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Women’s Health Today magazine is part of Women’s Health Experience, the flagship program of the Foundation for Female Health Awareness. Women’s Health Experience is a unique initiative aimed at connecting women with health care experts, as well as their local hospitals, to learn about important issues that may affect their health.

IN THIS ISSUE

LETTER FROM THE FOUNDER
Keeping balance
Tipping the scale
8 tips to prepare for pregnancy
Survival strategies
What you need to know about heart attacks

HEALTH HEADLINES
What’s making news in women’s health
5 reasons you’re not losing weight
SEX & GENDER MATTERS

Is sex always painful?
It could be vulvodynia

On balance
How Martina McBride maintains a healthy lifestyle

Polycystic ovary syndrome
More than a reproductive problem

Are you too old for asthma?

HEALTHY BITES
Eat your vegetables!
How to fit veggies into your family’s meals

HEALTHY MIND
Help for the ‘baby blues’

Your health: It’s a family affair
Knowing your health history could save your life

HEALTHY MOVES
You should be dancing!

HEALTH SMARTS
Are you hip to health screenings?

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High Blood Pressure for Dummies: Improve Your Health - Lengthen Your Life

High Blood Pressure for Dummies 360 Pages | PDF | 3.23 MB Just been diagnosed with high blood pressure? Don?t fret you?re not alone. In fact, you?re a member of a club that includes an estimated one-quarter of the world?s population! But just because it?s common doesn?t mean you should treat it lightly. People with high blood pressure are at significantly greater risk for stroke, heart attack, kidney failure and blindness. There?s a reason why it?s often referred to as ?the silent killer??most people never experience any symptoms... until it?s too late. Now for some good news: tons of money has been pouring into high blood pressure research over the last couple of decades, and nowadays it is a very manageable condition. If you think you may be at risk for high blood pressure, or already know that you?ve got it and are looking for the best way to manage it, this book is for you. Written by bestselling health author Dr. Alan Rubin, it clues you in on everything you need to: * Find out if you have high blood pressure or if you?re at risk * Determine what type you have and how serious it is * Understand what causes it * Know how it affects your body?s organs * Work with a doctor to get your pressure down * Take charge of your health and add years to your life In plain English, Dr. Rubin explains the role of genetics, sex, age, and ethnicity in high blood pressure. He explores lifestyle factors that contribute to high blood pressure. And he offers: * Expert advice on various blood pressure medications, their effectiveness, side affects, and alternatives * Nutritional guidelines for managing high blood pressure, including the AMA?s DASH diet * Tips on how to lose weight, quit smoking, and make other key lifestyle changes guaranteed to get your pressure under control * Guidance on how to design a blood-pressure-lowering exercise program that you can stick with * The inside track on alternative treatments, including yoga, meditation, hypnosis, biofeedback, and more Packed with basic strategies for managing high blood pressure, High Blood Pressure For Dummies will set you on the path to a long and healthy life.

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Language: English
File Type: PDF

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This manual will reveal to you all the secrets of permanent fat loss. It is written by a man who has discovered these secrets the hard way - through long years of trial and error. Using the information in this manual will allow you master the art and science of losing body fat by a shorter and less costly route; by "modeling" those who have gone before you and learning from an expert. The primary goals of this manual are to help you lose fat permanently without drugs, supplements or gimmicks and to educate you in the process of losing fat. In other words, my goal is to turn you into a "fat loss expert"… to teach you the reasons why and help you to understand the process…and to do so without bias or ulterior motive.

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Book Description
The latest edition of this highly acclaimed textbook, provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the science and medical applications of biopharmaceutical products. Biopharmaceuticals refers to pharmaceutical substances derived from biological sources, and increasingly, it is synonymous with 'newer' pharmaceutical substances derived from genetic engineering or hybridoma technology.

This superbly written review of the important areas of investigation in the field, covers drug production, plus the biochemical and molecular mechanisms of action together with the biotechnology of major biopharmaceutical types on the market or currently under development. There is also additional material reflecting both the technical advances in the area and detailed information on key topics such as the influence of genomics on drug discovery.

