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Harvard Medical School Family Health Guide

Anthony L Komaroff

2005

Provides diagnosis section, in flow-chart form where each answer leads you to another question and/or to an action you should take, with page numbers where you can find more information about the condition you may have. The Color Guide to Visual Diagnosis lets you match your symptom with close-up color photos of various diseases and infections. The book also has chapters on lifestyle changes that will enhance health and sections on eldercare, death and dying, drug interactions, and emergency care.  This guide is updated online at http://www.health.harvard.edu/fhg/.

 


The Merck Manual of Medical Information

Mark H Beers

2004, 2nd home ed.

This guide provides a detailed table of contents listing 25 sections which are further divided into chapters. The new second edition is more than a revision of the first edition.  It has added information on violence against women, sexual dysfunction, chromosomal and genetic abnormalities in children, and travel health, medicinal herbs and their interactions with other drugs.

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