Gutiérrez, Jolene
Summary: "Using innovative designs and technology such as 3-D printing, humans are helping animals in need. Discover the amazing true stories of five animals that have survived thanks to their prosthetic body parts"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Millbrook Press 2021
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Summary: Explores today's scientific pursuit of immortality, with exclusive visits inside Silicon Valley labs and interviews with the visionaries who believe we will soon crack into the aging process and cure death.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 612.6 WALBryant, Jill
Summary: "Innovations in the medical field save countless lives daily. In this fascinating title, a timeline of breakthrough medical inventions is explored through dynamic photographs and interesting fact boxes. Fleming's advances with penicillin and the invention of the X-ray machine are some of the featured inventions that keep us in "the best of health!"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crabtree Publishing Company 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 610 BRYCook, Robin
Summary: Entering a profession on the brink of radical transformation by a new smartphone technology capable of diagnosing and treating patients, radiology resident George Wilson is horrified when his fiancee and several patients die after beta testing the technology.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Cook 2014Summary: In the year 2032, advances in cybernetic technology and genetic research have opened the world to possibilities once only dreamed of. Humans can be fitted with cybernetic modifications, download their brains into permanent robot bodies, or bring home their own intimate robotic companion. It's a life of luxury. Or so it seems. A rash of gruesome murders begins to plague the city and with every...
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Publisher / Publication Date: FUNimation Entertainment 2017
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Summary: What if a lifesaving medical device causes loss of life along its supply chain? That's the question Katherine E. Standefer finds herself asking one night after being suddenly shocked by her implanted cardiac defibrillator. In this gripping, intimate memoir about health, illness, and the invisible reverberating effects of our medical system, Standefer recounts the astonishing true story of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown Spark 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 STANDEFER, KATHERINE E. STAWinters, Ben H
Summary: The New York Times best-selling author of The Quiet Boy returns with a speculative, corporate espionage thriller that takes the adage "Time is money," and makes it literally, frighteningly so.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company 2024
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Ozias, Michael
Summary: Tracks four companies working on solving some of humanity's most important problems and examines the outdated regulatory systems impeding their progress.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gravitas Ventures Llc 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC THECook, Robin
Summary: George Wilson, M.D., a radiology resident in Los Angeles, is about to enter a profession on the brink of an enormous paradigm shift, foreshadowing a vastly different role for doctors everywhere. The smartphone is poised to take on a new role in medicine, no longer as a mere medical app but rather as a fully customizable personal physician capable of diagnosing and treating even better than the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014
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Summary: "George Wilson, M.D., a radiology resident in Los Angeles, is about to enter a profession on the brink of an enormous paradigm shift. The smartphone is poised to take on a new role as a fully customizable personal physician capable of diagnosing and treating even better than the real thing. It is called iDoc. George's initial collision with this incredible innovation is devastating, when he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC COOPollan, Michael
Summary: Michael Pollan elegantly brings together in a single narrative this unruly history, the story of the current resurgence in psychedelic research, and his own fantastic personal adventure with these substances. This is a brand new story about these incredible drugs, which today are demonstrating a remarkable usefulness in treating mental conditions such as PTSD, depression, and end-of-life anxiety.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 615 POLIles, Greg.
Summary: Resisting those who would use a revolutionary new technology for unethical purposes, doctor David Tennant and psychiatrist Rachel Weiss run for their lives from ruthless NSA agents and turn to David's unusual dreams for guidance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ILESummary: Compiling and retrieving up-to-date information on patients' illnesses, injuries, and medical history is more important than ever for effective medical care. This video focuses on opportunities in the field of healthcare information management and technology. Examples of HIM-related positions are covered-including medical billing specialist, diagnostic and procedural coder, and privacy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Investigates the remarkable breakthroughs in surgery, vaccines, drugs and medical technology; medicine's new ethical questions; and assumptions about life and death. Key topics include fighting disease, penicillin, insulin, surgery, and organ transplants.
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Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Boston Video 2005
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV MATSummary: "How Technology Works demystifies the machinery that keeps the modern world going, from simple objects such as zip fasteners and can openers to the latest, most sophisticated devices of the information age, including smartwatches, personal digital assistants, and driverless cars. It includes inventions that have changed the course of history, like the internal combustion engine, as well as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 620 HOWSummary: Given the limits of today's medical technology, a three-year trip to Mars would place astronauts in grave danger. Thus, NASA has divided its attention between outer and inner space, aiming to create self-sufficient nanomedicine by the year 2020. This program studies health care research driven by that goal. With exciting animation sequences and conversations with top-level experts, the video...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: This program explores emerging technologies that are revolutionizing how surgeons perform operations and deliver critical care. Featured modalities include the gamma knife, a viable alternative to invasive brain surgery for a growing list of conditions, as well as telementoring and robotic surgery, high-tech approaches to delivering specialized healthcare to remote regions. Clinical footage...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Why have America's health care costs skyrocketed? In this NBC News program, Tom Brokaw follows several cases at Staten Island University Hospital as he explores reasons behind financial turmoil in the U.S. health-care system. Among the patients: a 24-year-old man with no insurance who lost both legs in the Staten Island Ferry accident of October 2003. Another victim: a 62-year-old woman with a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Fadiman, Anne
Summary: When three-month-old Lia Lee Arrived at the county hospital emergency room in Merced, California, a chain of events was set in motion from which neither she nor her parents nor her doctors would ever recover. Lia's parents were part of a large Hmong community in Merced. The Hmong, traditionally a close-knit and fiercely people, have been less amenable to assimilation than most immigrants,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Noonday Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.461 FADHill, Marc Lamont
Summary: "A riveting exploration of how the power of visual media over the last few years has shifted the narrative on race and reignited the push towards justice by the New York Times bestselling author of the "worthy and necessary" (The New York Times) Nobody, Marc Lamont Hill, and the bestselling author and acclaimed journalist Todd Brewster. With his signature "clear and courageous" (Cornel West)...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.3 HILCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 303.3 HILFaust, Timothy
Summary: Single payer healthcare is not complicated: the government pays for all care for all people. It's cheaper than our current model, and most Americans (and their doctors) already want it. So what's the deal with our current healthcare system, and why don't we have something better?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.1 FAUEgan, Jennifer
Summary: It's 2010. Staggeringly successful and brilliant tech entrepreneur Bix Bouton is desperate for a new idea. He's forty, with four kids, and restless when he stumbles into a conversation with mostly Columbia professors, one of whom is experimenting with downloading or 'externalizing' memory. Within a decade, Bix's new technology, Own Your Unconscious, that allows you access to every memory you've...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC EGASummary: Information for all type of diabetes by the diabetes experts at Mayo Clinic.--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mayo Clinic Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.462 MAYCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.462 MAYSummary: Medical technology bestows a diagnostic power with thorny consequences: depending on what the test results reveal, parents and doctors can decide whether or not to let a pregnancy run its course. By following three couples dealing with high-risk pregnancies at a hospital in France, this program gets inside the complex decision-making process used by doctors and obstetrics specialists, as well...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009