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28: Stories of AIDS in Africa

Posted by admin | Posted in Aid | Posted on 01-09-2010

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“This is a formidable book of record…from the tiny virus, via twenty-eight individual human stories, to an entire continent. The stories will tear you apart before putting you back together, fully armed and ready to go to war with a virus more dangerous than any WMD.”—Bono
“Magnificent, inspiring, informative. Nolen opens the essential door to the brave, suffering, human reality of the African AIDS crisis.”—John le Carré
For the past six years, Stephanie Nolen has traced AIDS across Africa, and 28 is the result: an unprecedented, uniquely human portrait of the continent in crisis. Through riveting, anecdotal stories, she bears witness and brings to life men, women, and children involved in every AIDS arena, exploring the effects of an epidemic that well exceeds the Black Plague in scope, and the reasons why we must care about what happens. Nolen’s stories reveal how the disease works and spreads; how it is inextricably tied to conflict and famine and to the diverse cultures it has ravaged; how treatment works; and how people who can’t get treatment fight to stay alive with courage and dignity against huge odds. Writing with power and simplicity, she makes us listen, allows us to understand, and inspires us to care
Stephanie Nolen is the award-winning Africa bureau chief for Toronto’s Globe and Mail, and one of only three journalists in the world wholly dedicated to the AIDS story. She has reported from more than forty countries around the world, and won Canada’s National Newspaper Award for International Reporting two years in a row. Nolen was the recipient of the 2003 and 2004 Amnesty International Award for Human Rights Reporting, for reports from war zones in Uganda and Sudan, and also won the Markwell Award of the International Society of Political Psychology for her “creative brilliance, humanitarian compassion, personal courage, and relentless pursuit of truth.” She is the author of Promised the Moon: The Untold Story of the First Women in the Space Race and Shakespeare’s Face. She lives in Johannesburg, South Africa.

For the past six years, Stephanie Nolen has traced AIDS across Africa, and 28 is the result: an unprecedented, uniquely human portrait of the continent in crisis. Through riveting, anecdotal stories, she brings to life men, women, and children involved in every AIDS arena, making them familiar. And she explores the effects of an epidemic that well exceeds the Black Plague in scope, and the reasons why we must care about what happens.

In every instance, Nolen has borne witness to the stories she relates, whether riding with truck driver Mohammed Ali on a journey across Kenya; following Tigist Haile Michael, a smart, shy fourteen-year-old Ethiopian orphan fending for herself and her baby brother on the slum streets of Addis Ababa; chronicling the efforts of Alice Kadzanja, an HIV-positive nurse in Malawi; or interviewing Nelson Mandela’s family about coming to terms with his own son’s death from AIDS. Nolen’s stories reveal how the disease works and spreads; how it is inextricably tied to conflict and famine and to the diverse cultures it has ravaged; how treatment works, and how people who can’t get treatment fight to stay alive with courage and dignity against huge odds.

Imagine the entire population of New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles combined infected with HIV, and its magnitude in Africa is clear. Writing with power and simplicity, Stephanie Nolen makes us listen, allows us to understand, and inspires us to care. Timely and transformative, 28: Stories of AIDS in Africa is essential reading for anyone concerned about the fate of humankind.

“Stephanie Nolen, a journalist for the Toronto Globe and Mail, gives us 28 moving stories of daily life in AIDS-devastated Africa—one for every million Africans who are HIV-positive. These stories offer astonishing glimpses of the people of a continent brought to its knees . . . Nolen is a pro; in the dankest wattle hut, you sense the notepad at the ready.”—D.T. Max, Newsday

“Nolen is a gifted listener and storyteller . . . Her collection . . . pays loving tribute to the people of Africa . . . Although history and science are woven lightly in and around the anecdotes and photographic portraits of the 28, this is a book about human life and human nature.”—The Globe and Mail (Toronto)

“Stephanie Nolen looks behind the facts and stats to talk to 28 people across the continent affected by the virus. Through them, she builds up a larger narrative: of mass social stigma and ignorance; corrupt governments; exploitative drug companies; and a dispassionate and largely disinterested West. A welcome dispatch from an epic disaster we ignore at our peril.”—Metro (London)

