Quick Facts or Just Us Girls

Quick Facts: Prostate Cancer: What You Ned to Know--Now

Author: American Cancer Society

Educate yourself about prostate cancer

What are your risk factors for prostate cancer? Can you prevent it? How is prostate cancer treated? What should you ask your doctor? QuickFACTS Prostate Cancer is both a comprehensive and a quick read, with highlighted cover tabs for quick reference of specific topics.

QuickFACTS Prostate Cancer:

• Covers everything from risk factors to living well after cancer treatment
• Provides critical questions to ask your healthcare team
• Educates and empowers you right from the start
• Completely updated with the latest patient treatment guidelines
• Includes a prostate cancer dictionary

American Cancer Society is a trusted provider of unbiased general information and personalized cancer-related health information and guidance. Its goals emphasize prevention, early detection, and screening; comprehensive treatment information that can help patients make informed decisions; practical answers to patients' questions about work, insurance, money, and planning for the future; and strategies for coping with the physical symptoms and emotional effects of cancer.

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Just Us Girls

Author: Moka

Sunscreen™A new series that offers good advice in an appealing, portable package Written with candor and humor, the Sunscreen series offers preteens and teens advice on the topics that interest them most in a compact, highly illustrated paperback that fits conveniently in a purse, backpack, or messenger bag. Not too glib and not overly serious, the Sunscreen books deliver just the right information, and the freedom and protection that come with it. Author Bio: Co-author Melissa Daly is a former senior staff writer at Seventeen magazine and current associate editor at Fitness magazine.

Publishers Weekly

Four paperback titles kick off the Sunscreen series of self-help books aimed at teens. Just Us Girls by Moka, with Melissa Daly, illus. by Eric Heliot, divided into "phases" (sections) tackle subjects such as girls' changing bodies, self-awareness and relating to others-plus lighter fare such as "experimenting with makeup." Sex Explained by Magali Clausener-Petit, with Daly, illus. by Soledad, navigates the body's changes (for boys and girls) during puberty, as well as such topics as intercourse, contraception and sexual crimes (e.g., rape and incest), offering advice on how not to become a victim. My Parents Are Getting Divorced by Florence Cadier, with Daly, illus. by Claire Gandini, can help kids caught in the middle, providing reassurance and advice: "Just listening to their fighting is hard enough; you shouldn't have to referee." Finally, Feeling Freakish? by V ronique le Jeune and Philippe Eliakim, with Daly, illus. by Princess H, tackles self-esteem issues and ends with quotes from real kids. Cartoons mix a comic touch with compassion: a girl confesses to a boy, "I can't go out with you because my ears stick out... I'm sure you understand." Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

Nina Lindsay - VOYA

A girl-power book that has put a lot into looking attractive and up-to-date ends up being shallow and soon out-of-date. Short sections attend briefly to many of the things that eleven- to fourteen-year-olds think about: bodies, boys, friends and family, personality, and self-image. The relaxed and breezy tone of the text and design only skim the surface of these issues: No important body parts are shown, and the word sex never even appears in the index. (The author tries hard to avoid the word "vagina," although on one page she cannot seem to find any way around it. The word does not show up in the index.) Cutesy lines to appeal to contemporary girls will soon be or might already be out of date: "Hats are big right now" or "wear cute underwear with funky designs-you'll be the only one who knows." Who has not seen girls' underwear showing on purpose? The text presupposes upper-middle class readers, who might pick up boys "at the ski resort" or persuade their parents to let them go on a class trip or year abroad with no concern for money. The intended audience for this book is also not, apparently, African American, although the illustrations feature young women of ambiguous ethnicities. The sections on hair and makeup refer to only certain hair and skin types. This book is the sort that some parents might wish their twelve-year-old would read: upbeat and with no "scary" details. But beyond its flashy design and positive message it offers a bland naпvete that no parent would wish on their child. VOYA CODES: 2Q 3P M (Better editing or work by the author might have warranted a 3Q; Will appeal with pushing; Middle School, defined as grades 6 to 8). 2004, Amulet Books/Harry N. Abrams, 112p.,Trade pb. Ages 11 to 14.

