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MENIERE MAN: A MEMOIR OF MENIERE'S DISEASE. LET'S GET BETTER

A truly remarkable success story: A Meniere survivor, now living the symptom-free life. In Let's Get Better, he shares his own, personal account, from diagnosis to recovery. Determined to avoid surgery or medical ' cures', he used a positive self-help regime that he developed to give him a life back, without the devastating effects of Meniere's.

In this book: Let's Get Better, Meniere Man shares his simple, uncomplicated self-help routine.

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The Digestive System in Systemic Autoimmune Diseases, Second Edition, represents the state-of-the-art in the field of digestive disorders in the most common systemic autoimmune diseases. This volume consists of an introductory chapter on imaging techniques in digestive diseases, followed by eight chapters on digestive manifestations in specific systemic autoimmune diseases. The final five chapters deal with digestive diseases with an autoimmune pathogenesis and systemic manifestations. International in scope, the table of contents reads like a Who's who in clinical research on...

The prevalence of autoimmune diseases and rheumatic conditions is constantly increasing. Autoimmune diseases affect approximately 7-10% of the population of the United States, while more than 50,000,000 American adults suffer from some type of arthritis. The Heart in Rheumatic, Autoimmune and Inflammatory Diseases examines the complex mechanisms relating to cardiac diseases from a pathophysiological and clinical point of view. Autoimmune rheumatic diseases can affect the coronary vessels, myocardium, pericardium, heart valves and the conduction system. The diagnosis of these unique...

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Written and edited by experts in the field, this collection from Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Medicine surveys tools that are currently available to scientists and engineers in the field and how they have been used to fabricate physiologically appropriate tissues and organs. The contributors...

Delivers complex information in an easy-to-read, step-by-step format

The genomic era encompasses the entire spectrum of DNA -- all of the genes, and the interaction and inter-relationship of genes (genome) to the environment. Rapidly changing research has led to numerous advances in genetic testing, diagnosis, and treatments, and it is essential that APRNs be able to integrate genetic risk assessment into clinical care. This quick reference delivers complex information in an easy-to-read, step-by-step format with bitesize info boxes and bulleted information...

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-Anatomy and Histology of the Human and Murine Prostate

-Prostate Cancer Genetics

-Prostate Cancer Disparities by Race and Ethnicity: From Nucleotide to Neighborhood

-Stem Cells and Cancer Stem Cells

-Epigenetics

-New Opportunities for Targeting the Androgen Receptor in Prostate Cancer

-Chemoprevention in...

Because we are hard-wired to find nature comforting, Healing Garden Coloring Book is a designed as avisual therapeutic gardenthat brings you relaxation, stress relief and harmony, using color and creativity to promote healing.As you color, your room becomes a virtual garden.

Nature is most certainly restorative....

BUTTERFLIES AND FLOWER GARDENS. Color, relax and create a tranquil space within. Sharpen your pencils - all shades of red, green, yellow and blue. The more you focus on your art, the more you can color your stress away.

Because we are hard-wired to find nature comforting Healing Garden Coloring Book is a designed as a visual therapeutic garden that brings you relaxation, stress relief and harmony, using color and creativity to promote healing. As...

Many gastroenterologists refer to microscopic colitis as a nuisance disease with a benign course. Some doctors seem to confuse it with IBS and they try to treat it as though it were IBS. For many patients though, the disease proves to be debilitating and life-altering, and the treatment options offered by one's doctor may not provide effective relief. Because there is a lot of truth in the observation that microscopic colitis can only be truly understood by someone who actually has the disease, one can learn vital information from others who have discovered ways to live with it, and...

The rapid expansion of cardiac surgery has led to non-cardiac thoracic surgery becoming lost in the vast amount of literature available; this new edition of a classic educational reference emphasizes the practical steps necessary in the more frequently performed thoracic procedures and some less common operations that trainees may never see but will almost undoubtedly need later in their career. ​Many of these thoracic surgical techniques are harder due to subtleties in procedure and the anatomy involved making this reference invaluable to those training in the discipline.

Now in a fully revised and updated second edition, written and editing by leading experts in the field, this comprehensive and practical text brings together the latest guidelines and recommendations on the benefits of exercise and physical activity in the management of diabetes and its complications, providing both the researcher and practitioner with evidence-based information that is both theoretically and clinically useful. Part one sets the stage by discussing the epidemiology and prevention of type 2 diabetes and the metabolic syndrome. The physiological effects of exercise in type 2...