotional, and behavioral development of children from infancy to six.

Disney Encyclopedia of Baby and Child Care: Vol. 2 -- A-Z Encyclopedia of Child Health and Illness

This book contains an A to Z Encyclopedia of Child Health and Illness, with over 160 entries. Includes information on prevention, symptoms, and detection and when to call the doctor, and what treatments are available.

Divorce and New Beginnings

This sensitive guidebook provides a wealth of proven coping skills to help you weather the difficult times of divorce and eventually build new beginnings for yourself and, if you have them, your children.

Divorce Book for Parents

This book is for parents going through divorce. It addresses how to help their children through this difficult time. Information includes: How to break the news; what age-related behaviors to expect; preparing for departure day; custody, money and legalit

Don't Eat Your Heart Out Cookbook

This is a cardiac patient's guide to cooking and eating for health. Includes information on how to lower cholesterol, cut fat, reduce salt and sugar, how to adapt everyday recipes for healthy eating, and how to permanently change eating habits. Also, ho

Don't Panic

This author provides a self-help program for overcoming panic and coping with anxious fears. He shows the reader how a panic attack happens, what causes it, and how it affects one's life; a five step strategy for controlling the moment of panic; how to q

Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary

This reference work includes 115,000 entries that cover the discoveries that have shaped our understanding of the human mechanism, the diseases we have sought to conquer, and the devices that have made the impossible commonplace. Includes terms on AIDS r

Double Duty

This books discusses what it's like raising twins, from pregnancy into the school years.

Down Came the Rain; My Journey Through Postpartum Depression

Brooke Sheilds shares her story of how she battled postpartum depression. She discusses the illness in the context of her own life and how she found her maternal footing.

Dr. Andrew Weil's Self Healing

Newsletter: Health and wellness; traditional and complementary therapies

Dr. Dean Ornish's Program for Reversing Heart Disease

Dr. Ornish's clinical studies proved that heart disease can be halted or even reversed simply by changing your lifestyle. The program includes physical aspects such as diet and exercise, as well as emotional and spiritual healing through meditation, yoga,

Dr. Rosenfeld's Guide to Alternative Medicine

A professor of Clinical Medicine at NY Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, the author reviews the track records of a number of widely used alternative therapies, including acupuncture, aromatherapy, homeopathy, hypnosis and reflexology; what scientific evide

Dr. Sears' LEAN Kids: Lifestyles Exercise Attitude Nutrition

This book provides a clear and positive message to help parents and children adopt a total health program. Principles of good nutrition and physical activity are presented, along with specific tips for dealing with school situations, birthday parties, and

Dr. Susan Love's Breast Book

This is a reference book on breast cancer. The author has included new developments in breast care, screening, diagnosis, treatment, and research. Also includes new information on silicone implants, imaging techniques, genetics, risk factors and prevent

Dr. Susan Love's Menopause & Hormone Book

In this revised edition Dr. Love discusses the Women's Health Initiative 2002 reports of the clinical trials on postmenopausal hormone therapy. She provides advice on how to cope with the life changes of menopause, such as osteoporosis, heart disease, bre

Dr. Susan Love's Menopause and Hormone Book

The author offers definitive expert advice about whether or not to go on hormone replacement therapy and, if so, for how long, as well as how to taper off hormones and she offers alternative methods for treating the symptoms of menopause.

Drug Information Handbook, 15th edition

A comprehensive resource for all clinicians and healthcare professions. Provides detailed information on current drugs avaialable.

Drugs in Pregnancy and Lactation

A reference guide to fetal and neonatal risk.

Dying Well

This book provides a blueprint for families, showing them how to deal with doctors, how to talk to friends and relatives, and how to make the end of life as meaningful and precious as the beginning.

Dying Well: Peace and Possibilities at the End of Life

In this book, the author provides stories of his patients to show the value of the emotional work that can be accomplished in the final months, weeks, and even days of life. He also shows families how to deal with doctors, how to talk to friends and rela

Ear, Nose, and Throat Disorders Sourcebook

Basic consumer health information about disorders of the ears, hearing loss, vestibular disorders, nasal and sinus problems, throat and vocal cord disorders, and otolaryngologic cancers, including facts about ear infections and injuries, genetic and conge

Easy Way To Stop Smoking, The

A new edition of the revolutionary bestseller, with four million copies in print. Allen Carr’s innovative Easy way method—which he discovered after his own 100-cigarette-a-day habit nearly drove him to despair—has helped millions kick smoking without feel

Eat More Weigh Less

Dr. Ornish's program takes a scientific approach based on the type of food eaten rather that the amount. On the Life Choice program the meals are low in fat and get you full before you consume to many.

Eat This Not That

You can burn fat and build the body you want - not by eating less, but by making smart, healthy food choices. And now, the right choices are simple! Whether you're in the frozen foods aisle, the fast-food drive-thru, the local Olive Garden, or even your

Eat Well for a Healthy Menopause

This book provides dietary advice for managing menopause naturally and comfortably. Includes "10 Diet Commandments for Menopause and Beyond," designed to alleviate discomfort, minimize risks associated with hormone replacement therapy, and slow down the

Eat Your Way to a Healthy Heart

Dr. Liz Applegate has catalogued 100 everyday foods - from abalone to zucchini - and integrated them into a practical, common-sense, easy to follow eating plan that will help you control or prevent heart disease and high blood pressure.

Eat, Drink and Be Healthy

Based on many research studies tracking hundreds of thousands of people for more than twenty years, this book offers eye-opening new research on the healthiest form of carbohydrates, fats, and proteins, and the relative importance of various food groups a

Eating Disorders and Obesity

This reference book addresses: *basic regulation of eating and body weight *phsychological and social factors, dieting, and body image *measurement methods *clinical characteristics of eating disorders *epidemiology and etiology of eating disorders *medic

Eating Expectantly

This is the most comprehensive and up-to-date book on pregnancy nutrition.

Eating Expectantly: A Practical and Tasty Guide to Prenatal Nutrition

This book reviews nearly every aspect of nutrition, from pregnancy planning to the postnatal period. Includes information on how to cook and store foods; how to make meal planning easier; what to do about eating during high-risk pregnancies; how to add v

Eating Hints for Cancer Patients

How to eat well during cancer treatment. Also discusses ways to cope with treatment side effects and gives menus for special needs.

Eating in the Light of the Moon

This book discusses how women can transform their relationships with food through myths, metaphors and storytelling. It provides insight on women's struggle with eating.

Eating Well After Weight Loss Surgery

This book offers over 140 original, low-fat, high protein recipes that taste just as delicious pureed and chopped as they do served whole, so you can enjoy flavorful, satisfying meals through every stage of your post-op eating program and cook for your fa

Eating Well for Optimum Health

In this book Dr. Weil not only describes the basics of nutrition, i.e. fats, proteins, carbohydrates, minerals, and vitamins, but he also addresses fad diets, and more traditional Japanese, "Asian", Vegan and Mediterranean diets, with their advantages and

Eating Well Through Cancer

This book provides over 200 easy recipes to ease side effects during and after cancer treatment. Nutritional analysis and menu ideas are included.

Eating Well, Living Well with Osteoporosis

This book explains the connection between osteoporosis and nutrition. It explains how osteoporosis affects your body and how to determine if you're at risk; how calcium and other nutrients affect building and maintaining strong, healthy bones and what th

Edible and Medicinal Plants of the West

Edible and Medicinal Plants of the West is a full-color photographic guide to the identification, edibility, and medicinal uses of over 250 plant species, growing from Alaska to southern California, east across the Rocky Mountains and the Northern Plains

Elder Care: How to Help Your Aging Family Members

This guidebook is intended to assist family members responsible for caring for the elderly. It suggests ways to select, coordinate and manage nearby or distant services that may be necessary and will help you locate resources.

