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Author
Publisher
Allen & Unwin
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Through an analysis of medical research Jelinek suggests an alternative to current medical treatment of multiple sclerosis. He opines that MS is a disease largely determined by lifestyle factors and demonstrates that sufferers who modify their diet and exercise habits experience an improvement in their lives.
Author
Publisher
Demos Health
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"This book has been written specifically for anyone who has been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, as well as family members and friends. It serves as a guide to learning about the disease, its potential impact on your life, and the medical treatments now available for managing it successfully. This is a time of great excitement in research and rapid advances in clinical management, such that most people who have multiple sclerosis will be able to...
Author
Publisher
Chelsea Green Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
From a doctor living with MS: how to radically improve your quality of life with diet, hormones, supplements, exercise, and other lifestyle adjustments Most of us take for granted the little things in life-like walking out to the mailbox, socializing with friends, or enjoying a mug of hot coffee. But what if each daily activity required intensive planning and effort? That's what living with multiple sclerosis is like, and author Micha�el Friedman...
Author
Language
English
Description
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Deep End of the Ocean and Twelve Times Blessed comes a novel of the breakdown of a family and of healing after a loss
Giving advice is what Julianne Ambrose Gillis does for a living-every Sunday she doles it out to clueless people she doesn't know, in a column in her local Wisconsin paper. But when it comes to her personal life, Julie seems to have no insight whatsoever. She has worked hard to...
Author
Language
English
Description
One afternoon, Abi Morgan returned home to find her longtime partner and father to their two kids collapsed on the bathroom floor. Jacob, who had been undergoing treatment for multiple sclerosis, had suddenly experienced a series of seizures and had to be put into a medically induced coma. As he slowly regained consciousness after six months, he made tentative steps to communicate with those around him, and grappled with the host of issues that had...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fox & Friends meteorologist Janice Dean explains how she purposefully finds the silver lining in every cloud, no matter what challenge she faces. Janice is well-known for the infectious joy she brings to segments on Fox & Friends, no matter the weather. Yet many of her fans know there's more to her story than blizzards that are brewing or National Pancake Day celebrations. In this honest yet optimistic book, Janice reveals obstacles she's faced that...
Author
Publisher
Fireside/Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
At 33, Nancy Davis was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. The neurologist's finality was devastating: "There is nothing you can do." Nancy left her doctor's office in shock and despair. How could it be that within a year she would be confined to her
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Selma Blair has played many archetypal roles: Gullible ingenue in Cruel Intentions. Preppy ice queen in Legally Blonde. Fire-starter in Hellboy. Muse to Karl Lagerfeld. Face of Chanel. Cover model. Advocate for the multiple sclerosis community. But before all of that, Selma was known best for being one thing: a mean baby. In a memoir that is as wildly funny as it is emotionally shattering, Selma Blair tells the captivating story of growing up and...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
As the person who cares for his terminally-ill mother, Bobby Seed has a lot on his plate. Add to that a responsibility to watch over his little brother (with his endless question about why their mother is in so much pain), keeping up at school, and navigating a relationship with a girl friend who wants to be a girlfriend, and he's barely keeping his head above the water. Something's got to give. But then Bobby's mother makes a request, one that seems...
18) Nest
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books, an imprint of Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
On Cape Cod in 1972, eleven-year-old Naomi, known as Chirp for her love of birds, gets help from neighbor Joey as she struggles to cope with her mother's multiple sclerosis and its effect on her father and sister.
Author
Publisher
Avery
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The author shares her integrative approach to healing MS and other chronic autoimmune conditions.
After progressive multiple sclerosis landed Dr. Wahls in a tilt/recline wheelchair, she exhaustively researched autoimmune disease and brain biology, and embraced the concepts of functional medicine. Determined to overcome her intial dismal diagnosis, she made a choice to rely on food as her medicine, and began using Paleo concepts as guidelines for...
Author
Publisher
Lucent Books/Gale Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
This book discusses multiple sclerosis, a chronic disease of the central nervous system, and describes primary, secondary, and tertiary symptoms; the practical, social, physical, and emotional aspects of life that MS disrupts; and the variety of medications being tested to treat MS.
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