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The COVID-19 Catastrophe

Author : Richard Horton
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1509546456
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book The COVID-19 Catastrophe written by Richard Horton and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-07-13 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The global response to the COVID-19 pandemic is the greatest science policy failure in a generation. We knew this was coming. Warnings about the threat of a new pandemic have been made repeatedly since the 1980s and it was clear in January that a dangerous new virus was causing a devastating human tragedy in China. And yet the world ignored the warnings. Why? In this short and hard-hitting book, Richard Horton, editor of the medical journal The Lancet, scrutinizes the actions that governments around the world took – and failed to take – as the virus spread from its origins in Wuhan to the global pandemic that it is today. He shows that many Western governments and their scientific advisors made assumptions about the virus and its lethality that turned out to be mistaken. Valuable time was lost while the virus spread unchecked, leaving health systems unprepared for the avalanche of infections that followed. Drawing on his own scientific and medical expertise, Horton outlines the measures that need to be put in place, at both national and international levels, to prevent this kind of catastrophe from happening again. Were supposed to be living in an era where human beings have become the dominant influence on the environment, but COVID-19 has revealed the fragility of our societies and the speed with which our systems can come crashing down. We need to learn the lessons of this pandemic and we need to learn them fast because the next pandemic may arrive sooner than we think.

Essentials of Global Health

Author : Babulal Sethia
Publisher : Elsevier Health Sciences
ISBN 13 : 0702066087
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Essentials of Global Health written by Babulal Sethia and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2018-03-19 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique introduction to the essentials of global health has been constructed by medical students from all over the world through the help of Medsin (now Students for Global Health) and the International Federation of Medical Students' Association (IFMSA). The global student and trainee author team, recruited and guided initially by Drs Dan and Felicity Knights (themselves students and officers of Medsin when work commenced), identified the key areas to be covered. Then the book they put together was edited by two experts in the field: Mr B Sethia and Professor Parveen Kumar. Royalties raised from this book go to a grant fund for student global health projects. Written by medical students and junior doctors from Students for Global Health and the International Federation of Medical Students' Association (IFMSA). Edited by two experts in the field, Mr B Sethia and Professor Parveen Kumar. Royalties go to a grant fund for student global health projects.

The Big Fat Surprise

Author : Nina Teicholz
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451624441
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book The Big Fat Surprise written by Nina Teicholz and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-05-13 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times bestseller Named one of The Economist’s Books of the Year 2014 Named one of The Wall Street Journal’s Top Ten Best Nonfiction Books of 2014 Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Books of 2014 Forbes’s Most Memorable Healthcare Book of 2014 In The Big Fat Surprise, investigative journalist Nina Teicholz reveals the unthinkable: that everything we thought we knew about dietary fat is wrong. She documents how the low-fat nutrition advice of the past sixty years has amounted to a vast uncontrolled experiment on the entire population, with disastrous consequences for our health. For decades, we have been told that the best possible diet involves cutting back on fat, especially saturated fat, and that if we are not getting healthier or thinner it must be because we are not trying hard enough. But what if the low-fat diet is itself the problem? What if the very foods we’ve been denying ourselves—the creamy cheeses, the sizzling steaks—are themselves the key to reversing the epidemics of obesity, diabetes, and heart disease? In this captivating, vibrant, and convincing narrative, based on a nine-year-long investigation, Teicholz shows how the misinformation about saturated fats took hold in the scientific community and the public imagination, and how recent findings have overturned these beliefs. She explains why the Mediterranean Diet is not the healthiest, and how we might be replacing trans fats with something even worse. This startling history demonstrates how nutrition science has gotten it so wrong: how overzealous researchers, through a combination of ego, bias, and premature institutional consensus, have allowed dangerous misrepresentations to become dietary dogma. With eye-opening scientific rigor, The Big Fat Surprise upends the conventional wisdom about all fats with the groundbreaking claim that more, not less, dietary fat—including saturated fat—is what leads to better health and wellness. Science shows that we have been needlessly avoiding meat, cheese, whole milk, and eggs for decades and that we can now, guilt-free, welcome these delicious foods back into our lives.

Covid By Numbers

Author : David Spiegelhalter
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0241541085
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (415 download)

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Download or read book Covid By Numbers written by David Spiegelhalter and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2021-10-07 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'I couldn't imagine a better guidebook for making sense of a tragic and momentous time in our lives. Covid by Numbers is comprehensive yet concise, impeccably clear and always humane' Tim Harford How many people have died because of COVID-19? Which countries have been hit hardest by the virus? What are the benefits and harms of different vaccines? How does COVID-19 compare to the Spanish flu? How have the lockdown measures affected the economy, mental health and crime? This year we have been bombarded by statistics - seven day rolling averages, rates of infection, excess deaths. Never have numbers been more central to our national conversation, and never has it been more important that we think about them clearly. In the media and in their Observer column, Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter and RSS Statistical Ambassador Anthony Masters have interpreted these statistics, offering a vital public service by giving us the tools we need to make sense of the virus for ourselves and holding the government to account. In Covid by Numbers, they crunch the data on a year like no other, exposing the leading misconceptions about the virus and the vaccine, and answering our essential questions. This timely, concise and approachable book offers a rare depth of insight into one of the greatest upheavals in history, and a trustworthy guide to these most uncertain of times.