Elder Law Handbook, The

This is a handbook to help people over the age of fifty or their children to protect hard earned resources; manage financial affairs; negotiate the health care system; pay for long term care; plan for a disabled child; access Medicare and Medicaid; and ma

Empty Arms

This book provides support for parents who have suffered miscarriage, infant death or stillbirth. Includes national resources.

Encyclopedia of Childbearing

This book provides information for expectant parents to make informed choices for themselves and their babies. Includes information on birth centers; bonding; dreams; epidural anesthesia; LeBoyer method; newborn intelligence; obstetric drugs; vaccination

Encyclopedia of Mental Health, The

This is a one-stop reference for key topics regarding contemporary mental health concerns.

Endometriosis Sourcebook, The

This book covers the different aspects of dealing with endometriosis, such as research, treatments, both surgical and medical, alternative treatments, including nutrition, common myths, pregnancy, labor, and postpartum experiences of women with endometrio

Enjoying Life with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

The full spectrum of chronic airflow disorders is best termed as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). COPD encompasses asthmatic bronchitis, chronic bronchitis, emphysema, and a combination of these closely-related disorders. The book covers many

Epidemiology of Rheumatic Diseases

Medical reference text.

Epilepsy: 199 Answers

A doctor answers the most common questions asked by his patients with epilepsy.

Essential Exercises for the Childbearing Year

In this book, the author explains the benefits and hazards of exercise during pregnancy, and shows readers how they can recognize and resolve weakness and dysfunction. She reveals the role of key muscles -- those of the pelvic floor and abdominal wall --

Essential Guide to Prescription Drugs

This reference book provides detailed profiles of more than 300 drugs of major importance. The profiles include the benefits versus the risks of the drug, the generic and brand names of the drug, the principle uses of the drug, how the drug works, how sa

Essential Otolaryngology: Head and Neck Surgery

This book is a preparatory tool for the Boards and features 1000 pages of information and is illustrated with line drawings, photos, x-rays, tables, and graphs. It is written in expanded outline format and provides a concise review of otolaryngology.

Essentials of Complementary and Alternative Medicine

An introduction to complementary and alternative medicine, CAM. To understand how and where these CAM practices fit into the congenital medical system, you need to know the foundations of these approaches and how to evaluate them. Three main sections are

Essentials of Musculoskeletal Care

This book from the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons and the American Academy of Pediatrics is a guide and easy reference for the evaluation and management of common and special orthopedic conditions.

Everyday Blessings

In this book, the authors show parents how they can enrich their lives and the lives of their children through mindful parenting -- that is, by honoring the fullness of the present moment, and within it, the inner potential and beauty that reside in both

Everyone's Guide to Cancer Therapy

This book helps cancer patients gain an understanding of the illness and of the kinds of treatments that might be recommended. It explains what is currently known about the early detection of cancer, how a malignancy develops, how and why the correct sta

Exercise & Physical: Your Everyday Guide from the National Institute on Aging

The National Institute on Aging brought together a group of experts in the fields of gerontology, exercise, rehabilitation, and nutrition to create the first version of this book published in 1999. Since then, scientists have learned much more about the b

Expectant Father: Facts, Tips, and Advice for Dads-to-Be, The

An information-packed guide to all the emotional, financial and physical changes the father-to-be may experience during the course of his partner's pregnancy. Incorporating the wisdom of top experts in the field, from obstetricians and birth-class instruc

Eye Book, The

The authors discuss the normal eye exam, how to recognize an emergency; all about eye glasses and contact lenses; the unique concerns of people with systemic diseases such as diabetes; pros and cons of refractory surgery, and the problems of low vision.

Eye Care Revolution - Prevent And Reverse Common Vision Problems, The

Dr. Abel brings you amazing nutritional, herbal, homeopathic, and Asian therapies, along with conventional methods, to prevent and even reverse most vision disorders. The book also tells you what an eye exam can reveal about serious health problems you ma

Facing and Fighting Fatigue

A book by a specialist in fatigue disorders - discusses all kinds of fatigue problems, explaining what fatigue is, what causes it, how to combat it and what patients should know when consulting a doctor about symptoms; how to improve your sleep, manage st

Facing Death and Finding Hope

Unique wisdom on death and dying expressed in Tibetan Buddhist teaching is made accessible to the Western reader in this practical, warm, and moving guide. It is valuable for caregivers, loved ones, and those facing death.

Fading Sounds - About Hearing and Hearing Aids

A comprehensive book covering the anatomy of the ear, hearing loss and hearing aids.

Fall of Freddie The Leaf - A Story of Life For All Ages, The

This book touches children and adults alike, illustrating the delicate balance between life and death.

Family Cookbook: The American Tradition

Cookbook

Fat Tooth Fat-Gram Counter, The

This guide provides fat-gram counts for over 6,000 foods. It also shows the reader how to set a fat budget and stay within it, how to read food labels, how to develop better eating habits, and how to shop and cook smarter.

Fat Tooth Restaurant & Fast Food Fat-Gram Counter, The

This guide allows you to make informed choices by using fat-gram counts for average restaurant servings.

Fat-Gram Guide to Restaurant Food

Fat grams, calories, and percentage of calories from fat for over 3,500 restaurant dishes.

Fatherhood

The social changes of recent decades have reconfigured the nuclear family and redefined the role of fathers. More women work outside the home; more divorced fathers assume or share custody of their children. Fathers have become partners in parenthood, wie

Fearfully and Wonderfully Made

This book explores the complex piece of creation called the human body. Dr Brand probes into the world of cells, bones, skin, muscles, and nerves to show how the human body so authentically expresses spiritual reality.

Feeding Your Child for Lifelong Health

Topics discussed include how foods optimize a baby's development, IQ, bone strength, and immunity, food solutions for common problems, how to deal with food allergies or obesity and ways to adapt family meals for kids.

Feeling Good Handbook, The

This book provides stop-by-step exercises that help you cope with depression in a drug-free way for everyday problems, such as fears, phobias, and panic attacks; self-defeating attitudes; intimate communication; marital conflict; and procrastination. Inc

Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy

The author describes how anxiety, pessimism, procrastination and low self-esteem can be cures without drugs. He helps you recognize what your causes your mood swings; how to nip negative feelings in the bud; deal with guilt; handle hostility and criticism

Fibroid Tumors & Endometriosis Self Help Book

The author offers information on causes, symptoms and diagnosis of these two common conditions. There are self-evaluation worksheets; information on vitamins, herbs, mineral, nutrition, yoga, breathing exercises, stress reduction techniques.

Fibromyalgia - A Leading Expert's Guide to Understanding and Getting Relief from the Pain That Won't Go Away

Fibromyalgia is indicated by a group of symptoms including chronic generalized muscle pain, fatigue, sleep disturbances, headaches, and irritable bowel. But the medical community is only now putting the pieces together to discover what might cause it-and

Fibromyalgia and Chronic Myofascial Pain Syndrome

A comprehensive guide to these two conditions. Evaluation of symptoms, and identifying trigger points are addressed. Medications, nutritional program, bodywork, coping with family and work, getting support are covered.

Fighting Invisible Tigers

This book provides advice for teenagers about what to do for stress. Includes information on stress management and life management, from coping with stress to being assertive, building supportive relationships, taking risks, making decisions, staying hea

Finding Hope When a Child Dies

The death of a child is an event of overwhelming loss that is never really forgotten. It seems not only tragic when a child dies, but unnatural. We don't fully comprehend the death of a child we love, and we feel guilty, punished for something we've done

Finding Your Focus

This book is focused on adults with ADD (also referred to as ADHD without hyperactivity). It show you how to become more organized and focused, with techniques and checklists to meet deadlines, keep appointments, overcome procrastination, conquer clutter,

Finding Your Way

This book explores the subject of sexual ethics. It starts from basic moral values and principles and uses examples and true-life stories to challenge readers to sort out right from wrong, and to learn to make thoughtful decisions about sexual behavior.

