Product Description: According to the American Diabetes Association, 23.6 million children and adults in the United States have a form of diabetes. Of these cases, 5.7 million are undiagnosed. This timely guide addresses the growing issue of diabetes, providing information on the symptoms, how it is diagnosed, how it is treated, and most importantly, how it can be prevented...read more

Product Description: Pat Kelly, an Irishman, travels the length and breadth of post-Communist East Germany over 20 years and meets its people while learning German “on the fly” – with often hilarious results. This is a rare piece of Ostalgie travel writing in English, and essential reading for the English speaking visitor to the former East Germany and Berlin...read more

Product Description: One in eight American women will learn that she has breast cancer. While survival rates are improving, the diagnosis still wreaks havoc on their lives and families. A complex illness, breast cancer affects all aspects of a woman's life: her physical health and future wellbeing, her primary relationships, her children, her self-esteem, her sexuality...read more

Product Description: Discusses the types and causes of diabetes, how the disease is diagnosed and treated, and ways of managing this condition and its impact on your life.

Product Description: Cancer strikes thousands of North Americans every year. With the diagnosis often come feelings of despair, loneliness, and fear, which neither a doctor`s care nor the support of family or friends can alleviate. For many the answer lies in cancer self-help groups, which now number in the hundreds across the country...read more

Product Description: Breast cancer continues to occur at the alarming rate of 1 in 8 American women and 1 in 9 Canadian women. Survival rates are improving, however, and four out of five women diagnosed with breast cancer are alive 5 years after their cancer is discovered...read more

Product Description: Thousands of new cases of cancer are diagnosed every year in North America. Along with the diagnosis, people often experience feelings of fear and loneliness. Many people with cancer have found support and information from self-help groups for cancer patients and survivors, and have learned how to change the loneliness and fear of their diagnosis into a journey of hope and healing...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Breast cancer continues to occur at the alarming rate of 1 in 8 American women and 1 in 9 Canadian women. Survival rates are improving, however, and four out of five women diagnosed with breast cancer are alive 5 years after their cancer is discovered...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Discusses the disease, how to be tested, and what the results mean, offers advice on dealing with health-care professionals, friends, and family, explains one's rights and responsibilities, and lists organizations which can offer assistance.

Discusses the AIDS disease, its discovery, causes, transmission, treatment, and how to protect oneself from contracting the disease

Discusses the definition of incest, what to do as a victim or someone who knows a victim, and how to get help (view table of contents)