Coping with Prednisone, Revised and Updated: (*And Other Cortisone-Related Medicines)

Coping with Prednisone, Revised and Updated: (*And Other Cortisone-Related Medicines) - Paperback

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Coping with Prednisone, Revised and Updated: (*And Other Cortisone-Related Medicines)
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Coping with Prednisone, Revised and Updated: (*And Other Cortisone-Related Medicines) - Paperback

Coping with Prednisone, Revised and Updated: (*And Other Cortisone-Related Medicines) - Paperback

by Eugenia Zukerman , Julie R. Ingelfinger
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by Eugenia Zukerman (Author), Julie R. Ingelfinger (Author)

Approximately one million Americans per year take high doses of prednisone and related drugs. While these medicines may be necessary to treat serious illnesses, they may also have unpleasant, and even devastating, side effects, including changes in mood, weight, and physical strength, and vulnerability to infection.

In 1997, after acclaimed flutist Eugenia Zukerman was prescribed prednisone for a rare lung disease, she teamed up with her sister, Harvard physician Julie Ingelfinger, to write the first book that helps patients deal with the side effects of the prescription.
This welcome update to a superb resource--which is still the only book on the subject-- covers the latest knowledge about bone health, the use of steroids for children, and new steroid compounds, along with additional strategies and exercises based on their own experiences and responses from other patients and physicians.

Author Biography

Eugenia Zukerman is an internationally renowned flutist, the arts correspondent for CBS-TV News's "Sunday Morning," and the writer of many articles, two novels, and several screenplay. She lives in New York City.

Her sister, Julie R. Ingelfinger, M.D. , is chief of the Division of Pediatric Nephrology at Massachusetts General Hospital, directs her own research laboratory, and is an associate professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. Julie has written more than 130 articles, authored a book on pediatric hypertension, and is the editor of a textbook that comes out every other year, Current Pediatric Therapy. She lives in Boston.
Number of Pages: 256
Dimensions: 0.8 x 8.4 x 5.5 IN
Publication Date: December 10, 2007
ISBN9780312375607
Author Eugenia Zukerman , Julie R. Ingelfinger
PublisherSt. Martin's Griffin
GenreHealth & fitness and Education
FormatPaperback
PublishedDecember 2007
LanguageENG- English
Pages256
Weight1.0 lb
Print SizeStandard Print

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