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Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Español
Description
Este segundo volumen del conjunto Manejo del dolor enseña a los futuros padres varias formas en que pueden manejar el dolor, de forma medicada, incluidos los beneficios y los riesgos. Volumen 2: Analgésicos y epidurales cubre: analgésicos y descripción general y procedimiento de la epidural, los beneficios y riesgos de la epidural y el trabajo de parto con una epidural.
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Español
Description
Conozca a los padres con diversos planes de parto, como usar una clínica de partos independiente y un parto sin medicamentos. También aprenderá sobre las doulas y cómo están capacitadas en técnicas de manejo del dolor para orientarla durante el trabajo de parto.
5) You Can Quit
Series
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
This shows the benefit for your baby by quitting smoking. It also shows the harms that can happen to your baby if you do not quit.
Language
English
Description
People who begin drinking before age 15 are four times more likely to develop alcoholism than those who begin at age 21. This program focuses on three teenagers-Trisha, ChiQuita, and Matt-as they candidly reflect on their first tastes of alcohol, how they got hooked on getting drunk, and how they finally summoned the strength to stop drinking, once and for all. Interviews with experienced addiction counselors stress easy availability and societal...
Series
Language
English
Description
Schizoaffective disorder is a form of psychosis and a mental illness in which a person experiences a combination of schizophrenia symptoms. People affected often have hallucinations or delusions, as well as mood disorder symptoms such as mania or depression. We meet Lynne Fisher, whose life was turned upside down by the onset of this illness, as she battled through five years of symptoms to find a treatment plan that enables her to live a constructive...
Series
Pub. Date
[2012], c2002
Language
English
Description
A young woman who was violently assaulted seems to be in a daze, feeling numb and disconnected from her surroundings. A war veteran has trouble with substance abuse and insomnia years after returning safely home. Both are suffering from stress disorders, described in detail in this program. The video identifies the DSM-IV-TR's primary and secondary symptoms of acute and post-traumatic stress disorders, and covers risk factors, diagnostic challenges,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
End chronic pain -- for good -- with this practical guide from the PBS personality behind Classical Stretch and author of the New York Times bestseller Aging Backwards . Chronic pain is the most common cause of long-term disability in the United States. Twenty percent of American adults accept back spasms, throbbing joints, arthritis aches, and other physical pain as an inevitable consequence of aging, illness, or injury. But the human body is not...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
This revised, updated edition of Russell L. Blaylock's revolutionary guide offers the latest cutting-edge information on how and why cancer develops, why conventional treatments fail, and the critical role inflammation plays in all stages of this deadly disease. Using the latest medical discoveries and most authoritative research, Blaylock reveals why essential natural compounds-vitamins, minerals, and phytochemicals-can halt the spread of cancer....
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Strategies for pain relief from a doctor with twenty-five years experience in integrative and functional medicine, with an emphasis on integrative pain medicine. Includes expert information on acupuncture, medication, chiropractic techniques, nutrition, intramuscular stimulation, diet changes, and exercise"--Provided by publisher.
Series
Pub. Date
[2006], c1991
Language
English
Description
Everyone knows the statistics. Tobacco is the leading contributor to thousands of deaths and debilitating illnesses. So why do teens continue to smoke? The first part of this program explores not only why teens start, but also why it's so hard to stop, why our society allows tobacco companies to promote a lethal drug utilizing state-of-the-art media persuasion techniques, how tobacco is economically entrenched in our system, and why politicians avoid...
Pub. Date
[2013], c2003
Language
English
Description
Dr. Leora Kuttner, an award-winning filmmaker and an international expert in pediatric pain management, brings us this groundbreaking and comprehensive look at the emerging field of pediatric palliative care. At the film's heart are five remarkable young people who speak with profound clarity and wisdom about being alive and their approach to death. Layering their stories with interviews, the film is a unique portrait of how families and professionals...
Pub. Date
[2012], c2010
Language
English
Description
From public health to history and anthropology, African historian Julie Livingston takes an innovative stance on improving conditions for African patients and clinical staff, particularly those dealing with cancer and issues of pain and palliation. With Fulbright-Hays and Rutgers University fellowships, Livingston has built her body of work on over a decade of research, mainly in Botswana, exploring questions of disability, chronic illness, aging,...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Discover some of the newest cancer treatments available today-and a plan for prevention and healing. At the Cancer Center for Healing, Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy offers her groundbreaking integrative approach to both treating and preventing cancer. Now, in The Cancer Revolution, Dr. Connealy shares her program, offering the practical strategies that have helped thousands of patients, let food be your medicine, remove toxins to repair and restore your...
Pub. Date
[2013], c2008
Language
English
Description
Seven million Americans suffer from migraines, and 50 percent of them find no relief with available medications. This ABC News report investigates a new treatment that is showing some good results. TMS or Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation sends a magnetic pulse into the brain to disrupt the electrical storm that precedes a migraine.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
In this "powerful and unflinching page-turner" (New York Times), a healthcare journalist examines the science, history, and culture of breast cancer. As a health-care journalist, Kate Pickert knew the emotional highs and lows of medical treatment well -- but always from a distance, through the stories of her subjects. That is, until she was unexpectedly diagnosed with an aggressive type of breast cancer at the age of 35. As she underwent more than...
Pub. Date
[2006], c2003
Language
English
Description
In many ways, American healthcare is number one-but not in overall performance, says the WHO, which ranked the U.S. 37th. Unlike most first-world countries, America does not guarantee care for all of its citizens regardless of ability to pay. This ABC News program seeks to understand what factors contribute to top-notch healthcare as it assesses the advantages and disadvantages of the Canadian and U.S. systems. Can some of the Canadian benefits be...
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