The Drugs Don't Work - A Penguin Special by Professor Dame Sally Davies, the Chief Medical Officer for England'If we fail to act, we are looking at an almost unthinkable scenario where antibiotics no longer work and we are cast back into the dark ages of medicine where treatable infections and injuries will kill once again' David Cameron, Prime MinisterResistance to our current range of antibiotics is the new inconvenient truth. If we don't act now, we risk the hea...

"A powerfully informative guide for patient and practitioner from a misinformed past toward a future of recovery and health" (David Perlmutter, MD).In this important and timely book, Steven Phillips, MD, and his former patient, Sony singer-songwriter Dana Parish, reveal striking evidence that a range of common infections, from COVID-19 to Lyme, cause a variety of autoimmune, psychiatric, and chronic conditions. Chronic explores the science behind what make...

"In Missing Microbes, Martin Blaser sounds [an] alarm. He patiently and thoroughly builds a compelling case that the threat of antibiotic overuse goes far beyond resistant infections."— NatureRenowned microbiologist Dr. Martin J. Blaser invites us into the wilds of the human microbiome, where for hundreds of thousands of years bacterial and human cells have existed in a peaceful symbiosis that is responsible for the equilibrium and health of our bo...

An expert in pulmonary medicine shares a wide-ranging exploration of the human lung: the organ that explains our origins and holds the keys to our future.We take an average of 7.5 million breaths a year and some 600 million in our lifetime, and what goes on in our body each time oxygen is taken in and carbon dioxide expelled is nothing short of miraculous. "Our lungs are the lynchpin between our bodies and the outside world," writes pulmonologist Michael Stephen. A...

self-help guide to vitamin B12 deficiency and pernicious anaemia

Dr Myhill, ably supported by Craig Robinson, writes: 'It is generally believed that infection is a killer of the past. Wrong – research now shows that our big killers, from cancers and coronaries to dementia and diabetes are largely infection-driven. Indeed, it is difficult to find a pathology that does not have an infectious associate. Cheap and effective defences are within the grasp of all of us. We have all the weapons we need to win the arms race. Our new book provides the intellectua...

A thrilling, fact-packed journey of discovery through the body's immune systemThe human body is like an exceedingly well-fortified castle, defended by billions of soldiers – some live for less than a day, others remember battles for decades, but all are essential in protecting us from disease. This hidden army is our immune system, and without it we could not survive the eternal war between our microscopic enemies and ourselves.Immune explores the ...

Shocking facts revealed about back pain management, bone back pain, depression back pain, gout pain, herniated disk and more.

Based on responses to his earlier books - Pernicious Anaemia: the forgotten disease, and Living with Pernicious Anaemia - and on the daily enquiries and cries for help that come to the Pernicious Anaemia Society, Society-founder Martyn Hooper brings together the essential knowledge that sufferers and their families and friends need to understand, and withstand, vitamin B12 deficiency and pernicious anaemia. Martyn discusses the many uncertainties and difficulties associated with the condit...

A woman's innocuous cold symptoms mask a debilitating rare tick infection. A young man develops shingles then suffers blinding head pain later in life. After years of frustration, a family eradicates head lice forever.Infectious follows on from Frank Bowden's 2011 Gone Viral but deals much more with everyday infectious diseases - the flu, colds, sore throats and head lice.It also tackles topical and critical issues in modern medical practice - the emergenc...

Few medical problems are surrounded by as much ignorance and prejudice as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS), a diverse illness of uncertain origins and indeterminate duration. Often unfairly dismissed as the 'yuppie flu', this devastating condition afflicts increasing numbers of people throughout the world.Understanding Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is written from an unusual perspective-the author is a doctor who himself suffers from CFS. He is therefore able to write from first-...

The immune system is a complicated mechanism whose principle actors are organs, cells, chemicals and a vast collection of proteins tuned by billions of years of evolution to work in a harmonious manner for the good of the whole. Its purpose is to keep us alive in a world where visible and invisible predators intending to usurp our bodies attack us on a daily basis.By virtue of an amazing communication network, millions of cells gather, exchange information, become activated and res...