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Bacterial infections are a constant threat to human health. Antibiotics stop a bacterial infection from multiplying. They help treat pneumonia, strep throat, and many other infections. But before antibiotics, treatments for these diseases were limited or misguided. In 1929, the accidental discovery of the first antibiotic, a bacteria-killing liquid called penicillin, kicked off a medical revolution. The use of this new treatment has saved countless...
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Once restricted to small forested areas in the northeast and north-central United States, Lyme disease is now a common infection in North America and Europe. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that more than 300,000 new cases occur each year in the United States. Misunderstandings over symptoms and treatment increase the public's concerns about the disease--which, if not properly treated, can become chronic and debilitating. ...
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Virtually everyone has taken antibiotics. They can be lifesavers -- and they can be useless. What are they? How are they used? And what happens as the effectiveness of antibiotics continues to decline? This examines the personal and societal implications of our planet's most important -- and frequently misused -- medications. In a question-and-answer format, it unpacks the most complicated aspects of this issue, including: How antibiotics are used...
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From Anne Lamott, the New York Times-bestselling author of Help, Thanks, Wow, comes the book we need from her now: How to bring hope back into our lives. "I am stockpiling antibiotics for the Apocalypse, even as I await the blossoming of paperwhites on the windowsill in the kitchen," Anne Lamott admits at the beginning of Almost Everything. Despair and uncertainty surround us: in the news, in our families, and in ourselves. But even when life is...
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In the final battle with drug-resistant bacteria, one woman's blood holds a secret weapon. Rory and her father have survived the antibiotic crisis that has killed millions, including Rory's mother--but ingenuity and perseverance aren't their only advantages. When a stoic and scarred young military veteran enters their quiet life, Rory is drawn to him against her better judgment ... until he exposes the secrets her mother and father kept from her,...
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"Get the clear skin you've always wanted with simple changes to your diet and lifestyle. Many people suffer from skin conditions - acne, rosacea, eczema, psoriasis, and others - and seek conventional medical help but do not get the results they hope for. Other people end up worse than when they started, especially after being prescribed antibiotic after antibiotic. And then there are those who don't realize how good their skin can be until they adopt...
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"This title examines viruses, bacteria, fungi and protozoa, how they attack the body, and how the immune system responds with white blood cells, antibodies, fever, mucus, and pus, and how science helps with vaccines and antibiotics. Immune system disorders are also covered."--
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"This fully referenced book reveals high numbers of people who suffer in-hospital adverse reactions to prescribed drugs; are prescribed unnecessary and/or inappropriate antibiotics; receive unnecessary medical and surgical procedures; and are exposed to unnecessary hospitalization"--Cover, p. 4.
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Attending a national conference in Atlanta with Welcome, Duncan injures his leg while running. Surgeons manage to save the leg, but the open wound is the perfect breeding ground for a deadly microbial invader committed to eating him alive from the inside out. The germ is resistant to any known antibiotic-- and the government scientist tasked with finding a cure has been kidnapped. A shadowy group known as One Hundred Neighbors has infiltrated our...
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“A fascinating, funny, and easy-to-read book about the latest human microbiome discoveries and how these discoveries might help us tend to our inner microbes so as to optimize our overall health.” —Daphne Miller, MD author of Farmacology: Total health from the Ground Up and The Jungle Effect
“Virtually every aspect of health and vitality is influenced by the collection of microbes living
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Six months after vanishing into an underground silo with sixty others, Wynter and Chase emerge to find the area abandoned. There is no sign of Noah and the rest of the group that was supposed to greet them when they emerged--the same people Wynter was counting on to help her locate the IV antibiotics her gravely ill friend, Julie, needs in order to live. As the clock ticks down on Julie's life, Wynter and Chase embark on a desperate search for medicine...
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"This title examines viruses, bacteria, fungi and protozoa and how they infect the ears, nose, adenoids, throat, and tonsils and how doctors treat these infections with ear tubes, antibiotics, and surgical procedures. A list of healthy habits is included to help readers combat disease."--
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"This title examines viruses, bacteria, fungi and protozoa, how they can infect the body, the body's immune response, and how science works for cures with vaccines, antivirals, antifungals, and antibiotics. A list of healthy habits is included to help readers combat disease."--
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2022.
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Este nuevo libro de nuestra autora centra nuestra atención en un producto con una capacidad muy elevada de curar enfermedades de origen bacteriano y/o vírico. Por desgracia, todavía no forma parte del arsenal farmacéutico habitual, ya que es un remedio barato y demasiado efectivo. Por otra parte, los pacientes, por su desconocimiento, tampoco lo piden en sus visitas al médico. Es una lástima, porque es un remedio muy eficaz, que no tiene contraindicaciones...
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"A leading medical ethnobotanist tells us the story of her quest to develop new ways to fight illness and disease through the healing powers of plants in this uplifting and adventure-filled memoir. Plants are the basis for an array of lifesaving and health-improving medicines we all now take for granted. Ever taken an aspirin? Thank a willow tree for that. What about life-saving medicines for malaria? Some of those are derived from cinchona and wormwood....
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The definitive social history of tuberculosis, from its origins as a haunting mystery to its modern reemergence that now threatens populations around the world. It killed novelist George Orwell, Eleanor Roosevelt, and millions of others -- rich and poor. Desmond Tutu, Amitabh Bachchan, and Nelson Mandela survived it, just. For centuries, tuberculosis has ravaged cities and plagued the human body. In Phantom Plague, Vidya Krishnan, traces the history...
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Did you know: we poison our children and pets to kill a fly; we get a dose of antibiotics every day--whether we have a prescription or not; and we need Hazmat suits to clean up a broken energy-efficient CFL light bulb. Father-and-son team Dr. Myron Wentz and Dave Wentz walk readers room-by-room through a typical house, pointing out the surprising health risks posed by everyday products and behaviors of any modern family.
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"From the author of The Emperor of All Maladies, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and The Gene, a #1 New York Times bestseller, comes his most spectacular book yet, an exploration of medicine and our radical new ability to manipulate cells. Rich with Mukherjee's revelatory and exhilarating stories of scientists, doctors, and the patients whose lives may be saved by their work, The Song of the Cell is the third book in this extraordinary writer's exploration...
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