THE AUTOIMMUNE CONNECTION
Essential Information for Women on Diagnosis, Treatment, and Getting on with Your Life
383 Pages
Rita Baton-Faust and Jill P. Buyon, M.D., McGraw-Hill, 2003

Twenty-two unrelated illnesses are presented.  All are believed to stem from an attack by the immune system on healthy tissue.  Seventy-five percent of the people who suffer these diseases are women.  Autoimmune diseases represent the third largest cause of illness among American Women!

• The common threads that connect these diseases
• Genetic vulnerability links to gender, and possible environmental triggers
• How and why the body turns on itself

EVIDENCE OF HARM
Mercury in Vaccines and the Autism Epidemic: A Medical Controversy
437 Pages
David Kirby St. Martin's Press, 2005

The author is a science and health writer and explores the heated controversy surrounding the use of organic mercury in vaccines. In the 1990s, reported autism cases among American children began spiking: from about 1 in 10,000 in 1987, to a shocking 1 in 166 today! This trend coincided with the addition of several new shots to the nation's already crowded vaccination schedule, grouped together and given soon after birth or in the early months of infancy. Most of these shots contained a little-known preservative called thimerosal, which includes a quantity of the toxin, mercury.

No definite conclusion is drawn concerning this controversy, but it certainly raises concerns and many questions.

Upon completion of this course you will be able to:

• Discuss the controversy concerning mercury in vaccines.
• Explain the positions of the CDC and FDA concerning this controversy.
• Discuss the alarming increase in the incidence of Autism.

NEW
THE EVOLVING BRAIN
The Known and Unknown
By R. Grant Steen, Ph.D.
Prometheus Books, 2007
388 Pages

This is a fascinating study of the human brain. the brain has about 100 billion neurons with the capability of roughly 1000 trillion interconnectors. this is essentially, a crash course on how the brain works.

Upon completion of this course, you will be able to discuss:

• Consciousness. Unconsciousness and Brain Death.
• Learning, Memory, and the Role of Genes.
• Motivation, Aggression, and the Range of Emotions
• Mental Illness and Treatment

THE GUIDE TO LIVING WITH HIV INFECTION
Pages 365
John G. Bartlett, M.D., and Ann K. Finkbeiner, 6th Edition, 2006

Winner of 1992 American Writers' Association Book Award.

• What to do after diagnosis
• Preventing transmission
• Physical & emotional effects of HIV
• Options for medical care
• HIV and women

NOLO'S GUIDE TO SOCIAL SECURITY DISABILITY
496 Pages with CD-ROM
Getting & Keeping Your Benefits
David A. Morton, III, M.D.
Nolo Press - 3rd Edition 2006

This book is essential for anyone dealing with a long-term or permanent disability.  It is especially useful for professionals who deal with clients/patients who may be seeking SSI or SSDI benefits.  While it deals with the technicalities of a bureaucratic system, the materials are presented in an easily understandable, and non-technical format.  Samples of all the major forms used by the system are presented with guidance on how to complete them.  Excellent glossaries are placed throughout the book.  There is an explanation of what Social Security Disability is, proving a disability, appealing a denial of benefits, as well as a complete listing and descriptions of illnesses covered by Social Security.

Upon completion of the course you will be able to identify:

• What benefits are available to disabled children
• How age, education and work experience affect benefits
• How to prepare a Continuing Disability Review
• SSI Benefits and SSDI Benefits
• And More...

THE WAR ON PAIN
268 Pages
By Scott Fishman, M.D., with Lisa Berger
Quill, 2001

The authors present breakthroughs in the fiels of pain-management. An interdisciplinary pain-management approach that intigrates traditional and alternative techniques is discussed, documented with patient cases.

Upon completion of the course you will be able to:

• Explain the integration of traditional and alternative pain-management techniques
• Identify the components of the interdisciplinary approach to pain-management