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Looking for reliable information and answers to your questions about vaccines?
In Immunization Information, Dr. Martin Myers-one of the nation's leading experts on vaccines, infectious diseases, and immunization-describes the benefits and risks related to immunization and the underlying diseases that vaccines prevent.
Understand what's in each vaccine and how they work. Learn about the infections that vaccines prevent and why they remain important...
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Are you tired of being treated like you're just another number in the expensive, conveyor-belt healthcare industry while you struggle with less-than-ideal health? Are you frustrated with the endless onslaught of contradictory health information, advice, and fad fixes?
Having personally experienced that pain as a patient, Dr. Sam Slattery set out to discover a better path to health. What he found was one simple truth that would change everything.
"The...
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El sistema inmunológico es un mecanismo de defensa altamente exquisito, basado en el reconocimiento de los antígenos (Ag) extraño y propio. Para el estudio de la respuesta inmunológica hay que considerar la interacción celular, desde sus eventos moleculares, el contacto célula-célula a través de receptor-ligando, la producción de moléculas in situ que permiten la comunicación entre el sistema inmunológico, el tejido y todo el organismo....
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This book provides patients and their physicians (especially "non-oncologist" health care providers) with a clear and concise introduction to cancer immunotherapy, which, unlike traditional forms of cancer therapy, acts by boosting the patient's own immune system to fight cancer. The unique features of cancer immunotherapy make its management, monitoring and side-effects different from those of traditional cancer therapy. Especially novel are the...
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This book is about three inflammatory conditions that underlie wheat sensitivities caused by the consumption of wheat and related cereals. The book describes, discusses and differentiates celiac disease, amylase trypsin inhibitor (ATI) sensitivity, and the wide spectrum of wheat allergies, especially a novel, but highly common atypical wheat allergy.
The mechanisms of the three wheat sensitivities along with their clinical characteristics, and their...
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The book is in two parts:
1. Fiction tale involving an extremely rare autoimmune disease and the physicians, patient and family's frustration in making a diagnosis, and
2. Non fiction detailing the last 60 plus years of the development of the concepts of autoimmunity and autoimmune disease.
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This first edition volume demystifies the complex topic of flow cytometry by providing detailed explanations and nearly 120 figures to help novice flow cytometry users learn and understand the bedrock principles necessary to perform basic flow cytometry experiments correctly.
The book divides the topic of flow cytometry into easy to understand sections and covers topics such as the physics behind flow cytometry, flow cytometry lingo, designing flow...
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Le système immunitaire assume l'une des grandes fonctions physiologiques des Vertébrés : l'aptitude à la reconnaissance d'un nombre prodigieux de structures moléculaires distinctes, les antigènes. Un antigène est classiquement réputé « étranger » à l'organisme chez lequel il provoque une réponse immunitaire. D'o la conception selon laquelle le...
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If you have a child in school, you may have heard stories of long-dormant diseases suddenly reappearing-cases of measles, mumps, rubella, and whooping cough cropping up everywhere from elementary schools to Ivy League universities because a select group of parents refuse to vaccinate their children. Between Hope and Fear tells the remarkable story of vaccine-preventable infectious diseases and their social and political implications. While detailing...
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For the first time since a 5th century Greek physician gave the name "cancer" (karkinos, in Greek) to a deadly disease first described in Egyptian Papyri, the medical world is near a breakthrough that could allow even the most conservative doctors and pragmatic patients to use the other "c word" — cure — in the same sentence as cancer. A remarkable series of events has brought us to this point, thanks in large part to a new ability to more efficiently...
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Admittedly, the title "Banish Illness Forever" may sound provocative.
But I'm sure you've noticed how some people have fortress-like protection against colds while others succumb to whatever infection is making the rounds. Are some of us predestined to get sick as soon as a sizable number of viruses and bacteria are around? By no means! All we have to do is hand our immune system the right tools, armory and suitable resources for it to build up adequate...
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If you think you know how vaccination began - think again - because its dawn is clouded in myth and misrepresentation. Not a 'discovery or an 'invention', vaccination was a development of what had gone before. Man's battle against infectious disease had started in the Far East long ago with strange but effective practices to prevent smallpox. The true process of vaccination was first conceived and performed during 1774 by a yeoman farmer named Benjamin...
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How pathbreaking research into the brain's connections to the immune system offers new hope for treating diseases, injuries, and the effects of aging.
In the past, the brain was considered an autonomous organ, self-contained and completely separate from the body's immune system. But over the past twenty years, neuroimmunologist Michal Schwartz, together with her research team, not only has overturned this misconception but has brought to light revolutionary...
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Lymphatic cleansing
This has become the stepchild of all detoxification therapy. Cleansing of the liver or colon is high on the agenda, but detoxification of the lymphatic system is often neglected. Regular detoxification of the lymphatic system is nonetheless crucial for physical and mental health.
The lymphatic system
This is the body's purification plant, ridding it of whatever is harmful or useless like pathogens, metabolic waste, toxins and...
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Es cierto que el título «No enfermar nunca más» puede sonar provocador.
Pero seguramente ya habrás notado que algunas personas parecen no ponerse nunca enfermas, mientras que otras se contagian de cada infección que hay a su alrededor. ¿Resfriarse es una consecuencia inevitable para algunos de nosotros solo con que haya suficientes virus y bacterias en movimiento? ¡En absoluto!
Solo tenemos que ofrecer a nuestro sistema inmunológico las...
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Le nettoyage lymphatique : le parent pauvre de toutes les cures de détoxication. Sur plus de 250 pages, vous trouverez des informations complètes sur la lymphe, dont les fonctions sont plutt inconnues par rapport à celles du sang, par exemple. Alors que le nettoyage intestinal ou la détoxication du foie sont en tête du programme de toute thérapie de détoxication, la détoxication du système lymphatique est généralement traitée de manière...
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In "Peptic Ulcer Demystified: Doctor's Secret Guide," embark on a comprehensive journey into understanding, preventing, and managing peptic ulcers. Written by a trusted medical expert, this guide delves into the intricate details of peptic ulcers, exploring their causes, symptoms, and complications. Discover holistic approaches to prevention, including the biopsychosocial model, dietary strategies, and coping mechanisms. Dive into the emotional impact...
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Outbreak in the Village is a fascinating account of the personal and professional journey of Dr. Doug Jenkinson, physician and researcher. Over the course of four decades in practice, Jenkinson traces the reemergence of whooping cough in the developed world, using his practice in the idyllic English countryside as a clinical control group. Keeping meticulous notes and indulging an itch to investigate, he explores one of history's most enigmatic and...
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The dangerous decline in vaccinations in many developed countries is at the heart of a lively debate that confirms how important the subject is today. Vaccinations are among mankind's most important scientific discoveries, yet they continue to be viewed with suspicion by part of the public – the victims of disinformation campaigns, instrumentalization and unfounded fears. There is, however, also an evolutionary explanation for these irrational beliefs,...
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