Health - General
Blood Pressure Down: The 10-Step Program to Lower Your Blood Pressure in 4 Weeks--Without Prescription Drugs
by Janet Bond Brill, Ph.D., R.D., LND
published by Three Rivers Press
Backed by solid research and complete with checklists, charts, and over 50 delicious heart-healthy recipes, Blood Pressure Down gives readers the tools and knowledge they need to lower their blood pressure naturally.
The Vitamin D Cure, Revised Edition
by James E. Dowd, M.D. and Diane Stafford
published by Wiley
Completely updated with the latest research, The Vitamin D Cure tells you all you need to know about this miraculous natural substance—today's best way to heal pain, prevent disease, and improve your mood. We now know that adding vitamin D to your daily regimen can net you unbelievable benefits.
Skin Rules: Trade Secrets from a Top New York Dermatologist
by Dr. Debra Jaliman
published by St. Martin's Press
Skin Rules is a concise and practical instruction manual from a renowned Fifth Avenue dermatologist on how to attain beautiful skin, a taut and sculpted body, and a much younger appearance. Actors, models, and newscasters go to Dr. Jaliman for her cutting-edge technology and the latest in skin care, as well as for her reputation for being the “last stop” doctor, the one who fixes what others can’t.
Debra Jaliman Branding
by Dr. Debra Jaliman
published by St. Martin's Press
Dr. Debra Jaliman, M.D., author of the upcoming book Skin Rules: Trade Secrets from a Top New York Dermatologist is a world-renowned dermatologist with a private practice on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. Internationally recognized for her research and work in clinical and cosmetic dermatology, Dr. Jaliman is always at the forefront of the latest skincare news, clinical updates, emerging trends and more.
The Healthy Home: Simple Truths to Protect Your Family from Hidden Household Dangers
by Dr. Myron Wentz
published by Vanguard Press
In The Healthy Home, 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.
The Watchman's Rattle: Thinking Our Way Out of Extinction
by Rebecca Costa
published by Vanguard Press
Why does it feel as if our most challenging problems today -- worldwide recession, global warming, fast-spreading viruses, water and food shortages, poverty -- aren’t being solved? What if our brain has limits that prevent it from solving such complex problems? If ancient civilizations collapsed because they, too, hit a cognitive limitation, are we headed for a similar collapse? Can it be prevented? These are the questions Rebecca Costa confronts -- and offers a solution to -- in her intriguing and game-changing book, The Watchman’s Rattle.
Treat Me, Not My Age: A Doctor's Guide to Getting the Best Care as You or a Loved One Gets Older
by Mark Lachs, MD
published by Viking (Penguin)
Too often our culture defines the aging process negatively instead of embracing it as a natural part of life. Nowhere is this problem more pronounced than in our health-care system, where "ageist" medicine often serves to worsen our medical issues instead of helping us figure out how to address or avoid them. Whether we're forty or eighty, what we need is an insider's guide to staying healthy despite the system.
The Kitchen Shrink: A Psychiatrist's Reflections on Healing in a Changing World
by Dora Calott Wang, M.D.
published by Riverhead Books
Part memoir and part rallying cry, The Kitchen Shrink is an unflinchingly honest, passionate, and humane inside look at the realities of free-market medicine in today's America.
Life Over Cancer: The Block Center Program for Integrative Cancer Treatment
by Keith I. Block, M.D.
published by Bantam
Dr. Keith Block is at the global vanguard of innovative cancer care. As medical director of the Block Center for Integrative Cancer Treatment in Evanston, Illinois, he has treated thousands of patients who have lived long, full lives beyond their original prognoses. Now he has distilled almost thirty years of experience into the first book that gives patients a systematic, research-based plan for developing the physical and emotional vitality they need to meet the demands of treatment and recovery.
The Great American Heart Hoax: Lifesaving Advice Your Doctor Should Tell You About Heart Disease Prevention (But Probably Never Will)
by Michael Ozner
published by Benbella Books
No Stents,
No Surgery.
Clinical studies have shown that cardiovascular intervention
does not prevent heart attacks or prolong life in stable patients with coronary artery disease . . . So why are more than 1.5 million angioplasties and coronary bypass surgeries done annually in the United
States alone?
Anticancer: A New Way of Life
by David Servan-Schreiber M.D. Ph.D.
published by Penguin
All of us have cancer cells in our bodies. But not all of us will develop cancer. When David Servan-Schreiber, a dedicated scientist and doctor, was diagnosed with brain cancer, his life changed.
The Smart Woman's Guide to Midlife and Beyond: A No Nonsense Approach to Staying Healthy After 50
by Janet Horn M.D. & Robin H. Miller M.D.
published by New Harbinger Publications
This comprehensive guide shows you how to work with your body instead of against it to stay healthy and happy through menopause and beyond.
The HPV Vaccine Controversy: Sex, Cancer, God, and Politics: A Guide for Parents, Women, Men, and Teenagers
by Dr. Shobha S. Krishnan
published by Praeger Publishers
Parents, teenagers, and young adults considering the HPV vaccine will find all of the answers to their questions in this book, which also features a chapter listing all of the questions asked, and answers given, when Krishnan ran an informational clinic for college students curious about the disease and the vaccine.