School Library Journal

Gr 5-8-Through hip graphics, colors, and fonts, these books offer advice, but the quality varies from title to title. Divorced is a great, upbeat book, giving wise advice in a voice that speaks to kids. The table of contents is divided into three logical sections, which cover before, during, and after divorce. The illustrations are right on target, such as a dog and a cat fighting on the cover or a kid balancing on a tightrope between two houses. Unfortunately, all but one of the titles in the bibliography are in French. Girls covers such topics as the body, personality types, feelings, and relationships in short, graphically appealing chapters. However, the chapter on exercise talks about sampling the equipment in a health club without mentioning that children under a certain age may not be permitted to work out on machines. The biggest problem, though, is with the cartoon illustrations. In the section on kids not wanting to spend time with their parents, the illustration shows a girl asking to watch TV with her father. With the discussion of glasses, a girl is shown wearing them on her chest like a bra, nipples where eyes would be. Finally, the bibliography includes only one book, the old edition of the Boston Women's Health Collective's Our Bodies, Ourselves (S & S, 1985), making no mention of the many good books that cover similar ground for middle schoolers.-Laurie von Mehren, Cuyahoga County Public Library, Brecksville, OH Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

When Your Doctor Has Bad News or Hormone Decision

When Your Doctor Has Bad News: Simple Steps to Strength, Healing, and Hope

Author: Al B Weir

When the diagnosis is serious, what makes the difference between hope and despair?

As a practicing oncologist, Dr. Al Weir works daily with patients who receive bad news. A medical doctor with a pastors heart, Dr. Weir knows from experience that its the patients focus, not the diagnosis, that indicates whether one will slip into despair and hopelessness or have the courage to live each day fully. Resilience of spirit can powerfully influence recovery and healing, and within our crisis, the choices we make are important.

When Your Doctor Has Bad News offers no easy answers, no quick outs. But it does equip you to weather the storm you are facing and emerge whole again. Practical tips provide questions for you to ask your doctor and choices you can make to achieve your best chances for healing. Real-life stories show how others have coped with life-threatening illness, walked with God, and won.

You can deepen communion with God in the midst of medical crisis. When Your Doctor Has Bad News gives you proven principles that will enable you to choose a life worth living, no matter what news the doctor has given you.

Dr. Weir . . . guides the readerespecially the one who has received bad newspast the soul-numbing shock of a dismal medical report. He reminds us of the soothing comfort available in the Word of God, of the heartwarming precepts upon which we can build a new life, and of the simple steps a family can take to promote hope and healing.
Joni Eareckson Tada (from the introduction)

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Hormone Decision

Author: Tara Parker Pop

Do you have questions about menopause and the use of hormones?
The generation of women approaching or entering menopause today has heard more on the subject than any previous generation. First hormones were good. Then suddenly they were bad. Now they don't seem to be in the news much at all. But for the woman realizing that her body is starting to change, all these conflicting reports can be frightening. The truth is that every woman is different, and no one answer is correct for everybody.
Tara Parker-Pope, who has written about health for both The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, details all the latest research on menopause in a clear, easy-to-read style that makes it possible for you to:

• understand the research
• ask intelligent questions
• choose whether or not hormone therapy is right for you.

Table of Contents:

Preface to the Paperback Edition     ix
Introduction     xix
Untangling the Controversy
Hormone Confusion: Making Sense of the Headlines     3
Hormone History: The Pendulum Swings     28
Hormones and the Symptoms of Menopause     50
Understanding the Science
Hormones and Your Heart     71
Hormones and Your Breasts     96
Hormones and Your Bones     126
Hormones and Your Vagina     143
Hormones and Your Brain     162
Hormones and Your Skin     193
Hormones and Other Body Parts     208
Making Your Own Choices
The Progestin Question     225
Prescription Hormones: Pills, Patches, Creams, and Rings     250
Hormone Alternatives: Drugs, Supplements, and Other Options     275
The Hormone Decision     297
Endnotes     325
Acknowledgments     349
Index     353

La Lista de Salud or Your Plan for a Balanced Life

La Lista de Salud: Lo Que Usted y Su Familia Necesita Saber Para Prevenir Enfermedades y Vivir una Vida Larga y Saludable (Checklist)

Author: Manny Alvarez

Por medio de uno de los más respetados corresponsales médicos, Dr. Manny Alvarez, llega un libro de mantenimiento y salud preventiva organizado para identificar y evitar las enfermedades más comunes y los riesgos de salud a los cuales estamos susceptibles cada uno de nosotros en cualquier etapa de nuestras vidas

Como en Tú: El Manual de Instrucciones, La Lista de Salud está organizado como una guía para ayudar a que individuos y familias tomen las precauciones necesarias, en el momento adecuado de sus vidas, para evitar las enfermedades y los riesgos de salud más comunes, y para encaminarlos en una forma de vida enérgica y saludable.

