Health

The People and Pets Health Connection
Fitness Unleashed!
by Marty Becker, D.V.M., Robert F. Kushner, M.D.
People and dogs have always leaned on one another. In return for food, shelter, and affection, dogs are helpmates in everything from retrieving downed ducks to guarding the house and guiding the blind.

Scientist and Mechanic
Another Day in the Frontal Lobe
by Katrina S. Firlik, M.D.
The brain is soft. Some of my colleagues compare it to toothpaste, but that's not quite right. It doesn't spread like toothpaste. It doesn't adhere to your fingers the way toothpaste does.

Let God Do the Heavy Lifting
Look Great, Feel Great
by Joyce Meyer
If you can name a diet invented in the past forty years, chances are I've tried it. I've tried low-calorie, low-carb, and low-fat. I've tried liquid diets, hard-boiled egg diets, banana-and-milk diets, and the grapefruit diet.

Other Redefinitions
Dare to Be 100
by Walter M. Bortz II, M.D.
Conditions as diverse as tuberculosis, hardening of the arteries, and Alzheimer's disease have in the past fatefully been conceded by practitioners to be due to aging. The error in this miscategorization is now clear, but as recently as forty-five years

Fate vs. Choice
Dare to Be 100
by Walter M. Bortz II, M.D.
Conditions as diverse as tuberculosis, hardening of the arteries, and Alzheimer's disease have in the past fatefully been conceded by practitioners to be due to aging. The error in this miscategorization is now clear, but as recently as forty-five years

Guts and Smarts
Dare to Be 100
by Walter M. Bortz II, M.D.
Making 100 is not a sure thing. It will not happen effortlessly. It is your job, not someone else's, to see that it happens. As things stand now, the government would hate it, industry would scream, and almost no families would know how to deal with such

Taxonomy of Grief

Here is life on the front lines of medicine, from modern, well-stocked American ERs to third-world clinics devoid of even the most basic equipment. Here a newborn fights for his life, a would-be suicide arrives with a dozen prescription bottles, a teenage

Getting Started: How to psych yourself up for success

Whether you're a couch potato, diet dropout, or heavy smoker, it's hard to change old habits. But with this step-by-step guide, you can do it! You'll learn how to set realistic goals and follow through on them, plus stick to your new healthful habits.

Abacavir, Acarbose

For over two decades, millions of consumers have trusted The Pill Book to provide official, FDA-approved drug information plus guidelines from leading pharmacists. Each drug is profiled in a consise, readable, aand easy-to-understand entry

People Can Change
Eight Weeks to Optimum Health
by Andrew Weil, M.D.
In Eight Weeks to Optimum Health, Dr. Andrew Weil translates the brilliant insights and discoveries he outlined in his acclaimed bestseller, Spontaneous Healing, into a practical plan of action: a week-by-week, step-by-step program for enhancing and prote

Introduction

Just in time for cold and flu season comes this fun, funny and imminently practical guide to the fine art of germ avoidance. Admit it, you either are one or you know one: a person who prefers the scent of Purell to perfume, hates public restroom toilets a

Get Your Seven Minutes' Worth

The facts are clear. If you want to be healthy for life, you had better: Learn to talk so your doctor will listen, Understand every diagnosis-and realize that you can survive bad news, Remember the eight simple commandments for living well-and long enough

Choosing A Primary Care Doctor and Getting the Best Specialist Care

The biggest problem that many people have in medical care is finding the right doctor. In survey after survey, people have defined the 'right' doctor as one who is compassionate, kind, listens to what they are saying, and includes them as partners in

How to Choose Your Doctor
What Your Doctor Won't (or Can't) Tell You : The Failures of American Medicine -- and How to Avoid Becoming a Statistic
by Evan Levine, M.D.
How do you choose your doctor? It's not a very easy question to answer. However, I can tell you how not to choose your physician and, if nothing else, give you a tried-and-true set of guidelines as you make one of the most important decisions of your life

The Top Ten General Medical Websites
Dr. Ian Smith's Guide to Medical Websites
by Ian K. Smith, M.D.
About.com: One of the greatest collections of information on diseases and conditions on the Net. It spans the globe and provides interactive chats and forums for experts and patients to come together. This site not only directs you to outside sources

The Pregnant Mare's Lesson
Powerful Medicines: The Benefits, Risks, and Costs of Prescription Drugs
by Jerry Avorn, M.D.
In a former British colony, most healers believed the conventional wisdom that a distillation of fluids extracted from the urine of horses, if dried to a powder and fed to aging women, could act as a general tonic, preserve youth, and ward off a variety

Cambridge (England): April 1953
Genes, Girls, and Gamow: After the Double Helix
by James Dewey Watson, Ph.D.
Although my hair was properly long and my accent toned to suggest almost an English origin, Odile Crick told me I had still far to go before I would look right walking along Cambridge's King's Parade, much less looking purposefully indolent in one of its

Beginnings of Genetics: From Mendel to Hitler
DNA: The Secret of Life
by James Dewey Watson, Ph.D., Andrew Berry, Ph.D.
My mother, Bonnie Jean, believed in genes. She was proud of her father's Scottish origins, and saw in him the traditional Scottish virtues of honesty, hard work, and thriftiness. She, too, possessed these qualities and felt that they must have been passed

A Second-Rate System
Critical Condition: How Health Care in America Became Big Business-and Bad Medicine
by Donald L. Barlett, James B. Steele
It was billed as a Garage Sale for Mason. By the time all the donations had come in, no garage could hold them. So the clothes, toys, old appliances, tools, car accessories-everything-were loaded onto a church moving van and carted to an open lot next

Introduction
Sham: How the Self-Help Movement Made America Helpless
by Steve Salerno
For decades I have been tracking the self-help movement without fully realizing its place in the zeitgeist, even though I've written often about its component parts. My first book, in 1985, described the mainstreaming of veteran sales and motivational