If you had an allergy so severe that accidentally eating a forbidden food could kill you in minutes--how would it change your life, and your relationship to food?
*Highly Commended in the Popular Medicine category at the 2012 British Medical Association Book Awards*The simple sensation of touching someone's hand can have a powerful therapeutic effect.
The Lighter Side of Breast Cancer Recovery: Lessons Learned Along the Path to Healing, takes you down the path with a woman who has been there, but it may not be the path that most people follow.
Written by a naturopathic physician specializing in complementary cancer care, Breast Cancer: Thriving Through Treatment to Recovery provides solutions for maintaining health and improving quality of life during conventional cancer treatment.
God can transform your pain into joy· a gentle guide through the stages of healing from grief, loss, or trauma· compassionate biblical wisdom and practical mental health tools· from a survivor of domestic violence, licensed professional counselor, and licensed marriage and family therapist with nearly two decades of experienceNo matter what life has been like, at some point or another we all have the same question: Why does God allow bad things to happen?
Now in its third edition, Stronger After Stroke puts the power of recovery in the reader's hands by providing simple-to-follow instructions for reaching the highest possible level of recovery.
Overcome the twin giants of cynicism and despair that threaten to derail your emotional and physical health and find hope for life by witnessing the power of God's redemptive healing.
When Anni Matthews was diagnosed with cancer, she decided to do something really valuable with the experience: she produced a book that is a friendly companion for those who must face the disease.
The first book to clearly explain this new disorder and offer treatment optionsAfflicting an estimated 3 million women in the United States, PMDD is an extreme form of PMS in which the physical and psychological symptoms are often so severe that they strain social, familial, and work relationships to the breaking point.
The Definitive Resource for Trauma Survivors, Their Loved Ones, and HelpersTrauma can take many forms, from witnessing a violent crime or surviving a natural disaster to living with the effects of abuse, rape, combat, or alcoholism.
Fast and Simple Diabetes Menus provides more than 125 delicious and easy diabetic-friendly recipes, plus guidelines for adapting menus and recipes to accommodate complicating factors that often accompany diabetes, including high blood pressure, high cholesterol, kidney disease, and celiac sprue disease.
For families with a seriously ill parent--advice on helping your children cope from two leading Harvard psychiatristsBased on a Massachusetts General Hospital program, Raising an Emotionally Healthy Child When a Parent is Sick covers how you can address children's concerns when a parent is seriously ill, how to determine how children with different temperaments are really feeling and how to draw them out, ways to ensure the child's financial and emotional security and reassure the child that he or she will be taken care of.
The reasons behind the increase in autism diagnoses have become hotly contested in the media as well as within the medical, scholarly, and autistic communities.
The New York Times-bestselling author of The Maker's Diet uses biblical and natural health concepts to show you how to improve your gastrointestinal health.
Positive Behaviour Support Strategies for Students with Oppositional and Defiant Behaviours equips parents, educators and professionals with the knowledge and skills to assess, manage and prevent challenging behaviours in children who have been diagnosed with anA OppositionalA and Defiant Disorder or are showing signs ofA oppositionalA and defiant behaviour persistently.
Author Kathleen Nosek offers dyslexic adults a unique approach that gets to the heart of the biggest problem they facethe shame and battered self-esteem resulting from decades of struggling with this frustrating and often misunderstood learning disability.
Positive Behaviour Support Strategies for Students with Anxious Behaviours equips parents, educators and professionals with the knowledge and skills to assess, manage and prevent challenging behaviours in children who have been diagnosed with an Anxiety Disorder or exhibit persistent anxious behaviours.
Since its last revision in 1997, dozens of new treatments and philosophies about ADD and ADHD have met with storms of controversy and great media attention.
Alcoholic Korsakoff's Syndrome: An Information-Processing Approach To Amnesia presents an overview of one of the theories of amnesia, namely, the extent to which it represents an information-processing deficit.
Advances in Physiological Sciences, Volume 29: Gastrointestinal Defence Mechanisms is a collection of papers that details the findings of research studies on the theoretical and practical aspects of the gastrointestinal defense mechanisms.
Dana Creighton and her mother both were affected by the same inherited cerebellar degeneration, known as ataxia--a loss of control over body movements.
Neurological Skills: A Guide to Examination and Management in Neurology describes the neurological examination and its pitfalls, discussing how physical signs or lack of them can be used to substantiate or refute the hypothesis generated whilst listening to the patient's own account of affairs.
The Primary Care of Seizure Disorders: A Practical Guide to the Evaluation and Comprehensive Management of Seizure Disorders is designed to help physicians who in the course of clinical practice care for patients who have epileptic seizures.
Biochemistry, Pathology and Genetics of Pulmonary Emphysema documents the proceedings of an international symposium held in Sassari, Italy, 27-30 April 1980.
Frontotemporal Degeneration (FTD) is now recognized as one of the most common forms of dementia in individuals under age 65, second only to Alzheimer's.
Advances in Physiological Sciences, Volume 28: Saliva and Salivation covers the proceedings of the Saliva and Salivation satellite symposium, which is a pre-congress meeting connected to the 28th International Congress of Physiological Sciences.