En la vida de una persona, cada década trae consigo nuevos riesgos de salud imprevistos en la década anterior. Un plan de salud debe estar hecho a medida para adaptarse al cuerpo mientras madura y comienza cada década nueva de vida. Las explicaciones fáciles y amables de Dr. Manny y su análisis simple de cómo mantenerse saludable le muestran a las personas como actuar preventiva y activamente, sin miedos innecesarios o dependencia en los abundantes mitos de salud contraproducentes y anticuados. La misión de Dr. Manny es ayudar a los lectores en su búsqueda para vivir una vida larga y saludable, y lograr que le cierren la puerta a futuras enfermedades graves usando conocimientos médicos comprobados y sensatos.

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Your Plan for a Balanced Life

Author: James Ripp

Your Plan for a Balanced Life provides real-world strategies that equip you to start making choices to achieve the balanced life most of us only dream of.

Most people work too much, eat the wrong foods, sleep too little, and don't exercise. They are overweight, tired, and out of balance. Dr. Rippe understands the challenges of daily life and provides practical strategies in Your Plan for a Balanced Life that allow each person to start making simple, daily choices that will result in a life of healthy balance.

The groundbreaking program introduced in this book is based on the FDA's MyPyramid Program and a new Wellness Pyramid developed by the Rippe Lifestyle Institute. Created by cardiologist and lifestyle medicine specialist James Rippe, MD, the Balanced Life Index is a scientifically proven test used to measure your success based on the three major components: Nutrition, Activity, and Wellness. It assesses where you are and shows where you can be.

Overcoming Compulsive Checking or Saving Your Brain

Overcoming Compulsive Checking

Author: Paul R Munford

If you struggle with compulsive checking, one of the most common types of obsessive-compulsive disorder, you know some things all too well: the pain and frustration of feeling irresponsible and careless, the anxiety caused by the fear that you might hurt or offend someone and by living with the worry of criticism. But what you may not know is that there are things you can do-by yourself, at anytime-to start feeling better. Most books on OCD focus on many types of this complex group of disorders. This book offers a program designed with you in mind, focusing just on your problem with checking. Start with the book's self-assessment tools, which will help you understand the scope of your particular problem. Then get ready to do something about it. Based on his decades of clinical experience, author Paul Munford has developed a treatment for compulsive checking called exposure, ritual prevention, and awareness therapy (ERPA), which is adapted in this book for you to use as a self-care approach. Through this process, you'll learn to confront your fears and experiment with safe, controlled exposure to situations you've been avoiding. Once you've achieved security and peace of mind, find out how to maintain your progress and deal with particularly challenging situations.

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgments	vii
	Introduction	1
Chapter 1	What You Need to Know to Help Yourself	5
Chapter 2	The Fear of Uncertainty	27
Chapter 3	Self-Assessment	41
Chapter 4	Face, Embrace, and Erase the Fear	59
Chapter 5	Exposure Exercises for Safety Fears	79
Chapter 6	Exposure Exercises for Fear of Harming Others	99
Chapter 7	Exposure Exercises for Fear of Embarrassment	117
Chapter 8	Hindrances, Helpers, and Holding on to Success	135
	Resources	147
	References	151

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Saving Your Brain: The Revolutionary Plan to Boost Brain Power, Improve Memory, and Protect Yourself Against Aging and Alzheimer's

Author: Jeff Victoroff

Using the latest research, Dr. Jeff Victoroff has developed a powerful new plan that combines all the best science-based methods to protect you from brain aging and memory problems. With the help of this book, you will be able to keep your mind sharper, stronger, and healthier and to vigorously defend your brain against the physiological changes that lead to Alzheimer's. Saving Your Brain is a wake-up call telling you exactly how you can apply the wonderful findings of preventive medicine to the care of your brain.

Publishers Weekly

The author, an associate professor of clinical neurology at the Keck School of Medicine at the Univ. of Southern California, argues that it is possible to slow the rate of brain aging by making lifestyle changes. According to Victoroff, the latest studies in brain deterioration indicate that aging-related neurodegeneration of the Alzheimer's type (ARNAT) is not as distinct from normal aging as previously thought. The presence of plaques and tangles traditionally associated with ARNAT have been found in the brains of elderly people who were functioning well until their death. Victoroff details here his "relativity theory" of brain deterioration, positing that environmental as well as genetic factors are responsible for memory loss and dementia, which are, hence, partially preventable. Of greater interest than the author's complex recounting of scientific research are his suggestions for maximizing mental fitness. Based on many reputable studies, his recommendations for brain fitness include following a healthy diet, exercising, staying mentally active, avoiding neurotoxicants (such as aluminum), reducing stress and controlling blood pressure and cholesterol. In this encouraging and informative volume, Victoroff also advocates forming a relationship with an informed physician who can support positive behavior changes. (July) Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.

