Illness came calling when Richard M. Cohen was twenty-five years old. A young television news producer with expectations of a limitless future, his foreboding that his health was not quite right turned...
Aboujaoude is a UC Berkeley-educated board-certfied psychiastrist at Stanford who treats patients with impulse control issues, including obsessive-compulsive disorder, comulsive sexuality,...
Exploring the Effect of Anxiety on Our Brains and Our Culture
Richard Restak
From the bestselling author of MOZART'S BRAIN AND THE FIGHTER PILOT comes an in-depth look at the science of anxiety and some essential guidelines for dealing with it. Bombarded by a constant media...
How a Surgeon, a Mariner, and a Gentlemen Solved the Greatest Medical Mystery of the Age of Sail
Stephen R. Bown
A lively recounting of how three determined individuals overcame the constraints of 18th century thinking to solve the greatest medical mystery of their era. The cure for scurvy ranks among the...
The riveting story of one of the greatest scientific accomplishments of the twentieth century, from the coauthor of the #1 New York Times bestseller Apollo 13.
How did a deadly genetic disease help our ancestors survive the bubonic plagues of Europe? Was diabetes evolution's response to the last Ice Age? Will a visit to the tanning salon help bring down...
Proposals to reform the health care system typically focus on either increasing private insurance or expanding government-sponsored plans. Guaranteeing that everyone is insured, however, does not...
