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Clinical Orthoptics

The Battle Over Health Care: What Obama's Reform Means for America's Future

As the most substantial health care reform in almost half a century, President Obama's health care overhaul was as historic as it was divisive. In its aftermath, the debate continues.

Rund ums Impfen

Rund ums Impfen ist ein übersichtliches Nachschlagewerk, in welchem jede Krankheit mit ihren Behandlungsmöglichkeiten, sowie die dazugehörige Impfung mit Zusatzstoffen, Nebenwirkungen, etc. beschrieben wird.

Improve Your Health With Vegetables

Nature has provided mankind with a gamut of fruits, vegetables, dairy products and other sources to maintain a healthy lifestyle. These natural sources of food are rich in vitamins, proteins, carbohydrates and other essential nutrients.

Age through Ethnic Lenses

An ever-more diverse America is getting older, but American policies are not growing with the needs of our ethnic and aging society. Age Through Ethnic Lenses explores the distinct characteristics and unique social, political, economic, and cultural situations of America's aged, while highlighting the common needs and objectives among all aging Americans.

If You Are Well: Health and Wellness Tips for the Empowered Health Care Consumer

Navigating the Healthcare Maze

The primary purpose of this book is to empower readers and encourage them to become proactive consumer-patients.

Quack Medicine: A History of Combating Health Fraud in Twentieth-Century America

Throughout the 20th century, anti-quackery crusaders investigated, exposed, and attempted to regulate allegedly fraudulent therapeutic approaches to health and healing under the banner of consumer protection and a commitment to medical science.

50 Meds for a Sick Health System

America's health care system is bankrupting its people, businesses and society while it both over-treats and under-treats, with poorer results than in most of the industrialized world. Its ills are so many there is no single cure.

Health Against Wealth

The HMO system is supposed to stop greedy doctors and hospitals from viewing patients as sources of profit.

Challenges in Counselling: Research

Help both qualified and trainee counsellors understand and engage with past and current research in the field. This book both explains why research is relevant to practical counselling skills and addresses the common difficulties your students are likely to encounter when putting research into practice.

Le Corps accordé

Le yukido est au croisement de deux approches méconnues du soin par les mains: le reboutage et le seitai, auxquels l'auteur a consacré trente années de recherche.

Universal Health Care Problems In The United States Of America

This book is intended be a thought-provoking discussion of real issues in the healthcare debate as seen through the eyes of suffering consumers. "He who feels it, knows it" It is not intended as a substitute for any study generated by specialists in the fields of finance, economics, government, or healthcare related law.

Das Geheimnis der Spurenelemente und Aminosäuren

Wir haben uns auf die Analytik der lebenswichtigen (essenziellen) Aminosäuren und Spurenelemente spezialisiert. Dies sind jene, die sich der Mensch nicht selbst herstellen kann, die aber in seinem Stoffwechsel für strukturelle Aufgaben (Gewebeaufbau) und für regulierende Aufgaben (Neurotransmitter) benötigt werden.

5: 2 Diet for Diabetics: Control Your Diabetes for Life: TLC Diet for Diabetes Hypertension Healthy Heart: Dash Diet Guide for Beginners

Killing Me Softly: A Report from Benzo Land

Benzodiazepines (sedatives like Valium, Xanax, and Ambien) are dangerously addictive, and unethical drug companies and doctors are causing the slow deaths of millions of people worldwide, the dangers being relatively underreported. Quoting independent medical authorities, his own experience.

BUT I CAN STILL DANCE

But I Can Still Dance offers a refreshing approach to caregiving. Portrayed is Carleen Breskin Clarke's own story along with her solutions for caregiving issues often skirted over in print.

Sacred Trust: The Ten Rules of Life, Death, and Medicine

An insiders view by a practicing family physician, Sacred Trust reveals the art and practice of medicine and opens a window into its soul. With wry humor, no-holds-barred candid writing style, Dr.

America's Dysfunctional 'Exceptionalism' and Global Health

This book is about the people of the Third World like Trinidad and Tobago.

