Medicine For Children

Leukemia is a type of cancer that affects blood cells in the bone marrow. It's caused by a mutation in the DNA of a bone marrow stem cell, which leads to the rapid production of abnormal white blood cells. These abnormal cells can't fight infection and can crowd out healthy cells in the bone marrow and blood. This book describes one way to fix this problem. We tell you how to increase the life supporting oxygen to the cells of your body. In 1950 your chances of getting cancer were one in eighty. Today your chances of getting cancer are one in two. Yes, disease is out there! This is a good ...

Enter the world of Prince Edward Brighton and immerse yourself in the story of the fourteen-year-old prince, who has been trained as a swordsman by his famous father, the Blue Knight of the Fursan Al Azraq - the best fighters in Crown Earth. Amazon best-selling author Julia Hanke makes you travel back in time into the 13th century and tells a thrilling story about a father, who gets seriously ill, and his son, whose life will forever change, when he becomes king and suddenly faces challenges as the new ruler of the kingdom, that he has to defend against his opponents, such as his own uncle....

La maravillosa medicina de Jorge es una historia de Roald Dahl, el gran autor de literatura infantil. Jorge, empeñado en cambiar a su desagradable abuela, inventa una maravillosa medicina con la que consigue transformarla. Pero nada resulta como Jorge esperaba. Los animales de la granja también toman la medicina...y las situaciones más disparatadas no se hacen esperar.

After living through an emotionally turbulent journey of infertility and the birth of one son, Fabiana was thrilled to discover that she was pregnant again, this time with twins. She did not expect to encounter a tumultuous road until she was told that one of her twins had no chance of survival. Then, only weeks later, she gave birth prematurely. Her surviving twin spent months in a neonatal intensive care unit and later became a child with special needs. From Surviving to Thriving is about finding the joy; making the choice to see hope where others only see despair, pain, loss, and sorrow.

The field of medicine is fascinating. But some medical conditions, treatments, and experiments are almost unbelievable! Did you know workers test medications and medical equipment for bacteria by using a chemical from horseshoe crab blood? Have you ever heard of freezing people's bodies in the hopes of bringing them back to life in the future? Check out these fascinating findings and even more bizarre medicine!

People with speaking difficulties are at the mercy of insurance companies who are determining how often and for how long speech therapy services should be delivered. It is also a disturbing reality that the likelihood for therapy frequency and length of care is contingent upon either the level of competence or comfort level of the speech-language pathologist or the financial policies of each institution.

A life-saving guide that includes signs, symptoms, first aid treatments, and step-by-step skills to care for adults, children, and infants in case of everyday emergencies. This book is written in simple language to help anyone develop the skills to save lives, from splinting a sprained ankle, performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), and using an automated defibrillator (AED) responding to symptoms of strokes, diabetic emergencies, and emergency childbirth.

A novel about two women who settle in the Northwest. Washington State didn’t want the ex-slaves to come there from the South. This book showcases the racism present in Washington State in 1895. Black people couldn’t vote or own property. A very active chapter of the Ku Klux Klan was in Chehalis. The land the Cowlitz tribes had lived on for thousands of years was taken from them without compensation and given to the white settlers. Duha (pronounced DooHa) is the daughter of a slave midwife. She and her mother are determined to escape the racism in Independence, Missouri, by migrating to ...

In Kid Food, nationally recognized writer and food advocate Bettina Elias Siegel explores one of the fundamental challenges of modern parenting: trying to raise healthy eaters in a society intent on pushing children in the opposite direction. Siegel dives deep into the many influences that make feeding children healthfully so difficult - from the prevailing belief that kids will only eat highly processed "kid food" to the near-constant barrage of "special treats".

Futurologist Luna Lee presents possibilities for the future of medicine in the next 100 years.

For centuries, medicine has made reckless use of one of earth's most toxic substances: mercury - and the consequences, often invisible or ignored, continue to be tragic. Today, global emissions of mercury as well as other toxicants, make us all more vulnerable to its effects. From the worst cases of syphilis to Sigmund Freud's first cases of hysteria, from baffling new disorders in 19th century Britain to the modern scourge of autism, The Age of Autism traces the long overlooked history of mercury poisoning.

Have you ever thought about the fact that before the fridge you'd have had maggots in your margarine? Ever thought about what you might use to wipe your bum before loo roll was a thing? And what about what everybody did before computers?! In this third hilarious book from Adam Kay and Henry Paker you'll learn about all of these and more.

A comprehensive resource for parents, therapists, caregivers, and educators, packed with lifelong strategies for Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) management and support.

Margaret Mohrmann has devoted most of her professional life to caring for children, and in Attending Children she shares the remarkable education those children and their families have given her. Her narratives are both painful and hopeful, tragic and funny, full of remarkable characters and sometimes bizarre families.

Laughter is the best medicine and this comedy has the right dose. Joyce’s cooking is so bad that her husband and kids want to cut off their tongues to save themselves for the taste of her food. Joyce's husband, Gary, loves his football team more than he loves her. But they are not an entirely unhappy couple. They have five children. Twenty-one-year-old Fred, their eldest child, is a loafer who believes he will soon be a millionaire. He spends most of his time chasing his elusive dream. A gourmand, he is the only member of the family who enjoys Joyce’s cooking. Nineteen-year-old Nyasha ...

It's easier for pharmacists to get their kids to take medicine, and in this audiobook, I explain why. It makes so much sense for a child to take their medicine, logically. But getting children to take their medicine by justifying it logically is doomed to failure. I'm a dad with three seven-year-old triplet daughters, and I bring you into my thought process when it's time to give them medicine and how I bring them into the conversation - literally. At worst, you'll learn a lot about the most common over-the-counter medicines and some of the most prescribed pediatric medicines.

This book is for any person who wishes to have clearer functioning of his or her mind and not to be bogged down with useless thinking. Within three weeks the result will be more control over thoughts, better concentration, more energy, more joy, happiness and appreciation for life. This is a simple and straightforward self-help book approached from two different and yet related perspectives.

"Martian Genesis" brings together "New Dawn" and "The Red Planet Transformation" into a single compelling volume, chronicling humanity’s struggle and evolution on Mars. In New Dawn, Benjamin, one of the first children born on the Red Planet, recounts the story of his parents—pioneers who braved the harsh Martian frontier. Using his mother’s diary as a primary source, he pieces together their journey of survival, discovery, and resilience. In The Red Planet Transformation, Benjamin shares his own experiences growing up in the shadow of humanity’s first steps on Mars. As he matures, ...

Cualquiera que haya visto a un niño recuperarse de una herida o de un hueso roto sabe que están hechos para sanar. Y en esta apasionante colección de memorias, el doctor Kurt Newman, líder de la cirugía pediátrica en Estados Unidos, recupera los episodios más extraordinarios de su carrera para mostrarnos la importancia de tratar a los niños como algo más que adultos miniatura.

In Dear NHS, an amazing list of inspirational people come together to share their stories of how the national health service has been there for them and changed their lives in the process. By turns deeply moving, hilarious, hopeful and impassioned, these stories together become a love letter to the NHS and the 1.4 million people who go above and beyond the call of duty every single day - selflessly, generously, putting others before themselves, never more so than now.