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Learning What Works
by The Learning Health System SeriesIt is essential for patients and clinicians to have the resources needed to make informed, collaborative care decisions. Despite this need, only a small fraction of health-related expenditures in the United States have been devoted to comparative effectiveness research (CER). To improve the effectiveness and value of the care delivered, the nation needs to build its capacity for ongoing study and monitoring of the relative effectiveness of clinical interventions and care processes through expanded trials and studies, systematic reviews, innovative research strategies, and clinical registries, as well as improving its ability to apply what is learned from such study through the translation and provision of information and decision support. As part of its Learning Health System series of workshops, the Institute of Medicine's (IOM's) Roundtable on Value & Science-Driven Health Care hosted a workshop to discuss capacity priorities to build the evidence base necessary for care that is more effective and delivers higher value for patients. Learning What Works summarizes the proceedings of the seventh workshop in the Learning Health System series. This workshop focused on the infrastructure needs--including methods, coordination capacities, data resources and linkages, and workforce--for developing an expanded and efficient national capacity for CER. Learning What Works also assesses the current and needed capacity to expand and improve this work, and identifies priority next steps. Learning What Works is a valuable resource for health care professionals, as well as health care policy makers.
Zoo Vet: Adventures of A Wild Animal Doctor
by David TaylorIn this book, Taylor shares some of his experiences as he cares for exotic animals. Not all stories have happy endings, but all are heart-warming. This is an honest look at what it was like to be a zoo vet in the fifties and sixties.
Acute Exposure Guideline Levels for Selected Airborne Chemicals: VOLUME 2
by National Research Council of the National AcademiesThis book reviews toxicity documents on five chemicals that can be released in the air from accidents at chemical plants, storage sites, or during transportation. The documents were prepared by the National Advisory Committee on Acute Exposure Guideline Levels for Hazardous Substances and were evaluated for their scientific validity, comprehensives, internal consistency, and conformance to the 1993 guidelines report.
The Hormone Headache: New Ways to Prevent, Manage and Treat Migraines and Other Headaches
by Seymour Diamond Bill Still Cynthia StillEach year, 45 million Americans suffer migraine headaches painful enough to keep them home from work. This book is the first to deal with these headaches by looking at their underlying causes: the complex system of menstrual and other hormones that regulate the body. The authors cover the latest drug and non-drug therapies.
Clara Barton: Founder of the American Red Cross (Childhood of Famous Americans Series)
by Augusta StevensonA fictionalized biography focusing on the youth of the nurse who organized the American Red Cross in Washington, D.C., in 1881.
Discovering Food and Nutrition (6th edition)
by Helen KowtalukDiscovering Food and Nutrition is a totally revised textbook for beginning level food and nutrition courses. This illustrated text teaches students to plan nutritious meals, identify the limits of time and money, shop wisely, and work in the kitchen safely.
The Dangerous Edge: The Psychology of Excitement
by Michael J. Aptera GREAT book on people's attraction to danger
The Psychotherapist’s Guide to Psychopharmacology
by Michael J. GitlinGitlin (psychiatry, UCLA) provides a guide to medicines used for treating mental and emotional disorders, designed to familiarize mental health professionals who do not prescribe medicine with the latest medical treatment options. He describes the type of treatment used for numerous disorders, explaining in detail how each medication works and its effects.
Madness In The Streets: How Psychiatry And The Law Abandoned The Mentally Ill
by Rael J. Isaac Virginia C. ArmatExamines the cultural and political issues surrounding the problem of America's homeless mentally ill
Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment New and Expanded Edition
by James Jones1932 - 1972 - Alabama. Describes a study in which poor African Americans were denied appropriate medical treatment.
Playing for Their Lives: Helping Troubled Children Through Play Therapy
by Dorothy G. SingerPresents stories of troubled children drawn from the author's private therapy practice, showing the effects of common social problems on children and explaining how they can be healed.
The Dynamics of Health and Wellness: A Biopsychosocial Approach
by Judith Green Robert ShellenbergerAn introduction to health and wellness, based on studies of healthy people, which describes the complex processes that are the result of the interaction of biological, psychological, and social systems.
