This textbook presents hands-on training material for medical students. The style reflects the need for practice-based teaching with a modern edge in daily clinical routine; accordingly, it also employs online material and pocket cards. Each chapter begins with specific learning objectives, which are cross-referenced with the European curriculum for undergraduate medical education released by the European Union of Medical Specialists (UEMS) together with the European Union Geriatric Medicine ...

Prevention is essential for all of us in order to make our environment healthier and reduce the increase of chronic diseases. Lifestyle changes, such as drinking water purification, sewage treatment and the introduction of the refrigerator, brought us far more health benefits than medicines produced by the pharmaceutical industry.

Something has gone bad in our environment: in the animal world caged budgerigars have the highest incidence of cancer. Ovarian and oviduct cancer are frequently fou...

The story of Bridget is about hope and will as well as luck. How many girls called Bridget survive after all? It is about love, the love of a mother and grandfather in a hostile society. It is most of all about the capacity to fight. Fight for the survival of a twitching baby who can neither suck nor crawl nor later walk. Fight for a person to be called human even if all the odds seem against it because of a traditional belief system.

Those around her in her local society mumble: Isn t sh...

We remember still a single farm with chickens and pigs on the farm and cows in the pasture. Increasingly we see grain silos appear with large livestock farming, whose pigs, chickens or cows never outside come. Diseases, which can be transmitted from animals to humans, are the result.

Prevention is essential for all of us in order to make our environment healthier and reduce the increase of chronic diseases.

Lifestyle changes, such as the purification of drinking water, sewage treatment and t...

We remember still a single farm with chickens and pigs on the farm and cows in the pasture. Increasingly we see grain silos appear with consumption animal farms, whose pigs, chickens or cows never outside come. Diseases, which can be transmitted from animals to humans, are the result. The expansion in the intensive livestock and tropical bird breeding threatens the health of us all. It is of great importance that the air we breathe indoors in private homes, public transport, public buildings ...

The one who falls and rises again is so much stronger than the one who never fell.

This is a book about man and his world.

His natural world, his social world, his inner world.

Weaving together psychoanalysis with ecology, anthropology, religion and sociology, I try to advocate a state of freedom and magic as a way for the human race to thrive on Earth.

I do not like our artificial ways of surviving, that have us blindly depending upon fear and the need for survival.

As I see it, fear leads to destruction and that surely is what we are witnessing in our relation to our pla...

How do certain beliefs and fears arise?

Why do I do what I do?

What can I do to take control of my life?

How do I create harmony with my environment?

These are important life questions that many people struggle

with, but do not have the answers to. The world is becoming

increasingly complex and there is a growing need for awareness

about ourselves and about life. But how do you become aware,

and of what?

Consciousness is essential in it lie the answers to the why.

Only when you can e...

In the early 1980s, gynaecologist Paul Devroey and paediatrician, clinical pathologist and researcher André Van Steirteghem lay the foundations of the now world-renowned Brussels IVF at the Free University of Brussels (VUB). They and their team gradually refine the techniques for in vitro fertilisation and discover the method of intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI), during which one sperm cell is injected into an egg cell. This chance discovery ultimately turns out to be a solution for ma...

Joris van Dijk was diagnosed with Crohn's disease at a young age, a chronic bowel disease that controlled his life for years. Despite medication and frequent hospital visits, he continued to struggle with pain, fatigue, and eventually obesity. By his 30th birthday, he was over 40 kilos overweight and felt like he had completely lost control of his health. After countless treatments, he decided to take a different approach and started the carnivore diet. To his surprise, not only did his Crohn...