“In 28, Nolen marshals the reporting and storytelling skills that have made her, after UN special envoy Stephen Lewis, this country’s most compelling and vigorous voice for action on the grim parasite worming its way across Africa. In clear, insightful prose and vivid, though never lurid, detail, she allows her characters—one for every million people—to tell tales of despair and remarkable courage, willful ignorance and improbable triumph.”—The Gazette (Montreal)

“A kind of continental survey of the impact of the AIDS pandemic on Africa, in stories that are frequently both tragically sad and just as often hugely inspiring.”—Calgary Herald

“[Nolen] is an evocative and empathetic writer.”—The Nation

“Magnificent, inspiring, informative. Nolen opens the essential door to the brave, suffering, human reality of the African AIDS crisis.”—John le Carré

“This book is magnificent. It’s probably the best book ever written about AIDS, certainly the best I’ve ever read. I wept when I finished, not just because it’s beautifully written, not just because the last chapter tears the heart out, not just because it’s a work of such force and feeling and power, not just because it’s so intensely and astonishingly human, not just because it covers the entire landscape of the virus, but because its impact could shape public opinion as never before.”—Stephen Lewis, former UN Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa

“If a war had killed 20 million soldiers, and left 28 million more dying of wounds, we’d call it the worst such tragedy since World War II. This is the scale of AIDS in Africa. Stephanie Nolen brings this story to life in a moving, deeply human way. Through these portraits—shrewdly chosen, varied, and sometimes startlingly unexpected—she artfully puts a series of human faces on the greatest health crisis of our time.”—Adam Hochschild, author of King Leopold’s Ghost and Bury the Chains

“28 can soon be 48, 98 and more. And not just in Africa. And it does not have to be. Nolen shows that the struggle of one to live with dignity must be the struggle of all. Read. Weep. Rage. And above all else—like those people described in this brilliant book—find the courage to do.”—Dr. James Orbinski, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of Médecins Sans Frontières

“A book of quiet yet overwhelming power, delivering a message of devastating moral authority. Moving, heartrending and uplifting, Stephanie Nolen’s book bears impeccable witness to the ‘unique and savage’ phenomenon of AIDS in Africa.”—William Boyd, author of Restless and Brazzaville Beach

“AIDS in Africa is an enigma. The more it spreads, the less we see it. It is deadly yet deniable. It hides in full view of everyone. What this moving book does is to catch it by the tail and show us its face—it is our own.”—Christopher Hope, author of My Mother’s Lovers

“This is a formidable book of record . . . from the tiny virus, via 28 individual human stories, to an entire continent. The stories will tear you apart before putting you back together, fully-armed and ready to go to war with a virus more dangerous than any W.M.D.”—Bono

“Essential reading in the Age of AIDS, it is never earnest, and, whilst often painful, full of humane and painstakingly researched detail.”—Emma Thompson

“Nolen puts a very human face on HIV/AIDS in Africa, verbally and visually. A photograph accompanies each of the book’s 28 personal histories (one subject stands for one million infected people in sub-Saharan Africa). The faces in the photos appear no different than faces of everyday Americans, but that appearance belies the horrific reality of lives shredded by devastating disease. The stories, ranging from those of orphaned children on their own, struggling to keep from being raped by adult neighbors, to that of an HIV-positive beauty queen, couldn’t be more illustrative of the dissimilarity of Africa to North America. To cite one example, there is 12-year-old Lefa Khoele, stuck in grade 3 because every year he has been too sick to take end-of-year exams. His is a common situation for infected African children. Nolen sees beneath the surfaces of these individuals, estranged and all but destroyed by governmental ineptitude and denial, and evinces their loves and hopes and family ties, their humanness, with which all others can identify.”—Booklist

“Nolen gives the epidemic a human face—more precisely, 28 human faces, one for each million Africans estimated to be infected with HIV. Ill healthcare workers and activists are portrayed along with ordinary Africans whose lives have been forever changed by AIDS. Nolen tells their stories simply and elega…

28: Stories of AIDS in Africa

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E-Z ECG Rhythm Interpretation

