Social Medicine

Cracking the Migraine Code uncovers the mystery of chronic headaches. This is a major paradigm shift and explains in easy-to-understand terms why you get migraines, why they typically occur in the same place time after time, the physiology of a headache, and finally how to get rid of them so you can get your life back. Once we know the underlying cause and how headaches get started, the treatment outcome becomes predictable.

In The Body Economic, Stuckler and Basu mine data from around the globe and throughout history to show how government policy becomes a matter of life and death during financial crises. In a series of historical case studies stretching from 1930s America, to Russia and Indonesia in the 1990s, to present-day Greece, Britain, Spain, and the U.S., Stuckler and Basu reveal that governmental mismanagement of financial strife has resulted in a grim array of human tragedies.

AudioLearn's Medical School Crash Courses presents Surgery. Written by experts and authorities in the field and professionally narrated for easy listening, this crash course is a valuable tool both during school and when preparing for the USMLE, or if you're simply interested in the subject.

You will learn the exact steps in order to boost your testosterone levels like you never have before. You will learn everything from your diet, fitness strategies, natural supplements, foods that have a tremendous effect on your testosterone, and lifestyle changes that you can do in order to dramatically improve your testosterone production in just a few weeks.

This is the first time any of Scott's materials are being offered on audio and this audio presentation is being released before the physical 3rd editionis in print! Unlike most certification review books, this entertaining and informative audio review book ispresented in the "way we really think and talk in the Emergency Department."

The Panic Virus is a gripping scientific detective story about how grassroots radicals, snake-oil salesmen, and cynical journalists have perpetrated the biggest health-scare hoax of all time. It explores what happens when the media treats all viewpoints as equally valid, regardless of facts, from parents who are convinced that vaccines caused their children's autism to right-wing radicals who believe that climate change is a myth

In 1989, the charismatic Joshua Boger left Merck, then America's most admired business, to found a drug company that would challenge industry giants and transform health care. Barry Werth described the company's tumultuous early days during the AIDS crisis in The Billion-Dollar Molecule, a celebrated classic of science and business journalism. Now he returns to tell a riveting story of Vertex's bold endurance and eventual success.

Organized by season, Rituals for Magic and Meaning offers a suggested ceremony for each day of the year and includes hundreds of simple rites, suggestions, meditations, and holiday celebrations that can make the ordinary extraordinary. Author Cerridwen Greenleaf has poured her years of study into this guide to creating meaning in daily life. Rituals for Magic and Meaning fully explores the hows and whys behind ritual - allowing listeners to truly master the art of creating personalized rituals.

Get over social phobias and anxiety, be comfortable around new people and crowds and learn how to create inner peace with this guided meditation and relaxation program, from certified hypnotherapist, Joel Thielke. It's as easy as turning on the tracks and falling asleep! The Sleep Learning System is specially designed to work with your subconscious mind during your sleep cycle.

Christine Montross was a nervous first-year medical student, standing outside the anatomy lab on her first day of class, preparing herself for what was to come. Entering a room with stainless-steel tables topped by corpses in body bags is shocking, no matter how long you've prepared yourself, but a strange thing happened when Montross met her cadaver.

An incisive examination of bioethics and American healthcare, and their profound affects on American culture over the last 60 years, from two eminent scholars. An eye-opening look at the inevitable moral choices that come along with tremendous medical progress, Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven but Nobody Wants to Die is a primer for all Americans to talk more honestly about health care.

In Northampton, Massachusetts, at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Kristen Gilbert was known as a hardworking, dedicated nurse - so why were her patients dying? So many emergencies and sudden deaths occurred while Kristen made her rounds on Ward C that her colleagues jokingly called her the "Angel of Death".

Your share of your health insurance premium and the amount you are paying for your yearly deductible, co-pays, and prescriptions are soaring. Don’t forget that your employer’s share of your premium is coming out of your salary. And unfortunately, you are not alone. What can you do to avoid unnecessary costs and encourage American healthcare reform? Ripped Off! is your guide to better understanding the problems of the American healthcare system and what you can do for yourself and how to help enact change.

In a world that traditionally treats people with illness by alleviating and placating symptoms, Overcoming Thyroid Symptoms gets to the real root of the cause. Explained in detail in Overcoming Thyroid Symptoms, Vannette posits that the internalization of extreme and rapid change technology, politics, environmental adversely affects the body, and negatively impacts the thyroid function because: The thyroid gland energetically partners with the heart, and is a base harmonizer of emotion.

Although hypothyroidism can certainly feel like an unwelcome third wheel in a relationship, it needn’t be forever. Learn not only how to overcome this change to both of your lives, but also how it can, instead, strengthen your relationship.

If you too are in a place where you don’t see any light at the end of the tunnel, then let me introduce you to a revolutionary discovery that changed my life: the vagus nerve. New research has revealed that this miracle nerve is the missing link to treating depression and anxiety and other incurable diseases such as Alzheimer’s and epilepsy.

In The New Nurse Survival Guide: Survive and Thrive as a New Nurse, experienced nurse Jon Haws, RN, provides you with 50 tips to not just survive as a new nurse but to thrive and excel. Nursing is hard. Being a new nurse is torture. With these 50 tips taken directly from Jon's experience as a new nurse preceptor and charge nurse, you will have the tools you need to make it!

One in 3,000 people is born with neurofibromatosis. It affects all of them in different ways. For some, neurofibromatosis is as clear as the tumors on their face. For others, it hides beneath the surface, creating tumors that destroy hearing, vision, and more. Many of them are misdiagnosed, misunderstood, and often simply missed by a world of medicine that doesn't have a full grasp on all the effects of NF.

Our Nursing Review Series is intended to be used by nursing students. The eBook version of the review is an outline of important topics. The audiobook has an in-depth explanation of each topic mentioned in the eBook outline. This audiobook focuses on pediatric nursing care. Our goal is to help transition RN students to work as successfully practicing nurses and help you do well in nursing school and on the HESI and NCLEX exams.

Protecting Care by Sage Ellison serves as a vital resource for those dedicated to ensuring equitable and inclusive healthcare for all, particularly in the realm of gender-affirming care. The book addresses the challenges faced by community members in accessing healthcare that respects and affirms their identities. By navigating the complex landscape of protections and policies, listeners can empower themselves and their communities.