ilość książek w kategorii: 422
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Bull's-Eye: Unraveling the Medical Mystery of Lyme Disease
ISBN: 9780300103700 / Angielski / Miękka / 285 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this riveting account of medical sleuthing, Dr. Jonathan A. Edlow tells the history of the discovery of Lyme disease over centuries and continents. He also provides the latest information about the disease and its treatment, explaining the recent widespread outbreaks and examining the controversies that have swirled over the diagnosis, vaccine, treatment, and even definition of Lyme disease. In a new preface, Dr. Edlow updates recent developments and controversies in Lyme disease research, discusses reactions from the two "camps" of the Lyme disease community, and writes about some of... In this riveting account of medical sleuthing, Dr. Jonathan A. Edlow tells the history of the discovery of Lyme disease over centuries and continen... |
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247,71 zł |
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The Hepatitis C Help Book: A Groundbreaking Treatment Program Combining Western and Eastern Medicine for Maximum Wellness and Healing
ISBN: 9780312372729 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A fully updated and revised edition of an important health guide, including the latest information on optimum interferon protocol. Hepatitis C has been called "the emergent and preeminent public-health problem of the twenty-first century--surpassing HIV." It has also been dubbed "The Shadow Epidemic," because it is one of the most clandestine of viruses and infects healthy people who have no idea they are being attacked by something they can't even detect. Now, the two experts on Hepatitis C who teamed up to write the first comprehensive guide to orthodox and alternative treatment... A fully updated and revised edition of an important health guide, including the latest information on optimum interferon protocol. Hepatitis ... |
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94,38 zł |
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Virus X: Tracking the New Killer Plagues
ISBN: 9780316763066 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In a book that takes readers into the "hot zones" of today's most dangerous viral outbreaks, Dr. Frank Ryan presents a radical theory about the origins of these deadly microbes, and reveals what research scientists and doctors are doing to try and control them.
In a book that takes readers into the "hot zones" of today's most dangerous viral outbreaks, Dr. Frank Ryan presents a radical theory about the origin...
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102,60 zł |
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The Polio Paradox: What You Need to Know
ISBN: 9780446529075 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Although the threat of polio ended with the Salk vaccine in 1954, many polio survivors are now experiencing the onset of post-polio syndrome (PPS), a complication with new but related symptoms such as chronic fatigue and joint pain.
Although the threat of polio ended with the Salk vaccine in 1954, many polio survivors are now experiencing the onset of post-polio syndrome (PPS), a ...
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201,75 zł |
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Bird Flu: Everything You Need to Know about the Next Pandemic
ISBN: 9780470038642 / Angielski / Miękka / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Marc Siegel is an articulate voice of reason in a world beset by hype and hysteria. We would be well advised to listen closely to what he has to say.
-Jerome Groopman, M.D., staff writer, the New Yorker ""Siegel cuts through the hype about the 'deadly' this and the 'lethal' that, and applies reason in seeking the answers."" -John M. Barry, author of The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History ""Timely and needed. At such times, we need soothsayers and explicators to redirect the ready-fire-aim mindset. Siegel's book fulfills this role well."" -The... Marc Siegel is an articulate voice of reason in a world beset by hype and hysteria. We would be well advised to listen closely to what he has to say.<...
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53,16 zł |
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Deadly Feasts: Tracking the Secrets of a Terrifying New Plague
ISBN: 9780684844251 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this brilliant and gripping medical detective story. Richard Rhodes follows virus hunters on three continents as they track the emergence of a deadly new brain disease that first kills cannibals in New Guinea, then cattle and young people in Britain and France--and that has already been traced to food animals in the United States. In a new afterword for the paperback, Rhodes reports the latest US and worldwide developments of a burgeoning global threat.
In this brilliant and gripping medical detective story. Richard Rhodes follows virus hunters on three continents as they track the emergence of a dead...
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73,90 zł |
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Secret Life of Germs: What They Are, Why We Need Them, and How We Can Protect Ourselves Against Them
ISBN: 9780743421881 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. They're on everything we touch, eat, and breathe in -- on every inch of skin. And despite the advances of science, germs are challenging medicine in ways that were unimaginable ten years ago. No wonder the world is up in arms -- and using antibacterial soaps.
