Saul, Richard.
Summary: "Few mental disorders have been met with more controversy in recent years than Attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder. An estimated 4.7% of adults, and up to 16% of children are living with ADHD in the US. However, some allege that doctors are handing out prescriptions indiscriminately. Thousands of patients respond poorly to stimulant medication, which is at times prescribed to individuals...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2013
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Summary: "Despite having access to more resources than ever, our doctors are overloaded with demands for their time and expertise. In Deep Medicine, leading physician Eric Topol shows how artificial intelligence can help. Natural-language processing can record our doctor's notes, make sense of our medical histories, and read more deeply into the scientific literature than any human ever could....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.1 TOPSummary: One way or another, philanthropic epidemiologist Larry Brilliant has spent his career solving the ills of today. Now he wants to take on the ills of tomorrow. Accepting the 2006 TED Prize, Brilliant talks about how smallpox was eradicated from the planet and calls for a new global system that can detect, identify, and contain emerging pandemics before they can spread.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Drawing on sonar technology, sonography uses sound waves to see inside the body. This program visits Thomas Jefferson University Hospital to study how sonographers put this technology into practice. An ultrasound scan is done on a middle-aged man and on an expectant young mother, and the results are reviewed and explained. The subspecialties of sonography-general ultrasound, vascular...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Topol, Eric J.
Summary: One of America's top doctors reveals how AI will empower physicians and revolutionize patient care Medicine has become inhuman, to disastrous effect. The doctor-patient relationship--the heart of medicine--is broken: doctors are too distracted and overwhelmed to truly connect with their patients, and medical errors and misdiagnoses abound. In Deep Medicine, leading physician Eric Topol reveals...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, Inc. 2019
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Summary: "Provides basic consumer health information about the transmission and treatment of diseases spread from person to person, along with facts about prevention, self-care, and drug resistance. Includes index, glossary of related terms, and other resources"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Omnigraphics 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.9 CONSummary: This program describes three practical applications of DNA technology: the use of gene transfer to improve plant species, the use of molecular probes to quickly identify disease-causing organisms, and the development of antigen vaccines. The program makes very effective use of live video action, animation, and narration to explain and summarize these practical applications in the fast-moving...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Lewis, Beverly
Summary: Determined to forgo traditional medicine as she struggles to come to terms with a grave medical diagnosis, graduate student Heather Nelson hopes to find answers and healing in Amish country.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LEWSummary: Some doctors are wary of prescribing medication for ADD or ADHD, especially when treating young patients-but the majority rely on psychotropic drugs. This program challenges the status quo, supported by a staggering amount of testimony and documentation. Incorporating detailed interviews with psychiatrists, neurologists, and education experts-as well as parents and kids who have suffered...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: 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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Sparks, Nicholas
Summary: A successful travel photographer, Maggie Dawes, struggling to come to terms with a sobering medical diagnosis, is unexpectedly grounded over Christmas with her young assistant and begins to tell him the story of the love that set her on a course she never could have imagined.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing Large Print 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SPACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SPACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SPASummary: 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
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Summary: According to The American Journal of Medicine, over 70% of Americans have been infected with a genital human papillomavirus, yet few are aware that they have it-or even know what HPV is. This eye-opening program delivers the facts that high school and college students-the primary victims-need to raise their awareness about an incurable sexually transmitted disease. Doctors, professors, peer...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Often mistaken for less debilitating problems, interstitial cystitis is a serious and painful disease of the bladder lining that, if not properly treated, can ruin a patient's life. This program explores the challenge that IC presents to physicians-specifically, the difficulties of diagnosing it-and features therapies and support organizations that have greatly reduced, and may one day...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006