Author: Committee on Spinal Cord InjuryCatharyn T. Liverm
Publisher: National Academies Press
Keywords: promise, priorities, progress, injury, cord, spinal
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 2005-07-29
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0309095859
ISBN-13: 9780309095853

An estimated 11,000 spinal cord injuries occur each year in the United States and more than 200,000 Americans suffer from maladies associated with spinal cord injury. This includes paralysis, bowel and bladder dysfunction, sexual dysfunction, respiratory impairment, temperature regulation problems, and chronic pain. During the last two decades, longstanding beliefs about the inability of the adult central nervous system to heal itself have been eroded by the flood of new information from research in the neurosciences and related fields. However, there are still no cures and the challenge of re

Authors:Catharyn T. Liverman, Carrie E. Ingalls, Carolyn E.
Publisher: Diane Pub Co
Keywords: national, library, medicine, role, resources, environmental, health, information, toxicology
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 1997-08
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 0788171410
ISBN-13: 9780788171413

Report from the committee formed by the Institute of Medicine to study health professional’s usage of the 16 online databases that comprise the NLM’s Toxicology and Environmental Health Information Program. Softcover.

Authors:Jeffrey P. Koplan, Catharyn T. Liverman, Vivica I. K
Publisher: National Academy Press
Keywords: balance, health, obesity, childhood, preventing
Number of Pages: 414
Published: 2005-02
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0309093155
ISBN-13: 9780309093156

Children’s health has made tremendous strides over the past century. In general, life expectancy has increased by more than thirty years since 1900 and much of this improvement is due to the reduction of infant and early childhood mortality. Given this trajectory toward a healthier childhood, we begin the 21st-century with a shocking development - an epidemic of obesity in children and youth. The increased number of obese children throughout the U.S. during the past 25 years has led policymakers to rank it as one of the most critical public health threats of the 21st-century. "Preventing