What Are The Most Common Anxiety Symptoms Experienced By People Today?
This article hopes to reveal some of the most common anxiety symptoms experienced by those suffering with anxiety-related disorders.
Firstly, it is important to acknowledge that there are both physical and psychological anxiety symptoms. How many symptoms an individual suffers differs from person to person. One individual may only suffer from one or two symptoms, whilst others may have many.
Let’s begin with the psychological symptoms of anxiety. These are symptoms that a lot of people are aware of. After all, when something is causing you a significant amount of worry and unease, it is only natural that your behaviour...
Source: Mental Nurse - December 20, 2013 Category: Nurses Authors: Iqcguest Tags: Health common anxiety symptoms Source Type: blogs
Scientists Find Aggressive New Strain Of Hiv
But the scientists reassured patients that existing drugs will still effectively treat the newstrain regardless of the speed at which it develops into AIDS. “The good news is that as far as we know the medicines that are available today are equallyfunctional on all different subtypes of variants,”Palm said. Other strains A person goes from having HIV to AIDS when his or her white CD4 cell count, a white bloodcellthat helps fight infection, drops below 200, according to the Mayo Clinic. An estimated 35.5 million people around the world live with HIV, a virus that destroys theimmune system and often leads to comp...
Source: aids-write.org - November 29, 2013 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: aidswrite Tags: current news aids Source Type: blogs
Coeliac Disease
It looks like I may have coeliac disease. I have visited the doctor several time over the past few months with diarrhoea, eventually I had some blood tests and one has come back positive for coeliac disease. I'm not sure which of the blood tests for coeliac they did so not sure of the false positive rate, however, I have been referred to the hospital for them to take a biopsy from my small (Source: Social Anxiety and Bipolar Diary of Annie)
Source: Social Anxiety and Bipolar Diary of Annie - November 27, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Annie Source Type: blogs
Yet another incompetent regulator. The General Pharmaceutical Council is criminally negligent
Conclusions
The main conclusion from all of this is that the General Pharmaceutical Council is almost criminally negligent. It continues to allow pharmacists, Anthony Pinkus among them, to endanger lives. It fails to apply its own declared principles. The members of its Council, and Duncan Rudkin (its chief executive and registrar), are not doing their job.
Individual pharmacists vary a lot, from the superb to those who believe in quackery. Some, perhaps many, are embarrassed by the fact that their employer compels them to sell rubbish. It’s too much to expect that they’ll endanger their mortgage payments by sp...
Source: DC's goodscience - November 4, 2013 Category: Professors and Educators Authors: David Colquhoun Tags: Ainsworths Alliance Boots Anthony Pinkus Avogadro CAM General Chiropractic Council General Pharmaceutical Council homeopathy Royal Pharmaceutical Society Ainsworth's malaria meningitis pertussis pharmacists Pharmacy regulator Source Type: blogs
New drug to help common bowel condition
(Medical Xpress)—An international team led by University of Adelaide researchers has discovered the mechanism of pain relief of a new drug for treating Irritable Bowel Syndrome with Constipation (IBS-C), based on nonclinical studies, and quantified its effectiveness in pain relief in human trials.
Published in the journal Gastroenterology , the study details the pain mechanism of action meant for Linaclotide, a recently approved drug for the treatment of chronic abdominal pain and constipation in adult IBS-C patients.
IBS is a potentially debilitating condition along with abdominal pain, bloating, ...
Source: My Irritable Bowel Syndrome Story - October 29, 2013 Category: Other Conditions Authors: Ken Tags: IBS News Source Type: blogs
@Asda spine-chilling unawareness is no ‘real’ surprise. #mentalhealth #whatstigma #ukmh
Asda’s spine-chilling unawareness of how people who have encountered mental ill-health would react upon seeing themselves portrayed in a freaky Halloween costume with the phrase “Everyone will be running away from you…”, is hardly that surprising, surely? Is anyone honestly ‘that’ surprised that this visual representation of the mentally ill is alive and kicking, despite years of anti-stigma campaigning by those affected, carers and the Time To Change campaigns?
I caught up on this ‘saga’ this morning, I’ve been ill, not ‘mentally’, just a regular tummy b...
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - September 26, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Quinonostante Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. anxiety asda bipolar depression discrimination Psycho whatstigma Source Type: blogs
Umesh Prabhu, The Changemaker
…. mistakes are made by us all, but what causes one man to decide to change the culture of medicine?
LITFL Editor’s note: This is part three of a three-part series of posts on medical error that tie in with article by Tessa Davis in the Medical Journal of Australia Insight. Use these links to read the first two parts: The doctor who exposed his own error and The victim of medical mistakes.
When Umesh Prabhu moved from India to work as a paediatrician in the UK he had no reason to be a patient safety advocate; until his own mistake resulted in a terrible outcome for his patient. Here, I talk to him about how he has ...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - September 13, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Tessa Davis Tags: Emergency Medicine Featured change medical error medical journal of australia mistakes MJA insight umesh prabhu Source Type: blogs
Pharmaceutical Patient Assistance Programs Expand throughout the World
Over the last few months, several pharmaceutical companies have announced new donations and programs regarding vaccines, as well as increasing access to medicines for important diseases. Below is a summary of some of these activities and we will try to update the story as we come across other announcements.
