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Riptide is the raw and revealing account of the author’s journey during the ten years her oldest daughter struggled with anorexia and bulimia, a battle that ended with her death at age 23

Take As Directed gives Canadians a much-needed guidebook to safely navigate our encounters with health-care providers and optimize the management of our own health.

This practical handbook will equip readers with the tools to have meaningful conversations about death and dying

A fascinating and instructive journey into the heart of modern medical practice

An entertaining and enlightening exploration of why waste matters. The Origin of Feces takes an important subject out of locker-rooms, potty-training manuals, and bio-solids managemen

Why did the woman swallow the toothbrush? Was it an accident? Why was the brush end not facing down? Join Dr. Myers in his quest for unusual case studies as he unravels medical mysteries.

Join Dr. Myers in his quest for unusual case studies as he unravels medical mysteries.

This introductory textbook of epidemiology and critical appraisal is intended for undergraduate and graduate students as well as health professionals and trainees.

With smart and sassy eloquence, veteran blogger Jes M.

Joelle Pouliot was a nurse with a comfortable life in Fredericton, New Brunswick. Then she volunteered for a 6-week stint with Medecins Sans Frontieres/Doctors Without Borders.

Surgeon Arnold van de Laar uses his own experience and expertise to tell this engrossing history of surgery through 28 famous operations'from Louis XIV and Einstein to JFK and Houdini.

Indigenous youngsters from two communities in northern Manitoba and northwestern Ontario were showing up not with with what looked like type 2 diabetes.

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For every parent deprived of sleep by a restless infant or toddler, now there's hope.

Jon Kabat-Zinn focuses on how mindfulness transforms the world, explaining how democracy thrives in a mindful context, and why mindfulness is a vital tool for both personal and global understanding