Résultats Éditeur "Audible Studios" dans Troubles et maladies

Happy Accidents is a fascinating, entertaining, and highly accessible look at the surprising role serendipity has played in some of the most important medical discoveries in the 20th century. What do penicillin, chemotherapy drugs, X-rays, Valium, the Pap smear, and Viagra have in common? They were each discovered accidentally, stumbled upon in the search for something else. In discussing medical breakthroughs, Dr. Morton Meyers makes a cogent, highly engaging argument for a more creative, rather than purely linear, approach to science. And it may just save our lives!

The average individual is far more likely to die in a car accident than from a communicable disease...yet we are still much more fearful of the epidemic. Even at our most level-headed, the thought of an epidemic can inspire terror. As Philip Alcabes persuasively argues in Dread, our anxieties about epidemics are created not so much by the germ or microbe in question - or the actual risks of contagion - but by the unknown, the undesirable, and the misunderstood.

Most of the 25,000 genes we possess are the same for all of us. Compatibility genes are those that vary most from person to person and give each of us a unique molecular signature. These genes determine both the extent to which we are susceptible to a vast range of illnesses and the different ways each of us fights disease.

Hundreds of thousands of people die every year from malaria. No one's quite sure of the exact number. It's just too difficult to keep track of the disease as it tears through more than 200 million cases each year, many of them in countries wracked by war and blighted by other problems. In The Deadly Air, Christian Jennings mixes together his own experiences of suffering from malaria with a history of mankind's struggle with the disease.

Leonore Dvorkin shares her experiences with breast cancer and the fruit of her extensive research on the subject. Her story is presented in factual, but personal manner. On the journey from chilling diagnosis through her decision to undergo a mastectomy, then 10 years of life after the surgery, her story is an uplifting voyage of personal discovery sure to inspire all who listen to it.

Whether it results from injury, osteoporosis, or an unusually intense weekend golf game, back pain is an all-too-common cause of serious discomfort that can debilitate even your most dedicated effort to maintain a healthy and active lifestyle. It doesn't have to be that way. Dr. Harris H. McIlwain has devoted his career to bringing relief to sufferers of back pain and arthritis, and in The Pain-Free Back, he shares his clinically proven six-step program for achieving and maintaining a healthy back.

Nobel Laureate Peter Doherty offers a level-headed guide to all aspects of pandemics-what they are, how they spread, and what we can do to prevent them Pandemics. The word conjures up images of horrific diseases sweeping the globe and killing everyone in their path. But such highly lethal illnesses almost never create pandemics. The reality is deadly serious but far more subtle. In Pandemics, Peter Doherty, who won the Nobel Prize for his work on how the immune system recognizes virus-infected cells, offers an essential guide to one of the truly life-or-death issues of our age.

Dr. Mackowiak, a professor at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, offers a gripping and authoritative account of 13 patients who took center stage in world history. The result is a new understanding of how the past unfolded, as well as a sweeping survey of the history of medicine. What was the ailment that drove Caligula mad? Why did Stonewall Jackson die after having an arm amputated, when so many other Civil War soldiers survived such operations?

Stephen Heywood was 29 years old when he learned that he was dying of ALS - Lou Gehrig's disease. Almost overnight, his older brother, Jamie, turned himself into a genetic engineer in a quixotic race to cure the incurable. His Brother's Keeper is a powerful account of their story, as they travel together to the edge of medicine.

Nulla è più misterioso della nostra mente quando dormiamo. Accadono infatti cose che neanche la fervida fantasia di un grande scrittore saprebbe immaginare, e molte sono le domande che tutti ci facciamo, senza però trovare risposta. Com'è possibile guidare una macchina, parlare lingue misteriose o camminare per ore durante il sonno? Da dove vengono quelle inquietanti visioni di demoni, folletti e spettri che infestano la nostra stanza? Che cosa spinge i bambini a gridare terrorizzati nel cuore della notte? Perché alcune volte abbiamo l'impressione di cadere da una sedia e ci svegliamo?

Seconda causa di morte della popolazione e prima causa di invalidità, l'ictus cerebrale è oggi un vero problema sociale oltre che medico. La prevenzione è certo il primo pilastro per arginarne le conseguenze. Al tempo stesso gli avanzamenti della ricerca hanno messo a disposizione strategie terapeutiche efficaci nella fase acuta che permettono di ottenere un recupero neurologico in più del 50% dei casi. In questo volume: le cause, i fattori di rischio, la prevenzione, i nuovi modelli assistenziali, come le Stroke Unit, e le novità terapeutiche insieme a quelle attese nel futuro.

Sono organi raffinatissimi e delicati: sintetizzano, inventano, determinano il miracolo della vita. Sono i nostri polmoni, leggeri e preziosi, la loro attività non si può fermare nemmeno il tempo necessario per curarli, perché nessuno sopravvive senza ossigeno, nessuno può stare più di pochi minuti senza respirare. Quando un nuovo virus sconosciuto e letale ha cominciato a insidiare proprio i polmoni, ci siamo accorti che la maggior parte di noi li conosce pochissimo: come funzionano, cosa occorre per mantenerli in salute e cosa li mette in crisi?

