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Nepali Doctor Conferred Asian of the Year Award

...magazine Reader's Digest: "Ruit is such an amazing personality about whom the whole subcontinent can feel proud of." Ruit was chosen for the Ramon Magsaysay Award for International Understanding last year. Source-IANS...

Genetic Tests to Reveal ‘substance Abuse’ Tendencis

...me victims of substance abuse or suffer antisocial personality disorder. Such tests would not dictate who would become substance dependent or have behavioral problems, as genes do not function in isolation but are influenced by other genes and environmental factors, said the study's lead author Robert Philiber...

Parents Should Do Their Homework to Aid Autistic Child's Education

... going to get angry." * Communicate your child's personality with educators and clinicians as often as possible. Parents know a child's likes, dislikes and breaking points better than anyone. Tipping professionals off to a child's joys and quirks can help them plan a tailored program. * Remember that you hav...

Head Injury Awareness Day

...d or non-reversible brain damage, which range from personality changes to even a state of coma. The signs and symptoms of a head injury may occur immediately or develop slowly over several hours. As brain injuries can be life threatening, even people with apparently slight injuries, with no noticeable signs o...

Alzheimer’s Patients Plead for Greater Understanding and Suppor

... progresses, individuals may experience changes in personality and behavior, such as anxiety, suspiciousness or agitation, as well as delusions or hallucinations. Up to five years though, those with the affliction could try and lead a normal life. But for that to happen, those around them should be supportive...

Zodiac Signs Has No Impact on Finding the Right Partner

... that full birth charts would be needed to predict personality accurately, said Voas. "But what ordinary people talk about is sun signs. If those are useless when it comes to sizing up a mate, then that knocks a big hole in everyday belief," said Voas. Source-IANS...

Testosterone-based Cream may Help Prevent Alzheimer's

...resses, individuals may also experience changes in personality and behaviour, such as anxiety, suspiciousness or agitation, as well as delusions or hallucinations. For some sufferers, drugs can delay the progress of symptoms such as memory loss and the erosion of the ability to do everyday things like washing...

Testosterone-based Cream may Help Prevent Alzheimer's

...resses, individuals may also experience changes in personality and behavior, such as anxiety, suspiciousness or agitation, as well as delusions or hallucinations. For some sufferers, drugs can delay the progress of symptoms such as memory loss and the erosion of the ability to do everyday things like washing a...

UK Mental Health Reforms Will Do More Harm Than Good, Critics Warn

... also enable the authorities to detain people with personality disorders who have not committed a crime. The go...n left free to commit the crime because his severe personality disorder was considered untreatable and he could not be detained under the present Mental Health Act...

Electronic Tagging - for the Elderly Now!

...line of mental abilities accompanied by changes in personality and behaviour. There is commonly a loss of memory and skills that are needed to carry out everyday activities. It is a significant cause of illness within the UK population. An estimated 5% of those over the age of 65 have dementia, rising to 20% o...

Armed Forces Officers And Other Dignitaries Pledge Organs For Donation

...n to conquer North & South poles and eminent media personality Col Ajai Shukla, also pledged their organs. Another unique initiative was also taken by the Army doctors in the form of launching Armed Forces Organ Retrieval and Transplantation Authority (AORTA). AORTA aims to increase awareness of organ donatio...

Art of Establishing a Bond to Sell a Brand – Medical Reps Show the Wa

...rs were approached with a strategy befitting their personality type. The study revealed some of the key strategies employed by reps to break the ice and make positive inroads in their relationship with doctors. Mr. Ahari felt, that reps "create a subconscious obligation to reciprocate. The highest prescribers ...

Numerous Defense Personnel Granted Early Retirement Due to Mental Illness

...disorders, including cases of psychosis, neurosis, personality disorders, adjustment disorders, alcohol dependence syndrome and depression". The armed forces have witnessed a spurt in suicides - 21 this year alone - prompting the defense ministry to take a series of counter measures including counseling and yo...

Spouse may "drive You to Drink" but also can Protect You from Alcohol

...ood or socio-economic background but also alike in personality and other behaviors. We found that people at risk for alcohol dependence tend to marry others who are at risk." Alcohol dependence is influenced by both genetic and environmental factors. Genetic influences explain about half of the variance in a p...

The Long Wait ... Dying for Lack of Kidneys

...arrest, because body parts are seen as part of the personality or soul. One answer to organ drought would be to get people to opt out of donorship rather than to opt in - or register as a donor. Under this system, body parts required for transplant would automatically be lifted from all deceased bar those "opt...

Stress- Harms Now And Later

...worry and depression. "What we're measuring is a personality trait that we all have to greater or lesser degree. We all experience anxiety and periodic depression. This trait helps identify people for whom that is more characteristic than others," says Wilson, whose study is published in the journal Neurology....

Army to Conduct Psychological Tests During Recruits to Curb Suicides

...duced from October), we would be able to gauge the personality of a recruit, his ability to grasp a given situati.... "This system neither tests the intelligence, the personality nor the aptitude of the recruits. By now conducting these psychological tests, we will be able to id...

Intensive Psychotherapy Provides Helping Hand in Borderline Personality Disorder.

Borderline personality disorder (BPD) can be reduced by an intensive form of talk therapy, known as transference-focused psychotherapy (TFP) thereby reducing the symptoms and improving their social functioning, according to an article in the June issue of the American Jo...

Unhealthy Lungs Linked to Hostility?

...ople. Right now, we cant say if having a hostile personality causes lung function decline, though we now know t...ploring the possible influence of social status on personality functioning and pulmonary health....

Research Says Small Penis Syndrome Affects Men Than Women

Women are much more interested in a mans personality and looks than the size of his penis, but men can experience real anxiety even if they are average sized, according to a research review published in the June issue of the urology journal BJU International. Dr Kevan Wylie from the Porterbrook Clini...

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