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Depression In Adults May Result From Childhood Verbal Abuse

...y, are made when they are grown up in a verbally// abused environment in their childhood years’. Verbally abused people are 1.6 times more likely to have symptoms of depression and anxiety as those who had not bee...

"Bigorexic": These Are Steroid-Using Bodybuilders

...ybuilders in South Wales. They found that the most abused drugs were diuretics, thyroxine, ephidrine, tamoxi...h hormone and insulin. "Steroids remain the most abused drug with 89 per cent of respondents saying they obtained the drugs from aberrant sources. However 9...

Drug Abuse Tackles Body Builders' Breast Growth

...a new word, “Bigorexic”, to describe these men who abused steroids in their passionate search for the perfect physique. According to the researchers, the condition is the opposite of anorexia, an eating disorder. Research leader Bruce Davies cautioned doctors to pay more attention to this growing pr...

Child Abuse a Plausible Reason for Schizophrenia

...ts and found that they were sexually or physically abused during their childhood. When reviewed 13 different studies of schizophrenics, they found that the abuse rates varied from 51 – 91%. They said that schizophrenic symptoms may actually be caused by trauma. In conclusion they said that these patients...

Child Abuse on the Rise in Botswana

...buse. Statistics show that about 81children //were abused in various forms between January and May this year. Botswana minister Margaret Nasha said that the children were brutally beaten some were subjected to rape, sodomy, attempted rape, defilement and incest. But such cases were not reported as the victi...

'Verbal Abuse' – Common Among Doctor

...colleagues. While only 1/10th found to be verbally abused or excluded by the higher officials. Since all feel to be treated less favourably than their co-workers 'Equality and Diversity' is the main motto to be followed in all premises - The survey results concludes. ...

Kenyan Women Six Times More Likely To Be HIV Positive Than Kenyan Men

... that Kenyan women who were almost always sexually abused were six times //more likely to become infected with HIV/AIDS than their male counterparts. But the Kenyan government says that the country's HIV/AIDS prevalence rate has decreased from 14 percent in 2000 to 7 percent in 2004, adding that its anti-...

Effect of Intimate Partner Violence during Pregnancy

...nt more likely to deliver preterm, and children of abused women were 17 percent more likely to be born under...ave health risks to newborns, and children born to abused mothers were over 30 percent more likely than other children to require intensive care upon birth. ...

Senior Researcher Harassed In AIIMS

...hs just prior to the protest. I have been verbally abused and harassed by the staff of the Department soon after the anti-reservation protest was called off on June 1.'' writes Dr.Gill in her letter. She has requested that firm action be taken against the Head of the Department and a senior physician for ...

Marijuana Abuse Responds to Psychotherapy, Overall Is Hard to Treat

...e on Drugs and Crime, marijuana is the most widely abused drug in the world. (Surce: Newswise)...

Risk Of Death Increased In Children Of Mothers Subjected To Domestic Violence

... percent of the study participants were physically abused by their husbands during their most recent pregnancy. In comparison, the prevalence of domestic violence during pregnancy in the United States has been estimated at between 4 percent and 8 percent. After controlling for sociodemographic and maternal...

Foster Care Children not receiving the Care They Need

...re distributed throughout the country with several abused or neglected. The doctors are now urging major changes to the health system such as ongoing checks as well as immunization records to ensure youngsters are not being left at risk.College spokesman, Dr John Clarkson, said that these children have ph...

Bitter Pill: Thrills That Kill

...pendence or addiction. Some of the most commonly abused drugs are alcohol, anabolic steroids, amphetamines, analgesics, barbiturates, benzodiazepines, caffeine, cannabis, cocaine, laxatives, methaqualone, opiates, and tobacco. Drug abuse could also lead to health problems, social problems, physical depend...

Thirty percent of nurses distressed with verbal and physical abuse

...spat upon to being bitten, choked and stabbed. The abused nurses, who all worked in Tasmania, reported an av...xty-nine percent of nurses who had been physically abused had been struck with a hand, fist or elbow and 34 percent had been bitten. A further 49 percent s...

Remove Stigma to Defeat HIV/AIDS in India, says UN Envoy

...ighly vulnerable to HIV with most of them sexually abused and many end up becoming sex workers. "Nearly 10 percent of the people in Philippines are migrant workers of whom nearly 60 percent are women working as domestic help and doing odd jobs in the Gulf and other countries. Nearly 23 percent of the migr...

Rising numbers indicate looming cocaine epidemic

...ast cocaine epidemic." Prescription drugs, often abused for the immediate rush of euphoria they trigger, can cause sudden respiratory or cardiac arrest. In contrast, cocaine's cumulative effects - including blood vessel damage that increases the risk of heart attack or stroke over time - can unexpectedly ...

Inaccurate reporting of child physical abuse by healthcare staff

...ldren whom they believe could have been physically abused , but as little as 48% actually conveyed it to the authorities.Less than three-quarters of doctors, dentists and community nurses were aware of the procedures of reporting child physical abuse, but 79 per felt inadequate with the information they had...

Childhood abuse may hamper sufferers’ adult relationship

...vember issue of Personality and Social Psychology, abused children may portray difficulties carrying on asso...istancing. Notably, no such pattern occurred among abused participants when the new person bore no resemblance to the parent (a control condition). Researche...

An abused child may grow up to be an abusive parent

An infant abused in early stages of life may grow up to become an a...adulthood had lower serotonin in their brains than abused females who did not become abusive parents, the research showed. Because the biological make up of...

Men are from Mars and Women from Venus, but why on Earth are Women so Woefully Wronged?

...xpenses. Significantly, the recent law enables the abused wives, the legal right to continue to reside in the same home. Now, women need not worry about the risk of losing financial support from the husband. All these efforts will not see the light of day if basic attitudes of men do not change. Indeed me...

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