Health & Fitness : Allergies

With over 35 million Americans threatened by this debilitating condition, sinusitis is a word on everyone's lips-especially come spring allergies and winter colds. Sinusitis is a serious affliction that is commonly misdiagnosed and mistreated, often confused with myriad other syndromes from allergies to migraines to the common cold. While these vastly different conditions may share symptoms, treating them the same merely alleviates symptoms instead of treating the root cause of the problem. Most conventional doctors will prescribe medication to treat the symptoms of sinusitis-without any research into the causes of the condition. What your doctor may not tell you about sinusitis will aid readers in understanding the various conditions that share symptoms of sinusitis and how the various structures involved in sinus pain function, resulting in a clear, programmatic way to not only cure symptoms but eliminate the source of sinus pain. Complete with lifestyle and dietary changes everyone should implement to improve their respiratory function, a discussion of alternative therapies that are just gaining ground, and methods for avoiding misdiagnosis, What your doctor may not tell you about sinusitis is a comprehensive guide to a breath-easy, pain-free life. more...

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"The Year in Allergy provides the interested reader with a thoughtful and insightful review of the advances in the field, and of the contributions which are most important to our up to date understanding of the allergic problem world-wide." From the Foreword to the previous volume by Professor Stephen I Wasserman. Allergy is now emerging as a front line scientific and medical discipline of great importance. Within the subject there have been considerable advances in the past decade in understanding the underlying mechanism of allergy and the diseases associated with it. At the same time we have seen a vast increase in incidence of allergic disease around the world, and particularly in western countries due to changes in environmental factors. In this new volume, the editors have assembled an expert team of international experts to select the recent papers that are shaping thinking in the field, within the broad areas of epidemiology, pathogenesis, pathophysiology and treatment modalities for allergic diseases. Each paper is summarized and reviewed and then placed in its clinical context, thus assisting the reader to adapt his or her own practice to the latest developments in a considered way. more...

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The concept of an annual review in respiratory medicine has proved very successful... the format makes the book a real pleasure to read, and the end result is most engaging and didactic. It is easily digestible, and at the same time improves your professional insight" Comment by Professor Ronald Dahl, Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark.The new issue of The Year in Respiratory Medicine provides a comprehensive literature-based update on recent developments in fourteen hot topics within this extremely diverse field. The authors, all practicing clinicians, have scanned the literature to identify the fastest-moving areas of publication that are relevant to the majority of their daily practice. From their selection and analysis of the most important papers published in each area are derived the latest literature based recommendations for management of the patient with respiratory disease.Reviewer’s comment on the previous issue:"This is a beautiful book. The structure in each chapter is very helpful and clear and provides detail and summary with clinical and basic research content. The research studies evaluated have been chosen carefully with clinical relevance in mind. This book is not only useful now but will remain useful as a review and reference document throughout the year…The book contains thought-provoking information which, with the help of the up-to-date background the reference provides, will lead the reader to explore further. I look forward to seeing the next issue"Douglas Morrison, Scottish Medical Journal, 2005 more...

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