Medicine & Health Care Industry

In the winter of 1918, at the height of World War I, history's most lethal influenza virus erupted in an army camp in Kansas, moved east with American troops, then exploded, killing as many as 100 million people worldwide....

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks captures the beauty and drama of scientific discovery, as well as its human consequences....

Being Mortal asserts that medicine can comfort and enhance our experience even to the end, providing not only a good life but also a good end....

Dr. Sebi examined herbs in North America, Central and South America, Africa, and the Caribbean, and conceived a procedure that would not address the indications of malady yet would address turning around illness in itself....

An emergency room physician explores how a life of service to others taught her how to heal herself....

From economist Anne Case and Nobel Prize winner Angus Deaton, a groundbreaking account of how the flaws in capitalism are fatal for America's working class....

As a war raged across the world, young American women flocked to work, painting watches, clocks, and military dials with a special luminous substance made from radium....

No other topic dominates our attention as much as coronavirus and COVID-19, the infectious disease it triggers. Award-winning researchers Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi and Dr. Karina Reiss give clarity to these confusing and stressful times....

In this gripping, intimate memoir about health, illness, and the reverberating effects of our medical system, Standefer recounts the true story of the diagnosis that upended her life in Wyoming and sent her into a maze of cardiology units, dramatic surgeries, and painful recoveries....

The authors of the best-selling Bold and The Rise of Superman explore altered states of consciousness and how they can ignite passion, fuel creativity, and accelerate problem solving....

Cognitive behavioral therapy is a form of therapy that is often the best form of treatment recommended for combating anxiety, worry, depression, and other related issues. In this audiobook, you learn a simplified approach to apply the therapy in life. Listen to learn more....

Medical Apartheid is the first and only comprehensive history of medical experimentation on African Americans....

The Emperor of All Maladies reveals the many faces of an iconic, shape-shifting disease that is the defining plague of our generation....

When three-month-old Lia Lee arrived at the county hospital emergency room in Merced, California, a chain of events was set in motion....

A physician reveals how right-wing backlash policies have mortal consequences - even for the white voters they promise to help....

This updated and expanded edition of Dr. Berry’s best seller Lies My Doctor Told Me exposes the truth behind all kinds of “lies” told by well-meaning but misinformed medical practitioners....

An oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem....

A masterpiece of science reporting that tracks the animal origins of emerging human diseases....

James A. Garfield may have been the most extraordinary man ever elected president....

Atul Gawande explores how doctors strive for best performance in the face of obstacles that sometimes seem insurmountable - in Boston, India, Iraq, and in malpractice courtrooms....

In 2014, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea suffered the worst epidemic of Ebola in history. The brutal virus spread rapidly through a clinical desert, where basic health-care facilities were few and far between....

The White Coat Investor is a manual that specifically deals with the financial issues facing medical students, residents, physicians, dentists, and similar professionals....

have a new understanding of pharmacology to do better in class, clinical and your board exam. You'll feel the confidence you'd hoped for as a future health professional....

Beginning with opium, the “joy plant,” which has been used for 10,000 years, Thomas Hager tells a captivating story of medicine. His subjects include the largely forgotten female pioneer who introduced smallpox inoculation to Britain, the infamous knockout drops, and much more....

Scribbled in secret after endless days, sleepless nights, and missed weekends, comedian and former medical resident Adam Kay's This Is Going to Hurt provides a no-holds-barred account of his time on the front lines of medicine....

Mukherjee animates the quest to understand human heredity and its surprising influence on our lives, personalities, identities, fates, and choices....

The story of viruses and humanity is a story of fear and ignorance, of grief and heartbreak, and of great bravery and sacrifice. Michael Oldstone tells all these stories as he illuminates the history of the devastating diseases that have tormented humanity....

Whether you're a new nurse or a veteran member of the clan, the nursing learning curve is a vast one. Part how-to guide with a touch of memoir thrown in, take the time to laugh and cry with an author who says what everyone else in the field is thinking....

We are facing an overwhelming army of deadly, invisible enemies. We need a plan - before it's too late....

Sometimes in medicine the only way to know what is truly going on in a patient is to operate...

Caregiving for those who suffer from Parkinson's disease comes with many challenges, from how to deal with guilt and loneliness to avoiding burnout and figuring out what to expect from an unpredictable disease. When giving care, too often caregivers neglect their own well-being. Everything You Need to Know About Caregiving for Parkinson's Disease is not just about caring for your loved one, but also about taking care of yourself. 

Within the chapters of this book, we will look at what it takes to be an excellent nursing assistant, what the expectations and responsibilities are, how you can go about becoming a CNA, and finally what such a profession can mean in your life. 

