epub, mobi |eng | 2015-05-11 | Author:Tom Brokaw

Spring By early April I was feeling stronger than at any time since the diagnosis. Ron Olson, my fellow Mayo board member and the first to know, called on a ...

epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Henning Mankell [Mankell, Henning]

33 In the end I spoke to Aida as well. We were in among the banana trees, but not to look at her mango plant: we were trying to find ...

epub |eng | 2014-04-30 | Author:Eric Liu

I belong to the most ancient empire on this globe. You, by your own statements, belong to the most dependent and ill-treated nation of serfs ever deprived of its liberties. ...

epub, azw3, mobi, pdf |eng | 2015-01-20 | Author:Johann Hari [Hari, Johann]

Part V Peace Chapter 14 The Drug Addicts’ Uprising As I tried to find my way through the world of the Downtown Eastside, I kept being told—again and again—that it ...

epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2014-01-19 | Author:Foreman, Judy

SURGERY—DON’T LEAP! Okay, then. What about surgery? There’s no question that back surgery is still more popular than it should be, in part because patients in chronic pain are so ...

epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Meryl Comer

This was the side of the man I chose to remember, hold onto, and honor with care. Everything else I locked away, just like the wine cellar. At night, the ...

epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Marie-Monique Robin [Robin, Marie-Monique]

When Manufacturers Evade Embarrassing Questions I hadn’t expected Angelika Tritscher’s advice to seek an interview with representatives from the pesticide industry. Naturally, as I was particularly interested in chlorpyrifos-methyl and, ...

epub |eng | | Author:Uzodinma Iweala

DEATH On one of my trips to Nigeria, Doc and Samaila introduced me to a man named Ikenna, who ran a bar on the same military base where I happened ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2013-09-10 | Author:Sheri Fink [Fink, Sheri]

SPECIAL AGENT Virginia Rider harbored a similar moral outrage. What had happened at Memorial was wrong. It was as basic as the tenets of her Catholic religion, but she wasn’t ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2010-08-15 | Author:Melanie Thernstrom [Melanie Thernstrom]

What about humans? Work done by Dr. A. Vania Apkarian at Northwestern University found that chronic pain causes degeneration in parts of the human brain in a way that he ...

mobi, pdf |eng | 2012-08-15 | Author:David Nutt

Chewing is the slowest route into the brain, with levels of the drug generally peaking 1–2 hours after chewing begins. Regular chewers of drugs such as khat, coca leaves and ...

epub |eng | 2014-05-14 | Author:Jonathan Bush

CHAPTER EIGHT The Medical Home in the Woods On a summer day in the mid-1970s, a young doctor from Yale paddled a canoe through the pristine waters of the Adirondack ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2013-03-18 | Author:Dan Fagin [Fagin, Dan]

CHAPTER FIFTEEN Cluster Busting By the spring of 1995, when Steve Jones called to ask him to look into a possible cluster of childhood cancer in Toms River, Michael Berry ...

epub |eng | 2014-06-26 | Author:Ethan Gutmann

Wang Yuzhi was outside the yard, facing the door to her mother's house. In past dreams she had tried to go to that door many times. There had been a ...

azw3 |eng | 2013-08-26 | Author:Sabet, Kevin [Sabet, Kevin]

MYTH 4 THE LEGALITY OF ALCOHOL AND TOBACCO STRENGTHEN THE CASE FOR LEGAL MARIJUANA “What’s the big deal?” is the attitude of a lot of people toward marijuana today. “Alcohol ...