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Although in Western society the beneficial aspects of bacteria have been increasingly minimized, we actually need bacteria in our digestive tracts for good health. This resource explains, to laymen and physicians, how probiotics support immune function, prevent urogenital infections, and maintain good gastrintestinal health.
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A health secret you can't afford to miss!.......2004-10-01
My son was diagnosed with severe reflux, eczema and food allergies. I have spent hundreds of hours trying to research probiotics. ALL of this information is contained right inside this powerful book. I found an absolute wealth of information and leads to help me treat my sons severe allergies. Many of the suggestions in her book have saved us time and money. And one of the most important parts is where the author helps you select a probiotic, since MUCH of what is on the market is worthless, mislabled or DEAD bacteria. People are starting to become aware of the benefits of probiotics (as other countries have known for so many years) but they are throwing their money away on products that do not even contain the strains of bacteria listed on the label or even any live bacteria at all. Although I bought the book with interest in my son's situation, there are so many other conditions discussed and I have lent this book out more times than I can count. It is also very suitable for physicians and I have had one friend use it to discuss her probiotic use during pregnancy (to prevent allergy in her baby) and I just bought another copy to give to our pediatrician (who also recommends certain reputable brands of probiotics to help treat behavioral issues) I would highly recommend this book. It will save you hundreds of hours of research and you will think of many friends and relatives who can benefit from the research it contains.
Reliable information on probiotics.......2004-09-30
Probiotics are products containing bacteria that are beneficial to health. Digestive problems and allergies are increasing in developed countries and much of the source of these difficulties appears to lie with a poor mixture of bacteria in the intestine. Taking probiotics to remedy the imbalance is a popular approach among the general public, but very little reliable information is available.
Kelly Karpa's book remedies this by providing a readable and scientifically-sound review of current knowledge.
Dr Karpa is both a qualified pharmacist and a concerned parent, and she combines her skills to produce an admirable book. It explains the gut microflora (billions of bacteria that reside in each person's intestine) and also the evidence for probiotics improving a range of disorders.
These disorders include infectious diarrhoea (gastroenteritis, antibiotic-associated diarrhoea, Clostridium difficile, traveler's diarrhoea), allergies (rhinitis, asthma, food allergies), urogenital infections (vaginitis, UTIs), and inflammatory bowel disease (Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis).
An especially useful chapter is on how to select a good probiotic. There is also information on prebiotics, soluble dietary fibre that boosts numbers of one's existing beneficial bacteria.
The two chapters on the immune system are a bit heavy going for the general reader, but they both have a short summary and the chapters can be skipped without spoiling the rest of the book. Also, there is no index. But the book is well-structured with detailed Contents pages, so the absence of an index should not prove a major difficulty.
Despite these minor weaknesses, the book is invaluable for people with any of the listed chronic conditions as well as for health professionals who work with such patients.
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Featuring full-color illustrations and hundreds of tables with diagnostic and therapeutic guidelines, this authoritative resource explores the diagnosis and treatment of canine and feline infectious diseases caused by viruses, rickettsiae, chlamydiae, mycoplasmas, bacteria, fungi, algae, protozoa, and unknown agents. Discussion of each disease includes diagnostic testing, indications and methods for sample collection, in-office diagnostic procedures, and more. It also features a complete antimicrobial drug formulary, drug dosage tables, prescribing information, immunization recommendations, and a list of product manufacturers.
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Excellent book.......2007-08-09
The 3rd edition of Infectious Diseases of Dogs and Cat is an excellent book for DVM, BVSc & AH and other equivalent degree programs. It is also an uptodate source of information for ACVM exams. I would recommend it for all Veterinary Microbiologists and Veterinary Practitioners.
Greene's Infectious Diseases.......2000-03-29
As a vet student, I purchased this for a small animal medicine course, but have used it for almost all of my classes. It would be an invaluable reference for the small animal practitioner or vet student and, in my opinion, is the most complete source for information of infectious diseases of small animals currently available.
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Using a multidisciplinary approach, this all-inclusive resource provides clinicians with a strong knowledge base for understanding the complete spectrum of wound care, including the structure of the skin, its functions, types of skin damage, physiology of wound healing, and general principles of wound management. Seven new chapters cover Principles of Practice Development; Skin Care Needs of the Obese Patient; Foot and Nail Care; Facilitating Adaptation; Support Surfaces; Devices and Technology in Wound Care; and Reimbursement and Billing. Recent advances in disease etiology, diagnosis, and treatment are discussed in appropriate chapters and each chapter opens with a list of learning objectives and closes with review questions.
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Best Wounds Resource.......2007-08-19
This is the best wound care resource I have. From basic care to physiology of wounds, this book covers everything in an easy to understand but comprehensive manner. I especially like the chapter on the interdisciplinary process.