Posted by admin | Posted in Aid | Posted on 28-08-2010

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This diverting, EZ-to-read approach, coupled with sound educational theory, encourages learning in students who are frustrated by the non-descriptive, formulaic writing found in most other textbooks. It’s an alternative to the staid, jumpy approach found in other introductory ECG texts:   •  Well written, and in a style that is lighthearted and entertaining   •  A highly visual approach with illustrations and boxes that engage students   •  Peppered with analogies that make learning fun   •  ”Building block” approach that progressively layers the content for students from simple to complex

Presents all 675 ECG strips in standardized 6-second format to facilitate analysis and measurement

E-Z ECG Rhythm Interpretation

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We Are All the Same: A Story of a Boy’s Courage and a Mother’s Love

Posted by admin | Posted in Aid | Posted on 24-08-2010

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Award-winning correspondent for ABC World News and Nightline Jim Wooten is a seasoned newsman who has covered tragedy the world over. Now he tells the story of Nkosi Johnson, an eleven-year-old South African boy born with AIDS into poverty in a shantytown and given only a few years to live. But his ailing mother managed to cross her country’s divisions of race and class to bring him to Gail Johnson, who would raise him for her. Before his own death at the age of twelve, Nkosi had become, in Nelson Mandela’s words, “an icon of the struggle for life” for millions in Africa and around the world. And he had changed Wooten’s life in ways Wooten is still discovering. We Are All the Same is a work of Biblical simplicity and power that reveals the astonishing resilience of the human spirit.

We Are All the Same: A Story of a Boy’s Courage and a Mother’s Love

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The First Aid Companion for Dogs & Cats

Posted by admin | Posted in Aid | Posted on 19-08-2010

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  • ISBN13: 9781579543655
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Is there an animal doctor in the house?

Most likely, the answer is no. And when an accident or other emergency threatens your pet, every minute counts. Don’t be unprepared! Open The First-Aid Companion for Dogs and Cats and learn:

* Basic first-aid techniques, such as cleaning a wound, making a splint, and performing CPR– step-by-step!
* Which over-the-counter human medications can help– or harm– your dog or cat
* What to keep in your pet’s medicine chest (many essential items are probably in your house already!)
* How to quickly pinpoint what’s wrong with your pet, using the First-Aid Symptom Finder

Plus, you’ll discover a comprehensive A-to-Z guide to more than 150 common– and not-so-common– injuries and conditions, including:

* Abscesses (page 60)
* Bites from Animals (page 90)
* Car Accidents (page 117)
* Choking (page 131)
* Gunshot Wounds (page 224)
* Heatstroke (page 237)
* Hot Spots (page 245)
* Jellyfish Stings (page 269)
* Poisoning (page 311)
* Snakebites (page 350)

Each at-a-glance entry tells you when to call the vet, which supplies or medications you’ll need, what immediate action you should take, and what you should do as follow-up care.

By knowing what to do in an emergency and then acting quickly and confidently to take the proper steps, you could save your pet’s life. The next time medical help is not quickly available, reach for The First-Aid Companion for Dogs and Cats. It’s a pet owner’s second best friend.
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It’s every pet owner’s nightmare: suddenly your four-legged friend isn’t breathing. What to do? There is no 911 for pets, so it’s up to you to save a life. The First Aid Companion for Dogs & Cats is a straightforward guide that covers both major problems–CPR, heat stroke, and strangulation–and minor ones, such as swollen tails, ingrown nails, and flea allergies. Beginning with simple tests and explanations of general care issues like dehydration examinations and triage, this guide then moves on to an alphabetical listing of every possible situation, from arrow wounds to worms.

The individual sections are good for both general reading and instant assistance. Each one starts with a notice of when to call the vet–immediately, the same day, or as needed. It also lists what items from your pet’s medicine chest will be needed, which may include anything from corn syrup to towels and panty hose. The information that follows this simple checklist is divided into “do this now,” “special situations,” “follow-up care,” and “the best approach.” Whenever necessary, simple sketches are included to help show proper technique, such as fashioning an instant muzzle from a pair of nylons, or how to cover a dog’s head in case of an ear-flap injury. Relying frequently on common household items like antihistamines, turkey basters, Gatorade, and plastic wrap, this guide assumes most of us won’t have special medical training or supplies and focuses on very specific and simple methods of helping your pet achieve the best possible care. Even more importantly, many suggestions are included on prevention of accidents–isn’t it easier to get that window screen repaired than to rush your kitty to the vet after a bad fall?–Jill Lightner

The First Aid Companion for Dogs & Cats

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Clinical Hematology and Fundamentals of Hemostasis

Posted by admin | Posted in Aid | Posted on 15-08-2010

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A. Davis. University of Maryland, Baltimore. Text for medical technologists and hematologists. Color and halftone illustrations. 43 contributors, 40 U.S. DNLM: Hematologic Diseases.