Pandemia é uma epidemia de grandes proporções. Os cientistas temem que a humanidade seja vítima de uma pandemia capaz de matar dezenas e até centenas de milhões de pessoas no mundo todo. Para que isto aconteça basta que apareça uma doença que combine enorme capacidade de contaminação (de preferência antes de os sintomas aparecerem) com poder para matar grande número de pacientes infectados. A grande concentração urbana que caracteriza a humanidade em nossa época (ao contrário do que aconteceu quando das grandes febres do começo do século XX) facilita a propagação.

Pragmatisch und hilfreich: Die examinierte Krankenschwester Marion Ponelies kennt die Nöte von Demenzkranken und ihrer Angehörigen und weiß, welche Informationen und welche Ermutigung sie brauchen. Ihr Ziel: Nicht nur der Demenzkranke, sondern auch die Angehörigen sollen nach der Lektüre des Buches an Lebensqualität gewinnen. Erkrankte und Angehörige stellen sich Hunderte Fragen, wenn sie die Diagnose bekommen: Was passiert bei Demenz mit dem Gehirn?Ab wann kann ein Demenzkranker nicht mehr allein leben?Wie überzeuge ich meinen Angehörigen vom Pflegeheim?Wie gehe ich mit Aggression um?

Über keine andere Krankheit kursieren so viele Mythen wie über Rheuma: ein Sammelbegriff für Hunderte Erkrankungen, die in jedem Alter auftreten können. Missverständnisse gibt es nicht nur über die Ursachen, sondern auch über mögliche Therapien. «Rheuma? Da kann man leider nichts machen.» «Wer Rheuma hat, ist selbst schuld.» «Bei Rheuma kann man auch erst mal was mit Ernährung und Gewürzen machen.» Dies sind nur drei von zahlreichen Mythen, mit denen Dr. med. Peer Aries tagtäglich in seiner Sprechstunde, in Internetforen oder auf Veranstaltungen mit Patient:innen konfrontiert wird.

Eine faszinierende Vorstellung: Wie wäre es, wenn sich die biologische Uhr, die in jedem von uns tickt, anhalten ließe – oder sogar ein Stück zurückdrehen? Und das nicht bloß gefühlt, sondern messbar? Dieses Versprechen ist seit Kurzem Realität. Der junge Forschungszweig der Epigenetik hat den Deckel von der Altersuhr gehoben – und in aktuellen Studien nun sogar den Sprung in die praktische Anwendung geschafft. Genau darum geht es in diesem Hörbuch: Was kann ich ganz konkret tun, um meine Altersuhr zurückzudrehen? Um wie viele Monate oder gar Jahre lässt sich der Zeiger zurückstellen?

La vita di Valentina non è sempre stata facile. Ma con Federico al suo fianco si sente invincibile, e quando decidono di diventare una famiglia nulla sembra più poter andare storto. Prima arriva il dolce Alessandro, poi Teresa, un uragano di energia, e infine Cesare, il "biondo di casa". È tutto perfetto, finché un giorno una macchiolina color caffellatte compare sulla pelle di Cesare.

Às vésperas de completar 23 anos, Suleika Jaouad ouviu as palavras que marcariam para sempre a sua vida: leucemia mieloide aguda. Assim começou sua longa batalha contra um inimigo invisível. Os quatro anos seguintes foram passados em quartos de hospital, lutando pela sobrevivência, enquanto lidava com as questões naturais da juventude e narrava sua experiência em uma coluna do The New York Times.

Lina es una persona que posee muchas virtudes, en este audiolibro afloran dos en especial: la honestidad y un pragmatismo especialmente inteligente. Me consta que todo lo que aquí se dice fue así, tal cual está escrito. En cada capítulo hay una serie de lucidez que nos llega con fuerza. No es un impacto solo para las personas que padecen cáncer de mama, sino una experiencia vital que le hace frente al sufrimiento, no importa si estás o no enfermo o enferma.

Wer gut schläft, hat Energie, Konzentration und Kraft für den Alltag. Schlaf aber kann noch viel mehr: Er ist der wichtigste Faktor für ein langes, gesundes Leben und um Demenz vorzubeugen. Doch immer mehr Menschen leiden unter Schlafproblemen – ob beim Einschlafen, Durchschlafen, oder wenn der Schlaf nicht erholsam ist. Ebenso verständlich wie fundiert teilt die international renommierte Schlafforscherin Birgit Högl mit uns bahnbrechende neue Erkenntnisse der Wissenschaft, räumt mit Mythen und falschen Vorstellungen auf und liefert das Wissen, um endlich besser zu schlafen.