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Killing Us Softly: The Sense and Nonsense of Alternative ...

Killing Us Softly: The Sense and Nonsense of Alternative ...

Dr Paul Offit

More people than ever are using alternative medicine. But, as expert Dr Paul Offit explains, these untested therapies are ineffective, expensive and even deadly.
Do You Believe in Magic?: The Sense and Nonsense of ...

Do You Believe in Magic?: The Sense and Nonsense of ...

Paul A. Offit, M.D.

In Do You Believe in Magic?, medical expert Paul A. Offit, M.D., offers a scathing exposé of the alternative medicine industry, revealing how even though some popular therapies are remarkably helpful due to the placebo response, many of ...
Do You Believe in Magic?: Vitamins, Supplements, and All ...

Do You Believe in Magic?: Vitamins, Supplements, and All ...

Paul A. Offit, M.D.

In Do You Believe in Magic?, medical expert Paul A. Offit, M.D., offers a scathing exposé of the alternative medicine industry, revealing how even though some popular therapies are remarkably helpful due to the placebo response, many of ...
Vaccines: What Every Parent Should Know

Vaccines: What Every Parent Should Know

Paul A. Offit

What Every Parent Should Know Paul A. Offit, Louis M. Bell. —\ : LJ WHAT EVERY PARENT SHOULD KNOW REVISED EDITION LAA \nc\uAes tortious PAULA. OFFIT, M.D. LOUIS M. BELL M.D VACCINES: WHAT EVERY PARENT SHOULD ...
Deadly Choices: How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All

Deadly Choices: How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All

Paul A. Offit

How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All Paul A. Offit. Paula Hawkins, a Republican senator from Florida, chaired a congressional hearing to evaluate possible brain damage caused by pertussis vaccine. (Courtesy of Paul Hosefros/  ...
Autism's False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and ...

Autism's False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and ...

Paul A. Offit

In this book, Paul A. Offit, a national expert on vaccines, challenges the modern-day false prophets who have so egregiously misled the public and exposes the opportunism of the lawyers, journalists, celebrities, and politicians who support ...
Deadly Choices: How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All

Deadly Choices: How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All

Paul A. Offit

As a consequence, parents and caretakers are rejecting vaccines for themselves and their families. In Deadly Choices, infectious-disease expert Paul Offit takes a look behind the curtain of the anti-vaccine movement.
Vaccines: What You Should Know

Vaccines: What You Should Know

Paul A. Offit

Addresses many of the commonly asked questions and concerns parents have about various vaccines while delving into the history of vaccines in connection to the diseases that can be controlled by them.
Bad Faith: When Religious Belief Undermines Modern Medicine

Bad Faith: When Religious Belief Undermines Modern Medicine

Paul A. Offit

A controversial and rare glimpse into the minds of those individuals who choose to medically martyr themselves, or their children, in the name of religion explores this life-threatening phenomenon that is a rejection of the very best ...
Deadly Choices: How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All

Deadly Choices: How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All

Paul A. Offit

The story of anti-vaccine activity in America, its origins, leaders, influences, and impact.
Vaccines & Your Child: Separating Fact from Fiction

Vaccines & Your Child: Separating Fact from Fiction

Paul A. Offit

Provides information about how vaccines are made, why they are given, and the safety of the vaccinations given today, as well as advice for parents about vaccinations and altering vaccine schedules.
Bad Faith: When Religious Belief Undermines Modern Medicine

Bad Faith: When Religious Belief Undermines Modern Medicine

Paul Offit

In recent years, there have been major outbreaks of whooping cough among children in California, mumps in New York, and measles in Ohio's Amish country—despite the fact that these are all vaccine-preventable diseases.
Vaccinated: Triumph, Controversy, and An Uncertain F

Vaccinated: Triumph, Controversy, and An Uncertain F

Paul A. Offit, M.D.

Vaccinated is not a biography; Hilleman's experience forms the basis for a rich and lively narrative of two hundred years of medical history, ranging across the globe and throughout time to take in a cast of hundreds, all caught up, ...
Do You Believe in Magic?: The Sense and Nonsense of ...

Do You Believe in Magic?: The Sense and Nonsense of ...

Paul A. Offit

Uses real-life stories to present a scathing expose of the alternative medicine industry that debunks the treatments that don't work and takes on the media celebrities who promote alternative medicine.
The Cutter Incident: How America's First Polio Vaccine Led ...

The Cutter Incident: How America's First Polio Vaccine Led ...

Paul A. Offit

This remarkable book recounts for the first time a devastating episode in 1955 at Cutter Laboratories in Berkeley, California, that has led many pharmaceutical companies to abandon vaccine manufacture.
Breaking the Antibiotic Habit: A Parent's Guide to Coughs, ...

Breaking the Antibiotic Habit: A Parent's Guide to Coughs, ...