Fine Young Man, A

The author explores the unseen problems and marvels of male adolescents, showing parents, teachers, and mentors how to shepherd boys through the challenging years from ten to twenty.

First Discovery: The Human Body

Illustrated anatomy book for pre-school and young children.

First Year: Celiac Disease and Living Gluten-Free

This unique guide prioritizes all the most important information on diet and lifestyle changes for you. Day-by-day, week-by-week, month-by-month, learn how to safely alter your diet, manage your symptoms, and adjust to living gluten-free.

First Year: Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis

As a "patient-expert", the author marshaled everything she has learned about living with IBD since her own diagnosis in 1989 into this book. This book covers a wide range of practical, medical, and lifestyle issues, beginning with coming to terms with your diagnosis and then moving on to coping, understanding and support.

First Year: Multiple Sclerosis, The

The author was diagnosed with MS in 2000, and she took charge and educated herself on every aspect of her condition. As a "patient-expert" she guides the newly diagnosed and their families step-by-step through the first year. She provides information: * S

First Year: Parkinson's Disease

Since her diagnosis in 1998 the author has educated herself on every aspect of the management and treatment of Parkinson's disease and now, as a "patient-expert", she guides you step-by-step through your first year with the condition.

First Year: Rheumatoid Arthritis

When the author was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in 1993, she decided to be proactive in her quest to understand and manage her condition - by reading medical and scientific books and journals, talking with doctors, and networking with other people who have rheumatoid arthritis. Now, as a "patient-expert", she guides you step-by-step through everything you need to do and learn your first year with the condition.

First Year: Type 2 Diabetes

After the author was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in 1996, she educated herself on every aspect of this chronic condition - by reading medical and scientific books and journals, talking with doctors, listening to her own body, and using the Internet to communicate daily with other people who have diabetes.

Fit Kids

This book provides all the answers you need to know on encouraging good nutrition and an active lifestyle for your child.

Fit Over Forty

This book provides information on designing a custom lifelong fitness program for people over the age of forty. The author outlines a program of simple changes in daily routines that can dramatically improve body, mind, and spirit. He provides ten easy

Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

The state of consciousness called "flow" refers to the state of concentration so focused that it amounts to absolute absorption in the activity. Its characteristics include feeling strong, alert, in effortless control, unselfconscious, and at the peak of

Focus on Healthy Aging

This newsletter focuses on diet and dementia, spotting breast cancer, and it helps you figure out if you are getting enough vitamins.

Food Allergies: How to Eat Safely and Enjoyably

This book has information on diagnosis and management of food allergies. It discusses how to manage specific food allergies with day-to-day strategies.

Food And Culture

Kittler, a cultural nutrition consultant, and Sucher (nutrition and food science, San Jose State University) cover culturally related food and nutrition topics in this engaging text for aspiring dieticians, nutritionists, and food service professionals. E

Food and Fitness Advisor

Newsletter: Nutrition and exercise for women.

Food and Moods- The Complete Guide to Eating Well and Feeling Your Best.

Food and Mood distills complex scientific information into practical tips and suggestions that are easy to incorporate into even the busiest lifestyles. Most important, Ms. Somer explains how to adopt habits gradually to make real, substantial, and lastin

Food and Our Bones

This book discusses osteoporosis and the impact of foods on bone health. Includes over 60 recipes.

Food Fights: Winning the Nutritional Challenges of Parenthood Armed With Insight, Humor, and a Bottle of Ketchup

Knowing what to feed children is one thing. Getting them to eat it is quite another! In Food Fights, the authors bring together the science of nutrition with the practical insight of parents who have been in your shoes - offering simple solutions for yo

Food Lover's Companion, Third Edition

Definitions of nearly 6000 food, drink, and culinary terms. Useful appendices for substitutions, measurements, and resources.

Foods that Harm, Foods that Heal

An alphabetical guide to healthy eating. Covers foods, dietary supplements, nutritional conditions and more. Easy-to-read.

Forgive for Good

Based on scientific research this book offers new insight into the healing powers and medical benefits of forgiveness. Dr. Luskin outlines a proven nine-step forgiveness method that provides tools and techniques to move beyond being a victim to a life of

Forgiveness, A Bold Choice or a Peaceful Heart

R.Casarjian confronts the dilemmas of forgiveness and offers a new approach to healing our old wounds and self-judgments. She shows why letting go of the past is not only possible but necessary, if we are to achieve lasting health and harmony.

FrameWork

A renowned orthopedic surgeon provides the first medically proven fitness program designed to help prevent the #1 reason for doctor visits in the United States-bone and joint problems Fitness can't be just about a healthy heart or looking good in a swimsu

From Conception to Birth

This book discusses the stages of life from conception to birth with incredible images and graphics.

From Here to Maternity

Discusses pregnancy, labor options and coping tools, early infant care.

From Here to Maternity - A Complete Pregnancy Guide

This book has a complete overview of the emotions and experiences you can expect during your pregnancy.

From Panic to Power

The author describes her program for teaching people how to think differently and respond in less anxious ways.

From the Heart: A Woman's Guide to Living Well With Heart Disease

A book written for women dealing with the emotional repercussions of heart disease. This will guide women forward with optimism and courage, addressing various questions from personal experience and expertise.

Full Catastrophe Living

An unusual-and unusually profound-self-help manual that teaches the application of ancient meditative techniques to modern living.

Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness

This book describes the Stress Reduction Clinic at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center. It guides the reader on how to deal with stress, pain and illness through meditation and living more mindful lives .

Fundamentals of Human Sexuality

This reference book provides students with a broad, interdisciplinary perspective on the biological, psychological, and sociocultural aspects of human sexuality, and exposes students to the research and scholarship that constitute the underpinnings of kno

Future of Children, The: Adoption. (volume 3, number 1)

This volume is an examination of adoption as the primary means of providing a stable, nurturing, loving home for children who, for a variety of reasons, have been deprived of such an environment.

General Ophthalmology

This reference book provides information on the diagnosis and treatment of common eye disorders, such as cataracts, glaucoma, macular degeneration, and more.

General Orthopedics

This reference book presents a comprehensive coverage of musculoskeletal diseases and disorders from historical landmarks through formation and growth, physiology and biochemistry, biomechanics, physical diagnosis, diagnostic modalities, rehabilitation, g

Germs Are Not For Sharing

This book helps you teach children about germs and ways to stay clean and healthy.

Germs Make Me Sick!

This is a Let's Read and Find Out Science Book for young children.

Gestational Diabetes: What to Expect, 4th ed.

Comprehensive guide for the mother who is diagnosed with gestational diabetes.

Get Out Of My Life, but first could you drive me and Cheryl to the mall?

In this book, the author argues that today's teenagers do act differently than their parents did at the same age and he describes the psychological rules that dictate teenage behavior, including differences between boys and girls. In this revised edition,

Getting a grip on Diabetes

This book explains how to control blood sugar levels in a way that kids can understand. It offers tips on how to go safely through school, participate in sports, go camping..with "what the Doc says" sections.

Getting Control - Overcoming Your Obsessions and Compulsions

A paralyzing fear that you have failed to lock the door... tearing out your hair in clumps... washing hands over and over again. These are some examples of obsessive-compulsive disorders that can wreak havoc on the daily lives of the sufferers of rigid ri

Getting Old Without Getting Anxious

Provides comprehensive, easy-to-understand information on how older adults can learn to cope successfully with new challenges and restore quality of life while limiting their dependence on prescription drugs.

