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Author
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Looks at the heart and how it functions, identifies major risk factors and symptoms of heart disease, examines prevention measures such as exercise and healthy eating, describes examinations and diagnostic tests for heart disease, and includes information on treatments.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
A study of new and reappearing diseases that have been causing death and terror around the world in the last few decades of the twentieth century, spotlighting the doctors and scientists who are risking their lives to contain the viruses, and arguing that the deadly microbes are a result of the human impact on earth's ecosystem.
Author
Publisher
Kingfisher
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Takes a look at the 2005 epidemic in Angola caused by Marburg, a virus related to Ebola, discussing health care in the developing world, and describes the origins and spread of avian flu, HIV and AIDS, hantavirus, West Nile virus, SARS, and monkeypox.
15) Contagion
Author
Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
Description
Dr. John Stapleton, embittered by the deaths of his wife and daughters in a plane crash and the loss of his ophthalmology practice to AmeriCare, retrains for a career in forensic pathology where he uncovers a plot by the health care giant to kill off its more costly subscribers.
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