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Book SynopsisMusculoskeletal conditions are the No. 1 reason for doctor visits. No one knows the concerns of patients afflicted with these bone, muscle, and joint issues better than Nicholas OiNubile. Now, in the next installment of his "Active for Life" series, Dr OiNubile turns his attention to the estimated millions of people who suffer from chronic knee pain. Beginning with an in-depth look at the causes of common knee injuries, Dr OiNubile goes on to provide diagnostic tools for assessing pain. He then lays out a plan for preventing and treating the injuries, rehabilitation when needed, nutrition to aid healing, and protecting the knee to continue enjoying favourite activities. Knee pain and injury don't have to mean the end of an active lifestyle. All it takes is a balanced, customized program designed to address patient - or athlete-specific needs. "Framework For The Knees" provides anyone suffering from these issues with the tools to be active for life. It is the ultimate guide to knee health.

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Book SynopsisLike a pediatric phone consultation in book form! Parents of sick or injured children will find clear, evidence-based answers for what to do when their child is sick or injured, allowing them to save time and money while providing the best care for their child. My Child Is Sick features the most common childhood illnesses and injuries with guidance based on the same criteria used by pediatric call centers to determine if a child is best treated at home, the pediatrician’s office, or the emergency department. From pink eye to ear infections and bee stings to vomiting, conditions are explained in easy-to-understand terms, clearly laying out next steps for parents to follow. This new third edition is fully revised and updated and includes COVID-19 information as well as helpful tools like an over-the-counter medication dosing chart.Table of ContentsIntroduction Using This Book Part 1Fever SymptomsChapter 1: Fever Chapter 2: Fever: Myths Versus Facts Chapter 3: Fever: How to Take the TemperatureChapter 4: Infection Exposure Questions and ChartPart 2Head or Brain SymptomsChapter 5: Head Injury Chapter 6: Headache Chapter 7: Crying Child Part 3Eye SymptomsChapter 8: Eye, Red Without Pus Chapter 9: Eye, Pus or Discharge Chapter 10: Eye Allergy Part 4Ear SymptomsChapter 11: Earache Chapter 12: Ear, Pulling At or Rubbing Chapter 13: Ear Infection Chapter 14: Earwax Buildup Part 5Nose SymptomsChapter 15: ColdsChapter 16: Sinus Pain or Congestion Chapter 17: Nose Allergy (Hay Fever) Chapter 18: Nosebleed Part 6Mouth or Throat SymptomsChapter 19: Sore Throat Chapter 20: Strep Throat Infection Chapter 21: Lymph Nodes, Swollen Chapter 22: Mouth UlcersChapter 23: Mouth Injury Chapter 24: Tooth Injury Part 7Lung or Breathing SymptomsChapter 25: Asthma Attack Chapter 26: Cough Chapter 27: Croup Chapter 28: Influenza, Seasonal Chapter 29: Coughs and Colds: Medicines or Home Remedies? Chapter 30: Antibiotics: When Do They Help?Part 8Abdominal SymptomsChapter 31: Abdominal Pain Chapter 32: Constipation Chapter 33: Diarrhea Chapter 34: Vomiting With Diarrhea Chapter 35: Vomiting Without Diarrhea Part 9Genital or Urinary SymptomsChapter 36: Urination Pain Chapter 37: Vaginal Symptoms Part 10Arm or Leg SymptomsChapter 38: Arm Injury Chapter 39: Arm Pain Chapter 40: Leg Injury Chapter 41: Leg Pain Part 11Skin: Localized SymptomsChapter 42: Rash or Redness: Localized and Cause Unknown Chapter 43: Cuts, Scrapes, and Bruises (Skin Injury)Chapter 44: Puncture Wound Chapter 45: Skin Foreign Body or Object (Splinters)Chapter 46: Wound Infection Part 12Skin: Widespread SymptomsChapter 47: Rash or Redness: Widespread and Cause Unknown Chapter 48: Hives Chapter 49: Sunburn Part 13Bites or StingsChapter 50: Animal or Human Bite Chapter 51: Bee or Yellow Jacket Sting Chapter 52: Mosquito Bite Chapter 53: Tick Bite Part 14Miscellaneous SymptomsChapter 54: Emergency Symptoms Not to MissChapter 55: Immunization Reactions Part 15Drug Dosage ChartsAcetaminophen Dosage ChartMedicine for Pain or Fever, such as Tylenol Ibuprofen Dosage ChartMedicine for Pain or Fever, such as Advil or MotrinBenadryl Dosage Chart (Diphenhydramine)Medicine for Allergies or Hives Reviewers Index

