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Search our collection of print books, eBooks, CDs and DVDs, games, and teaching tools on health topics.
Search our collection of print books, eBooks, CDs and DVDs, games, and teaching tools on health topics.
Describes the VCUG test, that lets doctors see your child's bladder, kidneys, and ureters. Explains how the test works, what to expect, and how to prepare and support your child.
Comic book featuring Medikidz, superhero experts on health and illness. Explains how ADHD affects the body and behaviour.
| BC Children's and Women's Family Library | On Loan, due Wednesday, June 5, 2024 |
Comic book featuring Medikidz, superhero experts on health and illness. Explains why people need a stoma, what stomas look like, and how they work.; Ages 7-12
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Comic book featuring Medikidz, superhero experts on health and illness. Explains why spasms happen, and treatments that can help.; Ages 7-12
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Comic book featuring Medikidz, superhero experts on health and illness. Explains what hemophilia is, how infusion factors help, and what you can do to help stay healthy.; Ages 7-12
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Comic book featuring Medikidz, superhero experts on health and illness. Explains how autism affects individuals, and their siblings.
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Comic book featuring Medikidz, superhero experts on health and illness. Explains how a PICC line works, what to expect from the procedure, and how to care for the PICC.; Ages 7-12
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Comic book featuring Medikidz, superhero experts on health and illness. Explains what happens inside the body during an allergic reaction, and gives tips on living well with a food allergy.; Ages 7-12
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Learn more about how lab and imaging tests are used to help detect (diagnose) and treat blood cancers (types of leukemia, lymphoma, myeloma, myelodysplastic syndromes and myeloproliferative disorders). Includes tips to help keep track of test results and a handout with suggested questions to ask yo…
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The Medikidetz are superheroes who live on Mediland, a planet shaped like a human body. they are experts in health and illness, and their mission is to teach you all about your body and how illness affects it.
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Comic book featuring Medikidz, superhero experts on health and illness. Explains what happens inside the body when a person has chronic kidney disease. Also explains how treatments work, and why eating healthy food is important.; Ages 7-12
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Comic book featuring Medikidz, superhero experts on health and illness. Explains what to expect when visiting someone in the ICU.
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Comic book featuring Medikidz, superhero experts on health and illness. Explores why bed-wetting happens, and treatments.
Giving a full overview of childhood obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) and discussing all major treatment options, including cognitive behavioural therapy and medication, this guide provides the essential information that families, teachers, caregivers, clinicians and mental health professionals n…
Comic book featuring Medikidz, superhero experts on health and illness. Explains how autism affects individuals, and their siblings.
| copy 1 BC Children's and Women's Family Library | On Loan, due Friday, January 26, 2024 |
Join Charlie on his journey to learn how leukemia is diagnosed, what cancer does to the body, and what to expect with leukemia treatment.
| BC Children's and Women's Family Library | On Loan, due Wednesday, April 3, 2024 |
Comic book featuring Medikidz, superhero experts on health and illness. Explores how psoriasis affects the body, and treatment options.
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Comic book featuring Medikidz, superhero experts on health and illness. Explores how infections work, and explains hand hygiene.
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Comic book featuring Medikidz, superhero experts on health and illness. Explains different degrees of burn, scarring, and how grafting works.
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Comic book featuring Medikidz, superhero experts on health and illness. Explains how thalassemia affects the body, and how treatments work.
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Comic book featuring Medikidz, superhero experts on health and illness. Explains how pneumonia affects the body, which tests diagnose pneumonia, how it's treated, and how to prevent it..
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Comic book featuring Medikidz, superhero experts on health and illness. Explains how cancer affects the body, how chemotherapy works, and what to expect during treatment.
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Comic book featuring Medikidz, superhero experts on health and illness. Explains how asthma affects the body, and how treatments work.
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Comic book featuring Medikidz, superhero experts on health and illness. Explains how scoliosis affects the body, and how treatments work.
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Join Dara on her journey to learn about her brother's osteosarcoma, how it affects his body, possible treatment options, and how to show her support.
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Comic book featuring Medikidz, superhero experts on health and illness. Maggie learns about what happens before, during, and after an operation, and the surgical team who will be taking care of her.
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In graphic novel format, the Medikidz, superheroes from the planet Mediland, help Savi understand encephalitis.
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In graphic novel format, the Medikidz, superheroes from the planet Mediland, help Isaac understand his body and the procedure for photopheresis.
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Join Tia and Gabriel on their journey to explore how obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) affects your behavior and emotions, and how to manage it.
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Join Duke on his journey to learn more about his appendix, appendicitis, and appendectomy procedure.
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Join Mark on his journey through the human body to learn about how concussions affect the brain and concussion recovery.
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Join Tara on her journey to learn more about managing seizure triggers, epilepsy symptoms, and treatment.
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Comic book featuring Medikidz, superhero experts on health and illness. Explores how psoriasis affects the body, and treatment options.
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The Medikidz help Freddy overcome his fears about having a blood test.
Comic book featuring Medikidz, superhero experts on health and illness. Explains how cancer affects the body, and treatments for childhood cancer.
| BC Children's and Women's Family Library | On Loan, due Monday, March 4, 2024 |
Join Vincent on his journey to learn more about how attention deficit hyperactivity disorder works in the brain and how ADHD is treated.
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This book provides essential background information on causes, types and symptom of Cerebral Palsy, as well as advice about the treatments, therapies and sources of support available.
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Comic book featuring Medikidz, superhero experts on health and illness. Explores how ulcerative colitis affects the body, and how medication helps.
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Comic book featuring Medikidz, superhero experts on health and illness. Explains how primary immunodeficiency affects the body, and how treatments work.
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Comic book featuring Medikidz, superhero experts on health and illness. Explains how epilepsy and epilepsy medicines can affect children and youth, and how to cope.
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Comic book featuring Medikidz, superhero experts on health and illness. Explains how aerobic, muscle-strengthening, and bone-strengthening exercise in childhood and youth help the body. The Medikidz also explain how not exercising can harm the body.
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The Medikidz teach Cameron, June, and Marcus what happens in a clinical trial and how clinical trials help doctors and scientists find new treatments to help kids with different illnesses around the world.
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The Medikidz take Raj on a trip through the human body to better understand how Crohn's disease/colitis affects the body and how he can manage it, in this audiobook version of our award-winning comic book Understanding Crohn's Disease.
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In graphic novel format, the Medikidz, superheroes from the planet Mediland, help Beth understand her body and how illness and replacement enzymes affects it.
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Join Ella as she learns how cystic fibrosis affects the lungs and pancreas, how CF is treated, and what it means to have a genetic disorder.
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Join Jonathan on his journey to learn about all the people on his health care team who will support him before, during, and after his medical procedure.
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Join Lilian on her journey to learn how food allergies affect the body, steps to take to avoid allergic reactions, and what to do in an emergency.
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In graphic novel format, the Medikidz, superheroes from the planet Mediland, help Kevin understand blood transfusions
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Join Amy on her journey to learn more about the digestive system, how ulcerative colitis affects your body and treatment to avoid flare-ups.
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Follow Megan as she learns about CT scan machines.
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