Health Systems

Das Immunsystem als Blockbuster: vom Macher des YouTube-Kanals "kurzgesagt". Philipp Dettmer, Gründer und Kopf von "kurzgesagt - in a nutshell", einer der weltweit erfolgreichsten Wissenskanäle auf YouTube, erklärt unser Immunsystem anschaulich, unterhaltsam und witzig - passend in eine Zeit, in der viele genauer wissen möchten, wie die Immunabwehr unseres Körpers eigentlich funktioniert.

Dr. Erika Schwartz believes that today's patient is but a leaf blowing in the wind of groupthink protocols, corrupt medical societies, insurance companies on the take, and billions of dollars in marketing and lobbying pressure from drug companies. What is the quick fix? The answers are here in 10 clear chapters, giving examples every step of the way. It's a simple process that takes you, the patient, from being a victim to being in charge.

In the multibillion-dollar business of American medicine, doctors are often portrayed as culprits—opportunistic millionaires who prey on the misfortune of their hapless patients and drive up the cost of health care. But often they are the real victims of a system designed to increase profits for the insurance companies, shady businessmen, and Big Government.

A courageous memoir that spans 40 years of Dinaaz Lentin's life experiences within our health care system. The story is raw, thought-provoking, and a brilliant look at complications and uncertainties when a medical challenge being faced is rare and uncertain. An extremely powerful example of how self-belief and trusting your own gut instinct can allow you to overcome any of life's challenges.

Whether you are newly diagnosed or have had Parkinson's disease for many years, or you are younger or older, the lessons that Karl Robb offers in this audiobook will apply to your situation. A culmination of over twenty years of personal experience, in A Soft Voice in a Noisy World, Karl Robb provides an assortment of tips and suggestions that have made a difference in his life and benefitted him in his personal struggle with PD.

This book provides the listener with nine foundational values that transform a healthcare organization, outfitting it to succeed in the modern environment of high accountability and value-based medicine. Plagued by traditional leadership paradigms, the healthcare industry continues to deliver status quo results. Transformational thinking must dominate by embracing the values that have been vetted over 25 years in healthcare settings that are described in The Culture Cure.

Technological innovation is deeply woven into the fabric of American culture, and is no less a basic feature of American health care. Medical technology saves lives and relieves suffering, and is enormously popular with the public, profitable for doctors, and a source of great wealth for industry. Yet its costs are rising at a dangerously unsustainable rate. The control of technology costs poses a terrible ethical and policy dilemma. How can we deny people what they may need to live and flourish?

Strategies for Developing and Implementing Information Technology Systems for Electronic Health Records was a research-based effort by Priscilla Riddley to introduce the latest practices occurring in the healthcare industry. It intends to provide useful information in the easily digestible format of a detailed book with comprehensive sections. Priscilla aims to cover the topic of Electronic Health Records mentioned throughout the book as EHR. Although seemingly a straightforward concept, EHR systems have considerably grown in the last few decades.

If I had not taken my health into my own hands I would have been a gold mine for Big Pharma. High blood pressure. Chronic back pain. Arthritis. Insomnia. Anxiety. Excessive sweating. Allergies. Insanely huge ulcers in my mouth misdiagnosed as herpes. Ulcers in my nose misdiagnosed and treated as allergies. Not to mention the disaster that was my stomach.

If you’ve ever panicked when someone pulled away, replayed texts until you couldn’t breathe, or felt “too much” in relationships, you’re not broken. You’re anxious-attached, and your body has been trying to protect you. In this compassionate and research-backed guide, trauma-informed educator Elise Hart explains why your relationships trigger such intense emotions and how to retrain your nervous system to feel secure from the inside out.

After you get a bump on the head, does it feel like everything has gone wrong in your life? Do you feel like everything you do makes you worse? Are you stressed out that your doctor does not know why your headaches get worse when you play and they never go away? If the answer is yes, you are like so many of my patients, from everyday people to professional athletes, who are frustrated, fed up, and want to get answers for why they feel so bad after they get hit in the head. They are tired of going to ER or urgent care for relief.

