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FACT SHEETS, DISEASES AND CONDITIONS 

Diagnostic Tests and Procedures (NHLBI are in English and Spanish)

Other, including disease trends, epidemiology, prevention

Fundamental Processes and Mechanisms of disease

Pharmaceutical agents

Lifestyle and Prevention

Prevention

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Recommended Books and Magazines

  • Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy The Harvard Medical School Guide to Healthy Eating, Walter Willett, MD DrPh, Simon & Shuster, 2001 ISBN 0-684-86337-5; 2005 Free Press (paper) ISBN 978-0-7432-6642-0
  • What to Eat, Marion Nestle PhD
  • Food Politics, Marion Nestle PhD
  • The Way to Eat, David L Katz MD & Maura H Gonzalez RD, Sourcebooks Inc
  • Dr. Dean Ornish’s Program for Reversing Heart Disease, Dean Ornish MD, Random House, 1990, ISBN 0-394-57565-2
  • Eat More, Weigh Less, Dean Ornish MD, 2001, Qwill, ISBN (paper) 0-06-095957-6
  • Stress, Diet, and Your Heart, Dean Ornish MD, Signet, 1984, ISBN (paper) 0-451-17113-6
  • You-The Owner’s Manual, Michael F Roisen MD, Mehmet C Oz MD, 2005, HarperCollins,ISBN 0-06-076531-3 (cloth)
  • Nutrition in Clinical Practice, David L Katz MD, Lippincott Williams Wilkins, 2008
  • Younger Next Year, Chris Crowley & Henry S Lodge MD, Workman Publishing, 2004
  • You: On A Diet: The Owner’s Manual for Waist Management,  Mehmet Oz MD, Michael Roizon MD
  • Introduction to Human Nutrition, 2nd Edition, Michael J Gibney , Susan A Lanham-New (Aedin Cassidy, Hester H Vorster, April 2009, Paperback, Wiley-Blackwell, Nutrition Society Textbook Series
  • Clinical Nutrition Michael J Gibney (Editor), Marinos Elia, Olle Ljunggvist , Julie Dowsett, July 2005, Paperback, Wiley-Blackwell, Nutrition Society Textbook Series
  • Nutrition and Metabolism, Michael J Gibney, Ian A MacDonald, Helen M Roche, November 2003, Paperback, Wiley-Blackwell, Nutrition Society Textbook Series
  • Complete Food and Nutrition Guide, American Dietetic Association, Roberta Larson Duyff, 3rd ed, 2006, Wiley, ISBN 100-470-04842-5 (cloth)
  • How Fat Works, Philip A. Wood, Harvard University press, 2006, ISBN 0-674-01947-4
  • Manual of Nutritional Therapeutics, David H. Alpers MD, William F Stenson MD, Beth E Taylor RD, Dennis M Bier, MD, 5th ed, Philadelphia, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2008 ISBN 978-0-7817-6841-2
  • Introduction to Clinical Nutrition, Vardesai VM, Marcel Dekker, Inc, New York, 2nd ed, 2003
  • Advanced Nutrition: Macronutrients, Micronutrients, and Metabolism, Carolyn D Berdanier, Janos Zempleni, CRC Press, Boca Raton, 2009, ISBN 978-1-4200-5552-9 (paper)
  • Present Knowledge in Nutrition, Barbara A. Bowman, Robert M. Russell, International Life Sciences Institute, 9th ed, Washington DC, 2006
  • Textbook of Functional Medicine, David S Jones MD, ed, Institute for Functional Medicine, Gig Harbor WA, 2005
  • ACP Medicine, American College of Physicians, 2nd Edition, 2008, Blackwell
  • Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy, David D. Burns MD, Avon Pocket, originally 1980, revised with additional material 1999, ISBN 0-830-81033-6
  • The Feeling Good Handbook, David D. Burns, MD, Penguin, 1999, ISBN 0-452-28132-6

Nontechnical Magazines

Resources en Espanol

Hojas de Datos de Enfermedades

Diets

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Consult your personal physician before beginning any diet or exercise program.

Medical Journals

Introductory Guiding Remarks

Some observers predict that “open access” journals, which offer the complete text of their papers without charge to the public, will eventually replace those that require a subscription for access. Many journals below require a personal subscription. Fortunately, most of these offer you free abstracts, and on occasion, an “open access” article, usually one of significant interest. Our recommendation is that you first read the abstract to see if you are interested in going further. If you do have access, try to read the introduction to papers. They briefly describe the background and are often more understandable than the abstract. Then go to the section called “discussion” or “commentary” for more material to put the findings in perspective.  If you then Google key words and/or the author you will often find brief articles in news services that give summaries of the medical papers in understandable language.

Subscription-only journals, as mentioned, usually have some “free articles”, and provide a sample copy.

In addition, www.pubmed.gov, or http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed, a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health also offer open access to all abstracts. If you click their links to the original paper, you may pleasantly find that the entire article is available to you. You can also set the pubmed filter to show all free articles from the “Show All…” page. Please also see all the health links on our site, and visit us often for news.

Health links and Guidelines

In this section there are links to conditions, diseases, symptoms, diagnostics, organizations and institutions providing information,  reference libraries, guidelines, charts, tables, tutorials, and other health resources.

For information about General Health Concerns–common topics that everyones asks about rather than specific diseases or procedures, please click the tab in the middle of the home page of the site HEALTH CONCERNS or http://healthscienceresearch.com/?cat=130.

For fact sheets about specific diseases, procedures, please see the section Reference & Fact Sheets under the  RESOURCES & LINKS tab, or http://healthscienceresearch.com/?cat=135. That section also has information about individual tests & diagnostic procedures as well as selected pharmaceutical drugs. For links to laboratories and related laboratory diagnostics, please go to Lab & Diagnostics.

For information about Food & Weight, please see that section. For information about features about DIETS of all kinds, not just for weight loss, see that section. 

Most of the medical and health journals listed in the links under MEDICAL JOURNALS have search features. For individual articles, simply enter your topic or key words in the journal search field.

Evidence-based medicine (EBM), the Scientific Method, Public Health Policy, and Health Services Delivery

Laboratory information

Parasites-more common than thought

How your body works: biochemistry, physiology and metabolism tutorials, lectures, links, and lists of sites with more lists, resources, lectures, and links

Other

Heath News Links & Resources

Sites with information about single diseases and groups

  • www.celiac.com Resource for celiac disease and gluten free diet
  • www.acne.org Organization dedicated to informing about and curing acne
  • http://www.nof.org National Osteoporosis Organization, dedicated to informing about and curing osteoporosis
  • thyroid.about.com Mary Shomon’s site contains reliable and understandable information about thyroid disease

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