From the common cold, E. coli, and Lyme disease to encephalitis, mad cow disease, and flesh-eating bacteria, Tierno takes readers on a historical survey of the microscopic world. Rebuffing scare tactics behind recent "germ events" Tierno explains how the recycling of matter is the key to life. Yes, he'll tell you why it's a good... They're on everything we touch, eat, and breathe in -- on every inch of skin. And despite the advances of science, germs are challenging medicine in w...
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82,07 zł |
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Dr. Ruth's Guide to Talking about Herpes
ISBN: 9780802141200 / Angielski / Miękka / 205 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1980, when Dr. Ruth's New York radio show debuted, herpes has just hit the headlines. When the show went live a year later, many of the questions people asked her were about this surging sexually transmitted disease. A short while later, AIDS was making headlines and herpes was relegated to the media back burner. But while there's no denying that AIDS is a much more serious STD, herpes has done its share of damage and today it is estimated that nearly 60 million Americans are infected with this disease. What's more, there are over one million newly diagnosed cases of herpes each year. This...
In 1980, when Dr. Ruth's New York radio show debuted, herpes has just hit the headlines. When the show went live a year later, many of the questions p...
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69,79 zł |
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The First Year: Hepatitis B: An Essential Guide for the Newly Diagnosed
ISBN: 9781569245330 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The hepatitis B virus causes an estimated one million deaths each year worldwide, and despite the availability of a hepatitis B vaccine, a combined lack of awareness and educational resources has turned this virus into a deadly epidemic. Author William Finley Green, who has lived with hepatitis B for almost twenty-five years and has become an expert on the condition, guides those newly diagnosed step-by-step through the first year following diagnosis. He provides charts and tables, crucial information about the nature of the disease, treatment options, diet, exercise, social concerns, the...
The hepatitis B virus causes an estimated one million deaths each year worldwide, and despite the availability of a hepatitis B vaccine, a combined la...
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90,28 zł |
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The Monster at Our Door
ISBN: 9781595580115 / Angielski / Twarda / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The World Health Organization warns avian influenza H5N1--which kills two out of every three people it infects--is on the verge of mutating into a super-contagious pandemic that could visit several billion homes within two years. Davis details the emergence of this new plague. 35,000 prpint
The World Health Organization warns avian influenza H5N1--which kills two out of every three people it infects--is on the verge of mutating into a sup...
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106,70 zł |
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Un Millennium Development Library: Investing in Strategies to Reverse the Global Incidence of Tb
ISBN: 9781844072231 / Angielski / Miękka / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Nearly 2 million people die each year from TB. However, real progress has been made over the last decade in implementing DOTS - an effective intervention against TB. Investing in Strategies to Reverse the Global Incidence of TB describes the features of DOTS and offers a guide to implementing the system and achieving a universal standard of care based on proper diagnosis, treatment and reporting. Other recommendations include efforts against HIV-related TB and multidrug-resistant (MDR) TB, engaging all care providers and communities in high quality care and developing new diagnostics, drugs...
Nearly 2 million people die each year from TB. However, real progress has been made over the last decade in implementing DOTS - an effective intervent...
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256,81 zł |
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Malaria: A manual for community health workers
ISBN: 9789241544917 / Angielski / Miękka / 55 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Explains the many simple things that community health workers can do to treat malaria prevent new cases and thus help reduce the alarming number of deaths particularly in young children and pregnant women. Practical in its approach the manual concentr
Explains the many simple things that community health workers can do to treat malaria prevent new cases and thus help reduce the alarming number of de...