Paul A. Offit

Clearly organized and packed with vital information, Breaking the Antibiotic Habit covers all the key issues, including: Distinguishing between strep throat and sore throat, sinus infection and the common cold, pneumonia and bronchitis, and ...
The Cutter Incident: How America's First Polio Vaccine Led ...

The Cutter Incident: How America's First Polio Vaccine Led ...

Paul A. Offit

... vitae of Bernice Eddy, History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD. Bernice Eddy and inoculation of monkeys: Interview of Bernice Eddy by Dr. Wyndham Miles, historian, National Institutes of Health, November 3 ...
Paul

Paul

Geoffrey Harris

The SCM Core Text Paul provides an overview of the life and thought of the apostle Paul, but unlike many other works, it does not separate out Paul the theologian from Paul the missioner.
Pesticides In Perspective

Pesticides In Perspective

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Myron C. Harrison, M.D., M.P.H. The Woodland, TX Kevin Holtzclaw, M.S. Boulder, CO PaulA. Offit, M.D. Children's Hospital ofPhiladelphia Elizabeth M. Whelan, Sc.D., M.P.H. President, American Council on Science and Health Publisher, ...
Pesticides and Health: Myths vs. Realities

Pesticides and Health: Myths vs. Realities

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... California, Los Angeles Myron C. Harrison, M.D., M.P.H. The Woodland, TX Kevin Holtzclaw, M.S. Boulder, CO PaulA. Offit, M.D. Children's Hospital ofPhiladelphia Thomas P. Stossel, M.D. Harvard Medical School Harold D. Stratton,Jr.,J.D. ...
Walking Between the Times: Paul's Moral Reasoning

Walking Between the Times: Paul's Moral Reasoning

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J. Paul Sampley provides a guidebook for all who want to understand Paul's thought world, his moral reasoning, and the resources for deliberation that Paul considers available to believers.
Health and Safety Tips for Your Summer Vacation

Health and Safety Tips for Your Summer Vacation

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... Ph.D., M.P.H. University of California, Los Angeles Honorable Bruce S. Gelb Vice Chairman, ACSH New York, NY PaulA. Offit, M.D. Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Elizabeth M. Whelan, Sc.D., M.P.H. President, ACSH Norman E. Borlaug, ...
Friends, Writers, and Other Countrymen: A Memoir

Friends, Writers, and Other Countrymen: A Memoir

Sidney Offit

Michael Roberts's gracious assistant at PEN American Center, Ana Bozicevic- Bowling, provided references from PEN's archives and informed me of events via postal mail and telephone. I discovered Cynthia Barnhart's transcription services  ...
Combination Vaccines: Development, Clinical Research, and ...

Combination Vaccines: Development, Clinical Research, and ...

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PAULA. OFFIT, MD, Professor, Section of Infectious Diseases, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA PETER PARADISO, PhD, Vice-President, Scientific Affairs and Research ...
Paul Gilroy

Paul Gilroy

Paul Williams

Paul Williams ... (AE 16) I find myself coming back, again and again, to this quotation from the black British critical theorist Paul Gilroy (1956–present). As a proposition, it could not be put more simply, but it runs counter to expected ways of ...
Paul's Men Vol. 9

Paul's Men Vol. 9

Paul Morris

Now you can experience what it's like to be in the studio with Paul through these behind-the-scene stories and full color images taken by the man himself.
The Panic Virus: The True Story Behind the Vaccine-Autism ...

The Panic Virus: The True Story Behind the Vaccine-Autism ...

Seth Mnookin

In December 2009: Complaint with Demand for Jury Trial, Barbara Loe Arthurv. PaulA. Offit et al., No. 09-CV-1398 (U.S. Dist. Ct., E.D. VA), March 10, 2010. The case was summarily dismissed: Memorandum Opinion, Barbara Loe Arthur v.
Encyclopedia of Mind Enhancing Foods, Drugs and Nutritional ...

Encyclopedia of Mind Enhancing Foods, Drugs and Nutritional ...

David W. Group

Other research hasalso shown that normal doses of supplementsare ineffective, andhigher doses are potentially harmful (Naqviet al., 2013; Annals ofInternal Medicine, December 16, 2013; PaulA. Offit,“How Lobbyists Will Keep You Hooked ...
Reinventing Paul

Reinventing Paul

John G. Gager

Through an exhaustive analysis of Paul's letters to the Galatians and the Roman, illuminating answers are given to the key questions about the teachings of Paul.
The Background And Contents Of Paul's Cultic Atonement Metaphors

The Background And Contents Of Paul's Cultic Atonement Metaphors

Stephen Finlan

In addition to offering an overview of Paul's use of cultic metaphors and an assessment of Paul's synthesis of martyrology and cultic metaphor, this work shows how Paul uses still other metaphors (acquittal, reconciliation, adoption) to ...

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