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If you’re male and have a health question, this is the place to find an answer. This ambitious, 500-page book from the American Medical Association is a thorough guide for keeping a man’s body healthy, making sense of his system, and understanding specific health concerns. Part 1, “The Healthy Man,” gives a quick overview of diet, exercise, weight management, alcohol, drugs, tobacco, and safety in 40 pages, including information you think you should know but maybe don’t, like how to read a food label, manage medications, and check for home safety hazards. Part 2, “Staying Healthy,” goes into more detail about diet, exercise, and weight management, and introduces preventive healthcare (e.g., medical screening tests and self-examinations), emotional health, and avoiding risky behavior and violence. Part 3, “The Reproductive System,” covers male sexuality, including reproductive disorders, STDs, birth control, and treatments for erectile dysfunction. Part 4, “Common Health Concerns,” comprising more than half the book, covers common male medical conditions and how to prevent and/or treat them. The writing is straightforward and serious (no wittiness or jokes), like a consultation with a trusted physician. The book covers so many topics that its treatment of any one condition is far from comprehensive, but it’s an excellent reference and a starting place for learning about your health issues. –Joan Price

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“Men are often reluctant to discuss issues that are important to their general health and well being. This one-of-a-kind guide provides helpful information in an easy-to-read format on major health concerns including diet and nutrition, exercise, sexuality, and emotional health. This guide should help men make better decisions about their health.” —Jeffrey P. Koplan, M.D., M.P.H., Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

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* Hardcover: 502 pages
* Publisher: Wiley; 1st edition (September 15, 2001)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 0471414115
* ISBN-13: 978-0471414117
* Format: PDF
* Size: 6.76 MB

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This book provides a snapshot of AIDS/HIV. Included is information on the nature of AIDS/HIV and the AIDS epidemic; symptoms and transmittal; populations at risk; children, adolescents, and AIDS/HIV; AIDS/HIV and the health-care system; cost, treatment, and research; testing, prevention, and education; HIV and AIDS worldwide; and knowledge, behavior, and opinions of those affected by AIDS/HIV.
AIDS/HIV consists of ten chapters and three appendices. Each of the chapters is devoted to a particular aspect of AIDS/HIV. For a summary of the information covered in each chapter, please see the synopses provided in the Table of Contents at the front of the book. Chapters generally begin with an overview of the basic facts and background information on the chapter’s topic, then proceed to examine subtopics of particular interest.

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pages: 264 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA, 1 edition (2001-03-19)
ISBN: 0195139402

Format: CHM
Size: 605 KB

Summary:
In Caring for Patients at the End of Life: Facing an Uncertain Future Together, Dr. Quill uses his wide range of clinical experience caring for severely ill patients and their families to illustrate the challenges and potential of end-of-life care. Section one utilizes the near death experiences of two patients to explore values underlying medical humanism, and then presents the case of “Diane” to explore the fundamental clinical commitments of partnership and non-abandonment. Section two explores, illustrates, and provides practical guidance for clinicians, patients, and families about critical communication issues including delivering bad news, discussing palliative care, and exploring the wish to die. In section three, difficult ethical and policy challenges inherent in hospice work, including the rule of double effect, terminal sedation, and physician-assisted suicide, are explored using a mix of real cases and an analysis of underlying clinical, ethical, and policy issues. In a final chapter, Dr. Quill discusses the tragic death of his brother which occurred as this book was being completed, and how his family made the most emotionally challenging decisions of their lives. Dr. Quill exposes readers to an internally consistent and practical way of thinking by simultaneously embracing the potential of palliative care, and also acknowledging that it has limitations. His philosophy of offering forthright discussions with patient and family, mutual decision-making, ensuring medical and palliative care expertise and of committing to see the dying process through to the patient’s death is vividly illustrated

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pages: 848 pages
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 4 edition (January 1, 2004)
ISBN: 1582552819

Format: CHM
Size: 36.8 MB

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The newly revised Fourth Edition of this popular and widely used reference is a start-to-finish guide for nearly 400 basic and advanced nursing procedures. It provides step-by-step instructions for each procedure, explains how to use and troubleshoot equipment, and presents key information on rationales, cautions, complications, patient teaching, and documentation. The user-friendly format includes checklists, quick-scanning tables, logos that flag essential information, and more than 700 illustrations and photographs of equipment and techniques. This edition features a brand-new chapter on psychiatric nursing procedures and new entries on prone positioning, surgical site verification, ST segment monitoring, swallowing and aspiration precautions, and bispectral index monitoring (BIS).

