Medicine & Health Care Industry

From the science behind your cycle to practical advice for managing symptoms and problems, renowned endocrinologist Dr Mary Ryan covers it all: what a healthy period looks like, how hormones affect your body and mind, and why nutrition, exercise and stress matter. She tackles problems like endometriosis, fibroids, PCOS and PMS, as well as fertility, mood and the transition to perimenopause.

'This book is an absolute joy. Easy to read, it takes you on a journey covering all the important angles. I will be recommending it to my patients who want to better understand their allergies.' Adam Fox OBE, professor of paediatric allergy and Chair of the National Allergy Strategy Do you live...

Next Generation NCLEX-RN: A Simplified Study Guide is a complete NCLEX preparation program designed to walk you through every concept, framework, and strategy you need — from clinical judgment and prioritization to delegation and safety rules — in a clear, educator-guided format you can study anytime, anywhere.

Brain injuries can result in highly specific and surprising changes in behavior that have revealed to us how the mind works. The brain is the most complicated object in the known universe. After spending millennia trying to understand our ever-changing world, the brain is now turning its...

For centuries, opium has been a source of both profit and peril, its legacy entangled with addiction, imperialism, and the complex interplay of global trade and national development. While the illicit opium trade is infamous, the history of licit opium has remained largely untold. Markets of...

This twenty-fifth anniversary edition completely updates the powerful insights and policy recommendations of Not What the Doctor Ordered, first published in 1993 by renowned healthcare futurist and medical economist the author. It presents specific solutions to serious problems of cost, quality...

Sybille Bullatschek, die resolute Altenpflegerin mit Herz und Humor, und ihre schräg-liebenswerten Senioren vom Haus Sonnenuntergang haben es geschafft: 50.000 Euro bei einer Quizshow abgeräumt! Ziel: Italien! Dort erwartet man die deutschen Quiz-Helden mit offenen Armen, Pasta und Prosecco. Doch was als Freundschaftsbesuch beginnt, nimmt eine turbulente Wendung. Es stellt sich heraus: Casa Serena ist weniger Altersheim, mehr Rückzugsort für pensionierte Mafiosi! Mit Witz und Mut stürzt sich Sybille in ein Abenteuer – zwischen Spaghetti, Spionage und Seniorenpower.

In 2017 Susie Kennaway asked her son Guy to kill her. 88 years old, with an older and infirm husband, Susie wanted to avoid sliding into infantilised catatonia. The son immediately started taking notes and Time to Go is the result. In turns a manual for those considering the benefits of assisted dying, a portrait of a mother son relationship, and a sympathetic description of old age, this book is a route map through the moral, legal, emotional, intellectual and practical maze that is the biggest issue facing the senior generations today: leaving life on their own terms.

クリニックはどうやってどう作るの？ お金をどう工面しているの？ 収入は？ どんな生活をしているの？ 患者と患者家族に思うことは？ 上から目線の大学病院にイライラするときとは？ 看護師さんに何を求めているの？ 診察しながら何を考えているの？

The first human organ transplant in 1950 at a suburban hospital is the focus of The Graft: How a Pioneering Operation Sparked the Modern Age of Organ Transplants. The book examines the controversies the operation generated and the progress medicine has made in organ transplantation.

Перед вами история доказательной медицины XVI–XX вв., изложенная в форме кратких рассказов. В книге описаны как хорошо знакомые, так и совершенно неизвестные факты. Врачи-исследователи, врачи-новаторы, врачи-писатели, врачи-пациенты, врачи-политики–все они совершали удивительные открытия и подвиги ради сохранения жизни пациентов.

Наши родители стареют. Становятся обидчивыми, нетерпимыми, язвительными, неряшливыми. Мы пытаемся помочь, но в ответ получаем лишь новые претензии. Мы раздражаемся и злимся. А потом виним себя, что не сдержались. Нина Зверева, тележурналист, популярный бизнес-тренер, автор книг про общение, считает, что можно научиться так общаться с пожилыми родителями, чтобы не раздражаться и не раздражать. Надо просто принять их старость как новую реальность и освоить несколько простых приемов общения, которые помогут в любой ситуации.

Do you really know what a nurse does? All nurses, not just critical care nurses, have tremendous knowledge and skills that are not well known, not well understood, and not well recognized. This audiobook explores all that nurses do on a regular basis.