GlaxoSmithKline
In late July, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) announced that it would increase its commitment to the GAVI Alliance to provide vaccines to developing countries, helping to protect millions more children against infectious diseases. Under this new agreement, GSK will provide an additional 240 million doses ...
Source: Policy and Medicine - September 6, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Thomas Sullivan Source Type: blogs
nterventions for replacing missing teeth: antibiotics at dental implant placement to prevent complications.
CONCLUSIONS: Scientific evidence suggests that, in general, antibiotics are beneficial for reducing failure of dental implants placed in ordinary conditions. Specifically 2 g or 3 g of amoxicillin given orally, as a single administration, one hour preoperatively significantly reduces failure of dental implants. No significant adverse events were reported. It might be sensible to suggest the use of a single dose of 2 g prophylactic amoxicillin prior to dental implant placement. It is still unknown whether postoperative antibiotics are beneficial, and which antibiotic is the most effective. (Source: Dental Technology Blog)
Source: Dental Technology Blog - August 26, 2013 Category: Dentists Source Type: blogs
Ultra-rapid reviews, first test results
In conclusion, this is early days and our first testing steps. The results have been very encouraging and when our new system is out it'll be even better. But much more testing is required!Oh yes, the time taken - if you're interested, then scroll down.With the exception of the second to last result they all took around 2-3 minutes. The second to last one took approximately 5 minutes (as I had to scroll through around 55 results to select the 17 that we used). (Source: Liberating the literature)
Source: Liberating the literature - August 2, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Source Type: blogs
Symptoms of Anxiety
There could have been an interview you attended, a test you took but had not prepared for or a blind date that certainly got you anxious. The bottom line is that at one time or another, you may have found yourself overwhelmed with worries or fears that made you anxious. This makes it challenging to actually identify the point in time when it results into an anxiety disorder.
The type of anxiety disorder as well as the symptoms caused will vary among different people. These types of anxiety can generalize anxiety disorder, emotional anxiety disorder as well as post-traumatic stress disorder. Their symptoms are not easy to i...
Source: Mental Nurse - July 31, 2013 Category: Nurses Authors: Iqcguest Tags: Health Mental health Source Type: blogs
Medicines
You may need to take several different types of medicines for fibromyalgia, including painkillers and antidepressants. Different medicines are described in more detail below.PainkillersIf you have fibromyalgia, you can treat your pain using simple painkillers, such as paracetamol, available over the counter from a pharmacy. Always read the manufacturer’s instructions.If paracetamol is not effective, your GP (or another healthcare professional treating you) may prescribe a stronger painkiller, such as codeine or tramadol. Research has found that tramadol can improve pain and may also help you function better in your daily...
Source: The Fibromyalgia Research Blog - July 24, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Tags: medicines painkillers effects Source Type: blogs
Wheat Belliers share their wheat re-exposure experiences
How do we associate cause and effect? How do we KNOW when acid reflux, bowel urgency, depression, anxiety, asthma, joint pain and myriad other health complaints are due to consumption of modern wheat?
Simple: When you can turn them on, turn them off, turn them on, turn them off, repeatedly and at will. For instance, avoid wheat, enjoy freedom from bowel urgency and the inconvenient and embarrassing searches for the nearest toilet. Have wheat, explosive return of symptoms. On again, off again: It is the consistent association that establishes a cause-effect relationship in an individual.
Read the incredible descriptions fr...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - July 8, 2013 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat re-exposure syndromes Source Type: blogs
Real-time PCR Detection of Foodborne Pathogenic Staphylococcus aureus
from B. Stessl and M. Wagner writing in Real-Time PCR in Food Science: Current Technology and Applications:The real incidence of Staphylococcus aureus the ethological cause of staphylococcal food poisoning (SFP) is unknown due to underreported cases and the misinterpretation of symptoms (vomiting, diarrhoea) also caused by other agents as B. cereus and Norovirus. Conventional microbiological methods recommended by EU regulation 2073 are time-consuming and often lead to false negative results as viable S. aureus cells are not detectable but still a higher amount of heat-stable enterotoxins was produced. In the last years se...
Source: Microbiology Blog: The weblog for microbiologists. - June 12, 2013 Category: Microbiology Source Type: blogs
Research Finds Copper Destroys the Norovirus
The dreaded norovirus is a highly infectious virus that causes vomiting and diarrhea. The highly contagious norovirus spreads easily from person to person. One way people contract the virus is by touching a surface touched by an infected person. Researchers from the University of Southampton have found that copper and copper alloys will rapidly destroy norovirus.
Professor Bill Keevil, Chair in Environmental Healthcare at the University of Southampton and lead researcher, presented his work at the American Society for Microbiology's 2013 General Meeting last week. His presentation showed norovirus was rapidly destroyed on...
Source: HealthNewsBlog.com - May 29, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Tags: disease norovirus copper Source Type: blogs
