Medical
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Rediscovering the Immune System as an Integrated Organ
by Peter Bretscher
The mainstream view of the immune system is concerned with molecular and cellular details resulting in a picture of immense complexity. Many immunologists live with this complexity, hoping that a series of breakthroughs will eventually add up to a ...
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No Longer Hysteria
My Chronic Battle with Endometriosis by Teya Friesen
Endometriosis is a common condition/disease that affects 1 out of 10 women, and yet women are being told it’s normal for them to have pain with their period. It is listed in the top 10 most painful conditions to have and diagnosing this disease ...
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This is Dementia
Disrupting the Decline by John W. DenBoer
This is Dementia: Disrupting the Decline seeks to dispel the myths surrounding dementia. It invites you to take a journey to explore the misconceptions, stereotypes, and various perspectives surrounding this devastating disorder. This journey is an ...
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Affordable Healthcare
Challenges to Solutions by Akram Ali, MD
Our healthcare system is on life support. It does not need temporary relief. What it needs is intensive therapy for a quick recovery. We need to abandon persistent past failures and current abuses to pursue a fundamentally different approach to ...
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Beating Heart Disease
5 Powerful Pillars to Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease by Diamond Fernandes
Heart disease is the number one cause of death and hospitalization in developed countries, and yet it is largely preventable. Think about that for a moment. How is that possible? What is required is good information. Did you know that more than half ...
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Life Goes On
Journey of a Liver Transplant Recipient by Christine Jowett
It is a reality that someone in Canada dies every three days waiting for an organ transplant; for some patients, they are lying in their hospital beds, waiting to be given a second chance at life. Some are fortunate to receive that organ or gift of ...
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If Only I Had Known
Integrative and Alternative Paths to Recovery from Breast Cancer by Aviva Mayers
Aviva Mayers was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2008. Like millions of women throughout the world, she initially agreed to a conventional treatment out of fear and confusion. But she began to question those choices as the treatment progressed. ...
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WTF Did You Do to My Colon?!
101 Uses For Your Colon After Surgery by Susan Scott Jones
As anyone who’s been through it knows, colon surgery is not for the faint of heart. And for everyone who has experienced complications or lives with chronic health issues, they and their caregivers know the struggle to keep a sense of humor. But, if ...
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Fight Fire with Food
Cooking for Cancer Prevention by Susanne Jakubowski
This cookbook contains recipes with a focus on foods that help keep our systems healthy and cancer free. As a holistic nutritional counsellor I see what the average North American diet looks like, and it is generally, lacking in healthy whole ...
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Diffability
The Liberation of Potential by Avesta Alani
The goal of this book is to attempt to begin a discussion and a movement to reform the conception of disability through language. We always try to tackle the barriers persons with disabilities have in society from a sociological or administrative ...
