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Introduces readers to how type 1 diabetes affects the body, explores its symptoms, and explains how to treat it.

This guide to multiple sclerosis describes the difference between the four types of the disease and how sufferers can manage their symptoms through medications such as corticosteroids. Though scientists are unsure what causes MS or how to prevent it from flaring up, readers will learn about new research into the genetic factors of the disease that could lead to new gene therapy treatments.

First identified in the nineteenth century, Down syndrome is one of the most recognizable genetic disorders, marked by characteristic facial features and mild to moderate intellectual disability. Since scientists discovered in the 1950s that people with Down syndrome have an extra copy of chromosome 21, there has been much more research into the disorder, how to screen for it, and how to treat individuals who have it. This informative book covers all aspects of Down syndrome and includes accounts from people who have it.

Discusses the history of the only organ that can move itself, the heart.

Examines various diseases and viruses that can be spread from animals to humans, and includes case studies involving rabies, monkeypox, and E-coli.

Kenzie Cane's second year at college ends with her landing the perfect summer job at the Bellmeade horse farm rehabilitating abused horses--the perfect escape from her mother's depression and her harrowing relationship with her father. However, Kenzie has her own limitations--her heart is physically weak. So, when the stable's owners assign her the charming stable hand Austin to help her with heavy lifting, Kenzie knows she should be grateful, and as they work together they grow closer. Then some of Austin's own secrets come to light and test the defenses Kenzie has put over her heart.

Flint Minett has keratoconus, an eye disease, but desperately wants to win a comic book art contest so that he and his new friend McKell Panganiban will be better accepted at middle school.

"A deeply moving memoir about two lives that were changed in the blink of an eye, and the love that helped them rewrite their future. Five months pregnant, on a flight to their "babymoon," Allison Pataki turned to her husband when he asked if his eye looked strange, and watched him suddenly lose consciousness. After an emergency landing, she discovered that Dave--a healthy thirty-year-old athlete and surgical resident--had suffered a rare and life-threatening stroke. Next thing Allison knew, she was sitting alone in the ER in Fargo, North Dakota, waiting to hear if her husband would survive the night. When Dave woke up, he could not carry memories from hour to hour, much less from one day to the next. Allison lost the Dave she knew and loved when he lost consciousness on the plane. Within a few months, she found herself caring for both a newborn and a sick husband, struggling with the fear of what was to come. As a way to make sense of the pain and chaos of their new reality, Allison started to write daily letters to Dave. Not only would she work to make sense of the unfathomable experiences unfolding around her, but her letters would provide Dave with the memories he could not make on his own. She was writing to preserve their past, protect their present, and fight for their future. Those letters became the foundation for this beautiful, intimate memoir. And in the process, she fell in love with her husband all over again. This is a manifesto for living, an ultimately uplifting story about the transformative power of faith and resilience. It's a tale of a husband's turbulent road to recovery, the shifting nature of marriage, and the struggle of loving through pain and finding joy in the broken places"--.

The human body is amazing. But sometimes it gets sick or hurt. In All About Sore Throats, kids delve inside the body to learn all about the causes, symptoms, and treatments of sore throats. In this engaging introductory title, readers will explore fascinating topics, from strep throat to tonsillitis.