Quick, friendly, and easy-to-use, this indispensable addition to every family medical bookshelf answers all your questions about 100 increasingly common infections--from Lyme disease, flu, and strep to ear infections, chicken pox, meningitis, and TB. The book explains symptoms, incubation periods, home nursing care, necessary treatment, and how to protect your family from illness. You can look up any infection by its common or medical name, the age of the patient, or the circumstances under which it is transmitted. This comprehensive, detailed reference will give you: * Facts on over-the-counter drugs and effective home remedies * Advice on why and when your children need immunizations * Information on the important differences in treating infants, children, and adults with the same infections * Guidance on caring for family members with chronic illnesses who catch an infectious disease * Phone numbers to call regarding specific diseases and their prevention * Recommendations for protection during international travel and adoptions "The facts you need to prevent infections and care for those who have them." --Ronald Gold, M.D., M.P.H.

Looks at the factors that cause some teenagers to practice self-mutilation, and how they can be helped.

A comprehensive reference guide to infectious diseases, describing the disease, available treatments, and more.

Medical professionals who are mothers of premature babies offer guidance for similarly situated parents, starting from bringing the baby home to putting the child in school. Illustrations.

This completely updated study guide textbook is written to support the formal training required to become certified in clinical informatics. The content has been extensively overhauled to introduce and define key concepts using examples drawn from real-world experiences in order to impress upon the reader the core content from the field of clinical informatics. The book groups chapters based on the major foci of the core content: health care delivery and policy; clinical decision-making; information science and systems; data management and analytics; leadership and managing teams; and professionalism. The chapters do not need to be read or taught in order, although the suggested order is consistent with how the editors have structured their curricula over the years. Clinical Informatics Study Guide: Text and Review serves as a reference for those seeking to study for a certifying examination independently or periodically reference while in practice. This includes physicians studying for board examination in clinical informatics as well as the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) health informatics certification. This new edition further refines its place as a roadmap for faculty who wish to go deeper in courses designed for physician fellows or graduate students in a variety of clinically oriented informatics disciplines, such as nursing, dentistry, pharmacy, radiology, health administration and public health.

Billions of dollars are spent annually on over-the-counter cold and flu medications that do nothing to cure a cold. Many actually surpresss the immune system and produce unpleasant, even harmful side-effects. Turkington reveals hundreds of powerful, doctor approved remedies made at home using safe, inexpensive, all-natural ingredients

How can an award-winning source book that helps consumers find health information be improved? Health expert Alan Rees has done just that in his sixth edition by providing practical advice on using the Internet, tips on where to find Spanish-language health pamphlets, and recommendations on what's most important in the world of alternative medicine. The sixth edition provides users with an annotated guide to health-related resources--hotlines, newsletters, pamphlets, Web sites, CD-ROMS, magazines, books, and more! Readers are given a description on each resource and how to best use it.

Presents articles describing the causes and symptoms, diagnosis, treatment (both traditional and alternative), prognosis, and prevention of various diseases, disorders, injuries, and infections.