Résultats Éditeur "Random House Audio" dans Médecine et secteur de la santé

The United States is embarking on a medical revolution. Supporters of personalized, or precision, medicine—the tailoring of health care to our genomes—have promised to usher in a new era of miracle cures. Advocates of this gene-guided health-care practice foresee a future where skyrocketing costs can be curbed by customization and unjust disparities are vanquished by biomedical breakthroughs. Progress, however, has come slowly, and with a price too high for the average citizen.

By the mid 1980s, AIDS hysteria was so rampant that a fearful and prejudiced public ignored stories of gay men falling ill with lesions and mouth ulcers. President Reagan avoided mentioning the disease entirely. Then, as chronicled in Blood Farm, a new HIV-positive population emerged, one that included kids like Ken Dixon, Brad Cross, and Ryan White who had been infected as young as ten years old. But how?

The Infodemic lays bare the mechanisms of modern censorship and shows how they were used to undermine the response to the greatest global pandemic in a century. Beginning in China, the book charts the onslaught of COVID censorship through Iran, Russia, India, Egypt, Brazil, India, and inside the Trump White House. Modern censors not only restrict the flow of information but also open the floodgates to overwhelm the public with lies and half truths.

This practical approach will give you peace of mind as it helps you learn how to protect yourself in a variety of scenarios, from cooking at home to eating out, from your everyday commute to air travel. With tips and tidbits of history, he guides you through taking care of your home, kids, and pets. Dr. Tierno has over 40 years of experience in the clinical and medical microbiology fields and recently appeared as an expert during the pandemic on CNN in conversation with Chris Cuomo. Inside, he distills his wide-ranging knowledge into actionable, digestible steps.

Fast alle Frauen verhüten irgendwann in ihrem Leben mit der Pille. Doch die Hormone haben ungeahnte Auswirkungen: Die Pille erschafft eine andere Version von uns selbst, verändert unser Gehirn, lässt uns anders auf Stress reagieren und beeinflusst unsere Partnerwahl. Die erfahrene Psychologin Dr. Sarah E. Hill erklärt verständlich die neuesten wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnisse rund um die Anti-Baby-Pille. Wer ihre bahnbrechenden Ergebnisse kennt, kann Vorteile und Risiken verstehen und abwägen, um so eine bessere Entscheidung zu treffen - für oder gegen die hormonelle Verhütung.

Das große Hörbuch über die Anti-Baby-Pille - zum 60. Jahrestag! Fast alle Frauen verhüten irgendwann in ihrem Leben mit der Pille. Doch die Hormone haben ungeahnte Auswirkungen: Die Pille erschafft eine andere Version von uns selbst, verändert unser Gehirn, lässt uns anders auf Stress reagieren und beeinflusst unsere Partnerwahl. Die erfahrene Psychologin Dr. Sarah E. Hill erklärt verständlich die neuesten wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnisse rund um die Anti-Baby-Pille.

A must-listen for every dog lover - a short, tender, and uplifting tale of a cancer survivor and the life lessons shared with him by his beloved family dog. Our dogs come into our lives as “just the family pet”, but before we know it they become drinking buddies and fuzzy shrinks, playmates, and Cheerios-munching vacuum cleaners, alarm clocks, and sleeping partners. And, in their mys­terious and muttish ways, our dogs become our teachers.

When the woman he loved was diagnosed with a metastatic cancer, science writer George Johnson embarked on a journey to learn everything he could about the disease and the people who dedicate their lives to understanding and combating it. What he discovered is a revolution under way - an explosion of new ideas about what cancer really is and where it comes from. In a provocative and intellectually vibrant exploration, he takes us on an adventure through the history and recent advances of cancer research that will challenge everything you thought you knew about the disease.

It was the most radical human-breeding experiment in American history, and no one knew how it turned out. The Repository for Germinal Choice, nicknamed the Nobel Prize sperm bank, opened to notorious fanfare in 1980, and for two decades, women flocked to it from all over the country to choose a sperm donor from its roster of Nobel-laureate scientists, mathematical prodigies, successful businessmen, and star athletes.

In Disrupt Aging, CEO of AARP Jo Ann Jenkins focuses on three core areas - health, wealth, and self - to show us how to embrace opportunities and change the way we look at getting older. Here, she chronicles her own journey and the journeys of others who are making their marks as disruptors to show listeners how we can be active, healthy, and happy as we get older.

An upcoming book to be published by Penguin Random House.

An upcoming book to be published by Penguin Random House.

The reality of being a plus-sized person isn't that every moment of your life is about being plus-sized―it’s that you’re trying to live the same kind of complicated, exciting, fun, beautiful and difficult life as everyone else. The only problem is that at every turn, society says ‘you should apologize for just living in your body’. This antagonistic messaging is pervasive across our media and culture, in ways that are both subtle and blatantly, cruelly overt. As obesity rates skyrocket, so does the shaming of those affected by it.