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Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (It Happened to Me)
by Natalie Rompella
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder strikes one in fifty adults. However, the disorder often remains untreated in young adults, despite advances in diagnostics. Though so many people suffer from OCD, very few seek professional help. Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: The Ultimate Teen Guide helps teens understand OCD in greater detail. The guide explains different forms of OCD (checking, cleaning, scrupulosity) and related disorders (such as Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder, Tourette's Syndrome,...
Why Do People Get Sick? a Children's Disease Book (Learning about Diseases)
by Baby Professor
In this fully revised third edition of the 1998 original, here are the gripping stories of mankind's struggles against the deadliest diseases in human history - including malaria, leprosy, and cholera - updated to reflect new medical and social developments such as the continuing ravages of AIDS around the world, the bioterror threat posed by smallpox eradication, and an all new chapter on the Ebola crisis. Illustrated with more than fifty reproductions of photographs, newspaper cartoons, public...
Health problems have a significant impact on the wellbeing and even the life expectancy of many people in low-and middle-income countries. This book looks at the factors that influence life expectancy and at what constitutes a healthy lifestyle. It explores the fight against disease throughout the world and the role of healthcare industries. It asks readers to think about what they can do to promote good health, in their own lives and the lives of others.The Our World in Crisis series features i...
Discrimination and Prejudice (Understanding Obesity)
by Victor Garcia
Surgery and Medicine for Weight Loss (Understanding Obesity)
by Victor Garcia
Health, Illness, and Death in the Time of Covid-19 (Understanding the Covid-19 Pandemic)
by Bradley Steffens
The Search for a Covid-19 Vaccine (Understanding the Covid-19 Pandemic)
by Craig E Blohm
Kids and Asthma (Diseases and Disorders of Youth)
by Kris Hirschmann
When synthetic opioids were developed a quarter-century ago, many physicians believed the drugs would help alleviate the pain caused by severe injuries and debilitating diseases. But while the drugs do deaden pain, they can lead to devastating addiction as well as death through overdose. Meanwhile, the natural opioid heroin continues to be a much-abused illegal drug that threatens the lives of its users.
Celiac Disease and Gluten Sensitivity (Diseases & Disorders)
by Michelle Denton
From National Book Award finalist Albert Marrin comes a fascinating look at the history and science of the deadly 1918 flu pandemic--and its chilling and timely resemblance to the worldwide coronavirus outbreak. In spring of 1918, World War I was underway, and troops at Fort Riley, Kansas, found themselves felled by influenza. By the summer of 1918, the second wave struck as a highly contagious and lethal epidemic and within weeks exploded into a pandemic, an illness that travels rapidly from...