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Book SynopsisEssential Reading for Every ParentIn the early 1990s, tens of thousands of children with severe peanut and food allergies arrived for kindergarten at schools in Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, and the United States.The phenomenon of a life-threatening allergy in kids in only these countries occurred simultaneously, without warning, and it quickly intensified. The number of peanut allergic children in the United States alone went from virtually none to about two million in just twenty years. As these children have aged, the combined number of American adults and children allergic to peanuts has grown to a total of four million.How and why has this epidemic occurred? In The Peanut Allergy Epidemic, Heather Fraser explains:Precisely when the peanut allergy epidemic beganHow a child-specific allergy epidemic happened before, at the close of the nineteenth centuryThat in the early twentieth century doctors including the 1913 Nobel Prize in medicine winner identified vaccination as the cause of the first pediatric allergy epidemic impacting 50 percent of childrenThat more than one hundred years of medical literature describes how vaccination creates allergy to what is in the shot, air, or body at the time of injectionHow changes in US vaccination legislation sparked the allergy epidemic in childrenFraser also highlights alternative medicines and explores issues of vaccine safety and other food allergies, making this fully updated second edition a must-read for every parent, teacher, and health professional.Trade Review“Fraser has created a necessary text for anyone concerned with allergies, anaphylaxis, or the rise in life-threatening reactions to peanuts, which has become widespread and epidemic.” —Mark Blaxill, cofounder, Health Choice and the Canary Party; coauthor, Age of Autism“Phenomenal detective work! Heather Fraser weaves history, medicine, and science into a convincing hypothesis to solve a modern medical mystery. The Peanut Allergy Epidemic explains the origins and recent dramatic rise in incidence of peanut allergy in particular, but also provides a context for a wide range of other increasingly common immunological diseases. It should be required reading for pediatricians. I hope it is read by parents and prospective parents everywhere before blindly consenting to prophylactic medical interventions for their children.” —Jamie Deckoff-Jones, MD“May in time come to be recognized as a major landmark in medical history. . . . The author has shown plausible reasons that certain substances in vaccines may be playing a contributory role in many increasingly prevalent childhood health problems.” —Harold E. Buttram, MD“This magnificent book is in a rare class of books that present impeccable scientific evidence in prose that is accessible to the educated lay public, while slowly unfolding a gripping mystery that grabs the reader’s attention all the way through. If Heather Fraser is right about the link between vaccines and peanut allergy, and the evidence speaks for itself, then it opens up the frightening possibility that vaccines play a major role in all the food allergies that beset today’s children.” —Stephanie Seneff, PhD, senior research scientist, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory“In a world where scientific research demands thorough investigation into all causes of the allergy epidemic but one, Heather Fraser stands alone, shining her light on the stones intentionally left unturned for the last quarter of a century.” —Robyn Ross, BS, JD, allergy advocate“[Fraser] masterfully demonstrates how, time and again, bizarre appearance and waning of widespread allergies to certain foods in human populations has followed the introduction and then withdrawal of specific medical formulations delivered by injection . . . The history of clinical and immunologic research illuminated by The Peanut Allergy Epidemic paves the way to finding the cause that will first be vehemently denied, then ridiculed, and finally accepted.” —Tetyana Obukhanych, PhD, author, Vaccine Illusion“A compelling work on a subject that is taboo to the mainstream media.” —Lawrence Solomon, columnist, Financial Post; executive director, Energy Probe“Fraser has created a necessary text for anyone concerned with allergies, anaphylaxis, or the rise in life-threatening reactions to peanuts, which has become widespread and epidemic.” —Mark Blaxill, cofounder, Health Choice and the Canary Party; coauthor, Age of Autism“Phenomenal detective work! Heather Fraser weaves history, medicine, and science into a convincing hypothesis to solve a modern medical mystery. The Peanut Allergy Epidemic explains the origins and recent dramatic rise in incidence of peanut allergy in particular, but also provides a context for a wide range of other increasingly common immunological diseases. It should be required reading for pediatricians. I hope it is read by parents and prospective parents everywhere before blindly consenting to prophylactic medical interventions for their children.” —Jamie Deckoff-Jones, MD“May in time come to be recognized as a major landmark in medical history. . . . The author has shown plausible reasons that certain substances in vaccines may be playing a contributory role in many increasingly prevalent childhood health problems.” —Harold E. Buttram, MD“This magnificent book is in a rare class of books that present impeccable scientific evidence in prose that is accessible to the educated lay public, while slowly unfolding a gripping mystery that grabs the reader’s attention all the way through. If Heather Fraser is right about the link between vaccines and peanut allergy, and the evidence speaks for itself, then it opens up the frightening possibility that vaccines play a major role in all the food allergies that beset today’s children.” —Stephanie Seneff, PhD, senior research scientist, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory“In a world where scientific research demands thorough investigation into all causes of the allergy epidemic but one, Heather Fraser stands alone, shining her light on the stones intentionally left unturned for the last quarter of a century.” —Robyn Ross, BS, JD, allergy advocate“[Fraser] masterfully demonstrates how, time and again, bizarre appearance and waning of widespread allergies to certain foods in human populations has followed the introduction and then withdrawal of specific medical formulations delivered by injection . . . The history of clinical and immunologic research illuminated by The Peanut Allergy Epidemic paves the way to finding the cause that will first be vehemently denied, then ridiculed, and finally accepted.” —Tetyana Obukhanych, PhD, author, Vaccine Illusion“A compelling work on a subject that is taboo to the mainstream media.” —Lawrence Solomon, columnist, Financial Post; executive director, Energy Probe

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Book SynopsisTackle diabetes and its complications for good with this newly updated edition of Dr. Neal Barnard's groundbreaking program.Revised and updated, this latest edition of Dr. Barnard’s groundbreaking book features a new preface, updates to diagnostic and monitoring standards, recent research studies, and fresh success stories of people who have eliminated their diabetes by following this life-changing plan.Before Dr. Barnard’s scientific breakthrough, most health professionals believed that once you developed diabetes, you were stuck with it—and could anticipate one health issue after another, from worsening eyesight and nerve symptoms to heart and kidney problems. But this simply is not true—Dr. Barnard has shown that it is often possible to improve insulin sensitivity and tackle type 2 diabetes by following his step-by-step plan, which includes a healthful vegan diet with plenty of recipes to get started, an exercise guide, advice about taking supplements and tracking progress, and troubleshooting tips.

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