Arthritis For Dummies
About the Authors
Barry Fox and Nadine Taylor are a husband-and-wife writing team living in
Los Angeles, California.
Dr Sarah Brewer qualified as a doctor in 1983 from Cambridge University.
She was a full-time GP for five years and now works in nutritional medicine
and sexual health. Sarah is currently completing an MSc in Nutritional
Medicine at the University of Surrey, Guildford.
Although her first love is medicine, her major passion is writing. Sarah writes
widely on all aspects of health and has written over 40 popular self-help
books. She is a regular contributor to a number of newspapers and women’s
magazines, and appears regularly on TV and radio. She was voted Health
Journalist of the Year 2002.
Barry Fox, PhD, is the author, coauthor, or ghostwriter of numerous books,
including the New York Times number one best-seller, The Arthritis Cure (St.
Martin’s, 1997). He also wrote its sequel, Maximizing The Arthritis Cure (St.
Martin’s, 1998), as well as The Side Effects Solution (Broadway Books, 2005),
What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Hypertension (Warner Books, 2003), What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Migraines (Warner Books, 2001), Syndrome X (Simon & Schuster, 2000), The 20/30 Fat and Fiber Diet Plan (HarperCollins, 1999), and Cancer Talk (Broadway Books, 1999). His books and over 160 articles covering various aspects of health, business, biography, law, and other topics have been translated into 20 languages.
Nadine Taylor, MS, RD, is the author of Natural Menopause Remedies (Signet,
2004), 25 Natural Ways To Relieve PMS (Contemporary Books, 2002), and
Green Tea (Kensington Press, 1998), as well as co-author of Runaway Eating
(to be published by Rodale in 2005), What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Hypertension (Warner Books, 2003), and If You Think You Have An Eating Disorder (Dell, 1998). After a brief stint as head dietitian at the Eating
Disorders Unit at Glendale Adventist Medical Center, Ms. Taylor lectured on
women’s health issues to groups of health professionals throughout the
country. She has also written numerous articles on health and nutrition for
the popular press.
Jinoos Yazdany, MD, MPH, is a board certified internist and a Rheumatology
Fellow at the University of California, San Francisco. She completed her
undergraduate education at Stanford University, where she received the
Deans’ Award for Academic Achievement and graduated with Honors and
Distinction. She completed medical school at the University of California, Los
Angeles, where she received a Humanism in Medicine award from the Health
Care Foundation of New Jersey and graduated Alpha Omega Alpha. Dr.
Yazdany also studied public health at Harvard University. Her research
involves examining health disparities in the care of patients with chronic diseases. This is her first book.
