A Doctor Diagnosed. A Life Redefined. A Battle Reimagined."I could feel Parkinson's disease creeping up on me."With those words, Dr. David Blacker, a respected neurologist, stepped into an unexpected dual role: both physician and patient.In this candid and inspiring memoir, he chronicles the years following his diagnosis with Parkinson's disease-a journey marked not only by struggle, but by surprising triumphs. From reshaping his career to ...

The current neoliberal mutation of capitalism has evolved beyond the days when the wholesale exploitation of labor underwrote the world system's expansion. While "normal" business profits plummet and theft-by-finance rises, capitalism now shifts into a mode of elimination that targets most of us--along with our environment--as waste products awaiting managed disposal. The education system is caught in the throes of this eliminationism across a number of fronts: crushing student debt, impat...

DO YOU SUFFER FROM: • Trouble falling asleep? • Waking up frequently during the night? • Waking up and having trouble going back to sleep? • Trouble sleeping well without medication? • Excessive thinking or worrying in bed? • Worrying about “not sleeping”? • Light sleep, poor quality sleep, non-restorative sleep? • Irregular or erratic sleep? • Insomnia associated with chronic pain? If you answered YES to any of these questions, THIS PROGRAM CAN HELP YOU! Many of the people who have benefi...

"Alan Cassels strips layers of expectation, hype, jargon, false-starts, and conflicts of interest off the medical screening mantra." —Nortin M. Hadler, author of Worried SickWhy wouldn't you want to be screened to see if you're at risk for cancer, heart disease, or another potentially lethal condition? After all, better safe than sorry. Right?Not so fast, says Alan Cassels. His Seeking Sickness takes us inside the world of medical screening,...

Understand, manage, and treat Long Covid.Reports suggest that over 100m people around the world are living with Long Covid (more than 1.5m in the UK) yet reliable, clear information and guidance remains scarce. This book is the definitive guide to understanding, managing and treating the condition.Written by the world's leading immunologist Professor Danny Altmann and expert patient Gez Medinger, The Lo...

Unravel the secrets of the human genome and discover the future of personalized medicine in this gripping account by a pioneering doctor at the forefront of genetic research.In The Genome Odyssey, Dr. Euan Ashley, Stanford professor of medicine and genetics, brings the breakthroughs of precision medicine to vivid life through the real diagnostic journeys of his patients and the tireless efforts of his fellow doctors and scientists as they hunt to prevent, ...

A primary care doctor is skeptical of his patient’s concerns. A hospital nurse or intern is unaware of a drug’s potential side effects. A physician makes the most “common” diagnosis while overlooking the signs of a rarer and more serious illness, and the patient doesn’t see the necessary specialist until it’s too late. A pharmacist dispenses the wrong drug and a patient dies as a result.Sadly, these kinds of mistakes happen all the time. Each year, 6.1 million Amer...

Sleep plays a crucial role in our waking lives, and we need to start paying it more attention.The latest research tells us that it's essential for learning and memory, for mental health and physical well-being, and yet we tend to only think about it when it's proving a struggle.Nodding Off leads you on a fascinating journey through the science of sleep as it evolves throughout our lives; from babies to teenagers, from middle age to the later years ...

From the man dubbed the ‘Sleep Whisperer’ comes a brand-new approach to fixing your sleep, once and for all.Challenging the reader to take control and to stop hiding behind excuses for a bad night’s sleep, neurologist W. Chris Winter explains the basic, often-counterintuitive rules of sleep science. Dr Winter explores many revolutionary findings, including surprising solutions for insomnia and other sleep disturbances, empowering readers to stop taking sleeping pil...

The truly inspirational account of living positively with dementia.Christine Bryden was a top civil servant and single mother of three children when she was diagnosed with dementia at the age of 46. Since then she has gone on to challenge almost every stereotype of people with dementia by campaigning for self-advocacy, writing articles and speaking at national conferences.This book is a vivid account of the author's experiences of living with dementia, expl...

One who Forgets and One who is Forgotten One in eight over the age of sixty-five and one in three over the age of eighty will be diagnosed with Alzheimers Disease. In her memoir, author Joan Sutton narrates a moving account of her years as caregiver to her husband, noting that Alzheimers is a disease of the brain that is paid for with the currency of the heart. A member of the board of overseers of The Alzheimers Drug Discovery Foundation, she stresses the need to develop more effective tr...

Within these pages is the promise of a long-awaited good night's rest.For decades, millions of people have experienced the irresistible urge to move their legs without understanding why. These disagreeable leg sensations get worse with inactivity, making sitting still and sleep painful and sometimes impossible. If you hold this book, you or someone you love has most likely lived with this constant discomfort, this agitated inability to rest -- restless legs syndrom...