Getting Organized for your New Baby - A checklist and planner for busy parents-to-be (rev.&exp.)

This book covers everything from considerations before pregnancy, through equipping the nursery, financial planning, to postpartum issues.

Getting Well Again

This book discusses the mind-body relationship for healing diseases and provides some effective lifesaving awareness techniques.

Girl Wars: 12 Strategies That Will End Female Bullying

Gossip, teasing, forming cliques. The basis of female bullying, relational aggression. These authors provide ways to intervene when it happens and provide strategies for preventing it from starting.

Girl With Glasses

Young reader book about wearing glasses and finding the right frames and feelings that come in young ladies who wear glasses.

Girl Within, The

In this book the author examines female development based on her study of twenty women. She identifies a turning point in a woman's life - the period between ages eight and ten and the onset of adolescence - when a girl crystallizes a distinct and vital

Glasses for D.W.

Marc Brown's funny story is easy to read and comes with picture stickers galore. Here is an exciting new way to help beginners get in step with reading and at the same time try their hand at creative writing.

Gluten-Free Diet

A comprehensive resource guide covering: safe foods/ingredients and those to avoid, mean plans, recipes, cooking hints, substitutions, nutrition information and practical strategies for healthy gluten-free living and so much more.

Going to the Doctor

This illustrated book introduces the young child to his/her first experience of visiting the doctor.

Good Enough to Eat - A Kid's Guide to Food and Nutrition

This book is the guide to kids' nutrition written especially for kids. It's a practical, hands-on tool for families who want to eat a healthy diet.

Good Fat, Bad Fat

This book discusses how to reduce your risk of heart disease or having a heart attack by adjusting how much "bad" fat and "good" fat you eat each day. It includes tips and advice for healthier eating.

Good Night, Sleep Night

Getting young children to go to sleep and stay asleep is one of the most challenging aspects of parenting. The author, a social worker also known as The Sleep Lady, believes that sleep is a learned skill, which can be taught as early as infancy. She has d

Good Son, The

This book is a guide to the moral and emotional development of boys and young men. The author takes the reader through a complete parenting program, showing us how to instill virtues in boys at each of the developmental stages: The Age of Obedience (birth

Gourmet Diabetic: A Diabetes Self-Management Cookbook, The

Gray's Anatomy

Classic anatomy text with many black and white drawings.

Griffith's Instructions for Patients

This book discusses everything the patients need to know about their condition-from basic descriptions of illnesses, and frequent signs and symptoms, to preventive measures and expected outcomes.

Growing Up: Adolescence, Body Changes, and Sex

This book is designed to educate anyone over the age of ten about puberty and what happens to the human body. The role of hormones is explained, together with the changes these bring about, there are sections on sex and contraception, and information is

Guess Who Needs Glasses?

This picture book takes children and their parents through the experience of an eye exam, allaying their fears about glasses while addressing their concerns-all in a fun and kidlike way.

Guide to Cardiology, The

In this reference book, the author has undertaken to provide a selective, concise, current, and practical handbook on the fundamentals of cardiology. It reviews diagnostic techniques and procedures, and also presents chapters on specific problems in card

Guide to Healthy Restaurant Eating

This restaurant guide is for individuals with diabetes. More than 3500 menu items from more than 55 major restaurant chains are listed. Complete nutritional breakdown and servings/exchanges for every menu item are included.

Guide to Surviving Prostate Cancer

This book teaches you the risk factors of prostate cancer, why the digital rectal exam and PSA test might save your life, and about the latest treatment options. Tells you everything you need to know about prostate cancer.

Guide to the Clinical Care of Women with HIV, A

This is a clinical reference guide for health care providers treating women with HIV disease.

Guide to Your Child's Allergies and Asthma

This book by the American Academy of Pediatrics is a guide to childhood asthma and allergies, which , combined, affect nearly 55 million American children. It provides information on how to identify allergies and asthma; prevent attacks; minimize triggers

Guide to Your Child's Nutrition

The real challenge for parents isn't simply knowing about the right foods to feed their children, but getting their children to actually eat those foods. This book guides parents through information and strategies they need to meet their children's nutrit

Guide to Your Child's Sleep

This is a guide from the American Academy of Pediatrics on sleep problems from birth through adolescence. It addresses surviving the first few months; getting your baby to sleep through the night; solving everyday problems and bedtime battles so the whole

Guide to Your Child's Symptoms: Birth Through Adolescence

An A-to-Z directory from the American Academy of Pediatrics of more than one hundred common childhood symptoms with action charts for parents to help determine how best to proceed.

Guidelines for Women's Health Care

Developed under the direction of the ACOG Committee on Professional Standards, this book is a synopsis of policy and management issues relating to the health care of women.

Gynecologist's Second Opinion, A

Written in a Q & A format, this book addresses the questions many have regarding fibroids, ovarian cysts, hysterectomy, bladder problems, endometriosis, pelvic pain, cervical cancer, menstruation, and more.

Handbook for Mortals: Guidance for People Facing Serious Illness

This book is for those of us who wish to approach the final years of life with greater awareness and understanding of what to expect and greater confidence about how to make the end of our lives a time for growth, comfort, and meaningful reflection. Reade

Happiest Baby on the Block, The

The author, a pediatrician, teaches parents, grandparents, and nannies how to transform even the fussiest infant into a happy infant! His methods are based on four concepts: 1. The Fourth Trimester: How to re-create a womblike atmosphere that the baby st

Happiest Toddler on the Block, The

Toddlers can drive you bonkers...so adorable and fun one minute...so stubborn and demanding the next! Yet, as unbelievable as it sounds, there is a way to turn the daily streams of "nos" and "don'ts" into "yeses: and hugs...if you know how to speak your t

Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine

This reference book is designed to reflect the understanding of the biology and pathophysiology of disease. The core of the work encompasses the disorders of various organ systems.

Harvard Heart Letter

This newsletter covers issues relating to heart health and disease and treatments.

Harvard Medical School Guide to a Good Night's Sleep, The

Dr. Epstein of Harvard Medical School reveals his proven six-step plan to maximize your nights and energize your days. He explains the health benefits of sleep and identifies signs of sleep problems as he gives in-depth advice on how to finally overcome

Harvard Medical School Guide to Men's Health, The

Based on tracking 96,000 men over twenty-five years through the Harvard Alumni Study, the Physicians' Health Study, and the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study, this book gives men information they need for living healthier, longer lives. It covers topic

Harvard Medical School Guide to Taking Control of Asthma, The

Comprehensive guide to asthma and therapies. Special sections on issues faced by children, women, and the elderly.

Harvard Men's Health Watch

This newsletter covers current issues in men's health and includes a question and answer section.

Harvard Mental Health Letter

This newsletter covers a variety of topics within the area of mental health in each issue.

Harvard Women's Health Watch

This newsletter covers current issues in women's health and includes a question and answer section.

Having Twins

Comprehensive book about multiple birth pregnancies.

Head First...the Biology of Hope

Medical research has demonstrated that panic, depression, hate, fear, and frustration can have negative effects on human health. This book offers scientific evidence that hope, faith, love, will to live, purpose, laughter, and festivity can help combat di

Headache Cure, The

This book shows you that the key to safe and soothing relief is to identify what type of headache you have, so you can get the right treatment.

Headache in Clinical Practice

Headache in Clinical Practice (Second Edition) constitutes a comprehensive synopsis of our current knowledge of a broad range of headache disorders. This fully illustrated text provides a uniquely accessible reference to this complex subject.