Donna McClure BSN, RN, ACHRN, CWOCN
colourful and graphic photos.......2007-07-21
As a layperson to the medical field, the most fascinating thing about this book was the extensive collection of colour plates. Showing textbook cases of exposed wounds. Sometimes with plenty of decaying skin and exposed muscle. The resemblences of some pictures to raw meat at the butcher's is stark.
One might wonder how patients let their conditions deteriorate to the depths shown here. How could you walk around, or not, with some of those wounds, and not have it treated before they got so bad?
Happy reading.
Just what I needed!.......2006-08-18
I'm studying for the CWS exam, and needed a good text for review. This works beautifully. Thanks!
Excellent wound care primer.......2000-04-28
I have read this book and used it as a resource in preparing for wound care certification. I found it invaluable for it's detailed sections on anatomy and especially physiology. It was extremely helpful in gaining an understanding of what happens in a wound and how it heals. There are equally helpful chapters on disease processes and their impact on wound healing, and on choosing dressings and techniques for proper wound care.
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As the #1 selling book in respiratory care pocket guides for over 20 years, this completely updated small ring binder is THE comprehensive resource in bedside respiratory care. Accurate information allows fingertip access to TODAY'S gold standards in evidence-based respiratory medicine. Students have found this an invaluable source for not only surviving respiratory classes, but conquering the information in preparation for CRT and RRT credentialing exams. Then, professionals, including therapists and managers, have found Oakes Clinical Practitioner s Pocket Guide to Respiratory Care to be a critical bedside tool. It covers all the fundamentals, including bedside assessment, clinical assessment, physiological dynamics (including equations), summarized AARC Clinical Practice Guidelines, mechanical ventilation, over 70 diseases/disorders, pharmacology, and more. This 6th edition includes the 2005 AHA CPR guidelines with ACLS Algorithms.
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This book is better than the others, had more info.......2007-07-15
This book is great , I used it everyday. The book needs Tabs it was hard just to flip to stuff. Loved this book.
definately a winner book.......2007-03-18
If a new rt student this is perfect. It is condensed for the info that is really is needed.
great book .......2007-03-09
awesome book .. came with a short amount of shipping days.. thanks
Invaluable Student Guide!.......2006-12-23
As a first year student, having just finished my first semester, I feel like I have been overwhelmed with new information. In some ways, learning respiratory care is a lot like learning a foreign language. So here's what I've realized already: there is absolutely no way I am going to be able to remember everything I've learned.
Oakes' Clinical Practitioners Pocket Guide to Respiratory Care is the perfect resource for students. As my professors point out information that is vital to our field (such as blood gases, O2 therapy delivery, the list goes on and on) I quickly turn in Oakes book to that section. The information is always there! I have used the book as a study companion to Egan's bulky book (I love Egan's, but it requires ample muscles to carry it around much), and really feel that it has contributed to my success so far with high scores on all my exams.
Alright, so what do I think is special about this book?
1. It contains everything I need to know. I won't reiterate the contents, but am particularly impressed with the pharmacology information, the disease information listed, and the index is comprehensive and nicely laid out.
2. It is cheap. My average textbook costs $100 or more. Oakes' book is less than $30. With the quality and amount of content condensed into this pocketguide, it's practically a steal. I would easily be willing to pay 2 or 3 times this much for this book (though I'm not complaining!).
3. It is accurate. I have perused through several guides this size, and found several mistakes (it's easier to find them when you're learning them!). I have yet to find an error in Oakes' book.
4. Format. I love that this book is in a ringbinder. I can remove pages that I don't find useful (after I finish school), and could add additional pages if I found the need to.
5. Drawbacks? None really. The font size is small, but I would hate to sacrifice any information or make the book itself larger in order to enlarge the font.
In my opinion, purchasing this book is like learning the blood gas values . . . you simply have to do it to be an effective therapist. It will make you a strong student, and an excellent therapist.
clinical practice guide.......2005-09-27
book price was slightly higher than expected.print were light ink and font need to be slightly bigger will appreciated.book has excellent concise material
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"Overall, this work should be commended for its clear and concise presentation of complicated material, its excellent use of tables for summary and emphasis, and its high quality photographs."--Cytotechnology Advisory Committee review of first edition. The definitive book on authoritative information in the field of cytopathology, covering principles of technique, superficial swelling, and localizing lesions in deep organs. This updated edition features new chapters on immunohistopathology, flow cytometry, and quality assurance in cytopathology.
