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A Gift of Time - Continuing Your Pregnancy When Your Babys Life Is Expected to Be Brief by Amy Kuebelbeck; Deborah L. Davis
Category: Parenting | Series: A\Johns Hopkins Press Health Book Ser.
Now updated and expanded--a gentle and comprehensive guide for parents expecting a baby with a prenatal diagnosis of a life-limiting condition.When prenatal testing reveals that a baby is expected to die before or shortly after birth, many parents choose to proceed with the pregnancy and embrace the tim ...Show more
A Loving Approach to Dementia Care - Making Meaningful Connections While Caregiving by Laura Wayman
Category: Health and Wellbeing | Series: A\Johns Hopkins Press Health Book Ser.
An encouraging and compassionate guide for dementia caregivers. Caring for someone with dementia means devotedly and patiently doing a hundred little things each day. But few care providers are trained to meet the challenges of dementia--despite the fact that millions of people will struggle with it as ...Show more
A Woman's Guide to Pelvic Health: Expert Advice for Women of All Ages by Elizabeth E. Houser
Category: Health and Wellbeing | Series: A Johns Hopkins Press Health Book
In "A Woman's Guide to Pelvic Health" a urologist and a physical therapist offer expert and reassuring advice to women. For example, one of every four women suffers from urinary incontinence, the involuntary leakage of urine. Elizabeth E. Houser and Stephanie Riley Hahn want these women to know that the ...Show more
Before and After Loss; A Neurologists .. by Lisa M. Shulman
Category: Science | Series: A\Johns Hopkins Press Health Book Ser.
In Before and After Loss, neurologist Dr. Lisa M. Shulman describes a personal story of loss and her journey to understand the science behind the mind-altering experience of grief. Part memoir, part creative nonfiction, part account of scientific discovery, this moving book combines Shulman's perspectiv ...Show more
Bipolar Disorder: A Guide for Patients and Families by Francis Mark Mondimore
Category: Personal Development | Series: A Johns Hopkins Press Health Book
Compassionate and comprehensive, Dr. Francis Mondimore's pathbreaking guide has helped thousands of people and their loved ones cope with bipolar disorder. Now in its third edition, Bipolar Disorder has been thoroughly updated with new information about the causes of the disorder, tools for diagnosis, a ...Show more
Bipolar Disorder: A Guide for You and Your Loved Ones by Francis Mark Mondimore
Category: Personal Development | Series: A\Johns Hopkins Press Health Book Ser.
Compassionate and comprehensive, Dr. Francis Mondimore's pathbreaking guide has helped thousands of people and their loved ones cope with bipolar disorder. Now in its fourth edition, Bipolar Disorder has been totally revised and reorganized to reflect dramatic improvements in the treatment of the illnes ...Show more
COPD - Answers to Your Most Pressing Questions about Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease by Donald A. Mahler
Category: Health and Wellbeing | Series: A\Johns Hopkins Press Health Book Ser.
A leading expert answers your questions about how to live to your fullest with COPD. Significant lung damage from smoking, exposure in some jobs, or even diseases such as AIDS and tuberculosis can lead to COPD. Having chronic obstructive pulmonary disease can leave you feeling short of breath, sometimes ...Show more
Confronting Chronic Pain: A Pain Doctor's Guide to Relief by Steven Richeimer
Category: General Health | Series: A Johns Hopkins Press Health Book
This comprehensive guide is designed to help everyone whose days are filled with chronic pain - the kind of pain that truly is a disease unto itself. Where does chronic pain come from, and why doesn't it go away? Dr. Steven H. Richeimer, an eminent voice in the field of pain management, answers these an ...Show more
Finding Your Emotional Balance: A Guide for Women by Merry Noel Miller
Category: Self-Help | Series: A Johns Hopkins Press Health Book
Women are twice as likely as men to become depressed. While they seek help for mental disorders more often than men, they also seek to help others, trying to keep everyone happy while taking care of parents, spouses, and children. Sometimes, doing it all is doing too much. In Finding Your Emotional Bala ...Show more
Food Allergies - A Complete Guide for Eating When Your Life Depends on It by Scott H. Sicherer
Category: Health | Series: A\Johns Hopkins Press Health Book Ser.
Posing the questions that anyone with food allergies will think to ask--and then some--Food Allergies provides practical, emotional, and scientific guidance on the topics that affect your life. Allergy expert Scott H. Sicherer addresses the full spectrum of food allergies, from mild to life threatening, ...Show more
Hysterectomy: Exploring Your Options by Edward E. Wallach
Category: Health | Series: A Johns Hopkins Press Health Book
Hysterectomy is the second most common major surgical procedure performed on women in the United States. For some women, the decision to have a hysterectomy is an easy one; for others, it is a difficult choice associated with concerns about risks, discomfort, and female identity. Yet many disorders of t ...Show more
Living With Rheumatoid Arthritis by Tammi L. Shlotzhauer
Category: Health | Series: A\Johns Hopkins Press Health Book Ser.
Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune disease in which inflammation plays a major role in causing joint problems. Warmth and swelling in the joints, along with significant stiffness and pain, can make daily life difficult. Many people with rheumatoid arthritis also experience fatigue, low-grade fever, l ...Show more