The New Mom's Survival Guide: How to Reclaim Your Body, Your Health, Your Sanity, and Your Sex Life After Having a Baby
by Jennifer Wider, M.D.
published by Random House
In this compassionate, comprehensive guide, Dr. Jennifer Wider, a physician as well as the mother of two small children, delivers up-to-date medical information, candid answers to a host of questions, and expert advice on a range of postpartum issues
What to Expect When You Have Diabetes: 170 Tips for Living Well With Diabetes
by American Diabetes Association
published by Good Books
Managing a chronic disease like diabetes can be overwhelming, even frightening-especially if you're among the 1.5 million Americans who are newly diagnosed each year.
Now there's sound, steadying advice written by the experts, so you can live well with diabetes, not just manage it. What to Expect When You Have Diabetes is a worthy companion amid the glut of questions. This go-to guide with a can-do approach makes understanding diabetes easier.
Blood Matters: From Inherited Illness to Designer Babies, How the World and I Found Ourselves in the Future of the Gene
by Masha Gessen
published by Harcourt
In 2004 genetic testing revealed that Masha Gessen had a mutation that predisposed her to ovarian and breast cancer. The discovery initiated Gessen into a club of sorts: the small (but exponentially expanding) group of people in possession of a new and different way of knowing themselves through what is inscribed in the strands of their DNA.
The Truth About Back Pain: A Revolutionary, Individualized Approach to Diagnosing and Healing Back Pain
by Todd Sinett, DC, and Sheldon Sinett, DC
published by Perigee Trade
When it comes to back pain, most health practitioners focus on locating and treating only the physical causes. A few may look to the mind/ body connection for the emotional underpinnings of pain. But virtually no one uses the three-tiered approach presented in this book.
Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective
by Joan Liebmann-Smith & Jacqueline Egan
published by Bantam
What Are Body Signs and Why Are They Important?
While symptoms -- such as pain, fever, and bleeding -- come in loud and clear, body signs are often so subtle and difficult to interpret that we may simply decide to ignore them. But our hair, eyes, teeth, skin, nails, and other body parts often display signs that could be indicators of diseases and disorders hidden deep below the surface.
The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
by Norman Doidge MD
published by Penguin
The discovery that our thoughts can change the structure and function of our brains -- even into old age -- is the most important breakthrough in neuroscience in four centuries. In this revolutionary look at the brain, bestselling author, psychiatrist, and psychoanalyst Norman Doidge, M.D., introduces both the brilliant scientists championing this new science of neuroplasticity and the astonishing progress of the people whose lives they've transformed.
Alternative Medicine Magazine's Definitive Guide to Cancer: An Integrative Approach to Prevention, Treatment, and Healing
by Lise Alschuler, ND, and Karolyn A. Gazella
published by Celestial Arts
The first layperson's guide to using natural nutritional supplements to support conventional cancer therapy, the Definitive Guide to Cancer encourages an integrative approach that embraces both alternative and conventional therapies in the battle against cancer.
Notes on the Need for Beauty: An Intimate Look at an Essential Quality
by J. Ruth Gendler
published by Marlowe & Company
In this wide-ranging and deeply felt book, J. Ruth Gendler invites us to reclaim the often misunderstood quality of beauty as one of the most profound forces in our lives. Drawing on observations from art and nature, contemporary culture and personal experience, Gendler looks at her subject in its most generous implications -- not simply as a reflection of surface and image, but as a pathway to wholeness, integrity, coherence, and ultimately, to love.
What You Don't Know Can Kill You: A Physician's Radical Guide to Conquering the Obstacles to Excellent Medical Care
by Laura Nathanson
published by Harper Collins
In 2003, Dr. Laura Nathanson was widowed after the misdiagnosis of her beloved husband. After this tragedy, she was determined to help others protect themselves and their loved ones from similarly preventable health care disasters -- and help them benefit from health care miracles.
Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
by Atul Gawande
published by Metropolitan Books
The struggle to perform well is universal: each of us faces fatigue, limited resources, and imperfect abilities in whatever we do. But nowhere is the drive to do better more important than in medicine, where lives may be on the line with every decision.
Riddled with Life: Friendly Worms, Ladybug Sex, and the Parasites that Make Us Who We Are
by Marlene Zuk
published by Harcourt
In this witty, engaging book, evolutionary biologist Marlene Zuk makes us rethink our instincts as she argues that disease is our partner, not our foe.
Strange Son: Two Mothers, Two Sons, and the Quest to Unlock the Hidden World of Autism
by Portia Iversen
published by Riverhead Books
Portia Iversen was an award-winning art director and television writer whose life changed irrevocably when her son Dov was diagnosed with autism at the age of two. As she and her husband, Jon Shestack, sought treatments for Dov and struggled to understand what was happening.
