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Brian Holbrook, having overcome the addiction to prescription painkillers that robbed him of his license to practice medicine, is offered an opportunity to join in the testing of a new medicine which supposedly has the power to reverse heart disease, but his comeback hits a snag when he begins to realize something is very wrong with the drug.
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"Are you aware that the overwhelming majority of what you eat everyday is poisoning you? Did you know that the medical profession, in partnership with the pharmaceutical industry, has a huge interest in keeping you sick rather than healing you? Do you realize that the Federal Government is doing everything in its power - and some things well beyond its stated power - to keep all of this a secret? Kevin Trudeau blows the lid off a nest of deception...
7) Miracle cure
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They're one of the country's most telegenic couples : beloved TV journalist Sara Lowell and New York's hottest basketball star, Michael Silverman. Their family and social connections tie them to the highest echelons of the political, medical, and sports world -- threads that will tangle them in one of the most controversial and deadly issues of our time. In a clinic on Manhattan's Upper West Side, a doctor has dedicated his life to eradicating a divisive...
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c2010
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The author describes his inspiring recovery after a late-night dive into the shallow end of a pool rendered him paralyzed from the neck down, a recovery that has shattered the dim prospects his doctors predicted and also yielded a successful skin-care business, Clark's Botanicals.
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[2000]
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One in three women in the U.S. will be diagnosed with cancer, a situation that can throw even the most self-assured person into a crisis of body, mind, and spirit. To survive and thrive we must rally all of our inner resources. Nine bestselling authors and healers (many of whom are thriving after cancer diagnoses) reframe the healing process in a positive, creative, spiritual light. Taken from the Healing Journeys conferences, this set collects for...
11) Equilibrium
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2002.
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In the future, after a Third World War has decimated much of the Earth's population, a new nation arose. Believing human emotions and their expression were to blame for the failings of past societies, it is decreed that all citizens must take a daily dose of a drug which levels out the emotional landscape, and that all forms of creative expression are against the law. An elite law enforcement officer who tracks down and punishes "sense offenders"...
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An ambitious young executive is sent to retrieve his company's CEO from an idyllic but mysterious 'wellness center' at a remote location in the Swiss Alps. He soon suspects that the spa's miraculous treatments are not what they seem. When he begins to unravel its terrifying secrets, his sanity is tested, as he finds himself diagnosed with the same curious illness that keeps all the guests here longing for the cure.
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[2022]
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"The blistering inside story of a startup that made millions pushing opioids-until its cutthroat tactics were exposed and its executives put behind bars John Kapoor had amassed a small fortune in pharmaceuticals when he conceived of a new product. It was the 2000s, and opioids were big business. If Kapoor, an immigrant and the billionaire founder of Insys, could find a new way to administer the highly potent fentanyl, he could patent his invention...
15) Whole body healing: natural healing with movement, exercise, massage, and other drug-free methods
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[1983]
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Explains how to improve health and physical fitness through a variety of methods, including running, acupressure, yoga, and weight training.
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[2016]
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"Diagnoses are often just educated guesses, and prognoses less certain still. There is a significant amount of uncertainty in the daily practice of medicine, resulting in confusion and potentially deadly complications. Dr. Steven Hatch argues that instead of ignoring this uncertainty, we should embrace it. By digging deeply into a number of rancorous controversies, from breast cancer screening to blood pressure management, Hatch shows us how medicine...
20) Second opinion
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1981
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Championing the value of consulting more than one doctor when disabled with a serious disease or disorder, Rosenfeld describes a number of alternative treatments for one hundred of the most common disorders.