Ergebnis für "Anna" in Medizin

Haunting, lyrical, unforgettable, Girl in the Dark is a brave new memoir of a life without light. Anna Lyndsey was young and ambitious and worked hard; she had just bought an apartment; she was falling in love. Then what started as a mild intolerance to certain kinds of...

Finalist for the 2025 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award USA Today Bestseller “All in Her Head accomplishes a remarkable feat of storytelling. By combining essential medical histories about women’s bodies with all the narrative propulsion of a medical thriller, Comen has written...

Anna's always had too many feelings. Or not enough feelings—she's never been quite sure. Debilitating panic. Extraordinary melancholy. Paranoia. Ambivalence. Fear. Despair. From anxious child to terrified parent, mental illness has been a constant. But between therapists' rooms and emergency departments, there's been a feeling even harder to explain … optimism. In this sharp-eyed and illuminating memoir, award-winning writer Anna Spargo-Ryan pieces together the relationships between time, mental illness, and our brain as the keeper of our stories.

While in her early-30s, Anna Byrne was diagnosed with a rare and aggressive form of lymphoma. Over the next seven years, she endured four relapses, two stem cell transplants, and spent over 2,000 hours in Canadian hospitals. In 2014, she was given two years to live. Despite the odds, Anna left treatment cancer-free. She became a hospice volunteer and met Eleanor, a woman in her 70s whose death was imminent, and the two formed an unlikely friendship. Part memoir, medical guide, and spiritual text, Seven Year Summer explores the nuances of healing and hope.

When classrooms and clinical rotations shut down in March 2020, medical school faculty, staff, and students craved connection, comfort, and guidance. Out of that need, the Kern Institute created a weekly newsletter, the Transformational Times, to gather and amplify the voices of those rushing to the front lines and of those who supported them. The nascent community shared its reactions over the summer to racial injustice, in the fall to the COVID-19 surges and the return to school, and in the winter and spring to the continued societal discord and slow adjustment to the new normal.

A Silent Spring for the human body, this wide-ranging, genre-crossing literary mystery interweaves the author’s quest to understand the source of her own condition with her telling of the story of the chronically ill 19th-century diarist Alice James—ultimately uncovering the many hidden...

All seems tranquil as newly qualified health visitor Sarah motors into a small Kentish hilltop village in her new green mini. She's barely out of the car when she's called to assist the midwife with a bride who's gone into labour in the middle of her own wedding reception. And so her adventures begin.... As a health visitor, Nurse Sarah is as green as grass, but she puts her best foot into wellies and braves the mad dogs, killer ganders and muddy tracks of the farming community.

Efter 9 månaders sjukskrivning och en lång väntan och oro bekräftas Ulla Assarssons värsta farhågor. Hennes man har Alzheimers sjukdom! Han är bara 62 år och tanken var att de skulle njuta av livet, barnen och barnbarnen tillsammans. Men vad ska hända nu? Ulla är i grunden en positiv människa och har oftast förlitat sig på att hon har förmågan att hitta lösningar på olika problem som uppstått i såväl arbetslivet som privatlivet. Hennes livsfilosofi att det mesta kommer att gå bra har alltid gett henne framtidshopp.

Året är 2011, och Elisabet Höglund diagnosticeras med cancer. En jättelik tumör har upptäckts på hennes bukspottskörtel, och vid en operation tas flera organ bort för att bekämpa sjukdomen. Ingreppet är okomplicerat, och snart är hon på bättringsvägen. Men några veckor senare uppstår en komplikation, och Höglund är nära att förlora livet. Efter att redan ha varit nära döden två gånger kommer nu komplikationerna som klubbslag, under några veckor kämpar hon för sitt liv.

In 2014, I was diagnosed with avascular necrosis of the hips. That’s when my nightmare began. What is avascular necrosis? Avascular necrosis (AVN), also known as osteonecrosis of the femoral head, occurs when the blood supply to the bone is decreased. This interruption in blood supply causes small cracks and breaks in the bone. If the AVN is left untreated, the bone will eventually die and collapse. Over 20,000 people acquire AVN every year, typically between 20 and 50 years old.

Kan man bli fri från en kronisk sjukdom? När Nadja Öström får sköldkörteldiagnoserna Hashimotos sjukdom och Hypotyreos förändras hennes liv för alltid och hon kastas in i en djungel av hälsoråd och mediciner. Trots en svår och utmanande resa kommer hon ut på andra sidan starkare än någonsin och med nya kunskaper om kost, hälsa och vikten av att se sig själv som en helhet.