Health

X-Ray, MRI, CT Scan Explained
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
X-rays aren't the only tools for seeing past the skin. Modern medicine has myriad choices for diagnosing problems from broken bones to brain tumors. Because x-rays are a type of radiation, patients sometimes express concerns that the test may harm them

Annual Medical Checkup: The Not So Routine Physical Exam
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
The annual 'routine physical' has just about gone the way of the dinosaur. In its place is a more individualized approach, drawing upon the best aspects of both horse-and-buggy medicine and high-tech medical devices and lab tests.

Nine Times out of Ten
The Medical Bill Survival Guide : What You Need to Know Before You Pay a Dime
by Pat Palmer, Martha Ellis, Christopher Slone
More and more people like William Powell are learning that while our health care providers may be treating us well as patients, they're treating us horribly as customers. Reliable studies show that more than nine out of ten medical bills contain errors

Changing Our Lives through Transformational Healing

I believe it is our own perception of our life challenges, which cause us pain. Life is actually neutral. We give everything in our life its meaning. We make ourselves upset by what we tell ourselves about the experience. Our perception of things is so li

Medical Tips That Can Save Your Life
Your Body's Red Light Warning Signals
by Neil Shulman, M.D.
Most people do not know when to see a doctor. Aches and pains, lumps and bumps - when are these potentially life-threatening? When is it crucial that you get to a doctor within the next few days, hours, or even minutes?

X-Ray, MRI, CT Scan : Reasonable Risk
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Because x-rays are a type of radiation, patients sometimes express concerns that the test may harm them somehow, perhaps increase their risk of cancer. It's true that overexposure to x-rays can damage or destroy living tissue, potentially causing skin

Head Injuries : Early Diagnosis, Brain Swelling, Coma
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Early recognition of the extent of damage is vital to survival and to immediate appropriate care. Indeed, the risk of dying increases tenfold when there's more than a four-hour delay of needed brain surgery.

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

Part 1
The 7 Systems of Balance: A Natural Prescription for Healthy Living in a Hectic World
by Paul J. Sorgi, M.D
If you're familiar with some of those dreary feelings that just won't go away-anger, confusion, frustration, tension and sadness-this breakthrough book is for you and those you love. These are some of the feelings we experience when we're out of balance

Pets: Allergic Reaction, Diagnosing
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Pets, like people, have allergic responses when their immune system overreacts to certain substances. When they enter the body, the offending substances, called antigens or allergens, set off an alarm.

Introduction
Face Forward
by Kevyn Aucoin
I have a confession to make: My entire mission in life is to help women take over the world. Not by force (the route so many men have taken since the beginning of time), but with compassion, perseverance, and love.

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

Ways to Heal Broken Bones
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
More than a million Americans suffer broken bones every year. Bone grafts, bone growth stimulators, and new kinds of replacement joints are among the treatments making recuperation easier.

Headaches
Discover Wellness
by Phyllis Taber-Greenberg
I had headaches almost every day of my life from the time I was in my early twenties. The headaches started at exactly the same time that I had a series of dental cavities filled with mercury/silver amalgam fillings.

Types of Cookware and Health Safety
by Health Canada
Pots, pans and other cookware are made from a variety of materials. These materials can enter the food that we cook in them. Most of the time, this is harmless. However, care should be taken with some materials.

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

Treating Allergies in Pets, Pet Food
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Although allergies can't be cured, they can be controlled by avoiding the allergens, treating the symptoms, or desensitizing the pet. In Nora's case, all three methods are used.

The Silent War
The Killers Within: The Deadly Rise of Drug-Resistant Bacteria
by Michael Shnayerson, Mark J. Plotkin
Most mornings for Glenn Morris started with his daughters. Only after he loaded the three of them-aged fifteen, twelve, and nine-into his old Infiniti G20 and dropped them off at the carpool did he head in to the hospital.

Yes, It Can Happen to You
How to Save Your Own Life: The Eight Steps Only You Can Take to Manage and Control Your Health Care
by Marie Savard, M.D., Sondra Forsyth
As we have just seen, denial is a psychological coping mechanism which gives you a specious sense of well-being when you're confronted with actual symptoms, whether acute or persistent. But there's a cousin of denial which can also put your health

The Gallbladder : The Role of Diet, Drug Treatment
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Studies indicate that gallstones are more prevalent in some populations than others, but it is difficult to tell whether this is due to heredity or environmental factors. For example, gallstones are common in the United States (with 20 million sufferers)