health

Describes the unexpected pleasure that the author, who is bedridden due to an illness, finds in observing a snail as it resides first on her bedside table and then in a homemade terrarium.

Scott Bolzan, pilot and retired professional football player, suffers from one of the most severe cases of permanent retrograde amnesia after falling and hitting his head. He and his family, that he does not remember, must struggle to regain the life he once had.

In graphic art format, describes the friendship between two roommates on the MTV show "Real World, " one of whom died of AIDS.

The authors chronicle the last months of their six-year-old daughter Elena's life after a cancerous tumor was found lodged in her brain stem, covering their attempts at experimental treatment and struggle with grief and anger while trying to remain positive.

In this letter to a friend's son who has just been diagnosed with cancer the author shares her own experience with a tumor and offers a listening heart.

Presents the story of Nkosi Johnson, a South African boy born with AIDS who became an inspiration to thousands of people suffering from the disease because he believed that every child's life was important.

Tells the story of Hydeia Broadbent and her adoptive parents Patricia and Loren, looking at how their lives changed when they learned Hydeia had been infected with HIV at birth, discussing the family's efforts to prove doctors wrong when they predicted Hydeia would not live past the age of five, and examining her work, now as a teenager, as an AIDS activist.

Author's story of his life, battle with AIDS, and involvement with the underground AIDS movement fighting government policies and searching for a cure.