Decisions For Health: Red Edition
by Holt Rinehart Winston StaffTextbook on how to make good health decisions
Do No Harm
by Gregg HurwitzThe doors to the UCLA Medical Center Emergency Room burst open and a young nurse stumbles in-- blinded, her once-beautiful face hideously blistered and burning from a savage attack by an unknown assailant. A dedicated physician, ER Chief David Spier is no stranger to the terrible ravages of senseless violence. But this tragedy hits too close to home; the victim is a colleague. A second violent assault suggests the unthinkable: A disturbed man is stalking the medical center, and specifically the women who work there. It's up to Dr. Spier to keep the emergency room running smoothly and efficiently, even as his terrified coworkers wonder who might be next. But destiny is about to place him at the very center of a media frenzy that erupts in the wake of the attacks when the brutal assailant himself is dragged into the E.R. in handcuffs and placed under Dr. Spier's care.., as a patient. Hindered by a mutinous staff that refuses to administer to the damaged man, up against angry L.A. cops who would rather see the criminal dead than imprisoned and alarmed media hungry for a lead story at any cost, Dr. Spier must now make the most difficult ethical decision of his career. But by doing so he underestimates the power and cunning of the man he is sworn to heal, and inadvertently unleashes a bloody wave of horror that threatens to engulf every -md eve:*..hing he cares about. A single act of humanity has made him a pariah in the eyes of the city--and the target of a twisted, tormented madman's hope and vengeance. Dr. Spier's most sacred oath as a healer has become his death sentence. To save a city under siege and himself, he must descend into the blackest depths of a twisted and vicious mind.., to unlock an unspeakable secret that has been hidden away for decades behind hospital doors.
His Brother's Keeper: A Story from the Edge of Medicine
by Jonathan WeinerFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Beak of the Finch" comes a book about the new biology and how it touches a defiant family-in-crisis fighting an incurable disease.
The Second Brain
by Michael D. GershonThis book explains, in readable terms, what scientists now know about how the autonomic and the enteric nervous systems interact, what functions they perform, what causes such problems as ulcers and irritable bowel syndrome, and how scientists arrived at this knowledge.
Eat, Drink, and Be Merry: America's Doctor Tells You Why the Health Experts are Wrong
by David Schrieberg Dean EdellRadio talk show host Dr. Dean Edell at his best.
Ether Day: The Strange Tale of America's Greatest Medical Discovery and the Haunted Men Who Made it
by Julie M. FensterEther Day is the unpredictable story of America's first major scientific discovery -- the use of anesthesia -- told in an absorbing narrative that traces the dawn of modern surgery through the lives of three extraordinary men. Ironically, the "discovery" was really no discovery at all: Ether and nitrous oxide had been known for more than forty years to cause insensitivity to pain, yet, with names like "laughing gas, " they were used almost solely for entertainment. Meanwhile, patients still underwent operations during which they saw, heard, and felt every cut the surgeon made. The image of a grim and grisly operating room, like the one in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, was in fact starkly accurate in portraying the conditions of surgery before anesthesia. With hope for relief seemingly long gone, the breakthrough finally came about by means of a combination of coincidence and character, as a cunning Boston dentist crossed paths with an inventive colleague from Hartford and a brilliant Harvard-trained physician. William Morton, Horace Wells, and Charles Jackson: a con man, a dreamer, and an intellectual. Though Wells was crushed by derision when he tried to introduce anesthetics, Morton prevailed, with help from Jackson. The result was Ether Day, October 16, 1846, celebrated around the world. By that point, though, no honor was enough. Ether Day was not only the dawn of modern surgery, but the beginning of commercialized medicine as well, as Morton patented the
Growing Up Empty: The Hunger Epidemic in America, First Edition
by Loretta Schwartz-NobelGrowing Up Empty is a study of a hidden epidemic that still remains largely unacknowledged at the highest political levels. A call to action that will re-energize the national debate on the federal government's priorities, Growing Up Empty is advocacy journalism at its best.
The Thyroid Diet: Manage Your Metabolism for Lasting Weight Loss
by Mary J. ShomonIs an undiagnosed thyroid condition causing you to pack on the pounds? For more than 25 million Americans it may be due to the metabolic slowdown of a malfunctioning thyroid gland. The Thyroid Diet will help many previously unsuccessful dieters get diagnosed and treated -- and proper thyroid treatment might be all that's needed to successfully lose weight. Even after optimal treatment, however, weight problems plague many thyroid patients. For those patients, The Thyroid Diet will identify the many frustrating impediments to weight loss, and offer solutions -- both conventional and alternative -- to help. Discussing optimal dietary changes, thyroid-damaging foods to avoid, and metabolism-supporting herbs and supplements, it contains several different eating plans, food lists, and a set of delicious and healthy gourmet recipes. With handy worksheets to use in weight-loss tracking and a special resource section featuring Web sites, books, and support groups, here is vital help for millions.
Twilight Children: Three Voices No One Heard Until a Therapist Listened
by Torey L. HaydenTorey Hayden tells of her experiences with three kids in her care.