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In a scenario playing out in more and more classrooms around the world, a Dallas teenager recently asked her classmate if anything was wrong, noting that she hadn’t been acting like herself. The brusque reply: “Just leave me alone.” The ninth-graders at the Uplift Hampton Preparatory school were role-playing as part of a program that aims to teach teens how […]
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When she was 14 years old, Diana Chao began having migraines. She often felt dizzy as she walked. Sunlight seemed to pierce her skull. “It felt like shards digging into my eyes,” said Chao, now 20 and a sophomore at Princeton University. After a week of constant pain, her parents took her to an optometrist. That’s when they learned she […]
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People who are mentally ill are 2.4 times more likely than claimants with non-psychiatric conditions to lose their existing benefit following a Personal Independence Payment (PIP) eligibility assessment, research has found. Published in the British Journal of Psychiatry Open, the study from the University of York analysed government data of claimants moving from an existing Disability Living Allowance (DLA) entitlement […]
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As the demand for mental health services among college students nearly doubled over the last decade, advocates championed a common refrain: get students into treatment now. Students, parents and mental health experts feared that a student left untreated might harm themselves or others. Many universities responded by increasing counselors’ caseloads and funneling resources into urgent care. But a report released […]
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A year ago, it was found in the small Paul Diabetes. Now his parents fight, so that he can lead a normal life. However, the necessary care is denied by the authorities. At first glance, the pike are a happy little family, Nina and Daniel Hecht’s life with the almost four-year-old daughter, Emma, and the nearly two-year-old son Paul in […]
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During the end-of-year holidays families often come together to exchange gifts and, sometimes, to confront long-held grudges. What better gift than a peace offering? Conflict is rarely pleasant and arguments in families can be particularly upsetting. We all know that knot in the pit of the stomach, the flushed face and sweaty hands we experience when we feel we have […]
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An annual physical typically involves a weight check and questions about unhealthy habits like smoking, but a new study from UC San Francisco suggests health care providers may be overlooking a critical question: Are you depressed or anxious? Anxiety and depression may be leading predictors of conditions ranging from heart disease and high blood pressure to arthritis, headaches, back pain […]
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Let us imagine a man looking with the beginning of 50 doubtfully at his Penis down and sighs: “Oh, would you look again like when I was twelve.” An absurd idea for men – for women, it is far less. The intimate surgery is happy about a growing number of patients, cosmetic surgery of the female genitalia lie in the […]
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It is finally necessary to start controlling sugar consumption. All sweet teeth are addicted, because sugar is as bad a habit as smoking and drinking alcohol. And to overcome this dependence can be very difficult. Nutritionists told about the conditions that must be met in order to cope with the habit of constantly eating sweets, and begin to control sugar […]
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Taking typical daily annoyances such as a long wait at the doctor’s office or a traffic jam on the freeway in stride may help preserve brain health in older adults, while emotional reactions could contribute to declines in cognition, a new study from Oregon State University has found. “These results confirm that people’s daily emotions and how they respond to […]
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