Clinical Hematology and Fundamentals of Hemostasis

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There Is No Me Without You: One Woman’s Odyssey to Rescue Her Country’s Children

Posted by admin | Posted in Aid | Posted on 11-08-2010

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Two-time National Book Award nominee Melissa Fay Greene puts a human face on the African AIDS crisis with this powerful story of one woman working to save her country’s children. After losing her husband and daughter, Haregewoin Teferra, an Ethiopian woman of modest means, opened her home to some of the thousands of children in Addis Ababa who have been left as orphans. There Is No Me Without You is the story of how Haregewoin transformed her home into an orphanage and day-care center and began facilitating adoptions to homes all over the world, written by a star of literary nonfiction who is herself an adoptive parent. At heart, it is a book about children and parents, wherever they may be, however they may find each other. Winner of Elle magazine’s 2006 readers’ award in nonfiction.
Melissa Fay Greene is the author of Praying for Sheetrock, The Temple Bombing, and Last Man Out. Two of her books have been finalists for the National Book Award. She has written for The New Yorker, the Washington Post, the New York Times Magazine, Atlantic Monthly, Good Housekeeping, Newsweek, Life, Reader’s Digest, RedbookSalon, and others. She and her husband, Don Samuel, have seven children, including two adopted from Ethiopia, and are in the process of adopting two more. She lives in Atlanta.
A Chicago Tribune Best Book
An American Library Association Notable Book of the Year
A Booksense Notable Book
A Christian Science Monitor Best Book
A Lukas Prize Finalist
 
When Haregwoin Teferra’s husband and twenty-three-year-old daughter died within a few years of each other, her middle-class life in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, was shattered. Bereft and with little to live for, Haregwoin became a recluse. Her self-imposed exile to a hut near her daughter’s grave was interrupted when a priest delivered first one, then another, orphaned teenager into her care. To everyone’s surprise, the children thrived, and so did Haregwoin. As word spread, children of all ages began to appear at her modest home: an infant brought by a dying mother, an orphaned brother and sister whose grandfather was too poor to feed them, a baby left on her doorstep. Haregwoin’s small compound became known as the rare place where ailing parents and impoverished families could safely leave their children. Soon Haregwoin was caring for sixty children, running an unofficial orphanage and day school, and learning first-hand about her country’s and her continent’s greatest challenge: the AIDS pandemic that is leaving millions of children without parents to care for them. 

Melissa Fay Greene gets to the heart of the AIDS crisis. The story of Haregwoin and her children: a story of struggle and despair, but also of the triumph of saved lives, and the renewed happiness of children welcomed by adoptive parents in Ethiopia, America, and around the world.
“Greene ably dons the mantle of historian, recounting Ethiopian history; and that of the science writer, exploring the origins of the AIDS virus; and of the social commentator, taking to task the drug companies and Western politicians who should have done more much sooner to help avert disaster. She writes simply and declaratively but also cleverly.”—Bill Eichenberger, The Columbus Dispatch
“The tragedy of AIDS in Ethiopia comes into sharp focus in Melissa Fay Greene’s powerful new book, There Is No Me Without You. Greene, who lives with her family in Atlanta, tackles the terrifying truth that in 2005, Ethiopia counted among its population 1.5 million AIDS orphans. Officials estimate some 12 million children have been orphaned by HIV/AIDS in all of sub-Saharan Africa . . . Greene shares the courageous yet complex story of Haregewoin Teferra, a foster-care provider in Addis Ababa. This woman on the frontlines, Greene writes, was ‘an ordinary citizen, a middle-class, middle-aged woman, who suddenly found herself toe-to-toe with the worst epidemic in history.’”—Robin Michaelson, Atlanta Journal-Constitution

