The Edge of Medicine

The Edge of Medicine
Author: William Hanson (M.D.)
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2008-10-14
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0230605753

Bill Hanson reveals to us the face of medicine as it will be in ten to fifteen years from now. Profiled in many science periodicals for the innovations he's helped spearhead, Hanson delivers a unique perspective on the human dimension behind the revolution.

Radical Medicine

Radical Medicine
Author: Louisa L. Williams
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 1240
Release: 2011-07-12
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 159477935X

A “radical” approach to holistic healing that examines the root causes and cures for ailments such as Alzheimer’s disease, breast cancer, and heart attacks • Offers cutting-edge detoxification and draining therapies to address the tremendous chemical onslaught of modern life • Explains the profound health problems caused by dental amalgams, vaccinations, antibiotics, cosmetics With the historic use of toxic mercury amalgam fillings, excessive courses of antibiotics, damaging childhood vaccines, and the many industrial pollutants and chemicals that have been spread into our air, water, and food over the past century, general holistic health guidelines are simply no longer adequate for most people. Only through radical measures--that is, getting to the true root or underlying cause of disease--can effective healing occur. In Radical Medicine, naturopathic physician Louisa Williams describes how to treat these and other modern-day “obstacles to cure,” in order to ensure against future degenerative disease and achieve the optimal health that is our birthright. Examining the many health problems triggered by dental amalgams and poor dentistry, Dr. Williams explains that our teeth are focal points for health issues that arise elsewhere in the body. She explores the impact of vaccinations, the excessive use of antibiotics, and the chemical-laden products used as health and beauty aids--which are linked to Alzheimer’s disease, heart attacks, and breast and other cancers--and provides information on cutting-edge detoxification treatments as well as drainage and nutritional therapies. A practical guide for practitioners and patients alike, Radical Medicine offers a wealth of holistic, natural therapies for overcoming what is poisoning us and our world so we can achieve optimal health and well-being.

Discover Cutting-Edge Medicine

Discover Cutting-Edge Medicine
Author: Meg Marquardt
Publisher: Lerner Publications ™
Total Pages: 43
Release: 2016-08-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1512423122

Every year, doctors and medical researchers make incredible breakthroughs in human medicine. Did you know some are finding ways to build organs in laboratories? Or that others are studying new ways to fight cancer? Learn more about the innovative medical devices and treatments used in this exciting, lifesaving work.

Emergency Medicine

Emergency Medicine
Author: Phillip M. Stephens
Publisher: LWW
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018-09-28
Genre: Emergency medicine
ISBN: 9781496386021

"Evidence based medicine (EBM) is the integration of the best known scientific evidence with clinical experience. Bridging the gap between the latest research and clinical application is always a challenge. This text is designed to bridge this gap"--

Cutting-Edge Medicine

Cutting-Edge Medicine
Author: Buffy Silverman
Publisher: Lerner Publications (Tm)
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2020
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 154158936X

Will we one day be able to regrow limbs? 3-D print custom dentures? Wear a contact lens to monitor our health? It sounds like science fiction, but advances like these are driving real medical research. Dive into the fascinating, fast-changing world of medical breakthroughs.

Bleeding Edge

Bleeding Edge
Author: J. D. Kleinke
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning
Total Pages: 392
Release: 1998
Genre: Medical care
ISBN: 9780834211902

Using the tools of competitive strategic analysis, this text identifies and explores the five forces transforming the health care system - horizontal consolidation, vertical integration, industrialization, medical/financial risk assumption, and consumerism. Using these five forces to describe the health care system most likely to emerge in the next decade, it predicts very different fortunes and fates for the medical professions, and hospital, pharmaceutical, medical device, and managed care industries.

Excellence with an Edge

Excellence with an Edge
Author: Michael T. Harris (MD)
Publisher: Fire Starter Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: Medical offices
ISBN: 9780984079490

"Whether you own a two-or-three person practice or you're a first-year physician in an 800-member faculty practice, you need a solid grasp of the business side of making a living in healthcare. It's no longer optional. Physicians naturally want to focus on providing excellent patient care. That's what makes us doctors. But in order to thrive, we must also understand the context in which that care takes place. We must embrace these dollars-and-cents truths rather than run from them. When we do that, our practices get stronger and stronger--which in turn allows us to provide better and better care."--P. 4 of cover.

The Edge of Medicine

The Edge of Medicine
Author: Dr. William Hanson, M.D.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2008-10-14
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0230621090

Experts agree that we are entering the Golden Age of Medicine, when our everyday experience of being ill and getting better will be more like science fiction than today's routine trip to the doctor. Bill Hanson, director of the surgical intensive care unit at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center and an inventor of medical technology, offers true-life and intensely intimate stories about the way biotechnology is changing people's lives. • An electronic nose that detects infection, such as pneumonia, based on a person's breath • Robots with appendages that can feel their way around tissue, which will augment the hands of surgeons in the operating room • Computer health wizards that will advise and prescribe through your home computer • Computerized psychotherapists dispensing advice about emotional problems • Telehealth software that serves as a monitoring nurse for difficult to manage chronic illnesses such as diabetes. • Wheelchairs operated by reading electrical brainwaves for patients with severe neurological deterioration. Bill Hanson describes the human genius that arrived at these amazing discoveries, and how innovators are working to take these feats to an even more technologically advanced level. And more importantly, he discusses what the human experience will be and how we can prepare ourselves for the moral and ethical challenges that these awesome changes will bring. This riveting and startling account will make us revise our expectations of our own mortality.

Three on the Edge

Three on the Edge
Author: John Kelly
Publisher: Bantam
Total Pages: 340
Release: 1999
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780553101133

Nearly 200,000 people in the United States are currently participating in clinical trials. John Kelly's compelling medical documentary follows three patients who have staked their lives on experimental treatments.

Cells Are the New Cure

Cells Are the New Cure
Author: Robin L. Smith
Publisher: BenBella Books
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2017-10-24
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1944648844

The future of medicine is happening now. Revolutionary new science is providing cures that were considered science fiction just a few years ago—and not with pills, surgery, or radiation, but with human cells. Promising treatments now in extensive clinical trials could have dramatic impacts on cancer, autoimmune diseases, organ replacement, heart disease, and even aging itself. The key to these breakthroughs is the use of living cells as medicine instead of traditional drugs. Discover the advances that are alleviating the effects of strokes, Alzheimer's disease, and even allergies. Cells Are the New Cure takes you into the world of regenerative medicine, which enables doctors to repair injured and aging tissues and even create artificial body parts and organs in the lab. Cellular medicine experts Robin L. Smith, MD, and Max Gomez, PhD, outline the new technologies that make it possible to harness the immune system to fight cancer and reverse autoimmune diseases like multiple sclerosis, type 1 diabetes, and rheumatoid arthritis. CRISPR, a new technology for targeted gene editing, promises to eradicate genetic diseases, allowing us to live longer lives—possibly even beyond age 100 in good health. Cells Are the New Cure takes you on a tour of the most exciting and cutting-edge developments in medicine. The content inside these pages could save your life or the life of someone you love.