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Inspiration from the Great Pioneers.......2006-05-31
Clinical Cytopathology and Aspiration Biopsy, is all cytopathology book for me. This book is written by a pioneer Dr. Ramzy, forworded by Dr. Naylor B. For me as a resident in distant country - Sudan, I confess taht I acquired the taste of cytology knowledge by correlating, clinical to cytology a link leads directly to problem solving in the daily practice in cytopathology. Besides this it is an excellent review book, refrence and core knowledge cytology source. I found this book, suitable, concise, ilustrated all together. I can catch the sense of cytopathology from an easy, clear, succinctly written book. Try to own one. My thanks and apreciation to Dr. Ramzy and All Cytology Community and to Amazon.
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Light, casual reading that's very informative........2007-03-26
The next time the kid doesn't want to take a bath, remember back to this book. Dr. Callahan says that our bodies are filled with thousands of different kinds of bacteria, parasites, fungi, and viruses and they are indeed responsible for keeping us alive. We are rather like a colony, of which those cells we call human are ten percent or less of the total.
His conclusion is that we are living too clean a life, our bodies were designed to live in close quarter with animals, dirt, and not bathing too often. He also talks about the overuse of antibotics that are creating new antibiotic resistant strains and basically wiping out the effectiveness of the antibiotics we have (especially in hospitals).
This is a light, easy read book that in turn leaves us with a lot of information about what's happening to our own bodies and to the medical world in general.
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Immunology of Infection (Methods in Microbiology)
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Established for almost 30 years,
Methods in Microbiology is the most prestigious series devoted to techniques and methodology in the field. Now totally revamped, revitalized, with a new format and expanded scope,
Methods in Microbiology will continue to provide you with tried and tested, cutting-edge protocols to directly benefit your research.
Immunology of Infection, edited by two of the foremost figures in the field, presents the most appropriate, up-to-date techniques in the detail you require. The layout is structured for ease of reference, and the volume will be essential reading for all researchers working in microbiology, immunology, virology, mycology, and parasitology.
The new volume provides a carefully selected collection of immunological techniques for the microbiologist wishing to study host-pathogen relationships in vivo and in vitro. This multi-authored book has succeeded in bringing together experts from various fields of molecular and cellular immunology who provide ready-to-use recipes for the ex vivo and in vitro analysis of anti-infective immunity.
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* Focuses on the methods most useful for the microbiologist interested in analysing host-pathogen relationships
* Ready-to-use, tried and tested recipes
* Lists of suppliers provided as appendices to each chapter
* Covers techniques useful for the analysis of human and murine cells
* Includes techniques for the prediction and determination of MHC ligands and T cell epitopes
* Describes the art and science of DNA vaccines
* Essential methods for measuring human cytokine responses
* Covers isolation and propagation of dendritic cells
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essential.......2000-03-28
this book provides a selected colection of immunological techniques for the microbiologist wishing to study host-pathogen relationships in vivo and in vitro. essential reading for researchres working in microbiology, virology, immunology, mycology and parasitology.
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Anyone involved in ministry for any amount of time has probably run across staff problems. And the challenge in dealing with staff problems within a Christian ministry is solving the problems in a Christian manner--and keeping a sense of humor about it all. In How to Treat a Staff Infection, Dr. Craig and Carolyn Williford take a ''medical'' approach to those common ministry ailments, including: a stiff neck ''God always intended VBS to be two full weeks.''; temporary paralysis ''You want me to make a decision?''; a flaccidity of the lips ''Got a prayer request for you: you won't believe what so-and-so did now.''; abnormal weight gain ''God just gave me this incredible idea.''; and many more. Almost every problem a ministry staff encounters is covered in this humorous and helpful book.
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- Duesberg is right about both AIDS and the politics of science
- So why aren't we all dead yet?
- Wow, compelling, thorough and shocking reading
- Absolute common sense, intelligent and revealing
- most interesting book i have read in my life
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Inventing the AIDS Virus
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We know that to err is human, but the HIV/AIDS hypothesis is one hell of a mistake. I say this rather strongly as a warning. Duesberg has been saying it for a long time. Read this book. --Kary B. Mullis, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1993
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Duesberg is right about both AIDS and the politics of science .......2007-07-24
Contrary to popular belief, Peter Duesberg is not a quack. In fact, he is a widely acknowledged expert on retroviruses such as HIV. His credentials are impecable: he is a professor of molecular and cell biology at the University of California, Berkeley, and a member of the prestigious National Academy of Sciences. Nevertheless, Dusberg is regarded by the uninformed as a quack because he has dared to scientifically investigate whether the retrovirus HIV actually causes the complex of diseases known as AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) -- which has widely been asserted without proof -- and has had the courage to report that research shows the answer is that HIV is not the cause of AIDS.
