Book Description
A medical spa nurse opens the pages of her beauty diary, revealing what really goes on behind Hollywood's closed doors.
Author : Jamie Sherrill
Publisher :
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 39,57 MB
Release : 2007-10-01
Category : Botulinum toxin
ISBN : 9780979728600
A medical spa nurse opens the pages of her beauty diary, revealing what really goes on behind Hollywood's closed doors.
Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 16,7 MB
Release : 2017-09-28
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0309459575
Drug overdose, driven largely by overdose related to the use of opioids, is now the leading cause of unintentional injury death in the United States. The ongoing opioid crisis lies at the intersection of two public health challenges: reducing the burden of suffering from pain and containing the rising toll of the harms that can arise from the use of opioid medications. Chronic pain and opioid use disorder both represent complex human conditions affecting millions of Americans and causing untold disability and loss of function. In the context of the growing opioid problem, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) launched an Opioids Action Plan in early 2016. As part of this plan, the FDA asked the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to convene a committee to update the state of the science on pain research, care, and education and to identify actions the FDA and others can take to respond to the opioid epidemic, with a particular focus on informing FDA's development of a formal method for incorporating individual and societal considerations into its risk-benefit framework for opioid approval and monitoring.
Author : Dana Berkowitz
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 32,76 MB
Release : 2017-01-10
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 1479825263
Introducing botox -- Marketing agelessness -- The turf war over botox -- Becoming the botox user -- Negotiating the botoxed self -- Being in the botoxed body -- Conclusion: the perils of an enhanced society
Author : Michele J. Eliason
Publisher : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 14,7 MB
Release : 2017-10-16
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1496394615
Drawn from real-world experience and current research, the fully updated LGBTQ Cultures, 3rd Edition paves the way for healthcare professionals to provide well-informed, culturally sensitive healthcare to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) patients. This vital guide fills the LGBTQ awareness gaps, including replacing myths and stereotypes with facts, and measuring the effects of social stigma on health. Vital for all nursing specialties, this is the seminal guide to actively providing appropriate, culturally sensitive care to persons of all sexual orientations and gender identities.
Author : Jill W. Rettberg
Publisher : Springer
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 46,46 MB
Release : 2014-10-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1137476664
This book is open access under a CC BY license. Selfies, blogs and lifelogging devices help us understand ourselves, building on long histories of written, visual and quantitative modes of self-representations. This book uses examples to explore the balance between using technology to see ourselves and allowing our machines to tell us who we are.
Author : Catherine Stone
Publisher :
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 30,9 MB
Release : 2018-11-04
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781544512853
Growing older doesn't mean you have to grow old. By combining good lifestyle choices with a great attitude--and utilising the benefits of modern cosmetic medicine--we can Grow Younger and More Beautiful, with every year that passes. Dr Catherine Stone--affectionately known as Dr Cat--is an internationally recognised authority in cosmetic medicine, with a passion for positive ageing. She is known as an industry innovator and has been featured as one of the Ultimate Top One Hundred Global Aesthetic Practitioners. In this guidebook, she shares her tips and tricks--from simple daily choices to reduce stress, increase energy, and improve your health, through to a comprehensive yet accessible guide to the most popular and effective non-surgical cosmetic procedures, as well as her philosophies on ageing beautifully inside and out.
Author : David Kirby
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 740 pages
File Size : 25,17 MB
Release : 2007-04-01
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 1429906197
In the 1990s reported autism cases among American children began spiking, from about 1 in 10,000 in 1987 to a shocking 1 in 166 today. This trend coincided with the addition of several new shots to the nation's already crowded vaccination schedule, grouped together and given soon after birth or in the early months of infancy. Most of these shots contained a little-known preservative called thimerosal, which includes a quantity of the toxin mercury. Evidence of Harm explores the heated controversy over what many parents, physicians, public officials, and educators have called an "epidemic" of afflicted children. Following several families, David Kirby traces their struggle to understand how and why their once-healthy kids rapidly descended into silence or disturbed behavior, often accompanied by severe physical illness. Alarmed by the levels of mercury in the vaccine schedule, these families sought answers from their doctors, from science, from pharmaceutical companies that manufacture vaccines, and finally from the Center for Disease Control and the Food and Drug Administration-to no avail. But as they dug deeper, the families also found powerful allies in Congress and in the small community of physicians and researchers who believe that the rise of autism and other disorders is linked to toxic levels of mercury that accumulate in the systems of some children. An important and troubling book, Evidence of Harm reveals both the public and unsung obstacles faced by desperate families who have been opposed by the combined power of the federal government, health agencies, and pharmaceutical giants. From closed meetings of the FDA, CDC, and drug companies, to the mysterious rider inserted into the 2002 Homeland Security Bill that would bar thimerosal litigation, to open hearings held by Congress, this book shows a medical establishment determined to deny "evidence of harm" that might be connected with thimerosal and mercury in vaccines. In the end, as research is beginning to demonstrate, the questions raised by these families have significant implications for all children, and for those entrusted to oversee our national health.
Author : Jamie Weisman
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 36,8 MB
Release : 2003-06-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780865476691
“A gorgeously written primer for anyone who has ever been (or ever will be) a patient . . . The book soars.” —The San Diego Union-Tribune Jamie Weisman was a patient long before she was a doctor. She was born with a rare defect in her immune system that leaves her prey to a range of ailments and crises and that, because it is treatable but not curable, will keep her a patient for life. In this probing and inspiring book, she brings her sojourns on both sides of the doctor-patient divide to bear on the issues of the flesh that preoccupy us all. It is a worthy addition to the best that has been written about our physical selves, a meditation on our extraordinary powers of healing and the limitations that leave intact the miracle and tragedy of being.
Author : Kathleen West
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 31,10 MB
Release : 2022-02-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0593098447
"A breezy yet affecting read filled with struggle and hope."—People A Good Day LA Pick Among fake Instagram pages, long-buried family secrets, and the horrors of middle school, one suburban mom searches to find herself. Alice Sullivan feels like she’s finally found her groove in middle age, but it only takes one moment for her perfectly curated life to unravel. On the same day she learns her daughter is struggling in second grade, a call from her son’s school accusing him of bullying throws Alice into a tailspin. When it comes to light that the incident is part of a new behavior pattern for her son, one complete with fake social media profiles with a lot of questionable content, Alice’s social standing is quickly eroded to one of “those moms” who can’t control her kids. Soon she’s facing the very judgement she was all too happy to dole out when she thought no one was looking (or when she thought her house wasn’t made of glass). Then her mother unloads a family secret she’s kept for more than thirty years, and Alice’s entire perception of herself is shattered. As her son’s new reputation polarizes her friendships and her family buzzes with the ramification of her mother’s choices, Alice realizes that she’s been too focused on measuring her success and happiness by everyone else's standards. Now, with all her shortcomings laid bare, she’ll have to figure out to whom to turn for help and decide who she really wants to be.
Author : Teresa Tam
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 36,56 MB
Release : 2019-11-07
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0429684975
With mesh surgery for prolapse sometimes proving problematic, there has been a resurgence of professional medical interest in more traditional methods for the management of prolapse and of stress urinary incontinence. This concise guide to the practical aspects of pessary use will be of interest to all gynecologists involved in the clinical management of the patient with these problems. Contents: Historical review * Pessaries for pelvic organ prolapse * Incontinence pessaries * Pessary fitting * Pessary care * Outcomes of pessary use * Current clinical studies on vaginal pessaries Cover image of vaginal pessaries © 2019 Rick Hicaro, Jr., Chicago, IL 60647, USA