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Provides information on various aspects of health and medicine, discussing screening, drug treatments, and surgery; and features charts for assessing symptoms, and descriptions of over seven hundred medical conditions. Includes a first aid guide, drug glossary, index, and CD-ROM.

Includes over three hundred alphabetical listings of common diseases and health issues that affect women, answering frequently asked questions and providing tips on how to record and describe symptoms, with an index of resources for further information.

Provides information on how to stay healthy, how to cope with illness, and how to navigate the world of managed care; and includes symptom charts, advice on when to visit a doctor, explanations of medicines and drug interactions, descriptions of home remedies and alternative treatments, first-person stories, and a glossary.

Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide information on over 3,600 health issues in more than forty areas of medicine, covering symptoms, causes, diagnosis, treatments, cautions, prognosis, and prospects for future research, and including illustrations and cross-references.