Overview

- A woman with with a faulty heart muscle receives an electrical device that keeps her blood pumping. Months later, her heart is strong enough to pump on its own. - A man with a heart too weak to beat properly undergoes a heart transplant. - Doctors invent a thumb-sized pump that brings the reality of an artificial heart one step closer. That's powerful medicine! Explore the power of medicine through the true stories of people who survived life-threatening heart problems. Find out how doctors use the latest medical breakthroughs to save patients with weak or damaged hearts. You'll also learn tips for heart health, as well as fascinating facts about the heart's different sections and how they aid the body.

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This book, appropriate for junior high school students to adults of all ages, is extremely well done, with a number of great examples of survival stories. The examples exemplify different and important heart diseases, symptoms, and treatments. Included are a wonderful bibliography and references. Nowadays, heart attacks tend to get ignored until it is too late, but they often starts with shortness of breath, as the character in the first example experiences. The example highlights sensibility of calling 911. With excellent illustrations, the first chapter notes the importance of the normal heart. Then the reader is introduced to a device to protect the patient until a transplant is available. The second example is a heart at risk because of a coronary artery blockage. If one of these arteries is blocked, oxygen and blood cannot get to the heart muscle, The chapter titled 'Heart Helpers' shows technological advancement in the last decades. The case of the left ventricular assist device (LVAD), implanted with an electric motor to push blood in the normal pathway, demonstrates recent technology. Indeed, the discussion of this device was so intriguing that it led me to review the approval of the device on the Food and Drug Agency website. Examples of heart attacks, hearts at risk, 'health helpers, ' and heart replacement all provide useful and interesting updates. That the author is a former science teacher enables her to write clearly for the intended audience. The illustrations and photographs are perfect, adding to a full understanding of the diseases described. --Science Books & Films --Journal It is the subtitle--True Survival Stories--for the new series, Powerful Medicine, that will grab the attention of middle school readers. The issues covered in the titles Leukemia, Lost Sight, and Faulty Hearts can be frightening as well as life-threatening, but the author of this series, a respected science writer, has a no-nonsense approach to the facts and risks. The illustrations and photos are stunning with medically accurate captions. Real-life patients, whose photos are included in the text, are highlighted, with updates on their progress at the end of each book. For families struggling with one of these medical conditions, a young reader and an adult may want to study the book together. For others, the books suggest great career choice ideas, offer examples of cutting edge technologies, and tell stories of heroes overcoming adversity. A glossary of medical terms, a selected bibliography, Web sites, and an index complete these short but comprehensive books. This series fills the need for up-to-date books on medical topics using vocabulary that a young teenager can understand. --VOYA --Journal These narratives read like information from the Discovery Health channel, for kids: part fascinating science, part human interest story, and part 'Eew, gross!' Markle devotes each volume to a severe injury, describing the nature of the accident, the damage inflicted, and the cures that saved the victims' lives. Clear, straightforward prose is supplemented by definitions and explanations of medical techniques and jargon. The numerous color photos and medical images will satisfy readers' curiosity. Each book concludes with an explanation of how to avoid the featured condition. While too slight for research, these books will hook interested readers. --School Library Journal, Series Made Simple --Journal In each volume, Markle weaves stories of two or three individuals suffering from the title disease or disorder in among scientific information about the malady and its treatment. Because the personal stories are so well integrated into the text, the science won't overwhelm readers. Frequent full-color photos and micrographs demonstrate treatments and lab findings and further connect readers with the featured individuals. --The Horn Book Guide --Journal Each of these books explores the power of medicine and features true stories of amazing treatments that helped real people overcome their medical problems. The text is accompanied by full-color photographs, including magnifications of blood cells, valves, ventricles, and optic nerve cells. Cross-sections of body parts are clearly labeled. Students will immediately be drawn to these eye-catching photographs as well as to the illustrations of some of the newest medical techniques and procedures. These books will attract not only those students studying the human body, but also those students who may be interested in a career in medicine. The author concludes with amazing facts about the heart, eyes, and blood. School librarians will want to add this series to their collection for the medical information, as well as for the additional resources listed, such as websites, support organizations, additional books on the topics, and an extended bibliography of newspapers and journals. Each book also includes 'updates' on each of the real people that the author featured throughout the series. Glossary. Table of Contents. Index. Recommended. --Library Media Connection --Journal

Author Information

Sandra Markle is the author of numerous award-winning books for children. A former elementary science teacher, she is a nationally-known science education consultant. Markle has received many honors for her series Animal Predators, Animal Scavengers, and Animal Prey. Several titles have been named as National Science Teachers Association (NSTA)/Children's Book Council (CBC) Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K-12, and Animal Predators was honored as a Top 10 Youth Nonfiction Series by Booklist. Markle is also the author of the Insect World series and several single titles. Her book Rescues! was named a Best Book by the Society of School Librarians International and a Recommended Title of Outstanding Nonfiction by the National Council of Teachers of English's (NCTE) Orbis Pictus Award committee; Animal Heroes was named a 2008 Lasting Connections title by Book Links. Markle lives in Lakewood Ranch, Florida with her husband, photographer Skip Jeffery.

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