“Like the very best literature, There Is No Me Without You charts the human condition in all its extremes—passion and cruelty, greed and courage— through the narrative arc of an ordinary person thrust into a vortex. In this tale, the vortex is a viral plague, wrongly blamed on sex, inadvertently spread by a tool invented to eradicate disease and prolonged by an industry that chose to let people suffer and die because it would not risk its profit margins . . . This book is an extraordinary portrait of this exemplary woman.”—B.T. SHAW, San Diego Union-Tribune
 
“If Greene did not have such lovely (and true) stories to share, the heartwrenching facts about Africa’s AIDS orphans outlined in this book would be more than the average reader could bear. The stark truth, Greene reminds us, is that ‘for most of Africa’s ten million, fifteen million, twenty million orphans, no one is getting a room ready. No one will come.’ This is an extremely grim topic somehow shaped into a truly inspiring book. There Is No Me Without You is the story of an unlikely heroine, a squat, bossy, middle-class Ethiopian woman who paid little heed to the AIDS crisis threatening her country until it took the life of her daughter . . . Greene is a fine writer, a two-time National Book Award nominee, and There is No Me Without You is the happy occasion of wonderful and weighty material meeting a gifted narrator . . . Greene very effectively portrays a woman whose character blends great generosity with unthinking arrogance, an ordinary woman pushed into heroism by the demands of her time and situation. The book also offers heartwrenching portraits of innocent young lives in wretched distress. The description of small children wailing hopelessly for their missing parents (and this is something Haregwoin faced daily) is beyond devastating. But there is a rich reward for readers—and Haregwoin—as a few of the cases that seem most hopeless meet with breathtakingly happy endings. For anyone concerned about children’s issues, anyone who has ever considered international adoption, or those of us who simply like to believe that one individual can shine a healing light in the dark, this is a story not to be missed.”—Marjorie Kehe, The Christian Science Monitor 
 
“Greene’s book is important because she swings skillfully from the microstory in Teferra’s compound to the global story of AIDS, tucking in a lucid skim of Ethiopian history and plenty of data from the ’speakathons’ of international AIDS conferences . . . The book concludes with a unique adoption, told in an unexpected sequence of remarkable beauty and power. It answers some key questions, and left me gasping.”—Karen Long, The Plain Dealer (Cleveland)
 
“In 2000, journalist Melissa Fay Greene read about the African AIDS pandemic in The New York Times: 12 million orphans in sub-Saharan Africa already and 25 million to 50 million predicted by 2010. The ‘ridiculous’ numbers, according to Greene, raised a question she couldn’t get out of her head—a question that eventually led to her book, There Is No Me Without You: ‘Who was going to raise 12 million children?’ Related questions make up one of the most poignant and poetic passages in a harrowing, beautiful book. . . . Greene ably dons the mantle of historian, recounting Ethiopian history; and that of the science writer, exploring the origins of the AIDS virus; and of the social commentator, taking to task the drug companies and Western politicians who should have done more much sooner to help avert disaster. She writes simply and declaratively but also cleverly.”—Bill Eichenberger, The Columbus Dispatch
 
“The horrific numbers behind the AIDS pandemic in Africa, ‘the most terrible epidemic in human history,’ have little resonance for most people in the West: ‘the ridiculous numbers wash over most of us.’ But this searing account humanizes the statistics through heartbreaking, intimate stories of what it is like for young orphans left alone in Ethiopia. Greene’s story focuses on one rescuer, Haregewoin Teferra, who has opened her home and compound in a rickety hillside neighborhood of Addis Ababa and taken in hundreds of the untouchables thrown in the streets and left at her door. She cannot turn them away. Yes, the comparisons with Mother Teresa are there, but this is no hagiography; the middle-aged Teferra is ‘just an average person with a little more heart.’ Greene tells the stories in unforgettable vignettes of loss, secrecy, panic, stigma, and, sometimes, hope, even as she documents the big picture of ‘the human landslide,’ the history and science of epidemiology and transmission, and expresses her fury at the ‘crimes against humanity’ of the multinational drug companies whose expensive patents have denied millions access to the life-saving medicines. Just as moving are the personal stories of international adoptions in the U. S., including two Ethiopian children taken into Greene’s own Atlanta family. The detail of one lost child at a time, who finds love, laughter, comfort, and connection, opens up the universal meaning of family.”—Hazel Rochman, Booklist
 
“Not unlike the AIDS pandemic itself, the odyssey of Haregewoin Teferra, who took in AIDS orphans, began in small stages and grew to irrevocably transform her life from that of ‘a nice…

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Harrison’s Manual of Medicine, 17th Edition

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Put the authority and accuracy of Harrison’s in the palm of your hand!

