.... and intensive treatment, and will afford a better ulti- mate outlook for the patient. The patient, however, should be told in a way that will not upset, frighten or discourage him. The facts should be quietly laid before him in an optimistic way so that he may achieve a sensible adapta- tion. Two hundred and ninety-nine of three hundred pa- tients who were asked if they felt they should he told by their doctor when he was sure of the diagnosis replied "Yes". It is quite obvious that you cannot learn to adapt and handle all the problems connected with an illness such as this unless you know what it is. It may sometimes be diffi- cult to decide what to tel .....

.... penalty of law. Recent studies show that a large percentage of teens today are getting their cigarettes from stores, mostly gas stations or convenience store. As teens continue to be able to buy their own cigarettes, more and more communities begin to impose stronger punishments on merchants who sell to the teens. One community has experienced success in their attempts to stop the sale of tobacco products to minors. Woodridge, Illinois, started a program seven years ago which forbade and strictly punished the sale of tobacco products to minors. The entire program includes local licensing of vendors, repeated undercover inspections to see if the sale to min .....

.... and increase of appetite; reduction of intraocular ("within the eye") pressure; reduction of muscle spasms; relief from mild to moderate chronic pain. Marijuana is often useful in the treatment of the following conditions: Cancer: Marijuana alleviates the nausea, vomiting, and loss of appetite caused by chemotherapy treatment. AIDS: Marijuana alleviates the nausea, vomiting, and loss of appetite caused by the disease itself and by treatment with AZT and other drugs. Glaucoma: Marijuana, by reducing intraocular pressure, alleviates the pain and slows or halts the progress of the disease. Glaucoma, which damages vision by gradually increasing eye press .....

.... syndrome is really unknown, Most doctors who specialize in this syndrome believe that chromosomal abnormalities is the main cause, but are unaware to the actual gene or combination of genes that provoke this. It is not known if inheritance of the Sturge Weber Syndrome has a pattern, but a dominant mode is suggested and likely. The syndrome has no preference to male or female, or race. Another possible cause could be a congenital anomaly, which was suggested in 1963, but is merely a possibility with no evidence to support this theory. The patients with the Sturge Weber Syndrome are usually only impaired on one side of their physique. They experience .....

.... is where the blood from the entire body is transported to the right auricle through two large veins. The superior vena cava and the inferior vena cava. When the right auricle contracts, it forces the blood through an opening into the right ventricle. When this contracts the ventricle drives the blood to the lungs. Blood is prevented from returning into the auricle by the tricuspid valve, which completely closes during contraction of the ventricle. In its passage through the lungs, the blood is oxygenated, then it is brought back to the heart by the four pulmonary veins, which enter the left auricle. When this chamber contracts, blood is forced into the l .....

.... suffering already occurring. Under the first of these, for a physician or other caregiver to extend mercy to a suffering patient may mean to refrain from procedures that cause further suffering-provided, of course, that the treatment offers the patient no overriding benefits. The ph s performed even though a patient's survival is highly unlikely; although patients in arrest are unconscious at the time of resuscitation, it can be a brutal procedure, and if the patient regains consciousness, its aftermath can involve considerable pain. In many such cases, the patient will die whether or not the treatments are performed. In some cases, however, the principle of .....

.... numbness or paralysis of a limb or a loss of voice or a blindness-- could be caused by unconscious wishes or forgotten memories. (Hysteria is now commonly referred to as conversion disorder.) The French neurologist Jean Martin CHARCOT tried to rid the mind of undesirable thoughts through hypnotic suggestion, but without lasting success. Josef Breuer, a Viennese physician, achieved better results by letting Anna O., a young woman patient, try to empty her mind by just telling him all of her thoughts and feelings. Freud refined Breuer's method by conceptualizing theories about it and, using these theories, telling his patients through interpretations what was g .....

.... Sickle-shaped red blood cells cannot easily pass through the body’s blood vessels. Instead, they clog the blood vessels, block the flow of blood, and cut off the oxygen supply to tissues and organs. This lack of oxygen can damage the body’s organs and limbs, and it causes sever pain to any affected area. Also, since sickled blood cells last only 10 to 20 days in the bloodstream, compared to a normal red cell’s life span of 120 days, the “sickled” cells result in chronic anemia (abnormally low levels of red blood cells). is most common in people whose ancestors came from parts of Saudi Arabia, India, Africa, and the Mediterranean region. Persons of South Ame .....