What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Depression
by Michael B. Schachter, MD, with Deborah Mitchell
published by Warner Books
If you are afflicted with depression, you know the terrible toll this illness can take on all aspects of your life. But despite the millions of prescriptions that are written each year, costly antidepressants are not always effective and can produce disabling side effects.
Health Care on Less Than You Think
by Fred Brock
published by Henry Holt
Once again, Fred Brock provides unrivaled, objective, and essential financial reporting and advice to safeguard the wallets of American families.
Bipolar II: Enhance Your Highs, Boost Your Creativity, and Escape the Cycles of Recurrent Depression -- The Essential Guide to Recognize and Treat the Mood Swings of This Increasingly Common Disorder
by Ronald R. Fieve, M.D.
published by Rodale
You are on fire. For a few days, you've stayed up late, woken up early, and accomplished your to-do list -- and then some. You've called friends you haven't talked to in ages, organized your closet, finished your project, danced until dawn, and still made it to work on time the next morning.
The Longevity Bible: 8 Essential Strategies for Keeping Your Mind Sharp and Your Body Young
by Gary Small, M.D.
published by Hyperion
Only a hundred years ago, people were lucky to live beyond age forty. Now, modern medicine is striving to keep us alive well into our nineties and beyond. But who wants to live a long life without health, vitality, and faculties intact? Quality longevity -- that's what we're striving for. According to Dr. Gary Small, director of the UCLA Center on Aging, it's well within our reach.
The Journey Through Cancer: Healing and Transforming the Whole Person
by Jeremy Geffen, MD
published by Three Rivers Press
What do you do when your world is turned upside-down by a diagnosis of cancer? How do you sort through the dizzying array of conventional and nonconventional treatment options while also searching for meaningful ways of embracing the mental, emotional, and spiritual dimensions of healing?
Uplift: Secrets from the Sisterhood of Breast Cancer Survivors
by Barbara Delinsky
published by Washington Square Press
With Uplift, bestselling author Barbara Delinsky, whose life has been shaped by her mother's breast cancer as well as her own, created a resource she wished she'd had for herself during her own treatment.
When It's Cancer: The 10 Essential Steps to Follow After Your Diagnosis
by Toni Bernay, Ph.D., and Saar Porrath, M.D.
published by Rodale
If you or someone close to you has received a cancer diagnosis, your first instinct may be to destroy the disease as quickly as possible, by any means possible. But this can lead to a barrage of questions: "What are my treatment options?" "Where can I get the best care?" "What will my insurance cover?" "How can I cope?"
Healing Pain: The Innovative Breakthrough Plan to Overcome Your Physical Pain & Emotional Suffering
by Ann Berger, MSN, MD and C.B. deSwaan
published by Rodale
With the expertise that has made her one of the foremost pain specialists in the country, and with the warmth and sincerity that have changed her patients' lives, Dr. Berger and her groundbreaking approach will help you stop hurting and start living.
The Triple Whammy Cure: The Breakthrough Women's Health Program for Feeling Good Again in 3 Weeks
by David Edelberg, M.D. with Heidi Hough
published by Free Press
Is this your life? You've been feeling just plain awful for far too long -- depressed, exhausted, achy, stressed-out, bloated, and forgetful. In fact, you're beginning to find it hard to remember the last time you felt really well -- or even just okay.
Acne for Dummies
by Herbert P. Goodheart, M.D.
published by For Dummies (Wiley)
Battle breakouts, reduce the possibility of scarring, and keep your skin healthy and clear. In this friendly guide, a dermatologist explains how you can clear up your complexion, whether you're a teenager or adult, complete with color photos to help you identify your skin condition.
Eating Drinking, Overthinking: The Toxic Triangle of Food, Alcohol, and Depression -- and How Women Can Break Free
by Susan Nolen-Hoeksema
published by Henry Holt
What causes the vicious cycle of binge eating, drinking, and overthinking that troubles so many women? Acclaimed psychologist and expert on women and depression Susan Nolen-Hoeksema examines how these three problems, each fairly commonplace in women's lives, can work together to seriously threaten their health and well-being.
The New Health Insurance Solution: How to Get Cheaper, Better Coverage Without a Traditional Employer Plan
by Paul Zane Pilzer
published by Wiley
The New Health Insurance Solution explains how you can profit from recent changes in the law and in the healthcare industry that have put good quality, affordable health insurance within the reach of millions of Americans.
MicroMiracles: Discover the Healing Power of Enzymes
by Ellen W. Cutler, DC with Jeremy E. Kaslow , MD
published by Rodale
MicroMiracles is the definitive resource on enzyme therapy. Here you'll find everything you need to assess your enzyme status and incorporate enzyme supplements into your self-care regimen. Experience their amazing therapeutic benefits for yourself!
Making a Good Brain Great: The Amen Clinic Program for Achieving and Sustaining Optimal Mental Performance
by Daniel G. Amen, M.D.
published by Harmony Books
Daniel Amen, M.D., one of the world's foremost authorities on the brain, has news for you: your brain is involved in everything you do -- learn to care for it properly, and you will be smarter, healthier, and happier in as little as 15 days!