Headache Relief for Women: How You Can Manage and Prevent Pain

This book breaks down headaches into four categories -- migraine, tension-type, chronic daily headache, and cluster -- and discusses the relation of migraine to such factors as pregnancy, menstruation, and menopause in addition to "triggers" such as sleep

Heal Your Aching Back

This simple step-by-step program will show you how to: get the right diagnosis for your type of back pain, find the most effective treatment, control pain through specific exercises, and much more.

Heal Your Headache: The 1-2-3 Program for Taking Charge of Your Pain

The author advises that migraine is not a specific type of headache, but the built-in mechanism that causes headaches of all kinds, along with neck stiffness, sinus congestion, dizziness, and other problems. He recommends his 1-2-3 program: Step 1: Avoid

Healing and the Mind

Bill Moyers looks at the mind-body connection from many different angles, examining how it is being used in both Eastern and Western medicine.

Healing Brain, The

This book discusses breakthrough discoveries about how our brain keeps us healthy: Section I: The Ability to Resist Disease Section II: The Brain Minds The Body Section III: Beyond Belief Section IV: "No Man is an Island" Section V: Mind-Made Health

Healing Brain: A Scientific Reader, The

This book demonstrates how the brain operates. Psychosocial factors in healing are explored, as well as psychobiology of human contact; examination of the role of psychoneuroimmunology in promoting healing. One chapter deals with how food affects the bra

Healing of America: A Global Quest to Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care

Author T.R. Reid compares the American health care system to others ranked by the World Health Organization. Currently the US is ranked 54th out of these 191 countries. This book explains this complex issue in a clear, engaging way.

Healing Psoriasis - The Natural Alternative

This book explains how to alleviate, control and even heal this condition without drugs or treatments.

Healing the Child Within

This book is for adult children of dysfunctional families.

Health

This magazine covers various topics such as flavor, feeling, living, motion, and looks.

Health & Nutrition Letter

This newsletter gives you a guide to living healthier longer.

Health Connections

This newsletter links nutrition research to practice.

Health Fitness Handbook, The

Easy-to-follow photos, charts, and tables will help you develop a personalized plan for fitness and health. Guidelines for evaluating your current level of fitness; tips for setting realistic fitness goals; advice on changing health-related behaviors to m

Health Professional's Guide to Popular Dietary Supplements, The

This book addresses dietary supplements by giving full description of the supplement, media and marketing claims made for it, its food sources, dosage and bioavailability, and categories of relevant research into the actions of the particular supplement.

Health Promotion and Disease Prevention in Clinical Practice

This reference book is organized by risk factors and provides information on how to incorporate preventive services into a physician's practice. Includes information on how to gather the right information for risk assessment and preventable disease; desi

Healthwise for Life, 4th edition

Medical self-care for people age 50 and over. Prevention, home treatment, and when to call a health professional; how to prepare for doctor visits and communicate effectively with your health care provider; how to make wise decisions about tests, medicati

Healthy Aging - A Lifelong Guide to Your Well-Being

This book is informative, practical, and uplifting. It also gives detailed information on: the anti-inflammatory diet, separating myth from fact about vitamins, herbs, hormones, and anti-aging "medicines."

Healthy Body Cookbook, The

Over 50 fun activities and delicious recipes for kids.

Healthy Child, Whole Child

As more and more Americans and their doctors seek alternative approaches to health care, isn't it time we offer our children the benefits of integrative medicine? Written by two conventionally trained physicians, Healthy Child, Whole Child offers a new ge

Healthy Heart: Lifestyle Guide and Cookbook

This book can help you take control of your heart and general health. It includes a guide on the body including heart health, exercise and body weight. The second portion is heart-healthy recipes and eating guidelines.

Healthy Lunchbox, The

This upbeat guide is full of healthy alternatives to junk food–laden lunches. Drawing on her years of experience as both an educator and a mother, Marie McLendon has created a book loaded with recipes, menus, tips, and suggestions. This resource rescues y

Healthy Pleasures

Discover the proven medical benefits of pleasure and live a longer, healthier life. This book proposes a new approach to the way women and men can manage their health -- through pleasure. It makes suggestions for lasting and attainable changes through p

Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child

Here Dr. Marc Weissbluth, a distinguished pediatrician and father of four, offers his groundbreaking program to ensure the best sleep for your child. In Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child, he explains with authority and reassurance his step-by-step regime

Healthy Women, Healthy Lives

This book is a guide to preventing disease, based on Harvard Medical School's Nurses' Health Study. This landmark study was the first study to show that using postmenopausal hormone replacement therapy increases the risk of breast cancer but eating a high

Healthy/Years

This is a newsletter from the UCLA division of Geriatrics and it talks about helping older adults lead happier, healthier lives.

Hear Again

This book presents, via e-mail messages to family and friends, a first-hand account of a woman's experience of losing her hearing, receiving a cochlear implant, and once again being able to hear.

Hear What You've Been Missing: How to Cope With Hearing Loss

Using a question and answer format, audiologist Donna S. Wayner, Ph.D., outlines tools and strategies available to overcome the effects of hearing loss.

Hearing Loss & Hearing Aids: A Bridge to Healing

The book charts a quiet path on how to achieve life satisfaction despite less than optimal hearing. This book is written for consumers with hearing loss and their families. It addresses the whole person, not merely one aspect of the problem.

Heart Attack! Advice for Patients by Patients

Published under the auspices of the Cardiac Therapy Foundation of the Midpeninsula, Palo Alto, this book is written from the point of view of a group of patients. It offers advice to survivors of a heart attack as well as information for those trying to p

Heart Disease: A textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine, 5th Edition

A very comprehensive textbook of pathophysiology, diagnosis and treatment of common cardiac conditions; interface of cardiology with other broad fields, e.g. genetics, aging, management of the post-op cardiac patient, and coronary artery disease in women.

Heart of the Matter: The African American's Guide to Heart Disease, Heart Treatment, and Heart Wellness, The

Comprehensive guide to understanding heart disease and its treatments.

Help Your Teenager Beat an Eating Disorder

If you have a child with an eating disorder this book will help you learn why you need to act now, find out about the different treatments and what the research says about them, it will help you as a parent learn how to take charge of eating habits and ex

Helping Children Cope with Separation and Loss

Events such as death, divorce, a loved one's illness, or even a family move can cause grief and despair for a child. The author talks about how to tell children about loss, and to help them face change; how to understand grief and its effects on children

Helping Someone with Mental Illness

This book addresses breakthroughs in research and treatment of such conditions as schizophrenia, depression, bipolar depression, panic attacks, OCD, and many others. It takes one through the steps of diagnosis and treatment; evaluating care providers; man

Helping Your Child Sleep Through the Night

Organized into specific age groups, the book guides parents through basic principles of establishing good sleeping habits. Also covers issues such as teething, colic, bed-wetting, nightmares, naps, and middle-of-the-night feedings.

Helping Your Mate Face Breast Cancer

This book is a guide for the breast cancer support partner. It addresses ways to promote the physical and emotional recovery of a mate; how to provide inspirational and emotional support; sexuality after breast cancer treatment, and more.

Herbs at a Glance, a Quick Guide to Herbal Supplements

This booklet will give you a basic understanding of some of the most common herbs in popular dietary supplements - their historical uses, what they're used for now, the scientific evidence on their effectiveness, and side effects or cautions for you to co

Hidden Feelings of Motherhood: Coping with Stress and Burnout, The

Today's mother faces many challenges and many times has feelings of burnout, frustration, depression fatigue and anger. This books helps women to find ways to cope with those feelings and ways of dealing with them.

High Blood Pressure: The Black Man and Woman's Guide to Living with Hypertension

This book outlines questions to ask your doctor about high blood pressure, which foods to eat, how to take and understand medications for high blood pressure, the key risk factors and much more.