A Series of Catastrophes and Miracles

Author : Mary Elizabeth Williams
Publisher : Disney Electronic Content
ISBN 13 : 1426216343
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book A Series of Catastrophes and Miracles written by Mary Elizabeth Williams and published by Disney Electronic Content. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wry, witty account of what it is like to face death—and be restored to life. After being diagnosed in her early 40s with metastatic melanoma—a "rapidly fatal" form of cancer—journalist and mother of two Mary Elizabeth Williams finds herself in a race against the clock. She takes a once-in-a-lifetime chance and joins a clinical trial for immunotherapy, a revolutionary drug regimen that trains the body to vanquish malignant cells. Astonishingly, her cancer disappears entirely in just a few weeks. But at the same time, her best friend embarks on a cancer journey of her own—with very different results. Williams's experiences as a patient and a medical test subject reveal with stark honesty what it takes to weather disease, the extraordinary new developments that are rewriting the rules of science—and the healing power of human connection.

All I Eat Is Medicine

Author : Ippolytos Kalofonos
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520964071
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book All I Eat Is Medicine written by Ippolytos Kalofonos and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All I Eat Is Medicine charts the lives of individuals and the operation of institutions in the thick of the AIDS epidemic in Mozambique during the global scale-up of treatment for HIV/AIDS at the turn of the twenty-first century. Even as the AIDS treatment scale-up saved lives, it perpetuated the exploitation and exclusion that was implicated in the propagation of the epidemic in the first place. This book calls attention to the global social commitments and responsibilities that a truly therapeutic global health requires.

Five Patients

Author : Michael Crichton
Publisher : Arrow/Children's (a Division of Random House Group)
ISBN 13 : 9780099601111
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (11 download)

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Book Synopsis Five Patients by : Michael Crichton

Download or read book Five Patients written by Michael Crichton and published by Arrow/Children's (a Division of Random House Group). This book was released on 1995 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "ER has become the most succesful television series in the world since CHARLIE'S ANGELS. Michael Crichton created the series from his own experiences as a medical doctor in the emergency rooms, operating rooms and wards of Massachusetts General Hospital. FIVE PATIENTS is Michael Crichton's true account of the real life dramas so vividly portrayed in ER. A construction worker is seriously injured in a scaffold collapse- a middle-aged despatcher is brought in suffering from a fever that has reduced him to a delirious wreck; a young man nearly severs his hand in an accident; an airline traveller suffers chest pains; a mother of three is diagnosed with a life-threatening disease."

The Viral Storm

Author : Nathan Wolfe
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0805091947
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Viral Storm written by Nathan Wolfe and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-10-11 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The "Indiana Jones" of virus hunters reveals the complex interactions between humans and viruses, and the threat from viruses that jump from species to species"-- Provided by publisher.

The Myth of the Chemical Cure

Author : J. Moncrieff
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230589448
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book The Myth of the Chemical Cure written by J. Moncrieff and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-13 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book overturns the idea that psychiatric drugs work by correcting chemical imbalance and analyzes the professional, commercial and political vested interests that have shaped this view. It provides a comprehensive critique of research on drugs including antidepressants, antipsychotics and mood stabilizers.

Adverse Reactions

Author : Neil Pearce
Publisher : Auckland University Press
ISBN 13 : 1775580113
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (755 download)

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Download or read book Adverse Reactions written by Neil Pearce and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounting the fenoterol epidemic—a major medical controversy that took place more than 15 years ago—this narrative explores the involvement of the asthma drug that caused numerous asthma deaths. Although the epidemic occurred in New Zealand, its shocking discoveries and subsequent consequences attracted worldwide attention in medical journals and conferences. Neil Pearce, the researcher who discovered that fenoteral was the cause of the epidemic, tells this personal story while raising concerns about drug safety internationally and analyzing the battle between money and science in medical research.

