The Best Teaching Resource for Self-Care. New To This Edition:
- Entire textbook available to all purchasers as fully-searchable e-book, making it much easier to use.
- www.OTCHandbook.com, due early 2006, will give updates as necessary and provide additional learning resources on self-care.
- Revised and improved case assessment model: more tables, new headings, new cases added.
- New Chapter: Meal Replacement and Functional Foods, in response to your many requests.
- Improved disease-related chapters with new figures, streamlined headings and summaries of key points.

Many chapters have undergone major revisions:
- Asthma
- Diabetes Mellitus
- Heartburn and Dyspepsia
- Headache
- Musculoskeletal Injuries and Disorders
- Sports Nutrition and Performance-Enhancing Nutrients
- Prevention of Pregnancy and Sexually Transmitted Infections

Very few references on self-care cover all the options available to the self-treeating patient. The Handbook of Nonprescription Drugs is the exception.