En este nuevo libro, el doctor Enrique Esteve aborda uno de los temas actuales por excelencia: la inflamación. Solamente él es capaz de fusionar el rigor científico con referencias a películas o canciones míticas, o incluso a algunos filósofos clásicos. Todo para, en un tono cercano tratar asuntos como: Qué es la inflamación y sus diferentes variantes. Cómo detectarla y factores desencadenantes. Su relación con la fertilidad, el envejecimiento, el deterioro cognitivo o la microbiota, entre otros asuntos.

For every woman struggling with exhaustion, gut issues, inflammation or hormonal imbalance who’s been told it’s ‘just part of being a woman’ – this audiobook is your turning point. In this transformative guide, hormone health coach and somatic healing expert Isabella Mainwaring reveals...

Be a class genius and become a better student with this powerful, guided meditation program from the Sleep Learning System and world-renowned hypnotherapist, Joel Thielke. Your mind is a powerful tool, and now is the time to maximize your brain power and focus, and be the best student you can be!

In The Long Fix, physician and health-care CEO Vivian S. Lee, MD, cuts to the heart of the health-care crisis. The problem with the way medicine is practiced, she explains, is not so much who's paying, it's what we are paying for. Insurers, employers, the government, and individuals pay for every procedure, prescription, and lab test, whether or not it makes us better - and that is both backward and dangerous.

En till två procent av Sveriges vuxna befolkning diagnostiseras med borderline personlighetsstörning. Men vad innebär det egentligen? Ordet borderline i sig säger inte mycket om den svåra psykiska störning diagnosen innebär. Författaren och psykologen Görel Kristina Näslund har i samarbete med forskare på Karolinska institutet i Stockholm skrivit en bok som sammanfattar och belyser diagnosen borderline personlighetsstörning i sin helhet, komplett med symtom, behandlingsalternativ och orsaker.

Caring for someone who has Alzheimer’s or other forms of dementia is a daunting task that can leave most caregivers drained, strained, and depressed. Many find comfort in knowing they are not alone and in being able to share their experiences with someone who understands what they are going through. Caregivers need all the support and tools they can garner to help them survive this experience. Such was the reason for writing I Love You Always, which is an honest account of one family’s experiences from diagnosis and beyond.

The vagus nerve is a large, branching nerve that begins in your brain and sends signals to your body’s major organs such as your heart, your lungs, and your digestive system. It’s responsible for your heart rate, your digestion, your reaction to stress, and many other things. That’s why a lot can go wrong in your body if the vagus nerve doesn’t function perfectly.

When Deb Brandon discovered that cavernous angiomas - tangles of malformed blood vessels in her brain - were behind the terrifying symptoms she'd been experiencing, she underwent one brain surgery. And then another. And then another. And that was just the beginning. The book also includes an introduction by Connie Lee, founder and president of the Angioma Alliance. Unlike other memoirs that focus on injury crisis and acute recovery, But My Brain Had Other Ideas follows Brandon’s story all the way through to long-term recovery, revealing without sugarcoating or sentimentality Brandon’s struggles - and ultimate triumph.

Autismus ist in aller Munde. Allein in Deutschland leben ca. 800.000 autistische Menschen. Dennoch mangelt es an Unterstützung, Hilfsmitteln, adäquaten Lebens-, Wohn- und Arbeitsbedingungen. Vor allem aber fehlt die Akzeptanz für das Anderssein. Dieses Buch ist sowohl für Eltern und Angehörige autistischer Menschen als auch für heilpädagogische und pädagogische Fachkräfte, Therapeut: innen, Schulbegleiter: innen, Betreuer: innen und alle Menschen interessant und hilfreich, die autistischen Menschen in ihrem Lebens- und Arbeitsalltag unterstützend zur Seite stehen wollen.