Adoption
Rickie Solinger
in Reproductive Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What does adoption look like in the United States today?
In the middle of the twentieth century, adoption became a widespread practice in the United States when thousands of ...
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Alcohol and Health: Cheers!?
P.K. Newby
in Food and Nutrition: What Everyone Needs to Know®
How is alcohol handled in the body?
Alcohol is among the only drugs consumed regularly in the diet other than caffeine. It is water-soluble and distributed into all tissues and ...
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Allergens and Respiratory Irritants at Home
Philip J. Landrigan and Mary M. Landrigan
in Children and Environmental Toxins: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Children are more susceptible to air pollutants than adults. Children live closer to the ground, breathe far more air pound per pound of body weight, have lungs that are still developing, ...
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Alzheimer’s Disease: Biological Aspects
Steven R. Sabat
in Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) was first identified by Alois Alzheimer in 1906 in his patient, Frau Auguste D. Dr. Alzheimer saw Frau D in 1901 and observed her rather striking symptoms that ...
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Alzheimer’s Disease: The Subjective Experience
Steven R. Sabat
in Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia: What Everyone Needs to Know®
The biomedical approach to Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and dementia in general during most of the 20th century limited the general public’s knowledge about AD primarily to what was wrong with ...
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And in the End
Steven R. Sabat
in Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia: What Everyone Needs to Know®
When one of our loved ones or someone whom we are trying to help professionally is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) or another type of dementia, we are presented with what is often ...
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Antibiotic Resistance
Mary Elizabeth Wilson
in Antibiotics: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What is antibiotic resistance?
Antibiotic resistance describes the survival of bacteria when exposed to a concentration of an antibiotic that would normally kill them or stop their ...
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The Basics of Opioids and Opioid Addiction
Yngvild Olsen and Joshua M. Sharfstein
in The Opioid Epidemic: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What are opioids?
Opioids are a group of chemical compounds that can reduce pain, cause sensations of pleasure, and induce sleep. To have these and other effects on the human ...
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Beyond the Pill: Are There Other Options?
Beth Sundstrom and Cara Delay
in Birth Control: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Almost 65% of U.S. women of reproductive age currently use a method of contraception, whether it’s “the pill,” patch, injection, vaginal ring, implant, intrauterine device (IUD), and/or ...
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Bioterrorism
Peter C. Doherty
in Pandemics: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Could sophisticated terrorists initiate a pandemic?
Yes, that is a legitimate concern. Anything to do with those who are capable of extreme violence justified by delusional ...
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Birth Control Today
Beth Sundstrom and Cara Delay
in Birth Control: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Birth control? Family planning? Contraception? What is the difference?
Talking about family planning, birth control, and contraception can be challenging.
Often confusing, ...
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Birthing, Breast-Feeding, and Reproductive Politics
Rickie Solinger
in Reproductive Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know®
In what settings are babies born in the United States today?
In 1900 more than 95 percent of American women gave birth at home. Fourteen years later, anesthesia, or “twilight ...
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A Brief History of Nutrition: Scientific Discoveries and Applications
P.K. Newby
in Food and Nutrition: What Everyone Needs to Know®
How do we know what we know about food and health?
We eat every day, and we know how food makes us feel. Perhaps because of this, many overlook that nutrition is a discipline ...
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A Brief History of Vaccines
Kristen A. Feemster
in Vaccines: What Everyone Needs to Know®
The conceptual foundations of vaccination were first documented in ancient Greece, where physicians observed that getting infected with a virus could prevent reinfection with that same ...
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The Changing Patterns of Disease in Children
Philip J. Landrigan and Mary M. Landrigan
in Children and Environmental Toxins: What Everyone Needs to Know®
How have patterns of disease in children changed over the past century?
In 1900, a baby born in the United States could be expected to live to about 45 to 50 years of age. One in ...
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The Chemical Environment
Philip J. Landrigan and Mary M. Landrigan
in Children and Environmental Toxins: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What are the origins of the chemical manufacturing industry?
The chemical manufacturing industry had its origins in Germany and Switzerland in the late 19th and early 20th ...
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Children’s Unique Vulnerability to Toxic Chemicals in the Environment
Philip J. Landrigan and Mary M. Landrigan
in Children and Environmental Toxins: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Are children more vulnerable than adults to toxic chemicals in the environment?
Children are far more sensitive to toxic chemicals than adults. This sensitivity reflects the ...
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Complementary and Alternative Medicine Treatments for Chronic Pain
Judy Foreman
in The Global Pain Crisis: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What is “complementary,” “alternative,” or “integrative” medicine?
The names are confusing, but people now use the terms “complementary” and “integrative” to refer to acupuncture, ...
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Conclusion: What Is the Future of Birth Control?
Beth Sundstrom and Cara Delay
in Birth Control: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Beyond women?
As we have discussed in this book, an analysis of birth control encourages us to privilege the experiences and voices of women. It also, however, suggests that we ...
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Conclusions
Peter C. Doherty
in Pandemics: What Everyone Needs to Know®
The following summarizes key points and provides short comments on a few issues that come up in any discussion of global infectious disease.
Modern air travel links us all in a ...
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