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ABC of palliative care - Geoffrey Hanks, Marie Fallon - 2006

Book Description
This brand new edition of ABC of Palliative Care pulls together the most up-to-date information on this complex, multidisciplinary area in a practical, user-friendly manner. Fully updated, it deals with the important social and psychological aspects for palliative care of people with incurable diseases including quality of life, communication and bereavement issues.

This authoritative, practical title will be invaluable to the increasing numbers of doctors, senior and specialist nurses, and all those health professionals who deal with cancer patients in the hospital, at home or in a hospice.

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(BMJ Books) Western Infirmary, Glasgow, UK. Introduction to palliative care for those involved in the care of patients with terminal illnesses. Addresses: pain control, depression, anxiety, confusion, emergencies, community care, children, the last 48 hours, and bereavement. Written by specialists and primary care workers. Color photographs. Softcover. –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details
* Paperback: 96 pages
* Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Limited; 2 edition (September 1, 2006)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 1405130792
* ISBN-13: 978-1405130790
* Product Dimensions: 11.6 x 8.1 x 0.3 inches

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The mechanism by which cigarette smoke causes or contributes to inflammatory diseases like chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, cardiovascular disease and cancer remains unclear. Recent developments in our knowledge of cellular signalling suggest that cigarette smoke may cause oxidative stress in cellular systems. The assessment, consequences and possible modulation of these effects are discussed in this book.
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* Hardcover: 407 pages
* Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (July 26, 2006)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 3540314105
* ISBN-13: 978-3540314103
* Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.1 x 0.9 inches

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Since the publication of the first edition of this book in 1983, A Handbook for Medical Teachers has established itself as an ideal resource for new and established teachers who frequently still have little opportunities for education training. Its popularity relates to the successful combination of sound educational principles, a how-to-do-it approach and an entertaining easy-to-read style. It is supported by numerous illustrations, examples, and pertinent cartoons.

This fourth edition has been extensively revised to reflect the major changes that continue to occur in both undergraduate and postgraduate education.

Many academic staff are coming under external and internal review to demonstrate their teaching competence and the quality of their courses and assessments. This book gives valuable help and advice to those having to respond to such pressures.

The illustrations are by Zig Kapelis, formerly Senior Lecturer in Architecture at the University of Adelaide.

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The volume “Therapeutic Neovascularization: Quo Vadis?” picks up the current refinements in fundamental concept of neovascularization, which in the future might pave the way towards a new era of therapeutic applications.

It meets an at times urgent need for treatment of patients who otherwise are not suitable for the established routines of percutaneous and surgical revascularization. At present most of the clinical trials initiated to promote neovascularization of ischemic myocardial or peripheral muscle tissue have failed to provide significant improvement of prespecified endpoints. This collection of manuscripts is selected to provide the most recent developments improving the auspices of successful revascularization therapy. Therefore, it covers sections such as the clinical challenge, novel mechanical and molecular concepts and cell therapy as an option, each composed of chapters written by experts in their fields.

This collection of current and future concepts of neovascularization offers fascinating insights into refining a powerful therapeutic tool which has not yet had the chance to live up to the expectations and needs of the medical community. Indeed, the scientific modifications of a fundamentally sound concept will enable its applicability in the not so distant future. The condensed collection of current views on neovascularization is intended to speed up this process.

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New advances in treatment offer cancer patients more options than ever before. Coping with Chemotherapy and Radiation is an accessible, accurate guide to the latest developments in radiation therapy and chemotherapy. You will find important information on how chemotherapy and radiation treatments work; what to expect from treatments, how to alleviate common side effects, and more.

Product Details
* Paperback: 256 pages
* Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 4 edition (November 17, 2004)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 0071444726
* ISBN-13: 978-0071444729
* Format: PDF
* Size: 2.03 MB

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