History of the Breast, A

This book examines how the breast has been viewed in Western culture from ancient days to the present -- in religion, the arts, medicine, and psychoanalysis.

Holding Tight, Letting Go, living with Metastatic Cancer

This book is about the daily lives of ordinary people confronting serious illness. It deals with metastatic breast cancer, coping with the shock of recurrence, seeking information, making treatment decisions, getting emotional support, dealing with family

Holistic Guide to Pregnancy and Childbirth, A

This book is rich in practical information, including strategies to help enliven the body intelligence of unborn babies by nourishing each of their five senses, as well as through Ayurvedically balanced nutrition and eating with awareness.

Homeopathy - The Principles & Practice of Treatment

This book provides authoritative regarding homeopathy, including a self-assessment questionnaire, visual remedy guide, and practical ailment charts.

Honest Herbal, The

This reference book provides information on herbs and their use in medicine or as remedies. Includes monographs on some commercially significant herbs and herbal products.

Honest Pretzels

In this book, the author speaks directly to children through 65 fully kid-tested, illustrated recipes that require some, but not a lot of, adult assistance. This book is not only about making food, but also about practicing reading, math, and logic skills

Hope Lives

This book is a collection of practical advice, wisdom, hope and inspiration from women who have experienced breast cancer.

Hospital Stay Handbook

This book is intended to assist the medically untrained person advocate for a family member, friend, loved one, during a hospital stay or long illness. The author offers practical advice and essential tools to help create better care for you or loved one.

Hot Flashes, Hormones & Your Health

This book examines the latest evidence about the benefits and risks of different types of hormone therapy.

How Are You Peeling?

Simple rhyming text and bright array of emotional produce make this the perfect introduction to the complex world of feelings for children.

How Doctors Think

On average, a physician will interrupt a patient describing her symptoms within eighteen seconds. In that short time, many doctors decide on the likely diagnosis and best treatment. Often, decisions made this way are correct, but at crucial moments they

How the Immune System Works

Textbook on immunology.

How to Be a Successful Fertility Patient

The author of this book explains how to go from infertility diagnosis to effective treatment as quickly as possible; how different treatment regimens might affect your general health and life-style; how to find insurance that will pay for your fertility c

How to Care for Aging Parents

This book is a comprehensive guide to caring for elderly parents. It covers the financial, legal, medical and psychological concerns facing adult children as they care for elderly parents. Includes a listing of hard-to-find services and subsidies, natio

How to Father a Successful Daughter

This book shows how a father can provide high-quality confidence for his daughter, promote self-esteem and confidence that will take her through her adult years, and offer the first supportive male role in his daughter's life. Provides information on how

How to Feel Manly in a Minivan: The Desperate Dad's Survival Guide

Men are ill-equipped to face the challenges of fatherhood, but we've always made a noble effort: engaging in meaningful sex, attending the breast-feeding class without giggling, and staying sober during the college planning. But the time has come for new

How to Get Your Kid to Eat But Not Too Much

This book provides advice to parents on how to get their child to eat, and to eat in a healthy manner. The author answers questions such as: how much should your child eat? what is normal eating? helping your child eat the right food; and eating disorder

How to Go On Living when Someone You Love Dies

A guide to the process of grieving, how to talk to children about death, taking care of unfinished business, accepting the support of others, and planning funerals and personal bereavement rituals. Includes a comprehensive resource listing and a chapter

How to Help Children Through a Parent's Serious Illness

Children need help and support from the moment a parent is diagnosed with a serious or life-threatening illness until the resolution of the illness, whatever that may be. This book guides you through the process from the moment of diagnosis; how to tell y

How to Protect Yourself From Crime

This will show you and your family how to be safer at home, on the road, at work, and even on vacation.

How to Survive the Loss of a Love

This book explains what is needed at each stage of grief in recovering from loss.

How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk

How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk provides all the know-how required for happier, more constructive parent-child relations. Enthusiastically praised by parents and professionals around the world, the down-to-earth, respectful ap

How to Talk to Kids so They'll Listen, & Listen so They'll Talk

This book offers advice on common parenting problems such as how to listen to and understand your child's concerns; how to have cooperation in your family without nagging; how you and your child can deal with feelings; how to find alternatives to punishme

How to Talk With Teens About Love, Relationships, & S-E-X

Many parents find it difficult to talk to their teen about love, relationships, and sex. There is no right way to talk to your teens about these issues. With this book, you learn to tailor the discussion to your child's needs, your family values, and your

How We Die - Reflections on Life's Final Chapter

The author, a surgeon and teacher of medicine, tells some stories of dying that reveal not only why someone dies but how. He offers a portrait of the experience of dying that makes clear the choices that can be made to allow each of us his or her own deat

How's Your Health?

This book is based on years of research and information from the free, non-commercial website called HowsYourHealth.org. Thousands of people have used the website to improve their health and health care. Learn from them to make your health and health ca

Human Anatomy and Physiology in Health and Disease

This reference book provides introductory anatomy and physiology with clinical applications. It reflects advances in medical technology and the sophisticated changes in diagnostic testing, procedures and treatment. Includes full color inserts illustrati

Human Side of Diabetes: Beyond Doctors, Diets, and Drugs

The author of this book explains how to come to terms with diabetes; how to handle the personal and emotional aspects of the disease. He examines such topics as parenting a child with diabetes, maintaining a sense of spontaneity in sex, how friends and f

Hunger Pains

This book provides statistic and information on eating disorders in women. The author includes a discussion of eating disorders in children, and suggestions designed to help women who want to work on their own food-related issues, as well as a section on

Hurried Child, The

With the previous editions the author drew our attention to the dangers of exposing our children to overwhelming pressures, pressures that can lead to low self-esteem, to teenage pregnancy, and even to teenage suicide. Too much, too soon. In this latest

Hurst's The Heart, Vol I & II

This reference provides the reader with a practical approach to the treatment of patients with cardiovascular disease that is based both on evidence from clinical trials and observational studies and on the underlying scientific principles.

Hydrocephalus: A Guide for Patients, Families & Friends

Hydrocephalus, or "water on the brain" affects 1 in 1000 babies born in the US, as well as older children and adults. This book describes how to find a skilled neurosurgeon; treatment options; surgery and its follow-up; working with the healthcare team; m

Hyperactive Child, Adolescent, and Adult, The

Attention Deficit Disorder Through the Lifespan

Hypertension: Controlling the 'Silent Killer'

A Special Health Report from Harvard Medical School. In this report, you'll learn why lower blood pressure is better; about lifestyle changes that maker a difference; choosing the right medication and foods that help reduce blood pressure.

I Hate to Exercise Book, The

This book is for individuals with diabetes. It show how to turn everyday home activities into a low-impact fitness plan.

I Used to Be the Baby

This book is the story of a sibling who suddenly finds himself with a baby brother. This is a easy to read book for older siblings.

I'd Rather Do Chemo Than Clean Out The Garage

Pearls of wisdom balance hilarious fun in this shameless exploitation of the chemo lifestyle. Fran Di Giacomo shares the game plan she has used for survival, for quality of life, and to maintain her career as a professional artist.

I'll Take Care of You

Whether you are taking care of an elderly parent or spouse, a child or young adult, in person or long-distance; whether the illness is mental or physical, this practical guide can help you cope with your responsibilities and take care of your own needs. I

I'm a Big Sister

With charm and sensitivity, the author celebrates the warmth and security of family and home - from a big sister's perspective.

I-Can't-Chew Cookbook

Over 40 million people in the United States have chewing, swallowing, and dry-mouth disorders. Some are recovering from head or neck surgery, are mouth/throat cancer patients, or have temporomandibular joint (TMJ) problems. Others have braces or wear dent

If I'm Jewish and You're Christian, What Are the Kids?

