Genitourinary & STDs Books

CURRENT Obstetric & Gynecologic Diagnosis & Treatment (Current Obstetric and Gynecologic Diagnosis and Treatment)

Alan H. DeCherney, Lauren Nathan, T. Murphy Goodwin

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Total reviews: 5 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

Best choice for medical students 5 out of 5 stars.
28 of 33 people found this review helpful.

Best choice for medical students who desire an introduction to Obstetrics an Gynecology. Includes guidelines for treatment. The first book at this speciallity for newcomers.

Great book for 3rd year med school 5 out of 5 stars.
9 of 9 people found this review helpful.

I used this book as a supplement to my 3rd year clerkship in med school. It is not a huge text, so it was great for looking up the details that were not found in Blueprints, especially if you are interested in OB for a career. The book is well organized and is easy to read. Too much to read for board review or shelf exams, but an excellent reference book for OB/GYN.

Editorial Review:

The leading single-source book in women's health care, reproductive medicine, and pelvic surgery

Thorough review of all of obstetrics & gynecology

Covers more than 1,000 diseases and disorders

The latest screening and management guidelines

More than 450 clear clinical photos and illustrations in two colors

Formatted to facilitate quick retrieval of information

Concise, current coverage of treatments for common gynecologic infections

Extensively revised throughout

Covers underlying pathophysiology when relevant to diagnosis and treatment

Helpful references to classic and important new sources

Healing Fibroids: A Doctor's Guide to a Natural Cure

Allan Warshowsky

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Total reviews: 10 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

Editorial Review:

An Exciting New Approach to Regaining Health Without Surgery!

Fact: By the time they reach menopause 40 percent of American women have at least one uterine fibroid; 600,000 women are diagnosed each year.

Fact: Fibroids are the leading cause of hysterectomy, the second most common surgical procedure performed on women.

Fact: Natural, holistic medicine can heal fibroids without invasive surgery.

Fibroid tumors, while usually benign, can swell a woman's uterus to the size of a basketball, frequently causing heavy menstrual bleeding, cramping, bladder infections, and even infertility. Most doctors recommend surgery as the only answer. Now this innovative holistic program brings new hope for a surgery-free life to millions of American women.

Dr. Allan Warshowsky combines traditional Western medicine and holistic science to cure not just the fibroid condition but also the underlying imbalances and systemic dysfunctions that can cause fibroids. With an exciting program of diet, exercise, supplements, herbs, and mind/spirit work, Dr. Warshowsky shows fibroid sufferers how to become the strong, healthy women they deserve to be.

Coping with Kidney Disease: A 12-Step Treatment Program to Help You Avoid Dialysis

Mackenzie Walser, Betsy Thorpe

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Total reviews: 14 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

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A revolutionary program that can indefinitely postpone the need for dialysis

If you've been diagnosed with kidney failure, this book could save your life. If you suffer from diabetes, hypertension, obesity, or any of a host of conditions that put you at risk for kidney disease, you owe it to yourself to read what is in this book. If you are among the 60,000 North Americans who go on dialysis each year, the information in this book could substantially improve your quality of life.

In Coping with Kidney Disease, a leading expert tells you, in plain English, what you need to know to:
* Understand kidney failure
* Recognize early warning signs of kidney failure
* Get a proper diagnosis
* Talk with your doctors about it
* Confidently evaluate treatment options
* Take charge of your treatment
* Delay dialysis or even avoid the need for it altogether


The centerpiece of Coping with Kidney Disease is Dr. Walser's revolutionary 12-step program for avoiding dialysis. Based on treatments he has pioneered with his own patients at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, the program calls for a supplemented low-protein diet supported by treatments to control blood pressure and correct high cholesterol. So effective has this breakthrough strategy proven to be that in many patients it actually worked to slow or arrest the progression of kidney failure to the end stage.

Knowledge is power. Coping with Kidney Disease empowers you with what you need to take charge of kidney disease.

Along the Healing Path : Recovering from Interstitial Cystitis

Catherine M. Simone

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Total reviews: 22 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

This book changed my life! 5 out of 5 stars.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful.