Table of Contents

Preface
Ch. 1 Pharmaceuticals, biologics and biopharmaceuticals 1
Ch. 2 The drug development process 43
Ch. 3 The drug manufacturing process 93
Ch. 4 The cyotkines - the interferon family 189
Ch. 5 Cytokines: interleukins and tumour necrosis factor 223
Ch. 6 Haemopoietic growth factors 255
Ch. 7 Growth factors 277
Ch. 8 Hormones of therapeutic interest 303
Ch. 9 Blood products and therapeutic enzymes 351
Ch. 10 Antibodies, vaccines and adjuvants 403
Ch. 11 Nucleic acid therapeutics 463
App. 1 Biopharmaceuticals thus far approved in the USA or European Union 499
App. 2 Some Internet addresses relevant to the biopharmaceutical sector 509
App. 3 Two selected monographs reproduced from the European Pharmacopoeia (Products of recombinant DNA technology; Interferon a-2 concentrated solution)

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Mathematical Physiology

Mathematical Physiology provides an introduction into physiology using the tools and perspectives of mathematical modeling and analysis. It describes ways in which mathematical theory may be used to give insights into physiological questions and how physiological questionss can in turn lead to new mathematical problems.
The book is divided into two parts, the first dealing with the fundamental principles of cell physiology, and the second with the physiology of systems. In the first part, after an introduction to basic biochemistry and enzyme reactions, the authors discuss volume control, the membrane potential, ionic flow through channels,
excitability, calcium dynamics, and electrical bursting. This first part cocludes with spatial aspects such as synaptic transmission, gap junctions, the linear cable equation, nonlinear wave propagation in neurons, and calcium waves.
In the second part, the human body is studied piece by piece, beginning with an introduction to electrocardiology, followed by the physiology of the circulatory system, blood, muscle, hormones, and kidneys. Finally the authors examine the digestive system and the visual system, ending with the inner ear.
This book will be of interest to researchers, to graduate students and advanced undergraduate students in applied mathematics who wish to learn how to build and analyze mathematical models and to become familiar with new areas of application, as well as to physiologists interested in learning about theoretical approaches to their work.
The inclusion of numerous exercises and models could be used to add further interest and challenge to traditional courses taught by applied mathematicians, bioengineers, and physiologists.

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Carranza’s Clinical Periodontology

Book Description:
This new, updated edition of CARRANZA’S CLINICAL PERIODONTOLOGY is the most comprehensive and authoritative resource in periodontics available today. Beautifully illustrated, it describes clinical aspects of modern periodontology balanced by detailed presentations of the fundamental basis of anatomy, physiology, etiology, and pathology. Discussions of the interrelationships between periodontal and restorative dental therapies set it apart from other books. The 9th Edition features a new 2-color format, 32 pages of full-color photos, and 6 new chapters that feature the latest advances in technology, including the use of digital imaging, dental implants, and changes in surgical techniques. A NEW companion CD-ROM showcases 750 clinical images in full color and provides review material to strengthen the user’s diagnostic, treatment planning, and treatment skills.

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Clinical Anatomy - 11th Edition

Book Description:

Clinical Anatomy has remained the word of the same author for nearly half a century. Initially written for clinical medical students on the wards, clinics and revising for Finals, since then it has sold all over the world in hundreds of thousands and in several languages. Its success has been its constant revision to ensure it covers the student's needs. Today, it also covers the bulk of the anatomy required in the MRCS Part I, II, III and provides an excellent revision text for these candidates and medical students in a concise form with clear, easily reproduced diagrams.

Review:
Anatomy made memorable for students at all stages
In this compact text clinical anatomist and professor of surgery Harold Ellis has produced another excellent text (like Lecture Notes on General Surgery).
This "pocket-sized" (big pockets) book is portable and practical. It is well laid out by sections and each body area is examined in terms of systems. A clear explanation of superficial anatomy allows one to learn/revise on oneself (or a slim/muscular friend) the bony landmarks, muscular attachments and pulses. Bones, joints, vessels and nerves are dissected in a similar manner. Best of all, at each stage, common clinical applications are explained in clear language, so that it becomes easy to remember which nerve may be damaged by a dislocated shoulder, or structures are encountered in the various approaches for a hemiarthroplasty. The lucid (though never condescending) prose is well complemented by clear diagrams and imaging.
Some people will find this book is not detailed enough for them, and it does not claim to be a definitive anatomy text covering everything down to the vein supplying the rhubarb gland, but many more students will find it perfectly adequate for their requirements. Certainly as someone who learned lists of anatomy for first year exams, passed them, and -- I'm not alone here -- promptly forgot it afterwards, the old comprehensive parrot-fashion approach to learning was ineffective.
If you can read and recall all of the information in this book, you will be well prepared for most casual clinical requirements in many non-surgical specialities. I find that information presented in this manner is easy, even pleasurable, to read and, I expect, more likely to lead to retention than traditional dry anatomy texts.

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