Showing titles in Contagious Diseases

The untold story of how America's Progressive-era war on smallpox sparked one of the great civil liberties battles of the twentieth century. At the turn of the last century, a powerful smallpox epidemic swept the United States from coast to coast. The age-old disease spread swiftly through an...

Americans are experts at swiping right - in just the last several years, they've made billions of online dating matches. But this accelerated online dating process must go hand in hand with an enlightened approach to sexually transmitted disease - currently over 147 million Americans have an STD, and only a minority of those persons are aware of their infection. Not surprisingly, STDs have recently increased dramatically.

Thorn shares with readers the extraordinary - yet very human - account of his life from late July to mid-October 1995, when, scared and unsure of what was happening and would happen to him, he was admitted to the hospital with a diagnosis of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB). Through his painfully frank diary and the letters of haters and well wishers alike, Paul’s story is told day by day, moment by moment, from confusion and terrible, soul-killing fear to acceptance and finally hope.

In Healing Lyme Disease Naturally, anthropologist Wolf D. Storl shares his own success in overcoming a difficult, sometimes deadly disease that is reaching epidemic proportions. When he was diagnosed, Dr. Storl refused standard treatments because of antibiotic intolerance. Instead, he...

For as long as humans have lived on this earth, nature has done its very best to rid the planet of us. This audiobook not only looks back at a number of times in recorded history where the future of our very existence was put in jeopardy, but also asks whether we could survive a resurgence of these pandemics - or even an entirely new as-yet undetected threat. From the plague of Justinian, through the Black Death and Spanish flu, to the 2015/16 Zika outbreak, we explore how each epidemic began, spread, and threatened to wipe us out.

A gripping narrative about the Zika virus from the New York Times science reporter covering the outbreak. Until recently, Zika virus—once considered a mild disease—was hardly a cause for global panic. But as early as August of 2015, doctors in Brazil’s northeast region began to notice a...

New York Times bestselling author and expert in epidemiology Dr. Michael Savage explains the origins of viruses and their impact on the U.S. With new and resurgent diseases resulting from unregulated immigration and a politicized public health system, Michael Savage sees the need for some...

Dr. Kent and Amber Brantly (with David Thomas) tell of Dr. Brantly’s near-death encounter with the Ebola virus in Liberia. The first American diagnosed during the 2014 outbreak, Dr. Brantly’s ordeal—including his controversial evacuation to and hospitalization in the United States—received worldwide media attention.

Measles is one of the most contagious diseases in the world. Fortunately it is also an infection that has a vaccine that can provide immunity. It has ravaged populations in recorded history, but modern technology and discoveries have allowed the population to enjoy a degree of protection through vaccination.

Louise Troh - fiancée of Thomas Eric Duncan, the first man ever to die of Ebola in America - breaks her silence about her experience. This deeply moving memoir chronicles the decade-long love story that starts in Liberia and ends in an isolation ward in Dallas, Texas. With the assistance of New York Times best-selling author Christine Wicker, Louise Troh shares with the world a memoir of heartbreaking resonance.

Knowledge and correct information are the first steps to survival. There are generic preparations that are appropriate for every emergency situation. However, concrete and careful planning is needed for you and your family to survive during emergency situations.

Some sickness you hear about every day. Some illnesses you rarely hear about or come across. Some things like allergies to the cold or semen or exotic disorders or diseases.

Over many decades, "contagion" has been a metaphor of choice for everything from global terrorism, suicide bombings, poverty, immigration, global financial crises, human rights, fast food, obesity, divorce, and homosexuality. Essays examine the language of epidemiology used in the war on terror, the repressive effects of global disease surveillance, and films and novels that enact the perplexities of contagion in a global context.

Technological innovation is deeply woven into the fabric of American culture, and is no less a basic feature of American health care. Medical technology saves lives and relieves suffering, and is enormously popular with the public, profitable for doctors, and a source of great wealth for industry. Yet its costs are rising at a dangerously unsustainable rate. The control of technology costs poses a terrible ethical and policy dilemma. How can we deny people what they may need to live and flourish?

The media constantly bombard us with news of health hazards lurking in our everyday lives. But many of these hazards turn out to have been greatly overblown. According to author and epidemiologist Geoffrey C. Kabat, this hyping of low-level environmental hazards leads to needless anxiety and confusion on the part of the public as to which exposures have important effects on health and which are likely to have minimal or no effect.

A world-renowned physician traces the rise of the medical-industrial complex that has made a disaster of our health care system and tells us incisively what we need to do to change it.

Ameno y didáctico, el bioquímico y escritor Gabriel León relata el estudio de las enfermedades a través de la historia, y cómo la ciencia descubrió y controló, tardíamente muchas veces, a virus y bacterias. El gran avance que significó para la medicina el lavado de manos y cómo pudieron evitarse las cientos de miles de muertes de mujeres durante el parto, provocadas justamente por faltas de higiene.

Covid, Londra rinasce e torna il gusto del futuro: Patto Draghi-Macron per aumentare i fondi oltre i 750 miliardi, di Alberto d'Argenio e Anais Ginori; La Germania ha salvato l'Est del Paese, ora l'Italia salvi il Sud. È giusto e conviene, di Isaia Sales; Draghi e il "gusto del futuro": la fede nel cambiamento, di Michele Serra; Covid, a luglio l'immunità in Europa. Draghi: torna il gusto del futuro, di Viola Giannoli; Effetto "zero". Londra si riprende la voglia di vivere, di Benedetta Cibrario.

Covid, la linea Draghi: Ue, il patto per i vaccini: "Con gli Usa più forti", di Alberto D'Argenio; Draghi scommette su Biden. E a Von der Leyen chiede: "Contratti con Big Pharma", di Tommaso Ciriaco; L'Europa e la pandemia, il debito di solidarietà, di Ezio Mauro; Vertice Ue, la mossa di Draghi: "Nuovo patto ed eurobond per uscire dalla crisi", di Tommaso Ciriaco e Roberto Mania; L'Europa all'attacco di AstraZeneca: "Produrre più vaccini e no all'export", di Alberto D'Argenio.

Covid. Aprile, il mese del giudizio: Vaccini, un aprile a rilento: si allontana l'obiettivo di 500 mila al giorno, di Tommaso Ciriaco, Fabio Tonacci; La pandemia e il bisogno di ritrovare la speranza, di Michela Marzano; Covid, il Paese provato dal virus chiede iniezioni per tutti e il passaporto europeo, di Ilvo Diamanti; Vaccini, aprile è il mese del giudizio, di Stefano Cappellini; Vaccini, il governo in pressing sulle Regioni. In arrivo altre 1,5 milioni di dosi Pfizer, di Tommaso Ciriaco; Ristoranti a pranzo non prima del 26. I paletti del governo per le riaperture.