This book is a MUST for anyone that is suffering from IC. I was at the lowest (and in the most pain I'd ever been in) when I stumbled across this book. It literally has changed my life. I was in SEVERE pain and had just spent 6 days in the hospital and was still in pain and doing no better. After reading Along the Healing Path, I completely stopped ALL medicines, began drinking Marshmallow Root Tea (with Catnip and Raspberry Leaf) and acidophilus and within a few days I was COMPLETELY OUT OF PAIN!!! It was amazing! I have been suffering with IC since I was 16 (took two years to get diagnosed, which is so common for IC sufferers) and had recently been in a flare for over 6 months. I'd had three bladder distensions, several painful bladder distillations and was on 22 pills a day. My life was changed dramatically by this disease. I was unable to attend classes and work and felt like my whole world was collapsing. I cannot say ENOUGH about this book. Thank you, Catherine, for helping so many of us find our way out of pain!!!! You are amazing!!!!

Editorial Review:

A holistic perspective of Interstitial Cystitis with information on various alternative treatments, herbs, and natural products in relation to healing from IC. There is a special section on vitamins, minerals, and IC, as well as a discussion of possible reasons why alternative treatments may not have worked for some IC patients in the past. Along the Healing Path offers a lot of helpful tips and information for IC patients who want to take a more natural/holistic approach to healing.

The Natural Prostate Cure

Roger Mason

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Total reviews: 21 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

Worked for me 5 out of 5 stars.
18 of 19 people found this review helpful.

Three months ago I took a PSA test and it came back 8.79 ng/mL. I had no other symptoms and started looking for an alternative to what the doctors wanted me to do. I found this book and followed the instructions which include a strict diet, exercise and 20+ vitamins. I took another PSA test two weeks ago and just received the results today: 4.5 ng/mL. Still elevated but quite a remarkable improvement in just two months. It will be interesting to see what it will be six months or a year from now.

As an added bonus I haven't felt this healthy or had so much energy for quite a long time.

Editorial Review:

This book is the most completely researched book on natural prostate health. It gives you an effective alternative to the usual medical approach of surgery, radion and toxic drugs. Facts elaborate on include medical treatments for BPH often leave men in diapers unable to ever have sex again. Cure yourself of prostate problems safely, effectivelyl andnaturally based on clinical research. You don't have to resort to life threatening surgery, radiation or dangerous drugs.

Endometriosis: A Key to Healing Through Nutrition

Dian Shepperson Mills, Michael Vernon

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Total reviews: 26 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

if you only buy one book, buy this one 5 out of 5 stars.
6 of 6 people found this review helpful.

I bought this week 2 weeks after my laparoscopy, on the same day I had my follow up appt with my gyno, who told me I had endometriosis. My gyno could not get me out of her office quick enough, and couldnt answer any of my questions like 'does it come back? how do i stop it coming back? how do i manage the symptoms? what are my options?' The only thing she could tell me is that it was pretty certain i would be seeing her on a yearly basis for regular laps. Needless to say, i am finding a new gyno, but I still needed answers.
Dian's book answered all of my questions and more. The detailed information in the book on the body, the nervous system, the digestive system, and how everything was affected by endo, made perfect sense alongside the symptoms i have been suffering without explanation or end in sight. I had already been trying to eat well, but her strict dietary suggestions were what i needed to start and commit to a whole new way of eating.
4 weeks later, ive lost 5 kilos, my pelvic pain is gone, my digestive problems are easing, and ive just had my first period since the lap, which i was warned would be longer, painful, heavier than normal - nothing! No pms symptoms, no cravings, nothing! i guess this is what normal feels like! its fantastic. I know ive got a ways to go, but for the first time in years, i have answers and soolutions, and i am actually getting better and going forward, not backward. its a nice feeling.

Editorial Review:

The authors show how the right diet can provide the key to optimum health in overcoming endometriosis. Includes delicious recipes, and details the orthodox and complementary treatments available.

