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A groundbreaking and inspiring book that provides the nine keys that can lead to a spontaneous remission from cancer-even after conventional medicine has failed. Early in her career, Kelly Turner, Ph.D., a researcher, lecturer, and counselor in Integrative Oncology, was shocked to discover that...

Reports suggest that over 100m people around the world are living with Long COVID (more than 1.5m in the UK) yet reliable, clear information and guidance remains scarce. This book is the definitive guide to understanding, managing and treating the condition. Written by the world's leading immunologist Professor Danny Altmann and expert patient Gez Medinger, The Long COVID Handbook translates cutting-edge science, patient-led research and practical guidance with clarity.

With the rise of the 21st-century civilization and technology, the human condition has been reduced to bleak office cubicles, smartphones, sitting in traffic and senseless consumerism, but we weren't designed to live this way. In this comprehensive and practical guide to Hygge by Johan Frandsen and Emily Blake, you're going to be taken on a journey to rediscover your sense of joy and wonder at life's little pleasures and strip away all the dead-weight and clutter surrounding you.

Sloths are the slowest mammals on earth. They can hardly see. They live in rainforests among jaguars, pumas, and countless other predators. Yet they survive. And they do it by being so incredibly slow, and living a life covered in algae. In this episode, we hang with a sloth in the jungle of Costa Rica as he spends a month digesting one single leaf, and we see the symbiosis and collaboration that surrounds him.

You're in the best chapter of your life... Make sure your health and energy levels are at their peak so you can truly enjoy it! There are two ways to look at your 40th birthday: Either it’s the end of the first part of your life… or it’s the beginning of the best chapter yet. For many women, the prospect of life after 40 comes with a sense of dread… Is it all over? Are you about to embark on a chapter filled with health challenges and an aging body?

Brought to you by Penguin. SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2025 From Hanif Kureishi, author of The Buddha of Suburbia, a memoir about the accident that left him paralysed. Imagine your life changing in a second: one minute you are watching the football with a beer, the next...

From the science behind your cycle to practical advice for managing symptoms and problems, renowned endocrinologist Dr Mary Ryan covers it all: what a healthy period looks like, how hormones affect your body and mind, and why nutrition, exercise and stress matter. She tackles problems like endometriosis, fibroids, PCOS and PMS, as well as fertility, mood and the transition to perimenopause.

We stand at the threshold of a new era in medicine and healing. Today, instead of looking at the human body as a biological machine, we know it is a vast energetic network, where spirit, matter, and power intersect. On Energy Anatomy, Caroline Myss teaches how the human body encodes thought...

Lissa Bachner was born with a passion for horses and won her first blue ribbon at age five. Other awards would follow as a young rider, and for years Lissa trained with jumpers, tackling more difficult leaps, and working to perfect her ride. When blindness struck in her teens, it appeared her passion for riding would come to an end. How could she jump hurdles when she could barely navigate through her own home? But success, trust, and love came to Lissa when her trainer convinced her to buy a "diamond in the rough" from Germany. 

In December 2013, a young boy in a tiny West African village contracted the deadly Ebola virus. The virus spread to his relatives, then to neighboring communities, then across international borders. The world's first urban Ebola outbreak quickly overwhelmed the global health system and threatened to kill millions. In an increasingly interconnected world in which everyone is one or two flights away from New York or London or Beijing, even a localized epidemic can become a pandemic. Ebola's spread sounded global alarms that the next killer outbreak is right around the corner.

Brought to you by Penguin. When it comes to understanding the connection between our mental and physical health, we should be looking at the exceptions, not the rules. Dr Jeff Rediger, a world-leading Harvard psychiatrist, has spent the last fifteen years studying thousands of individuals from...

Colitis ulcerosa – wie erdoor getroffen is, weet precies wat deze term inhoudt: pijn, diarree, ongemak, soms zelfs koorts en nog veel meer. Geen wonder dat de diagnose aanvankelijk als een bom inslaat en het hele leven op zijn kop zet. En hoewel deze ziekte onaangenaam is, zijn er uiterst bemoedigende berichten voor de getroffenen: er zijn goede kansen om lange periodes zonder beperkingen te genieten, en er is veel wat je zelf kunt doen – nu, meteen, zonder veel moeite en zonder concessies te doen aan de kwaliteit van je leven.

في هذا الكتاب، يسرد العالم "فريزر هاريس" العديد من الأبحاث والخواطر حول هذه الظاهرة الطبيعية. يعرّف الكاتب النوم بحالة "اللاوعي الطبيعية" التي يصل إليها الشخص السليم ويحتاج إليها من أجل استمرارية حياته بشكل صحي، مشيراً إلى أن هناك قواعد أساسية يجب اتباعها للحصول على نوم عميق. كما يذكر الكاتب تاريخ النوم في كل العصور؛ حيث اعتقد البعض قديماً أن حالة النوم تنطوي على معان عظيمة سامية.

Hay momentos que nos cambian para siempre. Uno de ellos puede ser atravesar un padecimiento que sacuda por completo nuestra vida. Esto fue lo que vivió Ana María Sánchez, quien tuvo cáncer en distintas ocasiones y partes de su cuerpo. En estas páginas comparte su experiencia: desde el impacto de recibir una noticia devastadora, las visitas médicas y las numerosas cirugías y tratamientos hasta el torbellino emocional que enfrentó en cada etapa.

Across university campuses, rates of anxiety, depression, fatigue, and burnout are rising. Students are encouraged to seek counselling, take medication, and “manage stress” — but one vital piece of the puzzle is often ignored: what they eat. In Food for Thought, psychiatrist and researcher Dr Solomis Solomou uncovers the powerful, underappreciated connection between diet and mental wellbeing in student life.

The PrimeCare Prosthetics & Orthotics Talks Podcast shares practical conversations about prosthetics, orthotics, limb loss, rehabilitation, and everyday mobility. Hosted with insights from PrimeCare, each episode helps patients, families, and caregivers better understand care options, insurance questions, recovery timelines, adaptive technology, and life after amputation. The goal is simple: to make mobility topics clearer, more approachable, and easier to navigate.

This extract, taken from Parodies of the works of English and American Authors, vol 1, of parodies of Tennyson's Charge of the Light Brigade covers such topics as the Clergy, the Fairer Sex, Doctors, Engineers and many others. - Summary by Kim

The story of the revolution in breast cancer medicine, from a pioneering doctor whose specialist expertise, ground-breaking research and compassionate approach has extended (and saved) thousands of lives over the last 50 years. In the 1970s, a breast cancer diagnosis was a bleak sentence. Over...

John Henry has a comedic commentary and opinion on everything that goes on in his life. This time, he tackles the subjects of race tipsters, bridge, amateur photography, the grip, courting, summer resorts, and on great men. Chuckle after chuckle, as he interacts and has conversations with his wife, strangers, the doctor, and his friends, he takes the reader on a humorous journey the way he interprets and lives life! Note: The author of this book is George V. Hobart who also wrote under the pseudonym Hugh McHugh. - Summary by Laurie Banza

The Gap is a healthcare podcast from The Foundry, hosted by Mark Bottomley, exploring the space between healthcare innovation and real-world impact.