The New Complete Medical And Health Encyclopediais designed to give you clear, accurate answers to your questions about health care. Thorough discussions of major diseases such as cancer and heart problems are included, along with facts about many other less serious diseases and physical problems and how they are treated.Many people today want to take an active part in their own treatment. This usually takes the form of asking your physician to present the treatment options available to you, then making a decisiori about which course to follow. Let's assume that your physician is in tune with this approach and willing to relinquish some of the authority doctors traditionally have assumed to tell patients what to do. You will need information to ask intelligent questions and to understand the alternatives being discussed. This set of books will give you that information.Fortunately, research in medicine is continually advancing.The New Complete Medical And Health Encyclopediahas been revised in this edition to include material on recent advances in medicine and health care.UseThe New Complete Medical And Health Encyclopediafor background information on a host of topics, as a handy guide to first aid, and as a reference on where to get further information.Get acquainted with these books by looking through the table of contents in each volume. Then, to locate a specific topic of interest, consult the A-Z Index Reference Guide in volume-4. It includes brief descriptions and definitions on hundreds of medical and health topics and terms.