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“This condensed version is for anyone who has the remotest association with the practice of medicine, be they internists, surgeons, nurses, technical staff, or counselors. This is the authority, and in a time of readily available but not always accurate information, this is the one source that can be relied upon, in an almost pocket-sized edition….While the main text is one of the absolute pillars of any medical library, this is the pillar to be carried with you on rounds. It is the final word in internal medicine and we all owe a debt of gratitude to the editors and contributors who have created this extraordinary authority in medicine.”–Doody’s Review Service

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Referenced to Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine, the world’s leading internal medicine textbook, this ultra-handy, portable reference delivers on-the-spot answers to the clinical problems you face in everyday practice. Turn to any page, and you’ll find essential point-of-care guidance on all the major conditions seen in clinical medicine.

Completely updated to reflect all the major advances and new clinical developments, the new edition of the Manual is the most indispensable yet. It continues to focus on diagnosis and therapy with an emphasis on patient care and offers authoritative, high-yield coverage of:

  • Etiology and epidemiology
  • Clinically relevant pathophysiology
  • Signs & Symptoms
  • Differential Diagnosis
  • Physical and Laboratory Findings
  • Therapeutics
  • Practice Guidelines

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  • Full-color presentation for the first time!
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  • New chapters on end-of-life care, congenital heart disease in the adult patient, non-invasive cardiac examination, and metabolic syndrome

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Harrison’s Manual of Medicine, 17th Edition

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My Own Country: A Doctor’s Story

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Nestled in the Smoky Mountains of eastern Tennessee, the town of Johnson City saw its first AIDS patient in August 1985. Working in Johnson City was Abraham Verghese, a young Indian doctor specializing in infectious diseases who became, by necessity, the local AIDS expert. Out of his experience comes a startling, ultimately uplifting portrait of the American heartland.

My Own Country: A Doctor’s Story

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HIV/AIDS Treatment Drugs (Drugs the Straight Facts)

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HIV-AIDS Treatment Drugs (Drugs the Straight Facts)

Medical Textbook Detail:

  • Reading level: Young Adult
  • Library Binding: 120 pages
  • Publisher: Chelsea House Publications (March 30, 2008)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 079108552X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0791085523
  • Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.2 x 0.5 inches

 



Medical Textbook Description:
The Straight Facts series, HIV/AIDS Treatment Drugs teaches young adult readers the most up-to-date information about the drugs used to fight the AIDS epidemic today. Chapters give a basic history of how these drugs were developed during the battle against AIDS and discuss different types of drugs in depth, as well as how they work, and how doctors create specific combinations to improve their effectiveness.

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First Aid for the USMLE Step 1 2009: A Student to Student Guide (First Aid Series)

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Medical Textbook Details:

  • Paperback: 612 pages
  • Publisher: McGraw-Hill Medical; 19 edition (December 11, 2008)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0071548963
  • ISBN-13: 978-0071548960
  • Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.5 x 0.9 inches


Medical Textbook Description:
This annually updated collection of the most frequently tested high-yield facts and mnemonics delivers everything you need to pass the most anxiety-provoking exam of your career. Written by students who just passed the boards, this is the undisputed “bible” of USMLE Step 1 preparation — used by more than half-a-million students.

  • 1100+ must-know facts and mnemonics organized by organ systems and general principles
  • Hundreds of high-yield clinical images you need to know before the exam — including 24 pages of full-color photos
  • Rapid review section for last minute cramming
  • Ratings of 300+ top products based on the authors’ annual survey of US Medical students
  • Updated test-taking advice from USMLE veterans
  • Strategies that maximize your study time and deliver real results

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