In this excellent book Prof. Duesberg discusses in detail, but in a highly readable manner, both the retrovirus HIV and the syndome AIDS and shows that they are not the same things. In fact, AIDS is not itself a single disease but, rather, is a complex of more than 20 separate diseases. The one commonality of the diseases in the AIDS syndrome is not HIV infection but the fact that they rarely infect people with healthy immune systems. In general, people who acquire any of the AIDS diseases have deficient immune systems. In poor countries, especially in Africa where the incidence of AIDS is high, immune deficiency is mainly due to severe malnutrition. In the developed world, including the U.S., immune deficiency is often caused by deleterious lifestyle behavior, including drug use. A person whose immune system is severely weakened is then vulnerable to the diseases in the AIDS complex. Immune-deficient people often also catch HIV which is why HIV and AIDS often -- but definitely not always -- are found together. However, HIV can also occur in people who do not suffer from AIDS and never will. A positive test for HIV antibodies merely means that at some time a person has been infected with HIV, not that they are infected with HIV now or that they have or ever will have AIDS.
Another point which Prof. Duesberg covers in this book is that modern science has become highly politicized, and that disagreement with current scientific dogma is strongly discouraged and often punished by inability to publish in recognized scientific journals. This is one reason why Duesberg has difficulty presenting his case to the public. As a scientist with 44 years experience at a major research institution, I regret to confirm that science has indeed become politicized and dogmatic. Please read this book if you want to know the truth about AIDS and modern medical politics.
So why aren't we all dead yet?.......2007-04-30
I read Dr. Duesberg's fine book the year it came out. It is complex in places so it took me some time and I had to reread certain parts to fully understand what was being said. It was well worth the time and energy to understand rather than take 'the authorities' word for it.
I knew that if he was wrong within ten years there would be such a large number of deaths due to AIDS that it would be impossible to refute the fact that it truly was an 'epidemic' and that Dr. Duesberg was totally wrong.
Well, where's the epidemic?
Thank you, Dr. Duesberg for your honesty and courage in the face of continuing herd mentality, sheep like belief in the 'authorities' and thank you most of all for putting your own career and reputation on the line for your integrity. It will be at least 50 years more before you are seen as the voice of reason and honesty that you are. Dr. Sammelweis faced the same idiocy from his peers as you face from yours. Of course there is not as much money to be make on washing hands or not washing hands as there is on the trillion dollar research scam of AIDS.
Thank you, Dr. Duesberg from all of us intelligent enough to follow your writing and honest enough to flip off the media and the government authoritiies to whom money and power come before honesty and caring about people's lives and health.
The truth will out. But not today I'm afraid.
2007 Update: will any and all reviewers that disagree with Dr. Duesberg's book please cite contradictory EVIDENCE and not simply opine that such evidence exists! An epidemic is just that. And there simply is no epidemic. Period! This was the media hype that created all this fear of a harmless "passenger virus" of which we all have many. The only epidemic is the epidemic of bleeting sheep that continue to tell us how horrible HIV is and how we simply must start on chemotherapy as soon as it is diagnosed. Baaaahhh!
Wow, compelling, thorough and shocking reading.......2007-03-28
This book is an essential read for anyone who wants to know the truth about AIDS, Human Papiloma virus and other misrepresentations of the truth. I found this book hard to put down although shocking. The author leaves no doubt about his assertions with thorough explanations and a complete list of references. I am greatful for having read this book and I will be writing to my health minister for an explanation and to voice my protest. Thankyou Amazon.
Absolute common sense, intelligent and revealing.......2007-03-21
If you have been told that you have AIDS, then it is only natural you will want to get yourself informed about the disease. Unfortunatley, if you have not read this book, you may have been given a dangerously incomplete and one-sided view.
Duesberg dissects the official Scientific theory behind this virus with surgical precision. His controversial thories, shared by others including Nobel Laureates, that AIDS is caused by a combination of toxic drugs and known diseaeses; and not by a dormant HIV virus, should be a wake up call that there is something seriously wrong with the current official picture. Clear and concise, the examples cited are extremely accessible to the Scientifically minded and layman alike, while retaining credibility and objectivity. This work should form one side of the contemporary debate on the AIDS virus; if it is not, and I doubt it is, then it only adds further credibility to the books findings.
If you care about human life more than the accumulation of wealth, and accepted scientific dogma - READ THIS BOOK!
most interesting book i have read in my life.......2007-03-16
this book took my understanding of scientifical research, industry and politics to a higher level.
i am a researcher myself (though not in the medical field). the vicious mechanims taking place in peer review and research funding as described by the author are not only plausible but likely.
most important, however, i could not find any logical mistakes made by the author in his scientifical reasoning.
i consider Duesberg a modern Galileo
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