You Don't Have to Live with Cystitis

Larrian Gillespie

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Many women have been led to believe that a urinary tract infection signals the beginning of a chronic, painful problem that is fated to reoccur despite treatment. The good news is that You Don't Have to Live With Cystitis. Dr. Larrian Gillispie, a female uro-gynecologist widely recognized in the scientific and medical community and one of the few doctors with expertise in the area of pelvic pain, has shown that women can break out of the vicious cycle of cystitis. From the outset, You Don't Have to Live With Cystitis has helped millions of women. This updated edition reflects newly discovered causes and treatments:

•Immediate steps to reduce suffering

•The surprising role of excercise and lower back problems

•Updated treatment and prevention options --

from diet to surgery

•How antibiotics may cause hormone problems

•Which method of contraception may cause problems

•The effects of stress on the uninary tract

•Newest treatments for interstitial cystitis

•Cystitis in children and during pregnancy and menopause

Plus

•A Complete Guide to Commonly Prescribed Medications

•Essential Vitamin and Mineral Supplements

•An Anti-Cystitis Diet

The PCOS Diet Book: How You Can Use the Nutritional Approach to Deal with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome

Colette Harris

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Total reviews: 21 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

The best PCOS book ever 5 out of 5 stars.
9 of 9 people found this review helpful.

I was diagnosed with PCOS this past August and must tell you this is the best book I have found. After being diagnosed I purchased about 10 books and this one is by far the best book. It goes through what foods and combinations of foods you should be eating to keep the PCOS under control. I was able to lose 9 pounds by following the recommendations like eating small meals / healthy snacks every 2 1/2 - 3 hours. It even said that after following the steps in this book your system would operate normally and you could become pregnant. Well, I didn't really believe it but after about 3 months of following their advice I am now 17 weeks pregnant. I had been told that I had a 3% chance of conceiving naturally due to the PCOS, a Unicornuate uterus and one working fallopian tube. I recommend this book to anyone who has PCOS, if it worked for me it can work for anyone.

Editorial Review:

In this book the authors offer a practical lifeline to sufferers with advice on diets for: boosting fertility, preventing diabetes, and heart disease, breaking out of the cycle of emotional eating, and nutritional supplements and herbal remedies.

To Wake in Tears: Understanding Interstitial Cystitis

Catherine M. Simone

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Have IC? Here is Someone Who Really Knows How You Feel 5 out of 5 stars.
4 of 4 people found this review helpful.

This review was written by Dawn R. Mahowald

When life is very difficult with IC, it is helpful to know that there is someone else out there who genuinely understands what you are going through, like Cathy Simone does. While there are other inspiring books for people with painful chronic disorders, this one can really reach out and touch the person with IC.

It is also great that Cathy shares her journey and discoveries on what helped her with IC and what didn't. As the western medical community and researchers struggle with this disorder, it is heartening to know that people with IC often do find additional help in the form of complementary medical practices, lifestyle changes, diet changes, and focusing on other things in life that give us meaning, like close, supportive relationships with other people.

When I work with people with IC, I often refer them to this book. I recommend it not just for the self-help ideas and suggestions it provides, but also for the story of someone who has successfully worked their way through a disorder that can sometimes look impossibly hopeless and tangled.

Editorial Review:

To Wake In Tears is the revolutionary book that introduced the herb marshmallow root to the IC community back in 1998. It was the first book to look at IC from a holistic perspective claiming that IC is not just a bladder disease. In order to truly heal from IC, the whole body must be treated. Within the story of how the author healed herself from a severe case of IC are a multitude of practical, safe, helpful tips for IC patients to use to help themselves heal. Like Simone's other two books (Along the Healing Path and Awakening Through the Tears), this book is empowering, inspirational, and ground breaking in its discoveries of various physical connections with IC, as well as offering ideas of how to address them safely, naturally, and without the use of toxic medications and invasive medical procedures.

No More Kidney Stones: The Experts Tell You All You Need to Know about Prevention and Treatment

John S., MD Rodman, R. Ernest, MD Sosa, Cynthia, MS, RD Seidman

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A Proven Plan to Prevent Painful Kidney Stones



At last! Whether you are a chronic kidney stone sufferer or at risk of developing stones, this practical, comprehensive guide will help you take charge of your health and eliminate this painful disease from your life forever. Written by a team of experts in the field, No More Kidney Stones includes the latest information on risk factors, dietary and lifestyle choices, and state-of-the-art treatments. It includes:
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Specific, detailed remedies to prevent the formation of the four major types of kidney stones
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Prescriptions for creating a diet that works and dietary troublemakers to avoid
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Treatment options, including Extracorporeal Shock Wave Lithotripsy (ESWL), cystoscopy, ureteroscopy, percutaneous stone surgery, and open surgery
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Case histories showing what types of treatment are appropriate for what specific conditions
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Guidance on what to expect before, during, and after treatment
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Advice on finding the right specialist