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  • Adverse Reactions

    The Fenoterol Story

    by Neil Pearce ...
    Recounting the fenoterol epidemic—a major medical controversy that took place more than 15 years ago—this narrative explores the involvement of the asthma drug that caused numerous asthma deaths. Although the epidemic occurred in New Zealand, its shocking discoveries and subsequent consequences attracted worldwide attention in medical journals and conferences. Neil Pearce, the researcher who ... Read more

    $23.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Pesticides and Health

    How New Zealand Fails in Environmental Protection

    by Neil Pearce ...
    Series series BWB Texts
    New Zealand has been one of the world's heaviest users of pesticides, including some contaminated with dioxin, a notorious toxic chemical. In this BWB Text a leading epidemiologist uses the example of dioxin to illustrate how badly New Zealand handles problems of environmental pollutants, and why we can do better. Concern with public health has been recast by the Covid-19 pandemic. Neil Pearce's ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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  • The Iceberg

    A Memoir

    by Marion Coutts ...
    "The work of an exceptional woman artist, writing from the inside about the things women have always done: nursing, nurturing, loving." — The GuardianWinner of the Wellcome Book Prize, and finalist for every major nonfiction award in the UK, including the Samuel Johnson Prize and the Costa Biography Award, The Iceberg is artist and writer Marion Coutts' astonishing memoir; an "adventure of being ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Drug Hunters

    The Improbable Quest to Discover New Medicines

    by Donald R. Kirsch, Ogi Ogas ...
    The surprising, behind-the-scenes story of how our medicines are discovered, told by a veteran drug hunter.The search to find medicines is as old as disease, which is to say as old as the human race. Through serendipity- by chewing, brewing, and snorting-some Neolithic souls discovered opium, alcohol, snakeroot, juniper, frankincense, and other helpful substances. Ötzi the Iceman, the five ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Just Show Up

    The Dance of Walking through Suffering Together

    by Kara Tippetts, Jill Lynn Buteyn ...
    Kara Tippetts’s story was not a story of disease, although she lost her battle with terminal cancer. It was not a story of saying goodbye, although she was intentional in her time with her husband and four children. Kara’s story was one of seeing God in the hard and in the good. It was one of finding grace in the everyday. And it was one of knowing “God with us” through fierce and beautiful ... Read more

    $13.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Miracle Medicines

    Seven Lifesaving Drugs and the People Who Created Them

    by Robert L. Shook ...
    It’s the business of saving lives.Miracle Medicines goes behind the scenes of the pharmaceutical industry and into the high-security laboratories to tell the stories of the men and women---chemists, physiologists, medical and clinical researchers, engineers---who have chosen to toil for years in the lab in order to transform scientific theories into new lifesaving medicines.You’ll witness the day ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Partners 4 Life

    The Importance of Partners in Surviving an Organ Transplant

    by Jim Uhrig ...
    Early in 2008, doing ordinary, mundane things like tying his shoes and walking up steps literally took author Jim Uhrigs breath away. He had trouble breathing, and it seemed as though he could never catch his breath. That was the beginning of a long journey for Uhrig, who shares his story in Partners 4 Life. In this memoir, he narrates the path his life took after being diagnosed with the ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Air Pollution and Health Effects

    Edited by John W. Hollingsworth, Srikanth S. Nadadur ...
    Series series Molecular and Integrative Toxicology
    Exposure to ambient air pollutants, both indoors and outdoors has been associated with the exacerbation and also in the etiology of diverse human diseases. This book offers an overview of our current understanding of air pollution health risks and how this knowledge is being used in the regulatory, therapeutic intervention measures to protect the public health and reduce the disease burden caused ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Irreversible, my life, a battle

    Memoirs

    by Emmanuel Siaux ...
    Translated by Caroline Brown ...
    Forty years of an exciting life, until the day everything changes abruptly.The accident, which obliges Emmanuel, a professional motorcycle pilot, and a motorcyclist in the national police, to leave the world of valid people and join the handicapped world.In parallel, before the accident, during his coma and even afterwards, some mysterious signs appear and interfere in his life.Chance or ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation

    Edited by C. Rampulla, C. Fracchia, N. Ambrosino ...
    Series series Current Topics in Rehabilitation
    Respiratory rehabilitation can be defined as long term evaluation and therapy. This definition has evolved considerably from earlier and more restrictive attempts to delineate the discipline. Currently, respiratory rehabilitation involves evaluation techniques and treatment strategies which utilize the benefits gained from exercises, but without being limited to it. Respiratory muscle training, ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Treatment of Asthma: The long-acting beta-2-agonists

    Edited by Friedrich Kummer ...

    $89.09 USD

  • Cystic Fibrosis Pulmonary Infections: Lessons from Around the World

    Edited by Adolf Bauernfeind, Melvin I. Marks, Brigitta Strandvik ...
    Series series Respiratory Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy
    Infection of the lower respiratory tract is a major determinant of the course of cystic fibrosis. Although numerous efforts have been made to elucidate the specific mechanisms predisposing the respiratory mucosa of cystic fibrosis patients to infection, so far no clinically relevant procedures for completely effective prevention or control of infection have resulted. Hence, in dealing with ... Read more

    $49.49 USD