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Scientific factors in our diets and lifestyles influence our risk of cardiovascular disease, and what's good for our hearts also tends to be good for our guts, our brains, livers, and weight control, reduces our risk of many forms of cancer, and even helps us to age well. Dr Joanna McMillan cuts through the nonsense, bust the myths and misconceptions, and provides insights from the extraordinary science of lifestyle medicine to help you take pleasure and joy in eating and living well so you can give and get more from life.

Today, astonishing surgical breakthroughs are making limb transplants, face transplants, and a host of other previously undreamed-of operations possible. But getting here has not been a simple story of medical progress. In Blood and Guts, veteran science writer Richard Hollingham weaves a compelling narrative from the key moments in surgical history. We have a ringside seat in the operating theater of University College Hospital in London as world-renowned Victorian surgeon Robert Liston performs a remarkable amputation in 30 seconds - from first cut to final stitch.

An expert legal review of the US government’s response to epidemics through history—with larger conclusions about COVID-19, and reforms needed for the next plague In this narrative history of the US through major outbreaks of contagious disease, from yellow fever to the Spanish flu, from...

"Wir können nichts mehr für Sie tun" - diesen Satz, vor dem sich so viele fürchten, gibt es bei dem Palliativmediziner Sven Gottschling nicht. Sterbenskranken Menschen die verbleibenden Tage, Wochen und Monate und manchmal auch Jahre mit bestmöglicher Lebensqualität zu füllen und den Angehörigen eine anhaltende Erinnerung an das gute Ende eines geliebten Menschen zu bereiten, sieht er als eine der größten Herausforderungen unserer Zeit.