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1) Critical
Author
Language
English
Description
Angela Dawson, M.D.'s, climb to the top was rough, but she returns to school to earn an MBA and starts a company, Angels Healthcare. With her controlling interest in three busy specialty hospitals in New York City and plans for others, Angela's future looks very bright.Then a surge of drug-resistant staph infections in all three hospitals devastates Angela's carefully constructed world.
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Series
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English
Description
With antibiotic-resistant infections on the rise, herbal remedies present a naturally effective alternative to standard antibiotics. Herbal expert Stephen Harrod Buhner explains the roots of antibiotic resistance, explores the value of herbal treatments, and provides in-depth profiles of 30 valuable plants, noting the proper dosages, potential side effects, and contraindications of each. This comprehensive guide offers sound information on herbal...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A critically important and startling look at the harmful effects of overusing antibiotics, from the field's leading expert Tracing one scientist's journey toward understanding the crucial importance of the microbiome, this revolutionary book will take readers to the forefront of trail-blazing research while revealing the damage that overuse of antibiotics is doing to our health: contributing to the rise of obesity, asthma, diabetes, and certain forms...
Author
Publisher
Healing Arts Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Explains how to use medicinal herbs and essential oils to fight infectious illness, strengthen the immune system, and combat antibiotic resistance. Presents 18 of the most potent antibiotic and antiviral herbs and one beehive remedy, propolis, detailing how to use them and what illnesses each is best suited to treat. Reveals how natural antibiotics have antiviral properties, lack side effects, and have no adverse effects on non-targeted bacteria,...
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English
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"In this eye-opening exposé, acclaimed health journalist and National Geographic contributer Maryn McKenna documents how antibiotics transformed chicken from local delicacy to industrial commodity -- and human health threat -- uncovering the ways we can make America's favorite meat safer again." -- Amazon.com.
Author
Publisher
Avery
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"A New York Times bestselling author shares this exhilarating story of cutting-edge science and the race against the clock to find new treatments in the fight against the antibiotic-resistant bacteria known as superbugs. Physician, researcher, and ethics professor Matt McCarthy is on the front lines of a groundbreaking clinical trial testing a new antibiotic to fight lethal superbugs, bacteria that have built up resistance to the life-saving drugs...
Author
Publisher
Prometheus Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
"In Rising Plague, Dr. Brad Spellberg--an infectious diseases specialist and member of a national task force charged with attacking antibiotic resistant infections--tells the story of this potentially grave public health crisis. The author shares true and very moving patient stories to emphasize the terrible frustration he and his colleagues have experienced while attempting to treat untreatable infections, not to mention the heart-break and tragedy...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Epidemiologist Steffanie Strathdee and her husband, psychologist Tom Patterson, were vacationing in Egypt when Tom came down with a stomach bug. What at first seemed like a case of food poisoning quickly turned critical, and by the time Tom had been transferred via emergency medevac to the world-class medical center at UC San Diego, where both he and Steffanie worked, blood work revealed why modern medicine was failing: Tom was fighting one of the...
12) Superbugs
Series
Publisher
Greenhaven Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Books in Greenhaven Press's At Issue series focus a wide range of viewpoints onto a single controversial issue, providing in-depth discussions by leading advocates, a quick grounding in the issues, and a challenge to critical thinking skills." --
Series
Publisher
A & E Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002], 1998.
Language
English
Description
In 1941, Penicillin was first used to save a human life. In the half century since, antibiotics have revolutionized medicine, adding ten years to the life expectancy of everyone. But there are ominous signs that the revolution is at an end. This DVD chronicles the discovery of these miracle medicines, their introduction and rapid growth, and their murky future. John Swan of the Food and Drug Administration offers a detailed look at their astonishing...
18) Antibiotics
Publisher
Greenhaven Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Antibiotics: Introducing Issues with Opposing Viewpoints is a series that examines current issues from different viewpoints, set up in a pro/con format"--