Library Journal

Aging baby boomers are becoming acutely aware of their own memory lapses. Is each case incipient Alzheimer's or just a benign "senior moment"? The increase in age-related memory impairment has produced a host of new books on preventing (or slowing) memory loss based on the latest scientific knowledge of brain and memory. In Saving Your Brain, Victoroff, director of the neurobehavioral program at Ranchos Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center, challenges the theory that Alzheimer's and similar memory disorders are abnormal responses to aging. Instead, he proposes that age-related memory loss may actually be a natural part of aging. Drawing on his clinical experiences and reviews of some 14,000 research studies, his fascinating treatise explores the evolution and function of the human brain and the many things that can damage the delicate balances that enable us to think and function. The author suggests numerous changes that can prevent memory loss and improve brain function: avoiding even minor head injuries and exposure to chemicals (including pesticides and aluminum in drinking water), increasing physical activity, eating a low-fat diet, and keeping mentally sharp with lifelong learning and other mentally challenging activities while avoiding the mind-numbing effects of television. In The Memory Bible, neuroscientist Small, director of UCLA's Memory Clinic and Center on Aging and the author of Parentcare, has compiled an amusing and informative array of self-tests, puzzles, quizzes, and other techniques to enhance memory performance. He also draws upon current scientific advancements in memory and recommends brain-saving lifestyle changes similar to Victoroff's. Small's approach is entertaining yet practical, and the numerous case histories are appealing, but some of his memory-enhancing techniques (like the "peg method" for remembering numerical sequences) seem too cumbersome to be useful. Both titles deserve a place in aging and self-help collections along with Guy McKann and Marilyn Albert's Keep Your Brain Young, which explores the relationship between brain health and physical well-being in later years. Karen McNally Bensing, Benjamin Rose Lib., Cleveland Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.

Partial Seizures a Medical Dictionary Bibliography and Annotated Research Guide to Internet References or Anyone Can Travel

Partial Seizures - a Medical Dictionary, Bibliography, and Annotated Research Guide to Internet References

Author: Icon Health Publications

This is a 3-in-1 reference book. It gives a complete medical dictionary covering hundreds of terms and expressions relating to partial seizures. It also gives extensive lists of bibliographic citations. Finally, it provides information to users on how to update their knowledge using various Internet resources. The book is designed for physicians, medical students preparing for Board examinations, medical researchers, and patients who want to become familiar with research dedicated to partial seizures.If your time is valuable, this book is for you. First, you will not waste time searching the Internet while missing a lot of relevant information. Second, the book also saves you time indexing and defining entries. Finally, you will not waste time and money printing hundreds of web pages.

Table of Contents:

Forward
Chapter 1. Studies on Partial Seizures
Overview
The Combined Health Information Database
Federally Funded Research on Partial Seizures
The National Library of Medicine: PubMed
Chapter 2. Nutrition and Partial Seizures
Overview
Finding Nutrition Studies on Partial Seizures
Federal Resources on Nutrition
Additional Web Resources
Chapter 3. Alternative Medicine and Partial Seizures
Overview
National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Additional Web Resources
General References
Chapter 4. Books on Partial Seizures
Overview
Book Summaries: Online Booksellers
Chapter 5. Periodicals and News on Partial Seizures
Overview
News Services and Press Releases
Academic Periodicals covering Partial Seizures
Chapter 6. Researching Medications
Overview
U.S. Pharmacopeia
Commercial Databases
Appendix A. Physician Resources
Overview
NIH Guidelines
NIH Databases
Other Commercial Databases
Appendix B. Patient Resources
Overview
Patient Guideline Sources
Finding Associations
Appendix C. Finding Medical Libraries
Overview
Preparation
Finding a Local Medical Library
Medical Libraries in the U.S. and Canada
ONLINE GLOSSARIES
Online Dictionary Directories
PARTIAL SEIZURES DICTIONARY
INDEX

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Anyone Can Travel: The Essential Guide for Seniors,People with Disabilities,Health Problems and All Travellers

Author: Eileen Ward

Anyone Can Travel is an excellent guide for seniors and people with health problems and/or disabilities. It takes these Special Needs travellers through every aspect of taking a trip including planning, booking, travelling and the return home. The book is full of practical tips, essential questions to ask and useful checklists. It is easy to read, use and handle.

Special Needs travellers will learn how to request the special services that will meet their needs and ensure that these are provided during the trip. As well, all the information necessary for a safe, enjoyable and healthy trip is included.

The book covers the major forms of travel including hotels, cruising, flying, buses, cars and trains with emphasis on the services available to meet special needs. It also has practical information on travel insurance, packing, customs, passports, visas, currency, travelling with medications and death away from home. These sections are essential for every traveller.

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A boon to senior travellers.

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An excellent guide.

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Makes travel easy.