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The Official Parent's Sourcebook on Infantile Spasms: A Revised and Updated Directory for the Internet Age
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The 10 Best Questions for Living with Alzheimer's: The Script You Need to Get the Best Care for Your Loved One
: :A good mind knows the right answers...but a great mind knows the right questions. And never are the 10 Best Questions™ more important than after the life-altering diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease.Drawing on cutting-edge research and advice given by experts from the Alzheimer's Association, Mayo Clinic, and UCLA's Memory Clinic and Center for Aging -- as well as personal stories from caretakers, including television star and activist Linda Dano and nationally syndicated columnist Harriet Cole -- The 10 Best Questions™ for Living with Alzheimer's is a guide you'll take with you ...
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Hope and Destiny: A Patient's and Parent's Guide to Sickle Cell Disease and Sickle Cell Trait
: :An up-to-date, informative, and personal discussion of sickle-cell anaemia, this guide provides information on medically proven methods of treatment along with patient vignettes. Written primarily for African Americans, who comprise the majority of the victims of sickle-cell anaemia, this handbook for patients and those who live or work with them examines the complex issues that surround this genetic disease. Advice on dealing with the physical suffering, inability to work, quality of life issues, and premature death that affect sickle-cell patients is offered in layman's terms to aid patients and caregivers ...
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Genetics and Society: A Sociology of Disease
: :Genetic science has advanced rapidly in recent years; things happen now that might have seemed like science fiction only ten years ago. Genetics and Society looks at the history of this science and the wide-ranging impact it has had on contemporary society. Using fascinating and cutting-edge examples throughout, Anne Kerr examines topics as diverse as:* the institutional structures that have grown up around the diagnosis and treatment of genetic disorders* the media representation of genetic debates from designer babies to the genetic sources of alcoholism* the politics of genetic decision-making ...
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The Official Patient's Sourcebook on Machado-Joseph Disease: A Revised and Updated Directory for the Internet Age
: :This book has been created for patients who have decided to make education and research an integral part of the treatment process. Although it also gives information useful to doctors, caregivers and other health professionals, it tells patients where and how to look for information covering virtually all topics related to machado-joseph disease (also Autosomal Dominant Spinocerebellar Degeneration; Azorean Neurologic Disease; Machado Disease; Machado-Joseph Disease; Nigrospinodentatal Degeneration; Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type III), from the essentials to the most advanced areas of research. The title of this book includes the word official. ...
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Genetics & Your Health: A Guide for the 21st Century Family
: :Ideal for anyone with personal concerns about genetic illness or an interest in the latest scientific breakthroughs and their potential impact on people, families, and society, this book explains the advances in genetic research. Now that gene research promises to revolutionize medicine in the 21st century, public interest in genetics has never been greater. The confidentiality of personal genetic information and the regulation of genetic technologies like cloning are hot-button topics increasingly dramatized in the media. This book includes the latest information on the Human Genome Project; a directory of Internet-based ...
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The 2002 Official Parent's Sourcebook on Down Syndrome
: :This book has been created for parents who have decided to make education and research an integral part of the treatment process. Although it also gives information useful to doctors, caregivers and other health professionals, it tells parents where and how to look for information covering virtually all topics related to down syndrome (also Down's syndrome; Mosaic 21 Syndrome; Translocation 21 Syndrome; Trisomy 21; Trisomy 21 Syndrome; Trisomy G), from the essentials to the most advanced areas of research. The title of this book includes the word official. This reflects ...
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The 2002 Official Patient's Sourcebook on Fragile X Syndrome
from: Icon Health Publications
: :This book has been created for parents who have decided to make education and research an integral part of the treatment process. Although it also gives information useful to doctors, caregivers and other health professionals, it tells parents where and how to look for information covering virtually all topics related to fragile x syndrome (also FRAXA; Marker X Syndrome; Martin-Bell Syndrome; X-linked mental retardation; X-linked Mental Retardation and Macroorchidism), from the essentials to the most advanced areas of research. The title of this book includes the word official. This reflects ...
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The 2002 Official Patient's Sourcebook on Muscular Dystrophy
from: ICON Health Publications
: :This book has been created for patients who have decided to make education and research an integral part of the treatment process. Although it also gives information useful to doctors, caregivers and other health professionals, it tells patients where and how to look for information covering virtually all topics related to muscular dystrophy (also Distal muscular dystrophy; Duchenne's muscular dystrophy; Erb's muscular dystrophy; Facioscapulohumeral disease; Fukuyama syndrome; Gower's syndrome), from the essentials to the most advanced areas of research. The title of this book includes the word official. This reflects ...
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Arab Genetic Disorders: A Layman's Guide
: :Certain disorders tend to occur in some ethnic groups more than others. In 2001, McFarland published the author's Jewish Genetic Disorders ('superb guide...outstanding writing and well-organized text...current and comprehensive...exceptional' - Library Journal). This new work covers genetic disorders that have been noted to occur with relatively high frequency in Arab populations or that are unique to them. It begins with a discussion of the basic facts about genetics and genetic diseases, and who the Arab people are and why certain genetic disorders are more common in their population. The genetic ...
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