Books in the A Johns Hopkins Press Health Book series

Caring and thoughtful, the book helps parents embrace the extraordinary time they will have with their child.

When Your Spouse Has a Stroke will relieve your burden and strengthen your partnership.

Donald Thomas provides information for women who wish to become pregnant and advises readers about working with a disability, complementary and alternative medicine, infections, cancer, and a host of other topics.

Patients at every stage will find Living with Cancer a comprehensive, thoughtful, and accessible guide for navigating the illness and its treatment.

The authors hope that their honest yet hopeful perspective will help all people with cancer and those who care about them.

This guide is essential for health professionals seeking more information about this underdiagnosed disease.

With proper treatment, people with borderline personality disorder can enjoy long remissions and improved quality of life.

It will leave readers feeling empowered and inspired.

The Foot Book is an all-inclusive resource for everyone suffering from foot and ankle disorders, as well as physicians and other medical personnel who care for them.

A Loving Approach to Dementia Care is a special guide, filled with respect, calmness, creativity-and love.

Recent innovations, including deep brain stimulation and new medications, have significantly improved the lives of people who have Parkinson's disease. Nevertheless, patients and families continue to face many challenges. This title is suitable for reliable advice about medical, emotional, and physical issues.

Silver Winner of the 2019 Benjamin Franklin Awards (Health & Fitness) of the Independent Book Publishers Association.

Relating patients' experiences and bringing readers up to date on promising new treatments, Life After Stroke offers hope to stroke survivors and their families.

Hysterectomy is the second most common major surgical procedure performed on women in the United States. This book describes and explains every aspect of the procedure, including, Symptoms of gynecological disorders that may require uterine fibroid removal or hysterectomy; and the full range of diagnostic and therapeutic imaging techniques.

Is It Alzheimer's? is a quick, accessible, and essential reference for anyone who hopes to navigate the confusion of dementing illnesses.

Tourists and professionals such as military personnel, journalists, aid workers, and businesspeople need the tools provided here to stay healthy during their trip and after they return home.

This resource gives parents and families access to the authors' expertise so they can reach a meaningful understanding of their child's DSD and make informed decisions about their child's health.

This new edition of A Woman's Guide to Living with HIV Infection includes the latest information on diagnosis and treatments as well as recent findings about pregnancy and HIV, starting treatments when you have HIV-related complications, liver health and hepatitis, and sexual health.

One of every four women suffers from urinary incontinence, the involuntary leakage of urine. In this title, the authors want these women to know that they do not have to cope in silence with this embarrassing problem, limit their lifestyle, or spend thousands of dollars on adult diapers.

Sympathetic and authoritative, this helpful books prepares women to deal with the inevitable changes in body, mind, and spirit that accompany menopause.

As well as a reassuring travel companion, this valuable resource will become the "turn-toguide at home and in childcare centers.

Parents, building on that foundation and acknowledging each person's contributions, interests, and aspirations, create an inclusive and resilient family.

Addresses the questions people most frequently ask, including how IBS develops, how it is diagnosed, how to distinguish symptoms of IBS from symptoms of other medical disorders, how the symptoms are affected by stress, and more. This is a guide for people with IBS and their families.

Patient and parent narratives illustrate how people cope with itch and how, with medical and social support, itch can be managed.

Living with diabetes is a balancing act of monitoring blood glucose, food intake, and medication. This book answers questions such as: What are the differences between Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes? How are the different forms of this disease treated? Can gestational diabetes become a permanent condition?

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Offering candor, compassion, and hope, this remarkable book explains how to add quality to your life and take care of medical and social needs while living with ovarian cancer.

Offering candor, compassion, and hope, this remarkable book explains how to add quality to your life and take care of medical and social needs while living with ovarian cancer.