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Books:

	Juvenile Arthritis: The Ultimate Teen Guide By Kelly Rouba A self-help guide for youth, this book is also useful to family members, friends, and caregivers of those suffering from the disease. Author Kelly Rouba has prepared a truly comprehensive resource without making it overwhelming, in order to help those who have the disease lead the best life possible.
	Nutrition and Weight Management By Lori A. Smolin, Ph.D. and Mary B. Grosvenor, M.S., R.D. This book discusses the concept of weight management as well as the role that social, cultural, and genetic factors play in determining weight and body size.
	Basic Nutrition By Lori A. Smolin, Ph.D. and Mary B. Grosvenor, M.S., R.D. In this book, readers will learn about the six classes of nutrients, how each is broken down and used by the body, and how much of each nutrient an individual needs to maintain a healthy diet.
	Gonorrhea By Brian R. Shmaefsky, Ph.D. This book examines this disease from historical and epidemiological perspectives, discusses how the disease can be prevented, and describes the development of effective treatments.
	Glaucoma: A Patient's Guide to the Disease By Graham E. Trope Primary or chronic open angle glaucoma is a painless condition usually associated with high pressure in the eye. It affects approximately four per cent of all people over the age of fifty. Untreated, glaucoma is a major cause of blindness worldwide.
	Prevent, Halt & Reverse Heart Disease: 109 Things You Can Do By Joseph C. Piscatella and Barry A. Franklin, Ph.D. A lay expert who’s been lecturing to health professionals and Fortune 500 corporations for three decades, and who is one of the longest-lived survivors of bypass surgery— 32 years and counting—Piscatella shows how to take charge of one’s cardiac health in a bold yet simple, easily understandable way.
	Our Bodies, Ourselves Edited by the Boston Women's Health Book Collective This is the resource that women of all ages turn to for information about their bodies, sexuality, and reproductive health. Completely revised and updated, these pages provide women with the information and tools they need to make key health decisions—accurate, evidence-based information, input from leading experts, and personal stories from women who share their experiences.
	Disabilities Sourcebook Edited by Amy L. Sutton More than 54 million Americans - about one in five U.S. citizens - experience physical, cognitive, emotional, or sensory disabilities that impair functioning and interfere with daily activities.
	Diet and Nutrition Sourcebook Edited by Laura Larsen This book provides up-to-date data on nutrition and health, including information from the recently updated Dietary Guidelines for Americans and facts about the new MyPlate food guidance system.
	Alzheimer Disease Sourcebook Edited by Amy L. Sutton This book provides updated information about causes, symptoms, and stages of AD and other forms of dementia, including mild cognitive impairment, corticobasal degeneration, dementia with Lewy bodies, frontotemporal dementia, Huntington disease, Parkinson disease, and dementia caused by infections.
	What If It's Not Alzheimer's?: A Caregiver's Guide to Dementia Edited by Lisa Radin & Gary Radin This newly revised edition follows recent worldwide collaboration in research and provides the most current medical information available, a better understanding of the different classifications of frontotemporal dementia, and more clarity regarding the role of genetics.
	Positive Options for Living with COPD By Teri Allen Patients at every stage of COPD can learn to work with their limitations, rather than against them, in all aspects of life - around the home, out and about, and during flare-ups.
	Hepatitis By Lyle W. Horn, Ph.D. and Alan Hecht, D.C. Hepatitis means "inflammation of the liver," a condition that can be caused by consuming alcohol or other toxins, autoimmune disease, medication overdose, or infection. It also refers to a group of viral infections that affect the liver.
	HIV/AIDS By Patrick G. Guilfoile, Ph.D. Once infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), a person can develop acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). More than 1 million Americans are infected with HIV/AIDS, and the Centers for Disease Control estimate that 21 percent of them are unaware of it.
	Learning Disabilities: A to Z - A Complete Guide to Learning Disabilities from Preschool to Adulthood By Corinne Smith, Ph.D. and Lisa Strick The world of learning disabilities is undeniably complicated and challenging. Shining a bright light into this territory, Learning Disabilities: A to Z has long been the trusted resource for parents, helping them navigate the tough issues and arming them with the knowledge necessary to advocate for their children at school. Covering every stage of development from the first day of preschool to the first day on the job, this updated edition also addresses current topics
	Loving Someone Who Has Dementia: How to Find Hope While Coping with Stress and Grief By Pauline Boss, Ph.D. Nearly half of U.S. citizens over the age of 85 are suffering from some kind of dementia and require care. This is a new kind of caregiving book. It's not about the usual techniques, but about how to manage on-going stress and grief. The book is for caregivers, family members, friends, neighbors as well as educators and professionals—anyone touched by the epidemic of dementia.
	Medical Tests Sourcebook Edited by Joyce Brennfleck Shannon Screening tests identify risk factors for specific disorders, while diagnostic tests find markers of disease or dysfunction. Medical tests assist in diagnoing the causes of symptoms, making treatment decisions, and assessing treatment effectiveness.
	Nutrition and Eating Disorders By Lori A. Smolin, Ph.D. and Mary B. Grosvenor, M.S., R.D. Media images of ideal bodies add to many people's worries about their own body weight and shape. In reality, the body types considered ideal by many people are often dangerously thin. For some people, concern with their body size and shape becomes an obsession and they can develop on eating disorder, Sufferers may starve themselves, exercise too much, or deliberately vomit to purge their body of calories. This book examines some of the most common eating disorders, from anorexia nervosa to binge eating.
	Pneumonia By Christine Adamec Pneumonia is a major lung infection caused by a virus, bacterium, or fungus. It can be mild, serious, or even fatal. An estimated 4 million people develop pneumonia in the United States annually.
	A Smart Patient's Guide to Surgery By Sammie L. Justesen Written by the ultimate insidera nurse with over twenty-five years of experiencethis book provides the latest information on forty-four surgical procedures. In addition, the candid discussions of what to expect after surgery include positive and negative statements from patients who've undergone each procedure. This guidebook also includes simple explanations of medical tests, samples of common medical forms, and a glossary of medical terms.
	Tuberculosis Kim R. Finer and Alan Hecht, D.C. Tuberculosis is a serious infection caused most commonly by Mycobacterium tuberculosis or one of the three other organisms of the Mycobacterium genus. If left untreated, tuberculosis can cause lung damage, meningitis, and even death.
	You Can Heal Your Life By Louise Hay Discover the wisdom of Louise for yourself: that we can harness the power of affirmations to transform our lives, one thought at a time, using her powerful techniques. A compassionate teacher and internationally renowned author, Louise has helped millions of people by showing them how to heal their lives—and these incredible works will help you heal yours.

