When the mysterious pain and debilitating fatigue plaguing a loved one is diagnosed as "fibromyalgia," the first reaction is usually relief at finally having a name for the pain followed by confusion as everyone scrambles to get information. What does a diagnosis of fibromyalgia mean? Is there hope that things will get better? Filmmakers Daneen Akers and Stephen Eyer asked these questions when Daneen's mother was diagnosed with fibromyalgia several...

Ann and Ruth have been great friends all their adult lives, when Ruth is diagnosed with cancer their friendship becomes even more profound.

Nathan Hurst hates Christmas. For others, it may be a day of boundless joy and nostalgic tradition. But for him, this annual occasion in a painful reminder of events that traumatized his childhood. When a snowstorm cancels his yuletide flight, however, Nathan meets a unique mother and child who profoundly change him and his view of the special season forever.

Caring for a person with dementia is a difficult and often- overwhelming task. In addition to the inevitable decline in memory and physical function, most persons with dementia develop one or more troublesome behavior problems, such as depression, fearfulness, sleep disturbances, paranoia, or physical aggression at some point in their disease. Behavioral challenges in dementia are highly idiosyncratic. No two patients are alike, and interventions...

Text for families and friends of those suffering with Alzheimer disease, dementia, and memory loss. Includes new information on: laws; assisted living; eating and nutrition; and medical research on drugs, genetics, and diagnostic tests.

Oswald T. Campbell abandons wintry Chicago for Alabama, where he believes he'll be spending his last Christmas. He moves to Lost River, a town with one grocery store and a resident cardinal (or redbird, as the natives call it), and becomes involved in the lives of its residents.

Survival Lessons provides a road map of how to reclaim your life from this day forward, with ways to re-envision everything — from relationships with friends and family to the way you see yourself. As Alice Hoffman says, “In many ways I wrote Survival Lessons to remind myself of the beauty of life, something that’s all too easy to overlook during the crisis of illness or loss. I forgot that our lives are made up of equal parts of sorrow and...

Thirty-five-year-old Kate Bowler was a professor at the School of Divinity at Duke, and had finally had a baby with her childhood sweetheart after years of trying, when she began to feel jabbing pains in her stomach. She lost thirty pounds, chugged antacid, and visited doctors for three months before she was finally diagnosed with Stage IV colon cancer. As she navigates the aftermath of her diagnosis, Kate pulls the reader deeply into her life, which...

Uses the words of a small child to explore the child's questions and feelings after learning that his mother has cancer.

They called it "minor surgery," but Nancy Greenly, Sean Berman and a dozen others -- all admitted to Boston Memorial Hospital for routine procedures -- were victims of the same inexplicable, hideous tragedy on the operating table. They never woke up. Susan Wheeler is a third-year medical student working as a trainee at Boston Memorial Hospital. Two patients during her residency mysteriously go into comas immediately after their operations due to complications...