The Pituitary Patient Resource Guide Revised Fourth Edition 
What this tremendous book offers:

The Pituitary Patient Resource Guide is the only comprehensive guide for pituitary patients in the world and is an absolutely invaluable source of information not only for patients but also their families, physicians, and all health care providers.  It contains information about the PNA, patient resource listings for where to go for medical care, a wide range of articles regarding pituitary disorders, as well as information about the latest treatments and medications available to pituitary patients.

This book provides the guidance you need to confidently and effectively take on a more active role in maintaining health and seeking out the best medical help when needed.  Taking charge requires educating yourself about your condition and learning communication skills to enable you to describe your symptoms to your doctor, ask questions, and negotiate treatment options. Practical steps to improve your relationships with medical caregivers and develop a method of constructive medical decision-making are presented.
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Published by the Pituitary Network Association | Copyright PNA 2007| Pages: 400 Executive Editors: S. Ezzat, MD, FRCP and R. Knutzen, MBA, PNA Chairman

Editors: M.A. Weitzner, N. Sonino, R. Knutzen | Pages: 190

Dr. Louann Brizendine, a neuropsychiatrist at the University of California, San Francisco, founded the Women’s and Teen Girls’  Mood and Hormone Clinic.

The Female Brain explores the development and inner working of the female brain from birth through maturity, as well as postpartum depression and sexual orientation. Written by top neuropsychiatrist, Dr. Louann Brizendine, The Female Brain shows and compares the differences between the male and female brains and sheds light on why the female brain develops and acts as it does. A very clever, smart, and eye-opening book.

For the 200,000 people in the United States who are diagnosed with a brain tumor each year, the future can be daunting. After the initial shock wears off, patients are immediately faced with major decisions regarding treatment options and struggle with ongoing concerns about long-term effects.

Author Dr. Peter Black is the Franc D. Ingraham Professor of Neurosurgery at Harvard Medical School and Chair of the Department of Neurosurgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and at Children’s Hospital Boston

Are we threatening our fertility, intelligence, and survival? Over 30 years ago, Rachel Carson's Silent Spring first warned that man-made chemicals were taking a deadly toll on birds and wildlife. Only now, however, are we recognizing the full consequences of this insidious threat, which is derailing sexual development and reproduction not only in a host of animal populations, but in humans as well. 

Author: Theo Colborn, Dianne Dumanoski, John Peterson Myers | Publisher:Plume | Pages: 316

In these intense and searing essays, a lawyer describes her seesawing emotions over a misdiagnosis of what she was told was an inoperable tumor; a physician formerly employed by an HMO rails at the accepted practice of managed-care organizations finding legal loopholes to trump a patient's needs; a physician wrestles with the idea of doctors policing themselves, knowing he is powerless to prevent the mistakes of an incompetent colleague.