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Publisher
Mayo Clinic
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
191 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Mayo Clinic on High Blood Pressure offers information and tools to help you keep blood pressure from building to dangerous levels. By taking specific steps, you can live well with high blood pressure - and even keep it from ever forming. In this book, Gary Schwartz, M.D., tells you how. You'll learn how high blood pressure develops, what puts you at risk, how it's diagnosed and treated, and how to reduce your risk of conditions associated with it."...
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English
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""At one point they tried to calculate when time began, when exactly the earth had been created," begins Time Shelter's enigmatic narrator, who will go unnamed. "In the mid-seventeenth century, the Irish bishop Ussher calculated not only the exact year, but also a starting date: October 22, 4,004 years before Christ." But for our narrator, time as he knows it begins when he meets Gaustine, a "vagrant in time" who has distanced his life from contemporary...
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Publisher
Draycott Design Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
31 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Did you ever wonder how acupuncture works? This book strips away the mystery. Each acupuncture point has unique functions, which are explained in plain English for the non-acupuncturist. How to do acupressure effectively to treat yourself. Acupuncture treats pain, stress, fatigue, emotional disorders, insomnia, digestive problems, and many internal disorders.
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Publisher
Hachette Go
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 358 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 2020, a surge of long-haul COVID-19 patients came to Drs. Jobson and Morgan's clinics and one thing was clear to them: We have seen this before. The pattern was strikingly similar to other long conditions: fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, chronic pain, post-infectious syndromes, and autoimmune diseases. And that is because long illnesses manifest in similar ways. They follow patterns in the body as the result of inflammation, trauma, and...
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Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Fourth trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 469 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Examines how people adapt to traumatic events such as rape, domestic violence, terrorism, and combat; discusses the healing process; and provides a framework for treatment.
"Trauma and Recovery is the foundational text on understanding trauma survivors. By placing individual experience in a political frame, psychiatrist Judith L. Herman argues that psychological trauma is inseparable from its social and political context. Drawing on her own research...
6) The autoimmune cure: healing the trauma and other triggers that have turned your body against you
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Language
English
Formats
Description
Reveals how trauma can rewire your body to trigger autoimmune diseases--and provides a comprehensive plan for readers to reset their immune system and finally heal.
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Publisher
Simon Element
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
First Simon Element trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 335 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Calm the Chaos is a clearly organized, methodical approach to parenting. Dayna has created a road map to help parents find peace and meet their kids where they are at when conventional parenting tools have failed. There are five steps to calming the chaos--Getting to Safety, Restoring Trust and Energy, Finding Calm in the Moment, Getting Ahead of the Moment, and Defining Family Success. Each step employs a framework that is easy to remember, even...
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Language
English
Description
"Passionate advocate for end-of-life care and TikTok star Nurse Hadley shares moving stories of joy, wisdom, and redemption from her patients' final moments, offering powerful lessons on facing death, recovering from loss, and how to live your life in this deeply personal memoir. Talking about death and dying is considered taboo in popular culture, even in the medical field. Our understanding of death is riddled with misconceptions: memories flashing...
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Publisher
HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 295 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A Harvard-based psychotherapist presents a clinically-proven three-step method to overcome anxiety and achieve goals that is based on the lessons she learned growing up in poverty in Brazil"--
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Publisher
Workman Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
x, 485 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"This reference book to infertility provides people with the tools they need to be their own best advocates as they navigate fertility treatments and highs and lows of their infertility journey. Heather Huhman guides readers through every stage of the process-from knowing when to seek medical advice to parenting after infertility, and everything in between"--
11) No longer radical: understand mastectomies and choose the breast cancer care that's right for you
Author
Publisher
Simon Element
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Simon Element trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 307 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Brem and Teal cover risk-based breast cancer screening and breast cancer treatment, and provide detailed information about mastectomies and reconstruction. They present this information to help you decide what course of action works best for you, no matter what your age, when evaluating the array of treatments available. -- adapted from jacket
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Publisher
W Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xx, 201 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Why does our past pain continue to affect our present? Though many of us can point to patterns of brokenness in our lives, we don't know why they're there. No matter how hard we work, we can't seem to outrun the very things that break our hearts. That's because our everyday setbacks are rooted in our unaddressed wounds. In Why Am I Like This? seminary-trained, licensed trauma therapist Kobe Campbell helps us understand why it's so hard to break these...
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Language
English
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"Meg works for a casino in LA, catching cheaters and popping a few too many pain pills to cope, following a far different path than her sister Haley, a famous actress. But suddenly reports surface of Haley dying at the remote rehab facility where she had been forced to go to get her addictions under control. There are whispers of suicide, but Meg can't believe it. She decides that the best way to find out what happened to her sister is to check in...
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Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
209 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Robin Bennett Kanarek was a registered nurse working with patients suffering from chronic medical conditions when her ten-year-old son was diagnosed with leukemia. As her son endured grueling treatments, Robin realized how often medical professionals overlook critical psychological, emotional, and spiritual support for people with life-threatening illnesses. Living Well with a Serious Illness is the culmination of decades of Robin's work to advance...
Series
Publisher
Productivity Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
In 2019 the world was struck with the Coronavirus (COVID-19) infecting major portions of the world's population. There were no vaccines or treatments available to help mitigate the disease or offer a cure. The world's health systems were inundated with massive numbers of patients with varying ranges of symptoms, acuity, and levels of criticality. The world's healthcare organizations soon found themselves in an unmanageable situation, directly impacting...
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