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[2017]
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"Show me your teeth," the great naturalist Georges Cuvier is credited with saying, "and I will tell you who you are." In this shattering new work, veteran health journalist Mary Otto looks inside Americas mouth, revealing unsettling truths about our unequal society.Teeth takes readers on a disturbing journey into Americas silent epidemic of oral disease, exposing the hidden connections between tooth decay and stunted job prospects, low educational...
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2012
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Having a baby is a life-changing event for parents, and giving birth prematurely can bring a complex set of challenges and emotions to an already intense experience. But in this authoritative, warm, and positive guide, Dr. Su Laurent guides parents through having a premature baby, giving them the tools they need to parent confidently. Covering topics including what to expect in the Special Care Baby Unit, taking your baby home, avoiding or dealing...
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2016.
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Football player "Ben Utecht has accumulated a vast treasure of memories: tossing a football in the yard with his father, meeting his wife, ... writing and performing music, catching touchdown passes from quarterback Peyton Manning, and playing a Super Bowl Championship watched by ninety-three million people. But the game he has built his living on, the game he fell in love with as a child, is taking its toll in a devastating way. After at least five...
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[2010]
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A practical guide to health care for adults and adolescents with Down syndrome, highlighting health problems that are more common to people with the syndrome, and looking at the unique ways in which health problems sometimes present themselves in people with Down syndrome
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[2020]
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"A doctor's revelatory account of pregnancy and the complexity of reproductive life-and everything we lose when we don't speak honestly about women's health. "My work offers a window into the darkest and lightest corners of people's lives, into the extremes of human experience," writes Dr. Chavi Eve Karkowsky in High Risk, her timely and unflinching account of working in maternal-fetal medicine-that branch of medicine that concerns high-risk pregnancies....
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c2007
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This sequel to Eleanor Rushing (2000) finds our eponymous heroine once again deluded by her fixation on a man, in this case the unfortunately named Dr. Richard Kimball, a shady plastic surgeon. After undergoing a disastrous breast-implant operation (she wakes up during surgery), Eleanor refuses to listen to the advice of her friends, including her longtime black housekeeper, the hilarious Naomi. Instead, she schedules even more extensive cosmetic...
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[2013]
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A comprehensive guide to improving mental clarity and quality of life in the aftermath of a concussion draws on the expertise of a neuropsychologist and concussion survivor to counsel patients and caregivers on how to manage symptoms ranging from migraines and depression to sleep problems and memory loss.
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