No other topic dominates our attention as much as coronavirus and COVID-19, the infectious disease it triggers. There’s been a global deluge of contradictory opinions, fake news, and politically controlled information. Differing views on the dangers posed by the pandemic have led to deep division and confusion, within governments, society, and even among friends and family. In Corona, False Alarm?, award-winning researchers Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi and Dr. Karina Reiss give clarity to these confusing and stressful times. 

This audiobook is a reference guide for healthcare executives and technology providers involved in the ongoing digital transformation of the healthcare sector. The audiobook focuses specifically on the challenges and opportunities for health systems in their journey toward a digital future. It draws from proprietary research and public information, along with interviews with over 150 executives in leading health systems such as Cleveland Clinic, Partners, Mayo, Kaiser, and Intermountain as well as numerous technology and retail providers.

Preparing for the HESI A2 examinations? Learn anywhere at any time with this HESI A2 exam guide. You can rest easy knowing you’ve made the best possible investment for your future with this audiobook guide. If you’re looking to do well in the HESI A2 exam, there’s no better way to prepare than this HESI A2 audiobook exam guide. 

We’ve all seen someone with an orthopedic cast, and some of us have had the misfortune of living the experience of having a fractured bone. We all have a idea of what’s a fracture is, but only a small percentage of the population is able to understand and treat a fracture correctly. If you’re aware of the dangers of a fractured bone, and you’re worried about how an accident could change the health of your family, and you want to do something about it, then this audiobook is the right audiobook for you.

Health disparities have remained stubbornly entrenched in the American health care system - and in Just Medicine Dayna Bowen Matthew finds that they principally arise from unconscious racial and ethnic biases held by physicians, institutional providers, and their patients.

Dr. Aoife Abbey takes us beyond the medical perspective to see the humanity at work inside our hospitals through the eyes of doctors and nurses as they witness and experience the full spectrum of human emotion with every shift. It is their responsibility to mitigate the grief of a family in mourning, calm a patient about to die, and confront their own fear of failure when lives are on the line.

While the nightmare of Alzheimer’s is progressing at an alarming rate, society will never solve it if it continues on the same path. Dr. Zielonka’s simple seven-step solution to prevent the nightmare of Alzheimer’s is the logical, science-based solution to end the nightmare. Discover the real causes of Alzheimer's, learn about true brain detoxification, autophagy, type 3 diabetes, cellular health, and so much more.

If the recent pandemic spreading quickly around the globe has taught us anything, it's that history always repeats itself. The best we can do is deal with global pandemics with the lessons learned from history. In this special resource bundle, experienced historian Bryan Anderson hands you a comprehensive knowledge base of catastrophic global pandemics, their impact on the world, and the lessons learned, from the historical context to science-based explanations.

Our DSM-5 Study Guide is your complete preparation tool to learn how to properly diagnose and classify mental disorders. It covers all of the important information that you need to know great detail and is presented to you in a manner that helps reinforce your learning.

When Joanne Jacobson’s writing about her mother’s respiratory illness was interrupted by her own diagnosis with a rare blood disorder, she found her perspective profoundly altered. Every Last Breath follows these two chronic illnesses as they grow unexpectedly intertwined. Rejecting a fixed, retrospective point of view and the forward-moving trajectory of conventional memoir, Jacobson brings the reader to the emotionally raw present - where potentially fatal illness and “end of life” both remain, emphatically, life.

In this gripping, intimate memoir about health, illness, and the invisible reverberating effects of our medical system, Standefer recounts the astonishing true story of the rare diagnosis that upended her rugged life in the mountains of Wyoming and sent her tumbling into a fraught maze of cardiology units, dramatic surgeries, and slow, painful recoveries. As her life increasingly comes to revolve around the internal defibrillator freshly wired into her heart, she becomes consumed with questions about the supply chain that allows such an ostensibly miraculous device to exist. 

Pandemic: NYC is the first-hand account of the height of the outbreak of coronavirus during the spring of 2020 in New York City. This memoir-style book is written by one of the many traveling nurses who risked their lives answering the call for additional frontline medical staff to combat the largest pandemic in a century. Her first-hand account takes you inside the hospital, to what she witnessed each day, and tells the stories of who lived and died through this crisis.

In The Great American Health Hoax, Francis exposes the truth about how to stay healthy and introduces us to a way of life that can become a "highway to health", while he quite effectively demonstrates that we really don't have to be sick. Then, he reminds us that not only is there absolutely no fun in being sick, but we are going broke trying to pay the cost. Francis realizes that the only solution for individuals and society as a whole is to maintain health.