medicine

Looks at what a doctor does.

Explores the anecdotes, strugles, and personal stories with the nation's top biomedical scientists, and the crisis of taxpayers spending billions of dollars in funding a dysfunctional research system.

A guide for high school graduates to careers in the fields of health care and science.

Filled with science activities, jokes, and fun facts, 101 Ways to Gross Out Your Friends appeals to young scientists with an irreverent sense of humor. 101 Ways to Gross Out Your Friends features tons of gross-themed activities, jokes, and fun facts that not only entertain young readers, but also have a definitive scientific basis. From making slimy snot to gorilla poop, the hands-on activities mixed with funny jokes and how-to steps and descriptions make this title an engaging and delightfully gross way to introduce science to children.

Investigates the breakthroughs in surgery, vaccines, drugs and medical technology; medicine's new ethical questions; and assumptions about life and death. Topics include fighting disease, penicillin, insulin, surgery and organ transplants.

Why did medieval physicians fill a patient's nostrils with hog's dung? Can eating camel poop really help cure dysentery? And why are 21st-century doctors carrying out fecal transplants on patients with serious digestive problems? We often think of poop as yucky and dirty, but since ancient times, doctors have explored how it can be used as a treatment for illnesses and injuries. This new Science Slam!title will engross readers--and gross them out! Filled with information perfectly suited to the abilities and interests of an early elementary audience, this colorful, fact-filled book gives readers a chance not only to learn, but also to develop their powers of observation and critical thinking. With fascinating photographs and surprising, high-interest facts about a material that we don't usually read about, the book makes learning about excrement poop-sitively amazing!.

Provides information about the causes, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of a variety of human diseases and disorders, organized within twenty-four subject categories, including drugs, heart and blood vessels, mental health, nutrition and metabolism, and accidents and injuries.

"Learn all about the history of antibiotics, from how they were first invented to how they impact our lives today."--.