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Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves Into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescri
by Melody Petersen  Publisher Comments In the last thirty years, the big pharmaceutical companies have transformed themselves into marketing machines selling dangerous medicines as if they were Coca-Cola or Cadillacs. They pitch drugs with video games and soft cuddly toys for children...
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The PDR Pocket Guide to Prescription Drugs (Physicians' Desk Reference Pocket Guide to Prescription Drugs)
by Pocket Books (cor) Publisher Comments Everything you need to know about prescription drugs -- based on the FDA-approved information published in the Physicians' Desk Reference®Why was this drug prescribed to me?What are the benefits and risks of taking this drug?Will I experience any...
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Be Prepared: The Essential Guide for Anyone or Any Family Member Coping with Serious Illness
by David S Landay Publisher Comments If you are confronting a life-threatening condition and facing challenges to your fincances, work, and future, you no longer need to struggle alone. In Be Prepared, attorney David Landay, a leading authority with moer than thiry years' experience in this...
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How Doctors Think
by Jerome Groopman Publisher Comments A New Yorker staff writer, best-selling author, and professor at Harvard Medical School unravels the ultimate medical mystery: how doctors figure out the best treatments — or fail to do so. On average, a physician will interrupt a patient...
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The Healthy Skeptic: Cutting Through the Hype about Your Health
by Robert Davis Publisher Comments It happens every day: we pick up a newspaper or magazine or turn on the television and are bombarded with urgent advice and information about how to stay healthy. Lose weight Lower your cholesterol Early detection saves lives Sunscreen prevents cancer...
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How Doctors Think
by Jerome Groopman Publisher Comments How Doctors Think is a window into the mind of the physician and an insightful examination of the all-important relationship between doctors and their patients. In this myth-shattering work, Jerome Groopman explores the forces and thought processes...
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Worst Pills Best Pills 2ND Edition Consumers Guide To
by Sidney M Wolfe Publisher Comments This expanded, up-to-the-minute, fully-revised edition of the bestselling guide to prescription pills offers charts, lists, diagrams, an extensive cross-referencing index, and lifesaving information on all the latest medication available today....
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Global Handbook on Food and Water Safety For the Education of Food Industry Management, Food Handlers, and Consumers
by Sonia Y. De Leon Book News Annotation The handbook is also designed to be used in a classroom or training course, where it is much more likely to find a place, considering its size and price, than in the dishwashing room of your favorite eatery. De Leon (food science and nutrition, U. of...
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The Essential Herb-Drug-Vitamin Interaction Guide: The Safe Way to Use Medications and Supplements Together
by George T. Grossberg Publisher Comments Did you know... - Using Echinacea to ward off a cold while on Tylenol can severely damage your liver - St. John's wort can relieve depression but also weaken the effectiveness of birth control pills - Mixing kava and alcohol can be toxic - Diabetics who...
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The Zombie Curse: A Doctor's 25-Year Journey Into the Heart of the AIDS Epidemic in Haiti
by Arthur M Fournier Publisher Comments Nothing in his background, education, or training prepared him for the journey that lay ahead. The death and misery were devastating, the disease frustrating and mysterious, and the spiritual toll as catastrophic as the physical. It soon became apparent...
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The Rise and Fall of HMOs: An American Health Care Revolution
by Jan Gregoire Coombs
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How to Talk with Your Doctor: The Guide for Patients and Their Physicians Who Want to Reconcile and Use the Best of Coventional and Alternative Medi
by Ronald L Hoffman Publisher Comments For patients who want to reconcile traditional and alternative medicine, thishelpful guide reveals how to find the best medical care....
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My Office Is Killing Me!: The Sick Building Survival Guide
by Jeffrey C May Publisher Comments Bacteria and mold may lurk undetected in carpets or in the heating or cooling system of your office or school. When inhaled, the by-products of these organisms can cause allergy and asthma symptoms. Chemical vapors emitted by office furniture and...
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The 24-Hour Pharmacist: Advice, Options, and Amazing Cures from America's Most Trusted Pharmacist
by Suzy Cohen Publisher Comments With straightforward, unbiased solutions, the author of the widely read Dear Pharmacist column advises readers how to handle their health concerns and conditions, aiming to make them feel better, look better, and enjoy better sex....
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The Truth about the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do about It
by Marcia Angell Publisher Comments During her two decades at The New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Marcia Angell had a front-row seat on the appalling spectacle of the pharmaceutical industry. She watched drug companies stray from their original mission of discovering and manufacturing...
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Citizen Cyborg: Why Democratic Societies Must Respond to the Redesigned Human of the Future
by James Hughes Publisher Comments This provocative work by a medical ethicist argues that technologies pushing the boundaries of humanness can radically improve our quality of life "if" they are controlled democratically and made equally available in a liberal society. Illustrations....
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Listening to Prozac
by Peter D. Kramer Publisher Comments Over 5 million Americans have taken the antidepressant Prozac. Many have become more confident, popular, mentally nimble, and emotionally resilient. The author looks at evidence from a variety of disciplines — cellular biology, animal ethology...
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The Blue Death: Disease, Disaster, and the Water We Drink
by Robert D. Morris Publisher Comments With the keen eyes of a scientist and the sensibilities of a seasoned writer, Dr. Robert Morris chronicles the fascinating and at times frightening story of our drinking water. His gripping narrative vividly recounts the epidemics that have shaken...
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Stupid Reasons People Die: An Ingenious Plot for Defusing Deadly Diseases
by John Corso Book News Annotation As part of Dr. Corso's prescription for the U.S. healthcare system that "plays Russian Roulette with patient lives," the internist views each patient as a partner in preventing catastrophic illness. He examines beliefs behind the traditional passive...
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Coping with Prednisone: And Other Cortisone-Related Medicines
by Eugenia Zukerman Publisher Comments Approximately one million Americans per year take high doses of prednisone and related drugs. While these medicines may be necessary to treat serious illnesses, they may also have unpleasant, and even devastating, side effects, including changes in...
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