Antibiotics: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Mary E. Wilson
A STIRRING EXAMINATION OF A LOOMING CRISIS Virtually everyone has taken antibiotics. They can be lifesavers -- or they can be useless. But what are they? How are they used? And what ...
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Birth Control: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Beth L. Sundstrom and Cara Delay
Birth control offers women the opportunity to prevent pregnancy, plan and space their births, or have no births at all. And yet, in the United States, half of all pregnancies remain ...
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Children and Environmental Toxins: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Philip J. Landrigan and Mary M. Landrigan
Over the past four decades, the prevalence of autism, asthma, ADHD, obesity, diabetes, and birth defects has increased substantially among children throughout the world. Not coincidentally, ...
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Food and Nutrition: What Everyone Needs to Know®
P.K. Newby
From gluten-free to all-Paleo, GMOs to grass-fed beef, our newsfeeds abound with nutrition advice. Whether sensational headlines from the latest study or anecdotes from celebrities and food ...
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The Opioid Epidemic: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Yngvild Olsen and Joshua M. Sharfstein
An incisive, essential guide to understanding one of today’s most urgent -- and complex -- problems. The opioid epidemic is responsible for longest sustained decline in U.S. life expectancy ...
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Pandemics: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Peter C. Doherty
From HIV to H1N1, pandemics pose one of the greatest threats to global health in the twenty-first century. Defined as epidemics of infectious disease across large geographic areas, ...
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Vaccines: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Kristen A. Feemster
Immunization is regarded by many as one of the greatest advances in modern civilization. The widespread use of vaccines has led to increases in life expectancy, reductions in the occurrence ...
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