Be in Charge of Your Health Care: Checklists for Patient Safety

You will learn how and why to take charge of your health care. This book covers vital information such as how to share information about your medications, get a second opinion, and your rights as a patient.

L'intoxication Base de la maladie (Illustré)

Quoi? On serait intoxiqué ?

Health Communication in Practice: A Case Study Approach

Health Communication in Practice: A Case Study Approach offers a comprehensive examination of the complex nature of health-related communication.

Gender and the Social Construction of Illness

Judith Lorber and Lisa Jean Moore consider the interface between the social institutions of gender and Western medicine in this brief, lively textbook.

The Second Sickness

Since the appearance of Waitzkin's The Second Sickness, a landmark book of the 1980s, American medicine has been dramatically transformed. Waitzkin's earlier edition used qualitative research to take readers inside the "black box" of medical decisionmaking.

Anleitung für autogenes Training

Entspannung ist wichtig für die Regenerierung unseres Körpers. Schädliche Stresshormone werden abgebaut und Wohlbefinden tritt ein.

Regulating Tobacco, Alcohol and Unhealthy Foods: The Legal Issues

The need to reduce disability and premature deaths from non-communicable diseases (NCDs) is increasingly engaging international organisations and national and sub-national governments.

Win: Build Your Body to Last

In WIN, author and fitness instructor Chritopher Wilson takes you deep into his three-year battle with steroids. Learn what can happen to you from using steroids and find out firsthand why steroids won't give you a body to last.

Understanding Your Medical Laboratory Tests and Surgical Biopsy Reports

This user-friendly book is written to help consumers understand medical clinical laboratory tests and surgical pathology reports. The orientation is toward patients with a medical problem, the "worried well" who probably don't have a problem, and the medical professionals and allied health providers who do not realize that a huge information gap exist between themselves and their patients.

Health Care Turning Point: Why Single Payer Won't Work

An expert debunks popular misconceptions about health policy, including the merits of single-payer plans, and offers an alternative.

TennCare, One State's Experiment with Medicaid Expansion

Stolen Money, Stolen Health

Americans have been led to believe that uncontrolled costs and waste are destroying their healthcare system. This is not true.

Vegan Gluten: Easy to Make Gluten Free Recipes for an Allergy Free and Healthier Life

Vegan Gluten-Free Recipes debunks the myth that vegan and gluten-free recipes are to be considered boring. This book proves otherwise by instructing the reader how to prepare meals that are eye-appealing, palate-pleasing, and healthy for the whole family.

Affordable Care Act For Dummies

An essential and easy-to-understand guide to the Affordable Care Act The Affordable Care Act For Dummies is your survival guide to understanding the changes in our health care system and how they benefit you. Written in down-to-earth language, this handy resource outlines new protections under the Affordable Care Act, and walks you through what you-as an individual or an employer-need to do to select the best health insurance plan for your needs.

Use What You Have: Resolving the HIV/AIDS Pandemic

With over 25 million dead, AIDS has pounced on the world like a medieval plague, ranking among the greatest killers in history. Despite billions of international aid dollars, the development of effective medical treatments for HIV (the virus that causes AIDS), and the efficacy of condoms in preventing the spread of HIV during sex, 6,000 people are dying daily, and over 15 million orphans have been left behind.

Information Technology for Addiction Recovery Medicine 4.0

Structure:1. Step by Step Instruction for Addiction Recovery (Russian, Deutsch).

Cómo revertir la diabetes

Una manera natural de tratar todo el cuerpo para controlar la diabetes tipo 2! Nueva dieta para reducir la cintura le AYUDA A PEDER PESO donde más importa!

Healthcare, Guaranteed

America spends more than any other developed nation on healthcare-$2.1 trillion in 2007 alone.

To Give their Gifts: Health, Community, and Democracy

The experiences of twelve creative community health leaders who work with the people that others take for granted.

Pregnancy Diet Plan

Pregnancy is an amazing time in any woman's life. It is the time when you give birth to a human child.

Lethal Medicine: The Epidemic Of Medical Malpractice In America