Títulos en Medicina y sector de la salud

Cuando se habla del tratamiento del cáncer, Valter Longo, el experto mundial en la relación entre alimentación, longevidad y salud, cambia por completo el enfoque para complementar el tratamiento. Tras años de investigaciones y programas experimentales, el autor demuestra que la aplicación de protocolos controlados de ayuno es un aliado muy poderoso en la lucha contra varios tipos de tumores, y a partir de esa idea explora nuevas y posibles combinaciones con las terapias estándares.

A startlingly large number of women who want to breastfeed have to stop before they are ready, leaving them feeling a range of negative emotions, including grief, anger, guilt, shame, and frustration. They often blame themselves. But in a society that places little value on breastfeeding and mothers' feelings, their painful stories are often swept under the carpet to the detriment of women's mental health and experience of new motherhood. 

Pathologies of Power uses harrowing stories of life - and death - in extreme situations to interrogate our understanding of human rights. Paul Farmer argues that promoting the social and economic rights of the world's poor is the most important human rights struggle of our times. With passionate eyewitness accounts from the prisons of Russia and the beleaguered villages of Haiti and Chiapas, this book links the lived experiences of individual victims to a broader analysis of structural violence.

In Feminist, Queer, Crip, Alison Kafer imagines a different future for disability and disabled bodies. Challenging the ways in which ideas about the future and time have been deployed in the service of compulsory able-bodiedness and able-mindedness, Kafer rejects the idea of disability as a predetermined limit. 

Diabetes For Dummies is a trusted resource that guides those diagnosed with diabetes and pre-diabetes and their caregivers towards optimal health. This book helps you, or those you love, achieve the life you want while managing diabetes with lifestyle changes, alternative therapies, and the latest medications. This fully updated edition helps you tackle your symptoms with the confidence that you're following the newest advances in diabetes treatment.

Today we find ourselves in possession of stupendous know-how, which we willingly place in the hands of the most highly skilled people. But avoidable failures are common, and the reason is simple: the volume and complexity of our knowledge has exceeded our ability to consistently deliver it -...

Una devastadora crisis sanitaria transformó la historia medieval, reescribiendo las reglas del poder y la sociedad. Para las mentes inquietas que buscan comprender cómo una catástrofe moldea la civilización, este viaje inmersivo ilumina los oscuros rincones del siglo XIV. Es una escucha...

Domine a ciência do emagrecimento com agonistas de GLP-1 e proteja sua saúde contra o temido reganho de peso. Se você lida com a frustração de tentativas passadas ou busca clareza antes de iniciar um tratamento, este guia acolhedor e altamente informativo oferece um direcionamento seguro...

Pathophysiology Vocabulary is the essential audio reference for students, healthcare professionals, and anyone looking to master the complex terminology of disease and human physiology. Understanding pathophysiology starts with knowing the language. This guide breaks down key terms in a clear, systematic way so you can retain them and apply them with confidence in clinical and academic settings.

The 2014 Ebola epidemic demonstrated the power of pandemics and their ability not only to destroy lives locally but also to capture the imagination and terrify the world. In 2019 and the years that followed, the coronavirus pandemic infected every continent and took the lives of millions. In this updated edition, Christian W. McMillen provides a concise yet comprehensive account of pandemics throughout human history, illustrating how pandemic disease has shaped history and, at the same time, social behavior has influenced pandemic disease.

Мир медицины стремительно меняется: на помощь традиционным врачебным методам приходит искусственный интеллект. Как внедрение новых технологий отразится на современной диагностике и лечении? Как будут взаимодействовать врач и пациент, если обработку данных возьмут на себя машины? Смогут ли пациенты влиять на ход и методы лечения своих заболеваний?

Plague and pestilence have both fascinated and terrified humanity from the very beginning. Societies and individuals have struggled to make sense of them, and more importantly, they’ve often struggled to avoid them. Before the scientific age, people had no knowledge of the microbiological agents - unseen bacteria and viruses - which afflicted them, and thus, the maladies were often ascribed to wrathful supernatural forces.

KENDTE KVINDER OM OVERGANGSALDERENS SKRØBELIGHED OG RÅSTYRKE Ny bog giver indsigt i alt det, mange praktiserende læger stadig ikke ved om overgangsalderen, og forklarer de misforståede hormoner. MENOPAUSE MAMAS er en oplysende og varm bog om overgangsalderen, der gør op med synet på...

An internationally recognized authority on epidemiology, Dr. Rodolfo Saracci, provides a wealth of information on this key field, dispelling some of the myths surrounding the study of epidemiology, and explaining what epidemiology is and how vital it is to the discovery, control, and prevention of disease in world populations. Dr. Saracci provides a general explanation of the principles behind clinical trials, and explains the nature of basic statistics concerning disease. 

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When faced with a loved one’s serious illness, many families find themselves overwhelmed, uncertain, and afraid. In this compassionate guide, hospice nurse and educator Maureen Groden, RN, offers a sympathetic and deeply human glimpse into one of life’s most challenging passages.

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Inside the ambulance is a world most people never see, Mocking Time brings you in. This isn't just about the sirens; it's a clear-eyed look at what happens when medicine hits the pavement. Operating without the safety of controlled rooms or instant answers, paramedics must decide in seconds what lives and what waits. Tracing the profession from its raw origins to its modern clinical complexity, this book exposes the systemic gaps in funding, staffing, and respect that are pushing the field to a breaking point.

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...

In 2002 a public health director in Newark asked a dramatist whether he knew the word nosocomial. He did not. Nor did any of the graduate students in the room he taught the following week.Nosocomial means hospital-acquired. It names the illness a patient walks in without and walks out carrying...