books about: epidemiology     books:       Step-by-Step Medical Coding 2008 Edition - Text and Workbook Package, 1e Carol J. Buck MS CPC CPC-H CCS-P Saunders, 2008 This money-saving package includes Step-by-Step Medical Coding 2008 Edition Text and Workbook. For further information on the individual products, please click on the links provided below.             Discovering Statistics Using SPSS (Introducing Statistical Methods S.) (2nd Edition) Andy Field Sage Publications Ltd, 2005 Get the Statistics Book That's Sweeping the Nation! Appropriate for All Levels--Undergraduate to Doctorate Programs in Every Discipline! This new edition of Field's bestselling textbook provides students of statistical methods with everything they need to understand, use and report statistics - at every level. Written in Andy Field's vivid and entertaining style, and furnished with playful examples from everyday student life (among other ...             The Great Cholesterol Con Anthony Colpo lulu.com, 2012 The belief that cholesterol and saturated fat cause heart disease is one of the most fundamental tenets of modern medicine. It is also completely false. In "The Great Cholesterol Con" you will learn that:             China Syndrome HarperCollins e-books, 2009 When the SARS virus broke out in China in January 2003, Karl Taro Greenfeld was the editor of Time Asia in Hong Kong, just a few miles from the epicenter of the outbreak. After vague, initial reports of terrified Chinese boiling vinegar to "purify" the air, Greenfeld and his staff soon found themselves immersed in the story of a lifetime. Deftly tracking a mysterious viral killer from the bedside of one of the first victims to China’s ...             The Virus and the Vaccine: The True Story of a Cancer-Causing Monkey Virus, Contaminated Polio Vaccine, and ... Debbie Bookchin, Jim Schumacher St. Martin's Press, 2004 Jonas Salk's polio vaccine has taken on an almost legendary quality as a medical miracle, for it largely eradicated one of the most feared diseases of the 20th century. But the story of the vaccine has a dark side, one that has never been fully told before... Between 1954 and 1963, close to 98 million Americans received polio vaccinations contaminated with a carcinogenic monkey virus, now known as SV40. A concerted government effort downplayed ...             Living Downstream: A Scientist's Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment Sandra Steingraber Vintage, 1998 With this eloquent and impassioned book, biologist and poet Sandra Steingraber shoulders the legacy of Rachel Carson, producing a work about people and land, cancer and the environment, that is as accessible and invaluable as Silent Spring --and potentially as historic. In her early twenties, Steingraber was afflicted with cancer, a disease that has afflicted other members of her adoptive family. Writing from the twin perspectives of a ...             Fluids & Electrolytes Made Incredibly Easy! (Incredibly Easy! Series®) Lippincott Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2010 Fluids & Electrolytes Made Incredibly Easy, Fifth Edition, uses a conversational writing style to break down complex concepts and make the fundamentals of fluids and electrolytes easy to understand and put into practice. This fully updated book is organized into four parts to provide comprehensive coverage of this challenging topic: Fluid, electrolyte, and acid-base basics Fluid and electrolyte imbalances The importance and ...             Applied Longitudinal Data Analysis: Modeling Change and Event Occurrence Judith D. Singer, John B. Willett Oxford University Press, USA, 2003 Change is constant in everyday life. Infants crawl and then walk, children learn to read and write, teenagers mature in myriad ways, the elderly become frail and forgetful. Beyond these natural processes and events, external forces and interventions instigate and disrupt change: test scores may rise after a coaching course, drug abusers may remain abstinent after residential treatment. By charting changes over time and investigating whether ...             Fluids and Electrolytes Made Incredibly Easy! (Incredibly Easy! Series) Springhouse Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2002 Learning about fluids and electrolytes doesn't get any easier. This edition boasts new features that further simplify a serious subject -- all in the lighthearted, Incredibly Easy style. "Cheat Sheets" are fun learning aids, and "Practice Makes Perfect" offers case study questions and answers that let nurses assess their progress. Expanded nursing interventions with rationales and "Ages and Stages" -- highlighting information about fluids and ...             Diabetes Rising: How a Rare Disease Became a Modern Pandemic, and What to Do About It Kaplan Trade, 2010 Nearly 90 years after the discovery of insulin, with an estimated $116 billion spent annually on the medical treatment of diabetes in the United States, why is diabetes the one major cause of death that’s been relentlessly rising for a century? Diabetes Rising investigates why the nearly two dozen medications approved for type 2 (adult-onset) diabetes, and all the high-tech treatments for type 1 (juvenile-onset) diabetes, are failing to slow ...             Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine (Oxford Handbooks Series) Murray Longmore, Ian Wilkinson, ... Oxford University Press, USA, 2007 In the early 1980s, two junior doctors from Oxford noted down all the medical information they found valuable to keep. As medical students they learned most not from organised lecturers but from clinical sessions - on the ward and in clinic. Useful notes were written on scraps of paper, and it was from this that the original Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine was born. No other book has entered the hearts, minds and pockets of so many doctors ...             A Brief History of Disease, Science and Medicine Michael Kennedy Asklepiad Press, 2004 This introduction to the history of medicine begins with the evolution of infectious diseases at the end of the last ice age. It describes the origin of science and medicine in ancient civilizations, including China and India. The first third of the book covers the early period that is considered the "classical" history of medicine. The remainder describes the evolution of modern medicine and surgery up to the present. The final chapter is a ...             One Nation, Uninsured: Why the U.S. Has No National Health Insurance Jill Quadagno Oxford University Press, USA, 2006 Every industrial nation in the world guarantees its citizens access to essential health care services--every country, that is, except the United States. In fact, one in eight Americans--a shocking 43 million people--do not have any health care insurance at all. One Nation, Uninsured offers a vividly written history of America's failed efforts to address the health care needs of its citizens. Covering the entire twentieth century, Jill ...             House on Fire: The Fight to Eradicate Smallpox (California/Milbank Books on Health and the Public) William H. Foege University of California Press, 2012 A story of courage and risk-taking, House on Fire tells how smallpox, a disease that killed, blinded, and scarred millions over centuries of human history, was completely eradicated in a spectacular triumph of medicine and public health. Part autobiography, part mystery, the story is told by a man who was one of the architects of a radical vaccination scheme that became a key strategy in ending the horrible disease when it was finally ...             Pets at Risk: From Allergies to Cancer, Remedies for an Unsuspected Epidemic D.V.M. Alfred J. Plechner NewSage Press, 2003 Veterinarians are seeing an explosion of health problems in cats, dogs, and horses — chronic diseases, immunological illnesses, cancer, and more. Conditions thought to affect only one breed are showing up in others. This illustrated book explores the causes and treatments. During the past 30 years of clinical work, renowned veterinarian Dr. Alfred Plechner has identified a widespread but unrecognized deficiency in the endocrine-immune system of ...             Data and Safety Monitoring Committees in Clinical Trials Chapman and Hall/CRC, 2009 Focusing on the practical clinical and statistical issues that arise in pharmaceutical industry trials, this book summarizes the author’s experience in serving on many data monitoring committees (DMCs) and in heading up a contract research organization that provided statistical support to nearly seventy-five DMCs. It explains the difference in DMC operations between the pharmaceutical industry and National Institutes of Health (NIH)-sponsored ...             How Everyday Products Make People Sick: Toxins at Home and in the Workplace Paul D. Blanc MD University of California Press, 2007 This book reveals the hidden health dangers in many of the seemingly innocent products we encounter every day--a tube of glue in a kitchen drawer, a bottle of bleach in the laundry room, a rayon scarf on a closet shelf, a brass knob on the front door, a wood plank on an outdoor deck. A compelling exposé, written by a physician with extensive experience in public health and illustrated with disturbing case histories, How Everyday Products Make ...             Devil in the Milk: Illness, Health and the Politics of A1 and A2 Milk Keith Woodford Chelsea Green Publishing, 2009 This groundbreaking work is the first internationally published book to examine the link between a protein in the milk we drink and a range of serious illnesses, including heart disease, Type 1 diabetes, autism, and schizophrenia. These health problems are linked to a tiny protein fragment that is formed when we digest A1 beta-casein, a milk protein produced by many cows in the United States and northern European countries. Milk that contains A1 ...             Smallpox- the Death of a Disease: The Inside Story of Eradicating a Worldwide Killer Prometheus Books, 2009 For more than 3000 years, hundreds of millions of people have died or been left permanently scarred or blind by the relentless, incurable disease called smallpox. In 1967, Dr. D.A. Henderson became director of a worldwide campaign to eliminate this disease from the face of the earth. This spellbinding book is Dr. Henderson's personal story of how he led the World Health Organization's campaign to eradicate smallpox the only disease in history ...              search for books allergies, americans, analysis, california, cancer-causing, cholesterol, committees, contaminated, discovering, downstream, electrolytes, environment, eradicate, eradicating, handbooks, incredibly, insurance, introducing, investigation, longitudinal, monitoring, occurrence, scientist, statistical, statistics, step-by-step, uninsured, unsuspected, workplace, worldwide books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen Tega Red Rooibos Organic Loose Tea, 17.6-Ounce home  impressum - about us