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Influence of Celebrities on Breast Cancer Awareness

...se should not mislead the public by activating the panic button regarding the disease prevention. The first celebrity to speak out was Betty Ford, wife of president Gerald Ford, who did a great deal to raise awareness of breast cancer in 1974, and detection rates rose immediately in a phenomenon that becam...

Anti-anxiety treatment found effective in lowering blood pressure

...ients the cause of the BP elevation is unknown and panic attack or anxiety may be the cause. In these patients antianxiety treatment may be beneficial. Researchers from the Tel Aviv University, Sackler School of Medicine, Israel, designed a study to compare the efficacy and safety of antianxiety treatment...

Panic disorder may coexist with epilepsy

...or fearfulness// (ictal fear) may be confused with panic attacks. Recent studies have reported evidence, de...c resonance imaging, suggesting that the lesion in panic disorder may be in temporal lobes. The findings lend additional support to the idea that these illne...

Smokers Are Prone To Number Of Psychiatric Disorders

... for emergence of certain anxiety disorders (e.g., panic disorder, generalized anxiety disorder), and that ...r, these differences were largely accounted for by panic disorder. No differences were found between smokers and nonsmokers regarding social anxiety, worry, ...

Isolated Sleep Paralysis In Patients With Anxiety Disorders

...p paralysis (ISP) are elevated in individuals with panic disorder and particularly low in individuals with ...005) examines the rates of ISP in outpatients with panic disorder relative to other anxiety groups, with particular attention to differences in rates among t...

Indian Health Minister interested to import bird flu vaccine

... at the airport here, Ramadoss urged people not to panic over reports about the spread of bird flu and said his ministry was in touch with the ministries of animal husbandry, human resource development and environment to coordinate adequate preventive measures. The health ministry was also in touch with th...

Controversy Surrounding The HIV Positive Reports Of One-Year Girl In Kerala

... days. The news has been responsible for spreading panic among patients who turn up for treatment. ...

US Airlines Worried About Bird Flu In Passengers

...ith infected birds." The main cause for all this panic stems from the fact that the H5N1 virus is thought to be the deadliest of the bird flu viruses and could mutate to a form, which can spread easily from person to person. In the event of this happening, experts have predicted millions of casualties si...

HIV Virus Emerging Drug Resistant In UK, Prompting Fear Of A Second Epidemic

...to be celebrated on December 1st. This has created panic // among the scientific community, raising a possibility of a second wave epidemic of resistant virus. Anti-retroviral drugs are currently used in the management of AIDS victims. The currently available drugs are Zidovudine, Stavudine, Lamivudine, ...

Imported Plants Could Deadly Harbor Mosquitoes, Says Report

...itute was of the opinion that there was no need to panic and that these insects would not 'colonize' Britain....

Concern Over High Smoking Rates Among Young

... for emergence of certain anxiety disorders (e.g., panic disorder, generalized anxiety disorder), and that presence of certain anxiety disorders (e.g., social anxiety) increases the risk for later development of nicotine dependence.There is thus, need for a strong resolve in the community to combat this ha...

Chinese City Suspends Water Supply Fearing Pollution

... indefinitely. The announcement Tuesday triggered panic buying of bottled water and soft drinks in Harbin,...ment "called on citizens to remain calm" after the panic buying, saying the water quality in Songhua was normal Tuesday, the newspaper said. It urged reside...

Dengue Fever Claims Five Lives In Pakistan

...han, in a statement, appealed to the people not to panic as the disease early warning system was fully operational at the National Institute of Health in Islamabad, which, in close liaison with the Provincial Health Department, was monitoring the situation. The minister also assured that there were enough...

Bird flu test conducted in dead pigeon found in Ethiopia

Ethiopia is facing a new threat of bird flu panic fallowing reports of a pigeon dead. The Animal and Health ministry is undergoing tests for isolating// and identification of the virus responsible for the pigeon dead. Though there were no earlier reports on isolation of the virulent H5N1 strain of b...

Bird flu makes its presence felt in the Crimean peninsula

...ses have been detected in Ukraine. This has sent panic waves in the government as well as public. // To ascertain the severity of the flu tests are now being conducted to determine if the virus is the deadly strain that has killed almost 70 people in Asia. A state of emergency has been called for by t...

Panic In Russia Over HIV Infected Blood

Patients at Russian hospitals are in a panic after news that HIV infected blood had been administered to 208 people, with one of them getting infected with the virus. A 35 year old female donor in Voronezh is reported to have donated the infected blood//. Conflicting statements are coming in fr...

Mysterious Death Of Seabirds Triggers Bird Flu Concern

...nspection Service said that there was no cause for panic and that they were sending out a team as a precautionary measure, but the Courier Mail reports that a second team with a military operative has also started towards the island. "There's a report of dead birds being sighted on Bountiful Island. We hav...

Encephalitis Claims 25 Lives In Bihar

...5 lives including that of three children. There is panic among the people of Bagaha District of the State after the deaths. //Chanrika Roy, the Health Minister of Bihar however seems to be unaware of the disease. The district civil surgeon Arundhati Roy has put the death toll at 12. Encephalitis is chara...

Panic and probe due to mysterious deaths

Two deaths in a hospital have sent panic waves among health officials who are investigating food poisoning as the cause.// The deaths of patients(men) are linked to listeria, a serious infection caused by eating food contaminated with the bacterium Listeria monocytogenes. The traces of lis...

Avian flu scare in Malawi too!!

... central Ntchisi district.// There was alarm and panic as agriculture officials expressed alarm after local villagers started scooping up the dead fork-tailed drongos -- known locally as namzenze -- to eat earlier this week in the district about 200km east of the capital, Lilongwe. According to Wilfred...

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