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Mayo Clinic Press
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"This book offers practical, reliable, up-to-date information to help sufferers control their arthritis. It will help the reader discover the wide range of new medications available, improved treatments and self-care tips to reduce pain and lead a more active, comfortable life. People with arthritis have a lot of company, approximately 54 million Americans and millions more worldwide have it. Mayo Clinic Guide to Arthritis can help reduce the pain...
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In this paradigm shifting book, Dale Bredesen, MD, offers real hope to anyone looking to prevent and even reverse Alzheimer's Disease and cognitive decline. Revealing that AD is not one condition, as it is currently treated, but three, this outlines 36 metabolic factors (micronutrients, hormone levels, sleep) that can trigger "downsizing" in the brain. The protocol shows us how to rebalance these factors using lifestyle modifications like taking B12,...
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"Meningitis makes it a difficult disease to understand. But the more you know about the causes, symptoms, and treatment of meningitis, the better equipped you are to understand this disease. Clear, concise information breaks down the disease, the experience of having it, or relating to someone who has meningitis. Be inspired by true stories from youths who have experienced meningitis in their own lives and how they fought this disease" --
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"What had happened to my beautiful boy? To our family? What did I do wrong? Those are the wrenching questions that haunted David Sheff's journey through his son Nic's addiction to drugs and tentative steps toward recovery. Before Nic became addicted to crystal meth, he was a charming boy, joyous and funny, a varsity athlete and honor student adored by his two younger siblings. After meth, he was a trembling wraith who lied, stole, and lived on the...
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"Menopause is inevitable, but suffering through it is not! This is the empowering approach to self-advocacy that pioneering women's health advocate Dr. Mary Claire Haver takes for women in the midst of hormonal change in The New Menopause. A comprehensive, authoritative book of science-backed information and lived experience, it covers every woman's needs: From changes in your appearance and sleep patterns to neurological, musculoskeletal, psychological,...
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Mayo Clinic Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
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1 online resource : color illustrations
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English
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Contains a guide for individuals dealing with back and neck pain, describing the fundamentals of a healthy spine, how problems develop, common back and neck problems, and when to see a doctor. Explores different treatment options from self-care to surgery and explains ways to manage the condition through exercise and physical activity.
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Viking
Pub. Date
[2015].
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xiv, 466 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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"Collectively, fear and anxiety disorders are the most prevalent of all psychiatric problems in the United States, affecting about 20 percent of the population, with an associated economic cost estimated to exceed $40 billion annually. ... In Anxious, Joseph LeDoux, whose New York University lab has been at the forefront of research efforts in this area, examines these disorders and their origins, and discoveries that can help restore sufferers to...
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Teacher Created Materials
Pub. Date
[2021]
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1 online resource (48 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color)
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English
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Explores the work of six different people in the animal welfare field and how they have created different organizations and activist operations to help feed, shelter, and care for animals. Includes a glossary.
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Before 2020, American Indian reservations made up roughly 55 million acres of land in the United States. Nearly 200 million acres are reserved for National Forests--in the emergence of this great nation, our government set aside more land for trees than for Indigenous peoples. In the 1830s Muscogee people were rounded up by the US military at gunpoint and forced into exile halfway across the continent. At the time, they were promised this new land...
13) The twits
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750L
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English
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The misadventures of two terrible old people who enjoy playing nasty tricks and are finally outwitted by a family of monkeys.
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English
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"Mayo Clinic on High Blood Pressure offers information and tools to help you keep blood pressure from building to dangerous levels. By taking specific steps, you can live well with high blood pressure - and even keep it from ever forming. In this book, Gary Schwartz, M.D., tells you how. You'll learn how high blood pressure develops, what puts you at risk, how it's diagnosed and treated, and how to reduce your risk of conditions associated with it."...
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"Tom Brokaw had led a lucky life--marrying his childhood sweetheart (they have been married for 51 years), rising to fame in the journalism world on the Today Show and as the NBC Nightly News anchor for 22 years, publishing the world-renowned book The Greatest Generation--when suddenly he took two inexplicable falls. Nagging back pain led him to the doctors at Mayo, who had shocking news: he had multiple myeloma, the treatable but incurable blood...
16) Shiloh
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890L
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English
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When he finds a lost beagle in the hills behind his West Virginia home, Marty tries to hide it from his family and the dog's real owner, a mean-spirited man known to shoot deer out of season and to mistreat his dogs.
17) Black Beauty
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1020L
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English
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Black Beauty, a handsome, shiny black horse with a star on his forehead, nineteenth-century England recounts his experiences with both good and bad masters. This classic story features 101 vocabulary words that everyone going into 4th grade should know. Includes definitions, word puzzles and games. -- Adapted from Page [4] cover.
19) Vision
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English
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This brief history of ophthalmology discusses the development of new techniques and introduces famous medical innovators.
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Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
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1220L
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English
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"Going beyond the story of America as a country "discovered" by a few brave men in the "New World," Indigenous human rights advocate Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz reveals the roles that settler colonialism and policies of American Indian genocide played in forming our national identity. The original academic text is fully adapted by renowned curriculum experts Debbie Reese and Jean Mendoza, for middle-grade and young adult readers to include discussion topics,...