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72,84 zł |
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New Global Threat, The: Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome and Its Impacts
ISBN: 9789812386656 / Angielski / Twarda / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Highlights of the book include:
- "Fighting Infectious Diseases: One Mission, Many Agents," by Dr Shiping Tang, Deputy Director, Center for Regional Security Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences - "SARS, Anti-Populism, and Elite Lies: Diseases from Which China Can Recover," by Professor Lynn T White, Professor of Politics & International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University - "SARS and Hong Kong Culture," by Professor Leo Ou-fan Lee, Professor of Chinese Literature, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University - "Facing the... Highlights of the book include:
- "Fighting Infectious Diseases: One Mission, Many Agents," by Dr Shiping Tang, Deputy Director, Center for Region... |
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297,96 zł |
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New Global Threat, The: Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome and Its Impacts
ISBN: 9789812386687 / Angielski / Miękka / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Highlights of the book include:
- "Fighting Infectious Diseases: One Mission, Many Agents," by Dr Shiping Tang, Deputy Director, Center for Regional Security Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences - "SARS, Anti-Populism, and Elite Lies: Diseases from Which China Can Recover," by Professor Lynn T White, Professor of Politics & International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University - "SARS and Hong Kong Culture," by Professor Leo Ou-fan Lee, Professor of Chinese Literature, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University - "Facing the... Highlights of the book include:
- "Fighting Infectious Diseases: One Mission, Many Agents," by Dr Shiping Tang, Deputy Director, Center for Region... |
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138,71 zł |
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Finally!!! Stop Having Colds & Flu
ISBN: 9781425118396 / Angielski / Miękka / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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49,27 zł |
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The Political Economy of the Sars Epidemic: The Impact on Human Resources in East Asia
ISBN: 9780415394987 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book discusses the political economy of the SARS epidemic and its impact on human resources in East Asia, as it occurred in 2003. The epidemic spread from the People's Republic of China, to Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan, amongst other countries in East Asia and as far away as North America, particularly Canada, the EU and elsewhere. The book looks first at earlier precedents, such as the Black Death and the way in which the potential threats of the recent epidemic were diffused across the world in 'instant news' reports; examining why it was dubbed the first 'global epidemic' due to... This book discusses the political economy of the SARS epidemic and its impact on human resources in East Asia, as it occurred in 2003. The epidemic... |
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744,88 zł |
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The Vaccine Controversy: The History, Use, and Safety of Vaccinations
ISBN: 9780313361852 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. While millions of Americans receive vaccinations each year, a vocal segment of the population is opposed to all immunizations--some even refusing to get mandated vaccinations for their children. In The Vaccine Controversy, Dr. Kurt Link--a specialist in internal medicine--explores that paradox and provides a history of vaccine development, including such possible future vaccines as those being developed in the hope of immunizing against HIV. A strong supporter of vaccination programs, Link explains the immune system and how it works, as well as outlining the various types of... While millions of Americans receive vaccinations each year, a vocal segment of the population is opposed to all immunizations--some even refusing t... |
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146,00 zł |
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Don't Touch That Doorknob!: How Germs Can Zap You and How You Can Zap Back
ISBN: 9780446676342 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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90,28 zł |
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Passage Through Crisis: Polio Victims and Their Families
ISBN: 9780887388538 / Angielski / Miękka / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based on a study of fourteen families in which a child had contracted paralytic poliomyelitis. Passage Through Crisis: Polio Victims and Their Families, first published in 1963, was widely praised for its penetrating--and, for its time, innovative--analyses of doctor-patient communications, and for its interpreta-tion of the meaning of physical disability in American society. In his new opening essay, Davis reflects on the enduring sources of this profound problem in human relations as well as on those changes in the culture of American health care that are helping to restructure...
Based on a study of fourteen families in which a child had contracted paralytic poliomyelitis. Passage Through Crisis: Polio Victims and Their Familie...
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225,98 zł |
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Polio
ISBN: 9780313358975 / Angielski / Twarda / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This new title in the Biographies of Disease series offers a thorough examination of medical and scientific efforts to battle polio, from the 19th-century identification of the virus to the great 20th-century epidemics, from the unprecedented campaign to find a vaccine to recent efforts to confront polio in West Africa and South Asia and eliminate it entirely. Beyond the science, "Polio" looks at the effects of the disease on individuals and the United States as a whole. The book gives readers a sense of what it was like to have polio and to recover from it. It also describes how the... This new title in the Biographies of Disease series offers a thorough examination of medical and scientific efforts to battle polio, from the 19th-... |
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216,30 zł |