The Addiction Handbook & Resource Guide covers addiction and related mental health conditions, and 18 common comorbidities, from AIDS/HIV to stroke. This work combines valuable, easy-to-understand educational information for consumers, patients, and their families, with official reports and releases about substance misuse, addiction, mental health factors, and treatments and further resources for co-occurring conditions.

This second edition of Salem Health: Addictions, Substance Abuse & Alcoholism presents essays on a variety of topics concerning substance abuse and behavioral addictions and their related issues. This two-volume work includes 329 essays covering all aspects of addiction and substance abuse, including diseases or conditions, substances of abuse, treatment and addiction overviews, organizations and foundations dedicated to treatment and prevention, physiological and psychological issues and behaviors, trends and statistics, and social contexts and concerns related to substance abuse and treatment such as advertising and media influence, aging, ethnicity, and children and substance abuse. The essays, written for non-specialists by medical professionals, professors in science and medicine, and medical writers, will appeal to students studying science, premed, psychology, addictive behaviors, drug abuse epidemiology and public health issues, as well as to librarians and their patrons, and of course to individuals, family and friends directly affected by addiction.

Aging takes an interdisciplinary approach will attract wide interest among the general public and students or teachers in the fields of gerontology, biology, medicine, family studies, human development, sociology, and psychology. Although aging is a phenomenon that occurs throughout the life span, for the purposes of this encyclopedia it is narrowed to the range from “middle age” to “old age”—even as its essays seek to define these terms. The broad array of topics charts the experience of aging in the United States. The set is illustrated with more than 100 photographs, medical drawings, tables, and graphs. The 314 entries in Aging, ranging in length from 300 to 4,000 words, are presented in an alphabetical format for ease of access.  

The Autism Spectrum Handbook & Resource Guide covers autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and 15 related conditions, from anxiety to tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC), that are considered common comorbidities with ASD. This work combines valuable, easy-to-understand educational information for consumers, patients, and their families, with official reports and releases about monitoring childhood growth and important milestones, community statistics, living with an ASD, and treatments and further resources for co-occurring conditions.

This second edition of Salem Health: Cancer includes 911 essays in 4 volumes on all aspects of cancer for all non-specialist interest groups—from those who have been diagnosed, to caregivers, family members, students, and readers with a general interest in health. The essays in this 4-volume set address diseases, conditions, symptoms, cancer-related syndromes, chemotherapy and other drugs, cancer centers, genetics, the biology of cancer, medical specialties, tests, procedures, complementary and alternative therapies, lifestyles, healthy and preventive strategies, and the many social and personal issues surrounding cancer, from cancer’s impact on minority populations, finances, insurance, relationships, and emotional coping.

The most comprehensive database for consumer-oriented health content, Consumer Health Complete is designed to help users gain an overall understanding of key topics across the health and wellness spectrum — from mainstream medicine to complementary, holistic and integrated medicine.

This comprehensive work comes at a time when a new case of dementia is being diagnosed, worldwide, every three seconds, according to the World Health Organization. Today, about 50 million people suffer from dementia. That number is expected to reach 82 million in 2030 and 152 million by 2050. Dementia Handbook & Resource Guide combines valuable educational information for patients, families, and caregivers. It offers statistics, both nationally and state by state, as well as discussions about treatment and outcomes. In addition, it offers details on 23 different types of dementia and conditions that can cause, or affect, dementia from Aging to Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome.

The Diabetes Handbook & Resource Guide covers diabetes mellitus and 16 risk factors and complications, from aging to stroke, that either influence the formation of diabetes, or are directly caused by the disease. This work combines valuable, easy-to-understand educational information for consumers, patients, and their families, with official guidelines about diabetes management, healthy lifestyles and how to prevent and treat related conditions.

Based on the goals and scope of this text, it is impossible to discuss all of the many developments in genetics and genomics over the years. However, here, several important events are highlighted as it is likely that these events could change or have already changed the face of modern genetics.