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Last Updated: 5/26/05

   

HSLS Collection

ADDICTION
Addiction in your family:  helping yourself and your loved ones

Buzzed:  the straight facts about the most used and abused
             
 drugs from alcohol to ecstacy

 
ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE

Courage to care:  a caregivers guide through each stage of 
               
Alzeheimer's

 
ARTHRITIS
Arthritis Foundation's guide to managing your arthritis
Arthritis Foundation's guide to pain management
 
AUTISM

Autistic spectrum disorders:  understanding the diagnosis and
             
getting help 

Parent's guide to Asperger Snydrome and highfunctioning autism…
 
BREAST RECONSTRUCTION

Breast reconstruction guidebook:  issues and answers 
              
from research to recovery

 
CANCER
100 questions and answers about ovarian cancer
After breast cancer:  a common-sense guide to life after treatment
Consumer's guide to cancer drugs
Dr. Patrick Walsh's guide to surviving prostate cancer
Eating well, staying well during and after cancer

Everyone's guide to cancer therapy:  how cancer is diagnosed,
                 
treated and managed …

Informed decisions:  the complete book of cancer diagnosis,
                  treatment, and recovery
Living with childhood cancer:  a practical guide to help families cope
Prostate and cancer:  a family guide to diagnosis, treatment
                  and survival
Supportive cancer care:  the complete guide for patients and 
                  their families
 
CHILDREN'S HEALTH
Guide to your child's symptoms
Kids and sports:  everything you and your child need to know
                  about sports, physical activity... 
Parent's guide to food allergies:  clear and complete advice from
                  the experts…
When your child has a disability:  the complete sourcebook of daily
                  and medical care  
Living with childhood cancer:  a practical guide to help families cope
Guide to raising a child with diabetes
Childhood leukemia:  a guide for families, friends & caregivers
Life of a bipolar child:  what every parent and professional needs
                  to know 
Straight talk about our child's mental health:  what to do when 
                  something seems wrong
Straight talk about psychiatric medication for kids
 
CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE

Courage and information for life with chronic obstructive pulmonary 
                 
disease:  the handbook…

 
CYSTIC FIBROSIS
Cystic fibrosis:  a guide for patient and family
 
DEATH AND DYING
Final gifts:  understanding the special awareness, needs,
                   and communications of the dying
Handbook for mortals:  guidance for people facing serious illness
In the presence of grief:  helping family members resolve death, 
                   dying and berevement...
 
DENTAL HEALTH
Consumer's guide to dentistry
Patient's guide to dental implants
 
DIABETES
First year---type 2 diabetes:  an essential guide for the newly 
                    diagnosed
Gestational diabetes:  what to expect
Guide to raising a child with diabetes
 
DIGESTIVE PROBLEMS
New eating right for a bad gut:  the complete nutritional
                    guide to iletis, colitis, Crohn's disease…
Straight from the gut:  living with Crohn's disease and ulcerative 
                    colitis
 
EATING DISORDERS
Eating disorders sourcebook:  basic consumer information about 
                    eating disorders,…
 
EYE HEALTH
Eye book:  a complete guide to eye disorders and health
Living well with macular degeneration:  practical tips and essential
                     information
Making life more livable:  simple adaptations for living at home after
                     vision loss
Understanding and treating glaucoma
 
HEADACHES
Headache sourcebook
 
HEART HEALTH
100 questions & answers about heart attack and cardiac problems
Mayo Clinic heart book:  the ultimate guide to heart health
State of the heart:  the practical guide to your heart and heart 
                  surgery
Women's heart book
Women are not small men:  life saving saving strategies for
                  preventing and healing heart…
 
HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE
Dash diet for hypertension:  lower your blood pressure in 14 days
 
HOSPITALS
Healthsmart hospital handbook
 
INFORMED DECISIONS
Making informed medical decisions:  where to look and how
                    to use what you find
Understanding medical information:  a user's guide to informatics
                    and decision making
 
KNEE HEALTH
Knee crisis handbook:  understanding pain preventing trauma,
                    recovering from injury…
 
LEUKEMIA
100 questions and answers about leukemia
Childhood leukemia:  a guide for families, friends & caregivers
 
LIVER DISEASE
Dr. Melissa Palmer's guide to hepatitis and liver disease:  what
                 you need to know
 
LUPUS
Lupis book:  a guide for patients and their families
 
MENTAL HEALTH
Adolescent depression:  a guide for parents
Adult bipolar disorders:  understanding your diagnosis and getting
                 help
Am I okay?:  a layman's guide to the psychiatrist's bible
Anxiety disorders:  the caregivers:  information for support people,
                 family and friends
Authoritative guide to self-help resources in mental health
Beating the blues:  new approaches to overcoming dysthymia and
                 mild depression
Bipolar disorder survival guide:  what you and your family need to
                 know
Life of a bipolar child:  what every parent and professional needs to
                 know 
Mayo Clinic on depression
Straight talk about our child's mental health:  what to do when
                 something seems wrong
Straight talk about psychiatric medication for kids
Surviving schizophrenia:  a manual for families, consumers and
                 providers
 
MEDICAL TESTS
Johns Hopkins consumer guide to medical tests:  what you can
                expect,…
Patient's guide to medical tests:  everything you need to know about
                the tests…
 
MENTAL RETARDATION
Mental retardation sourcebook
 
NURSING HOMES
When someone you loves needs nursing home care:  the complete
                 guide
 
PAIN
Pain sourcebook
 
PARKINSON'S DISEASE
Answers to frequently asked in Parkinson's Disease
 
SENIOR HEALTH
Consumer Reports complete guide to health services for seniors: 
                
what your family needs…
 
SEXUALITY
Underground guide to teenage sexuality
 
SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES
Sexually transmitted diseases:  a physician tells you what you need
                 to know
 
SLEEP APNEA
Sleep apnea:  the phantom of the night:  overcome sleep apnea
                 syndrome and snoring…
 
STRESS
Stress-related disorders:  basic consumer health information about
                 stress and stress-related
 
STROKE
Living with stroke:  a guide for families
 
SURGERY
All you need to know about joint surgery: preparing for surgery,
                 recovery and an active... 
Anesthesia fact book:  everything you need to know before surgery
Complete guide to obesity surgery:  everything you need to know
                 about weight loss surgery
Under the mask:  a guide to feeling secure and comfortable during
                 anesthesia and surgery
 
TEENAGER'S HEALTH 
Adolescent depression:  a guide for parents
Eating disorders sourcebook:  basic consumer information
                 about eating disorders,…
Underground guide to teenage sexuality
 
WOMEN'S HEALTH
100 questions and answers about ovarian cancer
After breast cancer:  a common-sense guide to life after treatment
Breast reconstruction guidebook:  issues and answers from 
                 research to recovery
Gestational diabetes:  what to expect
Hysterectomy:  exploring your options
New Harvard guide to women's health
Sexually transmitted diseases:  a physician tells you what you need
                  to know
Women are not small men:  life saving saving strategies for
                  preventing an healing heart…
Women's heart book
Yale guide to women's reproductive health:  from menarche to
                 menopause


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