Product Description: Did you ever wonder whether doctors want cures, or just treatments? Did you know ... Grapefruit can interact with over 100 drugs, but it may be useful for reducing blood pressure and for weight loss? ADHD over diagnosis is now recognized widely as a fact, and there are existing -- and new ways -- to avoid a misdiagnosis? Studies have been conducted demonstrating the utility of Omega 3 fatty acids, meditation, yoga, and melatonin for some important symptoms of ADHD, including executive functions? Vaccines have saved millions of lives in the last decade? But are the safe? Breast cancer rates are declining in the US, but have been steadily increasing in Japan? Doctors are getting better at predicting which chemotherapy will, and will not work, on certain cancers? There are vaccines against cancer? This book reviews recent key, hard-won successes and findings from recent biomedical research...read more

Product Description: This book brings together in one volume fifteen discoveries that have had a major impact upon medical science and the practice of medicine but where the scientists involved have not been awarded a Nobel Prize. Its aim is to publicize the achievements of these lesser-known heroes of our time and thereby inform and entertain the reader, whether medical student, professor or scientifically-minded layman...read more

Product Description: A witty celebration of the great eccentrics who have performed dangerous scientific experiments on themselves for the benefit of humankind.Many scientists have followed the advice of the great Victorian doctor Jack Haldane to “never experiment on an animal if a man will do” and “never ask anyone to do anything you wouldn’t do yourself...read more

Product Description: The most significant breakthroughs in medical research usually came about when people were looking for something else entirely.

Product Description: Why are you alive right now? Chances are, you owe your life to one of the remarkable medical discoveries in this book. Maybe it was vaccines. Or antibiotics. Or X-rays. Revolutionary medical breakthroughs like these haven’t just changed the way we treat disease, they’ve transformed how we understand ourselves and the world we live in...read more

In a brilliant, definitive history of one of the most significant and controversial medical events of modern times, award-winning historian Michael Bliss brings to light a bizarre clash of scientific personalities. When F. G. Banting and J. J. R. Macleod won the 1923 Nobel Prize for discovering and isolating insulin, Banting immediately announced that he was dividing his share of the prize with his young associate, C. H. Best. Macleod divided his share with a fourth member of the team, J. B. Collip. For the next sixty years medical opinion was intensely divided over the allotment of credit for the discovery of insulin. In resolving this controversy, Bliss also offers a wealth of new detail on such subjects as the treatment of diabetes before insulin and the life-and-death struggle to manufacture insulin.

Essays cover varying opinions on human medical trials, including the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, the Willowbrook Hepatitis Study, and the Fernald School Radiation Experiments.

Examines important discoveries and advances in the field of medicine and discusses their impact on human health and medical care.

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Product Description: Due to the high degree of biological similarity between primates and humans, monkeys and apes have been used successfully in medical research for many decades. Medical Primatology: History, Biological Foundations and Applications provides a comprehensive summary linking the use of monkeys and apes in biomedical research to their kinship with humans...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Drawing on interviews conducted around the world, the 'New York Times' medical columnist recounts true stories of bravery and foolhardiness in accounts of doctors who performed their first human experiments on themselves (view table of contents)

Explores the research that led to the great medical achievements of the twentieth century--open heart surgery, antibiotics, chemotherapy, the polio vaccine, and more

An historical account of discoveries in the field of medicine that led to recent achievements in heart surgery and the treatment of heart disease and high blood pressure traces the development of the medical advances from their origins to the present