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Over 1,000 entries cover medical conditions and diseases, medical procedures and tests, reproduction, and medical specialities.

This is a comprehensive up-to-date home medical guide, including topics on health care, healthy lifestyle, diagnostic process, first aid and safety, and treatment and prevention of diseases.

Provides the latest information on the symptoms, risks and treatment of over 650 diseases and disorders, plus diagnostic symptom charts.

Richard Preston shares true stories of some of the more disturbing and bizarre illnesses and plagues in the world and the scientists who are working to understand them, including the phenomenon of "self-cannibals, " the Ebola virus, and others.

Contains 911 alphabetically arranged entries that provide information on issues of family health, coded by color in the categories of human body, diseases and other disorders, treatments and cures, prevention and diagnosis of disease, and human behavior, each with a question-and-answer feature, illustrations, and diagrams. Includes indexes, a first-aid handbook, and a medical glossary.

Provides answers to 180 miscellaneous questions arranged by subjects, including mind and body, sickness and health, animals and plants, science and technology, and more.

Provides an overview of how they human body works, what specific systems and organs do, how to stay healthy, and what to do when illness strikes.

Contains more than 750 alphabetized, cross-referenced entries on the human body; illness, injury, and disorders; prevention and cure; pregnancy, birth, and childhood; human behavior; and diet and nutrition; and features color photos, illustrations, diagrams, and sidebars.

An A to Z resource providing information to teens on such health issues as diabetes, cancer, sexually transmitted diseases, eating disorders, and more.