Lethal But Legal

Author : Nicholas Freudenberg
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199937206
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book Lethal But Legal written by Nicholas Freudenberg and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-01-21 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decisions made by the food, tobacco, alcohol, pharmaceutical, gun, and automobile industries have a greater impact on today's health than the decisions of scientists and policymakers. As the collective influence of corporations has grown, governments around the world have stepped back from their responsibility to protect public health by privatizing key services, weakening regulations, and cutting funding for consumer and environmental protection. Today's corporations are increasingly free to make decisions that benefit their bottom line at the expense of public health. Lethal but Legal examines how corporations have impacted -- and plagued -- public health over the last century, first in industrialized countries and now in developing regions. It is both a current history of corporations' antagonism towards health and an analysis of the emerging movements that are challenging these industries' dangerous practices. The reforms outlined here aim to strike a healthier balance between large companies' right to make a profit and governments' responsibility to protect their populations. While other books have addressed parts of this story, Lethal but Legal is the first to connect the dots between unhealthy products, business-dominated politics, and the growing burdens of disease and health care costs. By identifying the common causes of all these problems, then situating them in the context of other health challenges that societies have overcome in the past, this book provides readers with the insights they need to take practical and effective action to restore consumers' right to health.

Top Tips in Gastrointestinal Surgery

Author : Ciaran J. Walsh
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 : 9780632042531
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (425 download)

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Download or read book Top Tips in Gastrointestinal Surgery written by Ciaran J. Walsh and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1999-07-16 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All surgeons treasure the practial tips that they pick up from their teachers. Unfortunately, students are only exposed to a limited number of teachers during their training. Top Tips in Gastrointestinal Surgery aims to present to surgeons, both established and in training, a host of great masters and a wealth of knowledge gleaned from many years of experience.

The Lancet Handbook of Essential Concepts in Clinical Research

Author : Kenneth F. Schulz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Lancet Handbook of Essential Concepts in Clinical Research written by Kenneth F. Schulz and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The needs of clinicians predominate throughout the text, but these needs overlap with those of researchers especially in chapters covering randomized controlled trials. For readers to assess trials accurately they need to understand relevant guidelines on the conduct of trials that are emerging from methodological research. In presenting these discussions to clinicians these chapters will help researchers who also do randomized trials and provide a methodological background that enhances the quality and quantity of their research productivity.

Health Professionals for a New Century

Author :
Publisher : Harvard School of Public Health, Frangois-Xavier Bagnoud Cen
ISBN 13 : 9780674061484
Total Pages : 95 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (614 download)

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Download or read book Health Professionals for a New Century written by and published by Harvard School of Public Health, Frangois-Xavier Bagnoud Cen. This book was released on 2011 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One hundred years ago a series of seminal documents, starting with the Flexner Report of 1910, sparked an enormous burst of energy to harness the power of science to transform higher education in health. Professional education, however, has not been able to keep pace with the challenges of the 21st century. A new generation of reforms is needed to meet the demands of health systems in an interdependent world. The report of the Commission on the Education of Health Professionals for the 21st Century, a global independent initiative consisting of 20 leaders from diverse disciplinary backgrounds and institutional affiliations, articulates a fresh vision and recommends renewed actions. Building on a rich legacy of educational reforms during the past century, the Commission's findings and recommendations adopt a global and multi-professional perspective using a systems approach to analyze education and health, with a focus on institutional and instructional reforms.

EU Research Fighting the Three Major Deadly Diseases

Author : European Commission. Directorate General for Research
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book EU Research Fighting the Three Major Deadly Diseases written by European Commission. Directorate General for Research and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows the projects currently financed by the European Commission's Seventh Research Framework Programme (FP7) since 2007 up to 2010, aiming at combating these three major killer diseases: HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis.

The Lancet Handbook of Treatment in Neurology

Author : Charles Warlow
Publisher : Lancet
ISBN 13 : 9780080446509
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (465 download)

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Download or read book The Lancet Handbook of Treatment in Neurology written by Charles Warlow and published by Lancet. This book was released on 2006 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is not a book on how to make a diagnosis, but rather starts from the point of diagnosis and covers all the main neurological conditions as such as stroke, Parkinson's disease, epilepsy and migraine well as some of the rarer conditions such as Wilson's disease showing which treatments are evidence-based but also describing those which at present need more trials. Each condition is described in the following way: definition, cause, frequency, and prognosis. Written by expert contributors, this book describes the treatment that neurologists are responsible for, indicates when to refer, shows complications of treatment, as well as drug interactions. A quick-reference pocket guide Evidence-based treatment described Adverse effects of treatment mentioned along with their likelihood Advice given on when to refer Drug treatments interactions, costs, dosages are covered extensively

Early Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease

Author : Leonard F. M. Scinto
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Early Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease written by Leonard F. M. Scinto and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2000-02-09 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The three major approaches to diagnosis of AD -- radiological, biological, and neurophysiological -- are discussed in detail with chapters highlighting the most promising technologies within these approaches. The leading authors, all of whom are intimately involved with these emerging technologies, have developed this as an essential reference for neuropathologists, clinicians and researchers of Alzheimer's disease.