A very helpful and informative volume on a condition which is very common but much misunderstood.| (more details to come)...more details Format:Paperback Pages:144
Joint and muscular (rheumatic) conditions are extremely common, cause much disability and time off work and are among the most common reasons for anyone to visit a doctor. Some of the rarer arthritic conditions can cause considerable problems...more details Format:Paperback Pages:160
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Netdoctor
ISBN:9780340786864
Netdoctor.co.uk is the most visited healthcare website and offers both consumers and healthcare professionals access to the most authoritative and expansive medical information resource online. An editorial team comprising GPs...more details Format:Paperback Pages:128
Bowel cancer is the second commonest type of cancer in the UK. It is also one of the most treatable when caught at an early enough stage. There have been significant advances in all aspects of bowel cancer detection and treatment in the past ten to twenty years yet the UK still lacks a national bowel cancer screening programme...more details Format:Paperback Pages:112
HELP YOURSELF TO HEALTH WITH NETDOCTOR aims to provide authoritative coverage of a range of common medical problems. It is supportive and positive...more details Format:Paperback Pages:144
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Netdoctor
ISBN:9780340861387
All Netdoctor books will explain the condition to inform the patient, describe its symptoms, examine its causes, and analyse the various treatments from self-help to medical intervention...more details Format:Paperback Pages:96
There are over 100 types of progressive disease classified as dementia. Currently one in twenty of adults over sixty five suffer from it with this number rising to one in five for those over eighty. This book explains current thinking as to why some people develop these disease...more details Format:Paperback Pages:112
Depression affects one in five individuals in their lifetime and is one of the major causes of ill health both in the UK and world-wide. This book...more details Format:Paperback Pages:176
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Netdoctor
ISBN:9780340786840
Diabetes has been described as the most important public health problem facing developed countries, with numbers of affected people likely to double in the next twenty years. Most of the increase is in older people and is related to obesity...more details Format:Paperback Pages:144
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Netdoctor
ISBN:9780340786826
High blood pressure is the second biggest preventable cause of death in the Western world (the biggest is smoking). It affects all ages but is commoner in older people - over half of people over 65 have blood pressure that is too high...more details Format:Paperback Pages:144
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Netdoctor
ISBN:9780340861394
Every week a new health scare pops up and the experts add to the lists of things we should avoid or embrace to keep healthy. A few weeks or months go by and everyone seems to change their minds...more details Format:Paperback Pages:128
What does smoking really do to your body and is there any such thing as safe smoking? The good news is that giving up is always worth it and the body does repair the damage...more details Format:paperback (B format) Pages:144
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Netdoctor
ISBN:9780340862681
Many people, particularly those between the ages of twenty and thirty suffer from IBS yet very few are correctly diagnosed or even bother to visit a doctor. IBS can cause symptoms such as abdominal pain...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:96
This book will attempt to throw a clear light on the menopause what it is, what are its causes and what a woman can and should do about it...more details Format:Paperback Pages:144
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Netdoctor
ISBN:9780340862667
Osteoporosis is the cause of 200,000 fractures, effecting one in three women and about one in ten men over the age of 50, every year, yet the disease exhibits no symptoms or complaints until the first fracture...more details Format:Paperback
This straightforward, accessible guide, gives the reader a comprehensive overview of strokes, their cause, affect on victims and their families...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:144