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A revolutionary, proven program to prevent Alzheimer's disease and reverse the symptoms of cognitive decline, from two award-winning neurologists-the co-directors of the Alzheimer's Prevention Program at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California. Alzheimer's disease is devastating, and increasingly widespread. More than forty-seven million people are living with Alzheimer's worldwide. Ten percent of adults over the age of sixty-five will develop some form of dementia, and doctors predict more than half of adults will be diagnosed with the disease by age eighty-five.

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 and action in these tumultuous times.

For every parent deprived of sleep by a restless infant or toddler, now there's hope. Instead of espousing the "one method fits all" approach advocated in other books, the Sears family explains how to create a sleep plan that suits the needs of your entire family.

Surgeon Joshua D. Mezrich takes us inside the operating room to unlock the process of transplant surgery, a delicate, intense ballet requiring precise timing, breathtaking skill, and at times, creative improvisation. Mezrich examines centuries of medical breakthroughs, connecting this history with the stories of his patients and the ethical debates surrounding organ transplantation.

Indigenous youngsters from two communities in northern Manitoba and northwestern Ontario were showing up not with with what looked like type 2 diabetes. Over the next few decades more children would confront what was turning into not only a medical but also a social and community challenge.

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. From the story of the desperate man from seventeenth-century Amsterdam who grimly cut a stone out of his own bladder to Bob Marley's deadly toe, Under the Knife offers a wealth of fascinating and unforgettable insights into medicine and history via the operating room. What happens during an operation? How does the human body respond to being attacked by a knife, a bacterium, a cancer cell or a bullet?

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. She arranged a temporary leave-of-absence from her government job, and packed her bag. She found herself headed to Uganda - a country where there is one doctor for every 25,000 people, where the average life expectancy is 41 years. 3 out of 5 Ugandans don’t have access to clean drinking water. Cholera spreads through contaminated water. Joelle Pouliot was on her way to fight a cholera epidemic.

With smart and sassy eloquence, veteran blogger Jes M. Baker calls on women to be proud of their bodies, fight against fat-shaming, and embrace a body-positive worldview to change public perceptions and help women maintain mental health.

This introductory textbook of epidemiology and critical appraisal is intended for undergraduate and graduate students as well as health professionals and trainees. The book provides an introduction to the principles and methods of epidemiology, with application both to public health and clinical practice (clinical epidemiology). These principles and strategies are also applied to critical appraisal, providing tools that will help students and professionals evaluate the quality of research studies.

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