Insider's Guide to Better Nursing Home Care: 75 Tips You Should Know

Reed, now an attorney, spent 10 years working as a LPN in nursing home facilities, and she uses her experience to offer these 75 tips on improving the level of care in these institutions. Written for families "making placement decisions for their loved ones," this book outlines the legal requirements of nursing homes and reveals how these laws are broken on a regular basis in many facilities. She emphasizes the need for each employee to understand their responsibilities while observing the rights of the residents, and delivers tips that will ensure that substandard care is avoided.
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When Someone You Love Needs Nursing Home, Assisted Living, or In-Home Care: The Complete Guide

This guide for people who must find assisted living services for a loved one has been updated with new information on appropriate settings, long-term care insurance, financial issues and caregiver stress. Bornstein (psychology, Adelphi U.) and Languirand, a noted author and health care expert, cover strategies for choosing the right facilities, evaluating care providers, communicating with staff to ensure high-quality care and dealing with late-life health problems. The authors also analyze the latest eldercare tax laws and Medicare regulations.
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Pill Head: The Secret Life of a Painkiller Addict

A social analysis of the increase in pain-killer abuse in the United States is told through a prism of the author's own struggles, describing how he became addicted to Vicodin while performing research on the high number of people who illegally obtain and use prescription drugs for non-medical reasons.
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Blue Collar, Blue Scrubs: The Making of a Surgeon

The author of Hot Lights, Cold Steel traces his journey from his employment as a construction worker to his entry into medical school, an effort that was marked by such experiences as a co-worker's life-changing comment, his first delivery of a baby, and his first patient losses.
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The Complete Guide to Female Fertility

With recent warnings about rising infertility rates and the dangers of delaying motherhood, many women are concerned about when or whether they will manage to have a baby. At the same time, news of the latest advances in reproductive technology suggest it may be possible to beat the female biological clock and put childbearing on hold. This practical and accessible guide answers the myriad questions that women have about fertility and pregnancy in the modern world. Proven facts are provided in an accessible manner with topics addressed including how the reproductive system works; when women are at their most fertile; how age affects chances of conceiving; how to boost fertility naturally; possible roadblocks to becoming pregnant; and what reproductive technology can do to help. Designed to inform and reassure, this essential resource also includes information on the common emotional aspects of relationships and fertility.

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The Thyroid Solution: A Revolutionary Mind-Body Program for Regaining Your Emotional and Physical Health

Written by a leading authority on the subject, an updated, comprehensive guide to thyroid disorders explains the illness and its physical and emotional side effects and offers a practical program for restoring one's thyroid to health and maintaining.
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7 Weeks to 100 Push-ups: Strengthen and Sculpt Your Arms, Abs, Chest, Back and Glutes by Training to Do 100 Consecutive Push-ups

Beginning with detailed instructions on how to perform a proper push-up and maximize its benefit, the author lays out day-by-day and week-by-week exercise plans that outline how to work up to one hundred push-ups safely and effectively and prepares readers for strength training with diet and nutrition guidelines.
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No Family History: The Enviromental Links to Breast Cancer

No Family History presents compelling evidence of environmental links to breast cancer, ranging from everyday cosmetics to industrial waste. Sabrina McCormick weaves the story of one survivor with no family history into a powerful exploration of the big business of breast cancer. As drugs, pink products, and corporate sponsorships generate enormous revenue to find a cure, a growing number of experts argue that we should instead increase focus on prevention--reducing environmental exposures that have contributed to the sharp increase of breast cancer rates.
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The G Free Diet: A Gluten-Free Survival Guide

After her stint on Survivor, the author, who is now a co-host of The View, was diagnosed with celiac disease and had to shift to a gluten-free diet, an experience that she draws from as she offers advice for anybody who needs to go G-free but does not know how, in a guide with G-Free substitutes and advice on deciphering food labels.
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Transcend: Nine Steps to Living Well Forever

TRANSCEND: Nine Steps to Living Well Forever presents a practical, enjoyable program so that readers can live long enough (and remain healthy long enough) to take full advantage of the biotech and nanotech advances that have already begun and will be occurring at an accelerating pace during the years ahead. To help readers remember the nine key components of the program, Ray and Terry have arranged them into a mnemonic:

Talk with your doctor

Relaxation

Assessment

Nutrition

Supplementation

Calorie reduction

Exercise

New technologies

Detoxification

This easy-to-follow program will help readers transcend the boundaries of our genetic legacy and live long enough to live forever.

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Six Months in Sudan: A Young Doctor in a War-torn Village

A memoir of a young doctor trying to heal a village on the brink of devastation chronicles the unthinkable cost of war for one community and a man's courageous effort to bring about lasting change, in spite of the many losses he endures.
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The Engine 2 Diet: The Texas Firefighter's 28-Day Save-Your-Life Plan That Lowers Cholesterol and Burns Away the Pounds

A professional triathlete-turned-firefighter shares a diet he devised for fellow firefighters to help them lose weight and lower their cholesterol levels, an eating regimen that transitions participants to a mostly vegetable diet also consisting of whole grains, legumes, and small portions of meat.
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