Today, the School publishes four additional monthly letters on heart disease, women's health, men's health, and mental health, together with special reports on diseases such as Alzheimer's and various cancers. The Guide boasts chapters on diseases and disorders of all kinds, as well as chapters on the health of infants, children, adolescents, women, men, and seniors. There are sections on first aid, herbs and alternative medicine, and sections dealing with managed-care systems, questioning doctors, living wills, and harmful drug interactions. Color photos show readers what cancerous growths, fungal infections, and various skin conditions look like. Symptoms charts, covering everything from anxiety to zits, allow readers to answer those frequent questions about chest or stomach pains, rashes, sore throats, headaches, and other worrisome, everyday health problems.
Information is available to help people make difficult major decisions.
For instance, if you suffer from a type of irregular heartbeat known as atrial fibrillation, doctors advise taking a blood thinner to reduce the risk of a stroke. But if you take this medicine, you raise your risk of major bleeding in the stomach or intestines. Herbs, like St. John's wort, and alternative treatments, such as acupuncture and hypnosis, are discussed. To make this section easier to use, we plan to put it on the Website. With the right information, all of us can do more for ourselves than doctors can do for us.