This book provides information and advice on raising children and forming their religious identity in interfaith families.

Improving Memory

This 52-page Special Health Report from Harvard Medical School is a guide to understanding age-related memory loss. It talks about what memory is and how we remember, what causes mild cognitive impairment, when to seek medical help, medications for impair

Improving Your Memory for Dummies

Whether you are cramming for an exam, have trouble remembering names, or you just want to give your overall memory power a boost, this plain-English guide offers clever tricks to help you remember what you want to remember. You’ll discover how your memory

In a Different Voice

This book records different modes of thinking about relationships and the association of these modes with male and female voices in psychological and literary texts and in the data of the author's research. Includes three studies that reflect the central

In-Laws: Getting Along with Your Other Family

This book discusses issues facing married couples and parents-in-law to establish good relationships, and helps shaky ones to a more stable state. It covers communication; dealing with criticism; arranging holiday traditions, caring for grandchildren; and

Incidental Heroes: Disabling the Myths About Multiple Sclerosis

A collection of photographs and positive stories of thirty-one individuals who are living full lives with multiple sclerosis.

Indian Cooking without Fat

The author, a leading Indian cookbook writer, offers revolutionary methods for preparing and enjoying healthy, flavorful Indian food without added fat.

Infant Massage

Helps parents master the technique of infant massage. McClure explains each step of the massage process with simple easy-to-follow instructions.

Infants and Mothers

This newly revised edition incorporates the latest work in neonatology. In addition, it reflects on topics such as when to return to work and the excitement of nurturing fathers.

Infants and Mothers: Differences in Development

In this book, the author discusses issues such as the pressures on working mothers, the difficult decision of when to return to work and the excitement of nurturing fathers. Includes his findings on the amazing strengths and abilities of newborn babies.

Infants and Toddlers: The Best Resources to Help You Parent

In this resource book you will find full-page reviews of over 280 resources focused on raising infants and toddlers (including books, websites, videotapes, and more).

Infertility: Evaluation and Treatment

Medical text with information on the evaluation of male and female infertility, medical and surgical management, and assisted reproductive technologies.

Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Guide for Patients and Their Families

This book gives an extensive overview of IBD: types, distinguishing features, problems. It also includes diet and nutrition, medial and surgical therapies, IBD in children and adolescents and more.

Informed Decisions

This book offers the latest information on every aspect of cancer, from detection to recovery-and practically everything in between.

Informed Decisions - second edition

Offers the latest information on every aspect of cancer, from detection to recovery. Covers cancer causes and risks, screening and diagnostic tests, treatment strategies, coping methods and other quality of life issues.

Informed Decisions - The Complete Book of Cancer Diagnosis, Treatment and Recovery

A comprehensive book covering screening, self-examination, types of cancer, diagnostic tests, treatment options; dealing with emotions and living well with cancer. Recurrence and metastasis are also addressed.

Inner Fire

What is the will to live? How do some people faced with major life-threatening illness not only survive, but experience a profound deepening of their lives as a result? The author, and oncologist has compiled stories from a group of breast cancer survivor

Instructions for Pediatric Patients

This reference book provides current peer-approved patient instruction sheets for 137 of the most common health problems affecting infants, children, and adolescents. Includes information on topics such as passive smoking, sinus infections, febrile seizu

Insulin Resistance Diet, The

The Insulin-Resistance Diet is not really a diet at all -it's an eating guide. It allows you to eat the foods you like in proper amounts and still control insulin resistance and lose weight.

Intimacy With Impotence

Dealing with erectile dysfunction after prostate disease can allow you to rediscover and reinvigorate your relationship. Both informative and practical, Intimacy with Impotence discusses the causes of impotence in easily understood terms, provides inform

Intuitive Eating

This book focuses on nurturing your body rather than starving it. It encourages natural weight loss and helps you find the weight you were meant to be. It will help the reader learn how to reject the diet mentality forever; how our three eating personalit

Invisible Alcoholics: Women and Alcohol, The

In this book the author examines research that challenges prevailing stereotypes of alcoholic women. She reveals the many unique reasons women drink; why treatments designed for men won't work for women; and why female alcoholics experience more depress

Is It Hot in Here? Or Is It Just Me? The Complete Guide to Menopause

A deeply optimistic guide to all the long and often mysterious years of menopause, the role of hormones and the controversy over hormone therapy, the truth about hot flashes, the impact of sexuality and how to counteract the wavering libido.

Is Weight Loss Surgery Right for You?

Obesity has quickly become an American epidemic. If you are suffering from significant overweight and the problems that go along with it, you may be contemplating weight loss surgery. The decision to pursue weight loss surgery should not be taken lightly.

It Will Never Happen to Me!

Survival techniques practiced as children and adolescents growing up in an alcoholic home cause problems in adulthood.

It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life

Very engaging story about Lance Armstrong's battle with testicular cancer and his recovery to become 5-time winner of the Tour de France.

It's Not Fair, Jeremy Spencer's Parents Let Him Stay Up All Night

This book focuses on the challenges of parenting post-infant to pre-teen children; setting limits and making demands and more.

It's Not Your Fault, Koko Bear

A read-together book for parents and young children during divorce. Koko Bear can help children learn what divorce means; how to deal with change in their everyday lives; talk about their feelings; be assured that their parents still love them; and unders

It's Perfectly Normal

This book provides information for young people changing bodies, growing up and sexual health. It covers topics such as puberty, conception to birth control and AIDS.

It's So Amazing!

How does a baby begin? What makes a baby female or male? How is a baby born? How is a baby adopted? Children have lots of questions about reproduction and babies--and about sex and sexuality too. This book is for the elementary school-aged child.

Itsy Bitsy Yoga

Offers a parent-child yoga practice for newborns to toddlers. Poses are designed to help baby sleep longer, digest better, and grow stronger.

Jane Brody's Nutrition Book

This book is designed to answer questions about nutrition and health habits. Includes information on good health for the rest of your life; how to devise a diet without resorting to gimmicks; special diets for joggers, pregnant women, nursing mothers and

Jet with Kids: Take the Fear Out of Flying With Your Kids!

Want to know the secrets to happy kids at 37,000 feet? Flying with children doesn't need to be scary, intimidating, or a nightmare. Well-behaved young travelers are a result of properly prepared parents and grandparents. Written by a traveling mom who

Johns Hopkins Complete Guide to Preventing and Reversing Heart Disease

This book presents information on how to assess and reduce your risk of heart attack, what is good cholesterol, the role of genetic factors, the use of drugs for treatment, understanding your cholesterol count.

Johns Hopkins Guide to Diabetes for Today and Tomorrow, The

This book is written by a team of Johns Hopkins specialists. It is a comprehensive guide to everything about diabetes that patients need to know for good control and health.

Johns Hopkins Medical Letters: Health After 50

This newsletter covers current health issues for those over 50. It also includes a question and answer section.

Joint Surgery

This book tells you all you need to know about joint surgery from getting ready for surgery, recovering, and to an active new lifestyle.

Journey Into the Deaf-World, A

This book provides an intimate profile of Deaf culture, known in American Sign Language as Deaf-World. It explores such topics as: the best ways of educating Deaf children, what we can learn from Deaf societies in other lands, and the integration of Deaf

Joy of Twins and Other Multiple Births, The

This is an upbeat, practical guide to raising and loving babies that arrive in groups of two or more. It provides indispensable information on surviving that first challenging year and beyond.

Just a Little Too Thin: How to Pull Your Child Back From the Brink of an Eating Disorder

Some diets are just that - a brief episode of calorie or fat counting. They're merely attempts to lose weight for the sake of a smaller skirt size. Other diets, however, can signal the kind of problem with food that has nothing to do with shape or size

Just Get Me Through This!

