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This collection of student monographs includes: "Educating Older Adults About Medications" (Patricia Barrett-Schwer); "Health Educators' Role in Weight Management and Body Acceptance" (Melanie H. Brede); "Health Educators as Advocates for Organ Donation" (Jennifer L. Hawker); "Involvement of Illinois School Nurses in the Eight Component Model of Coordinated School Health Programs" (Elissa M. Howard); "Evaluation of Environmental Approaches to Control for Indoor Allergens and Reducing Asthma Morbidity among Children and Adolescents" (E. Lisako Jones and Christine A. Tisone); "Doula Use During Childbirth" (Tia Reed); "Prescription Drug Misuse in Older Adults and Strategies for Prevention" (Jessica A. Schulman); "The Role of Pharmacists in Reducing Tobacco and Alcohol Use" (Stefanie Stephenson); "Understanding Childhood Obesity" (Shannon Tynes); and "Consumer Health Information and the New Technologies: Implications for Health Education" (Marsha H. White). (All papers contain references.) (SM)

This book includes more than 500 entries describing advances in the treatment of disease and the understanding of human health. The emphasis is on significant advances in diseases, treatments, and health issues. Topics included are: alternative or nonwestern medicine; anesthesia and analgesia; antibiotics; cancer; cell biology and physiology; dentistry; dermatology; diagnosis; drugs; ears and hearing; emergency care; endocrinology; gastroenterology; genetic disease; genetics; health institutions, professions, specialties, and policy; heart and blood vessel anatomy, function, and disease; hematology; imaging; immunology; infection control; infectious disease; men's health; nephrology; neurology; nutrition; obstetrics and gynecology; old-fashioned medicine; ophthalmology; organizations, international; organizations, U.S.; orthopedics; pediatrics; plastic surgery; psychology; public health; surgery; transplants or artificial organs; U.S. government; and women's health. The book provides a subject list, which presents the entry names by broad subject area; a timeline, which lists medical and health milestones chronologically, beginning about 10,000 BC and ending in the year 2000; and a general index to the contents of the entries. Each entry contains a source for additional reading. (SM)

Presents a collection of articles that offer information on such issues as the progress of black student matriculations at the highest-ranking U.S. colleges; black historians teaching black history; Blacks in academic accounting; banishing the stereotype that African Americans cannot do mathematics; campus crime rates at black colleges; and the growing digital divide for black and white college students. (SM)