Grace James Academy of Excellence: Health Science Pathway

The health care field offers a wide array of job choices for those interested in a rewarding career helping others and making a difference in people's lives. What the jobs entail, what they pay, and future prospects are discussed along with insights from industry insiders.

This title explores the importance of knowing your options and advocating for your own reproductive health needs. It also offers suggestions on how to talk to others and combat stigma about reproductive health. Features include an ask the expert section, tips on being healthy, a glossary, additional resources, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Essential Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

Modern health care must stay on the cutting edge if the field expects to keep up with ever more difficult demands, as new health conditions crop up and populations age. The newest diagnostic machines, network infrastructures, and surgical tools are examined in this book. It imparts crucial guidance to future health care workers who will have to acclimate to and master them. Readers will learn how tech augments care, how technologies have changed health care over time, and what is developing as future innovations.

HIV and AIDS are devastating and deadly diseases, but there are many ways to prevent contraction. There are also many ways to live a full life with a positive diagnosis. This informative guide explains the history of HIV and AIDS, and how treatments for the diseases has changed, both in North America and around the world. Readers will receive straightforward information on how the disease is contracted, what behaviors are low versus high risk, and the experience of getting tested. Expert information on handling a diagnosis and telling others will provide readers with fundamental knowledge.

This title covers the events surrounding an unprecedented global health crisis, including the origin of the pandemic, how it spread across the world, and how government leaders and health experts worked to respond. Features include essential facts, a glossary, selected bibliography, websites, source notes, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Essential Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

Ebola is a highly contagious virus that is spread through bodily fluids. It first appeared in 1976 and has spread across sub-Saharan Africa. Read this book to learn more about the history of this infectious disease.

Explains the symptoms of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, as well as explains how it's diagnosed, how it's treated, and how it spreads. Additional features include informative captions, interesting factual sidebars, suggested activities, a phonetic glossary, resources for further research, information about the author, and an index.

While vaccines are a hot-button issue, there is no scientific doubt that they have eradicated some diseases from many modern countries. Including sections on what exactly vaccines are, why they are used, and how they work, the narrative of this book explains this newsworthy topic in age-appropriate language and detail. Full-color photographs of actual medical conditions prevented by vaccines and illustrations of these diseases make each seem even more real to the future scientists engaged with each page.

Female doctors, nurses, and medical researchers are helping change the way we treat illnesses and injuries. Women in Medicinelooks at individuals who are making a major difference in these fields. Compelling text, full-color photos, and helpful back matter highlight these women and their work. Features include a table of contents, a glossary, additional resources, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Core Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.