A practical guide to coping with breast cancer. Your doctor told you it was breast cancer. so now what?! You'll need plenty of essential advice - the kind that only comes from someone who's been there. This book is prepared to offer just that advice.

Keep Your Brain Alive

83 neurobic exercises to help prevent memory loss and increase mental fitness. Neurobics uses the five senses in unexpected ways and shakes up everyday routines. The exercises are offbeat, fun, and can be done anywhere, anytime.

Keep Your Breasts

This book talks about preventing breast cancer the natural way.

Keeping a Secret

In this book, the author helps children understand their symptoms and cope with the consequences of juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA).

Keys to Parenting Twins

Both authors are parents of twins. Their book serves as a guide to parents covering questions to ask the OB, information on family adjustments, feeding twins, the different bonding process, individuality issues, and the twins' changing relationships as th

Kid-Friendly Food Allergy Cookbook, The

More than 150 recipes that are wheat-free, gluten-free, dairy-free, nut-free, egg-free and/or low in sugar.

Kids, Parents, and Power Struggles

Noted family educator Mary Sheedy Kurcinka struck a national chord with her bestselling Raising Your Spirited Child. Now she hits upon another crucial parenting topic: coping with the everyday challenges of disciplining your child, while understanding th

KidShape: A Practical Prescription for Helping Your Child Lose Weight, Increase Self-Esteem, Establish Healthy Eating Habits, Have a More Active Life'

It's in the news: American children are too fat and this is resulting in an alarming increase in type 2 "adult onset" diabetes in children under the age of 12. Dr. Naomi Neufeld recognized this more than two decades ago when she began seeing an increasing

Kim Goes to Camp

In this children's book, Kim, a girl with food allergies, learns how to deal with eating with food allergies away from home and taking care of herself.

Kim Learns How to Take Care of Herself

In this children's book, Kim, a girl with food allergies and eczema learns how to take care of herself, eat to avoid affecting her allergy and how to deal with a classmate's teasing.

Kitchen Table Wisdom

This book is a collection of stories through which we discover the ability to travel together with humor and meaning, with purpose and companionship, with warmth and tenderness. It is a reminder of the power and joy of being fully human.

Knees & Hips: A troubleshooting guide to knee and hip pain

This Special Health Report from Harvard Medical School covers a wide range of knee and hip conditions. Topics include overuse injuries, osteoarthritis of the knee and hip, pain treatment, imaging techniques, surgical and non-surgical treatment of knee and

La Salud En Casa: Guia Practica de Healthwise

This is a Spanish language guide to health, discussing prevention, home remedies, and when to seek professional help. Esto es una guía española de la lengua a la salud, discutiendo la prevención, remedios caseros, y cuándo buscar ayuda profesional.

LEARN Program for Weight Control, The

LEARN stands for Lifestyle, Exercise, Attitudes, Relationships, and Nutrition. This book contains sixteen "lessons" to help you address these issues and make permanence weight changes.

Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life

Techniques that can be used to change a pattern of negative thinking and depression.

Learning to Say Goodbye: When a Parent Dies

This book discusses the questions, fears and fantasies concerning a parent who has died, and helps the reader to understand the stages of mourning a child goes through. Includes a list of further reading resources for children and adults.

Lenny Learns About Food Labels

In this children's book, Lenny the lion learns about food labels and how to look at the label to avoid ingredients that will affect his allergy to milk.

Life After Stroke: The Guide to Recovering Your Health and Preventing Another Stroke

This book details what a stroke is and how it affects the brain and body. It also provides practical advice on treatment, rehabilitation and lifestyle changes.

Life on Wheels

The reasons for being in a wheel chair vary, but the users may have common concerns. 1) Medical issues-sensation, circulatory issues, choosing the optimal wheel chair 2) Day-to-day living issues- skin, bowel and bladder care, home access 3) Psychological

Life Without Ed

This book is about how one woman declared independence from her eating disorder. It combines a patient's insights and experiences with a therapist's prescriptions for success over eating disorders.

Lions Aren't Scared of Shots

This book offers parents advice and tips for encouraging their child to feel comfortable and brave with routine checkups, sick visits, shots, and other medical procedures.

Listen With the Heart: Relationships and Hearing Loss

While distressing for an individual, hearing loss also takes a heavy toll on family and friends. These stories chronicle the unique challenges of hearing loss in interpersonal relationships, including communication, self-identity, and how to continue shar

Little Sisters Are...

Illustrated book about little sisters!

Living a Healthy Life with Chronic Conditions

This book teaches day-to-day living skills for people with chronic conditions. Readers are taught not only traditional skills of disease management, but also encouraged to innovate; emphasis is on simple functions that make up daily life; and there is al

Living Beyond Breast Cancer: A Survivor's Guide

This book addresses life after initial treatment for breast cancer. Tests for monitoring your health; decisions regarding reconstruction; managing the aftermath of chemotherapy; issues surrounding intimacy; growing older; recurrence; dealing with work and

Living Beyond Limits

The author argues that cancer patients who are provided with social and emotional support in addition to the standard medical care tend to live longer and fuller lives than those who receive only standard medical care.

Living Heart: Brand Name Shoppers Guide

This book lists over 5,000 brand name foods that are low in fat, saturated fat, and cholesterol. It is a good reference tool to use in making healthy food purchases.

Living Independently in Your Later Years

A special health report from Harvard Medical School which includes finding services, choosing a caregiver, changes to make in your home, driving skills, and planning for legal, financial, and emergency considerations.

Living Longer for Dummies

This guide explains the process of getting older and shows you step by step how to enhance your physical and psychological well-being.

Living Well With Asthma

This book is designed as a guide to physiological, psychological and social impacts of asthma on those newly diagnosed. It discusses how your response to the diagnosis can help or hinder your adaptation to the illness. Impact on family, work and sexual li

Living When a Loved One Has Died

No one does a better job of helping us help the stricken adult or child to cope with grief than Earl A. Grollman.

Living with ALS, Vol 1-6

These six booklets from the ALS Association offer information and support for those diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis.

Living With Diabetes

Covers many aspects of diabetes: myths and misconceptions, nutrition, exercise, medications, emergencies, complications, pregnancy and children with diabetes. Includes lists of resources.

Living with Endometriosis

This book discusses all aspects of endometriosis including: how to recognize symptoms and complications; how to evaluate the risks and benefits of medication and surgery; how to combat anxiety and depression; how to eliminate or diminish sexual difficulti

Living with Hepatitis B

Currently Hepatitis B affects 1-1.25 million Americans. It can lead to cirrhosis, liver cancer, and the need for liver transplantation. This book is a practical guide to understanding the disease, its diagnosis, treatment, emotional impact, and how to avo

Living With Hepatitis C

This book addresses many questions for people with Hepatitis C, and their wives, husbands, families and friends. It discusses the nature of the virus, how to understand the myriad tests and biopsies; symptoms; how to avoid infecting others; nutrition; wha

Living with Multiple Sclerosis: A Wellness Approach

This book is a Q & A guide to living with multiple sclerosis. It addresses the concerns of people living with MS, and provides the starting point for developing an individualized wellness program for disease treatments, emotional health, alternative thera

Living with Rheumatoid Arthritis

Many Americans live with rheumatoid arthritis, many of them individuals in their 20s, 30s, and 40s. Almost all can and do lead full, satisfying, and highly productive lives. This book is designed to help newly diagnosed individuals and their families deal

Living With Shingles

This book takes you through the course of the disease: The cause, symptoms and treatment; post-herpetic neuralgia; potential complications; prevention: Who should and should not be vaccinated?