.... About one in 400 black newborns in the U.S. have sickle cell anemia. And one in 12 black Americans carry the sickle cell trait (http://www.medaccess.com/h_ child/sickle/sca_01.htm). This leaves a good chance that the parent with the trait can pass the defect onto offspring although their own health is not harmed. The cause of sickle cell anemia is rather simple but it leaves a life threatening affect. Anyone who carries the inherited trait for sickle cell anemia, but doesn't have the disorder, is actually protected from a severe form of malaria. This helped the children in countries where malaria was a problem, to be able to survive against that diseas .....

.... Subtle signs of depression make it hard for doctors to diagnose depression. Doctors who are not specialists in mental health miss the diagnosisof severe depression at least half the time(Salmans 16). People are not made aware of what to look for in a depressed person. Prolonged sadness and changes in daily routine are often the most obvious signs. These still sometimes come up short when dealing with depression. Fewer than one-third of [people] ever receive treatment or even recognize that their misery could be relieved(Whybrow 7). When dealing with depression people often deny that anything is wrong. Feelings of shame often begin to emerge when someone .....

.... a primary, chronic disease with genetic, psychosocial, and environmental factors influencing its development and manifestations. The disease is often progressive and fatal. It is characterized by continuous or periodic: impaired control over drinking, preoccupation with the drug alcohol, use of alcohol despite adverse consequences, and distortions in thinking, most notably denial. The rational for continued use of alcohol is centered on, Common addiction distortions. MENTAL FILTER: Magnify the negative details and eliminate the positive. E.g. - using alcohol is so incredible. It is the most pleasurable thing I know. (filter out the negative effects) PO .....

.... and it needs to be addressed now. The epidemic of HIV/AIDS is on the rise in the state of Virginia. As many as 15,000 residents may be infected with the virus and not be aware of it and the majority of these victims are between the ages of twenty and forty. The only solution to this problem, as is the only solution to any problem, is prevention through education. Of course it is easy to hand out literature and condoms to adults, but are they really going to listen? As a community, we can encourage HIV/AIDS testing, but will it be taken advantage of? Since these are adults being familiarized with HIV/AIDS, how to contract it, the consequences, and the raw .....

.... Montemayor, & Svajiian, 1977; Bandura & Walters, 1963). Many young people between 10-18 years of age experiment with smoking, smoking is a personal choice, and usually exploratory in nature. Typically, it takes place in rather young people and is largely dependent on: first, the availability of opportunity to engage in the behavior, second, having a fairly high degree of curiosity about the effects of the behavior; third, in finding it a way of expressing either conformity to the behavior or others (such as parents, older siblings or peers), forth, as in "Miller and Dollar's" explanation of Observational Learning, The Copying behavior effect. This researc .....

.... Future Prospects and Trends in Pharmacology (Pg's 32-42) VIII. Recipe (Pg's 43-44) Endnotes (Pg's 45-46) Bibliography (Pg's 47-48) The science and ambidexterity of treating, diagnosing, and preventing disease is known as the field of Medicine. In ancient times Medicine was a vague field, mostly incorporated with magic and superstition, it was not like our modern medical system of scientific analysis.  Early Amputation Tools Shown here are the contents of a case of amputation instruments dating from about 1800. Within medicine the most crucial component, bes .....

.... felt secure in. Commerce was the only place I could go to finish my education and to have a roof over both our heads. I registered for twenty hours the first two semesters and I started noticing I was coming home crying every other day. I would sit in a corner in the dark all the time. I was scared all the time, and through all of that, I scared my son to death. He would come to me and say "mommy what's wrong, why do you do these things, please mommy let me help you". But he couldn't help me, I couldn't help myself. I decided to go to the counseling center first, just to see if I could talk my problem out. There I found my salvation and my sanity. I wa .....

.... people "self-actualizing" persons. Maslow set up a hierarchical theory of needs in which all the basic needs are at the bottom, and the needs concerned with man's highest potential are at the top. The hierarchic theory is often represented as a pyramid, with the larger, lower levels representing the lower needs, and the upper point representing the need for self-actualization. Each level of the pyramid is dependent on the previous level. For example, a person does not feel the second need until the demands of the first have been satisfied. 1. Physiological Needs. These needs are biological and consists of the needs for oxygen, food, water, and a relatively .....