.png "Library Home Page")
Catalog Search Results
Series
Holiday lectures on science volume Dec. 2010
Publisher
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Infectious diseases are a serious threat to world health. They are particularly devastating in tropical countries where infectious agents thrive and where healthcare resources are stretched thin. The warming trend in the global climate, coupled with increased international travel, has resulted in infectious outbreaks that spread more rapidly and that now affect regions with more temperate climates, including the United States. Many diseases that had...
Author
Publisher
Wiley
Pub. Date
c2008.
Language
English
Description
An authoritative guide to preventing and treating heart disease discusses risk factors for both genders, the therapeutic options for common heart problems, strategies for lifestyle changes, symptoms of a problem, and heart-healthy nutrition and exercise.
Author
Publisher
Tundra Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Discusses the spread of infectious diseases and their impact on human populations, from the Black Death in medieval Europe to such modern diseases as AIDS and West Nile virues, as well as the efforts to stop the spread of these diseases.
66) Pandemics
Author
Publisher
World Book, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A discussion of pandemics, describing their characteristics, patterns of occurrence, and impacts. Features descriptions of significant pandemics and other disease outbreaks from history.
Publisher
Bull Publishing Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
"Los lectores de este libro aprenden a ser proactivos en el manejo personal de su salud, resolviendo problemas, tomando decisiones, esableciendo objetivos y preparando planes de acción. Aquí encuentran estas herramientas de manejo personal así como los principios básicos sobre alimentación saludable, ejercicio, relajación, comunicación y fortalecimiento emocional. Tomando contorol de su salud les ofrece una oportunidad única e interesante,...
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Draws on a wide range of disciplines to explore the parallels between humans and animals and what nature can teach about the human mind and body, sharing case studies about animal and human commonalities to explain new developments in health care.
72) Northwind
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
When sickness decimates his fishing camp, an orphan named Leif flees north in a cedar canoe, journeying along a brutal but beautiful coastline.
73) Pandora's clock
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
An airliner whose passengers have been infected with a deadly virus is ordered to land in the Sahara to be quarantined. As everyone on board will die anyway, the CIA decides to exploit the situation by shooting it down and blaming Arabs. In the air battle that follows Capt. James Holland, the pilot of the Boeing 747, shows what he is made of.
Publisher
Westlake Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
Film based on the true story of a boy born without natural immunities, forced to grow up a prisoner in the physical and emotional confines of a germ free plastic room. A special astronaut's suit gives the boy freedom to move around. He eventually falls in love with the girl next door. He must then choose between confinement and life, or the freedom to love at the risk of fatal infection.
Author
Publisher
Elephant in the Room Books
Pub. Date
c2011.
Language
English
Description
Whether you call it liothyronine, triiodothyronine, or just T3, this relatively unknown, under-prescribed, frequently misunderstood and powerful thyroid hormone can mean the difference between a life of abject misery or one that is normal and healthy. This book relates one person's journey from desperate ill health due to hypothyroidism to eventual full recovery. The key to this journey was a deep understanding of T3 and its correct use.
78) COPD for dummies
Author
Series
Publisher
Wiley
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Recognize the signs of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and take advantage of the latest treatments.
79) Safe
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1999.
Language
English
Description
Drama about a suburban housewife whose affluent environment turns against her, causing environmentally-induced disease.
80) 30 minutes a day to a healthy heart: one simple plan to conquer all six major threats to your heart
Author
Publisher
Reader's Digest
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
In Interlibrary Loan
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by Orem Public Library can be requested from other Interlibrary Loan libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup. NOTE: WILL REQUIRE A POSTAGE FEE
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? You can put in a request for us to add it to the collection. Submit Request