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Audiobooks:

	Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn By Cathy Davidson Read by Laural Merlington Davidson takes us on a tour of the future of work and education, introducing us to visionaries whose groundbreaking ideas will soon affect us all.
	$1,000 Genome: The Revolution in DNA Sequencing and the New Era of Personalized Medicine By Kevin Davies Read by Johnny Heller The price to order your own personal genome sequence is rapidly and inevitably dropping to just $1,000. Soon, doctors will likely be able to use an office computer to call up your unique genomic sequence and determine whether you have gene variants associated with diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and many more life-threatening conditions.
	Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human By V.S. Ramachandran Read by David Drummond The author tackles the most exciting and controversial topics in neurology with a storyteller's eye for compelling case studies and a researcher's flair for new approaches to age-old questions. Tracing the strange links between neurology and behavior, this book unveils a wealth of clues into the deepest mysteries of the human brain.
	Veganist: Lose Weight, Get Healthy, Change the World By Kathy Freston Read by Karen White Filled with compelling facts, stories of people who have improved their weight and health conditions as a result of making the switch, and Q&A's with the leading medical researchers, this book concludes with a step-by-step practical guide to becoming a veganist, easily and gradually.

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DVDs:

	Osteoporosis: New Treatments for Bone Loss This program describes the symptoms of osteoporosis while providing information on medications such as raloxifene, Fosamax, Actonel, and calcitonin. The importance of good nutrition and regular exercise as preventive measures is emphasized.
	Drugs: The Straight Facts - Inhalants This video explores the history of inhalant abuse; the effects of inhalants on the body and the short- and long-term health impacts; and teenage attitudes toward inhalants.
	Disease and Health This program adds much needed historical perspective to issues of disease and health. Part 1 focuses on some of the giant steps that medical science has taken to conquer disease and to foster health. Part 2 is an overview of the consensus and the disputes within the scientific community about health and disease today.

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