Have you ever had a conversation in a healthcare setting and come away from it thinking… Say, WHAT?! In Communication in Healthcare, Respect, and Teamwork, Dr. Anne-Marie Morse seeks to eliminate those “say, what?!” moments and improve clarity in communication between healthcare partners and patients.

Medicine and Religion is the first book to comprehensively examine the relationship between medicine and religion in the Western tradition from ancient times to the modern era. Beginning with the earliest attempts to heal the body and account for the meaning of illness in the ancient Near East, historian Gary B. Ferngren describes how the polytheistic religions of ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome and the monotheistic faiths of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam have complemented medicine in the ancient, medieval, and modern periods.

Attention. Your insurer moves faster than you. Denials fire off in seconds. Prices climb without warning. Networks shrink every month. You face a system built to overwhelm you. The Patient’s Playbook 2026 shows you how to push back with a calm, structured plan that protects your health and your wallet. The rules shifted in 2026. Automated reviews replaced real conversations. Pharmacies cut hours. Deductibles grew. Patients started losing control because the system expects you to panic, accept the denial, and move on. This book breaks that pattern.

She was forty-four, the picture of health—a devoted mother of four, a daily runner, a kale enthusiast who never smoked a day in her life. But when she signed up for a routine health scan “just to be safe,” she discovered the unthinkable: fast-growing stage I lung cancer. In her searing and hopeful memoir, Shira Kupperman Boehler tells the story of how one moment upended everything—and how it may have saved her life.

Don't buy just a book. Buy a system backed by brain science. Still mixing up tumor lysis syndrome and DIC under pressure? Blanking on the difference between cytokine release syndrome and anaphylaxis when the clock starts? That's not a knowledge problem. That's a method problem. This book fixes the method.

Still mixing up tumor lysis syndrome and hypercalcemia of malignancy under pressure? Blanking on the difference between checkpoint inhibitors and CAR-T? Recognizing the right answer when you see it but freezing when you have to recall it from scratch? That's not a knowledge problem. That's a method problem. This book fixes the method.

When memory fades, what remains? Sarah Vosburgh has often felt misunderstood by her mother, a woman who lived a quintessential suburban life. But when her mother is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, Sarah’s world unravels, and she must confront a disease that will only worsen. As roles reverse between mother and daughter, Sarah faces the guilt of making decisions she hopes are the right ones while also carrying the grief of losing her mom bit by bit everyday. She navigates a labyrinth of health services amid the heartbreaking, and at times darkly humorous, realities of caregiving.

Don't buy just a book. Buy a system backed by brain science. Still blanking on the citric acid cycle steps under pressure? Mixing up competitive and noncompetitive inhibition? Recognizing answers in practice but freezing when you have to generate them? That's not a knowledge problem. That's a method problem. This book fixes the method. Step 1: Read It. Build Your Foundation: Every Part opens with a comprehensive Study Guide before you touch a single problem.

You just got a diagnosis. Maybe you Googled it. Now you feel worse. The medical articles are written for doctors. The forums are full of worst-case stories. And your doctor had about eleven minutes to explain something that's going to affect the rest of your life. There's a better way to get up to speed. Understanding Gestational Diabetes breaks down everything you need to know about gestational diabetes—in plain English, without the panic.

Healthcare workers and first responders go to work every day to do amazing things for complete strangers. A culture exists, where it is not acceptable to admit how experiencing tragic events affect them. This book focuses on the stressors faced from a nurse's perspective, specifically in the emergency department. Traumatic stress is a real problem and contributing factor to the short career life expectancy of many nurses. Nurse turnover is higher than the general population and ER nurses turnover is exponentially higher.

Struggling to master clinical sciences? You're not alone. Most nursing, PA, and health science students face the same overwhelming challenge: understanding how pathophysiology, microbiology, nutrition, and pharmacology connect on high-stakes exams—while trying to prepare for NCLEX-style scenario questions that test everything at once. What if passing your certification exam didn't mean memorizing thousands of disconnected facts? The truth is, NCLEX and certification exams test how these sciences work together. Understanding these connections is the key to passing with confidence.

From the executive director of Zen Caregiving Project and creator of the Mindful Caregiving Education course comes a much-needed guide offering practical advice, emotional support, and a path to spiritual solace for the millions of undersupported caregivers in the US.