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Research Reveals Anatomy of Suppressed Memories: Study

...apies and possibly even drug treatments for people suffering from conditions such as PTSD, phobias, and obsessive-compulsive syndrome. The symptoms of these disorders include flashbacks to disturbing events, and intrusive or obsessive thoughts. "The first step is to understand how memory suppression works in...

US TB Traveler Sued Over 'reckless and Selfish Behavior'

...dian Broadcasting Corp., lamenting, "all the pain, suffering that they had to go through, all the anxiety." Nassim Tabri will find out later this month if he has the disease. Speaker has been under mandatory isolation since returning to the United States. On July 3, Charles Daley of the National Jewish M...

Lancets Report Condemns UKs Mental Health Bill

...lier in July, will trample on the rights of people suffering from mental illness and deter those who need help from seeking it. The reforms (which can include the detention of potentially dangerous patients) followed a public outcry after a series of murders by mentally ill people. People with psychiatric pro...

Picnic Memories Turn Rotten With E.coli Poisoning

... group. Those infected were hospitalized, with one suffering severe kidney complications. The number climbed to 10 on Friday, prompting officials to issue a plea for the hundreds who attended to look for symptoms such as vomiting, diarrhea, nausea and severe abdominal pain. "We are looking into what was serv...

New Delhis Apollo Hospital Treats More Than 80 Iraqis

... Most of the patients, aged up to 18 years, were suffering from congenital heart disease and hearing impairment. A six-year old child underwent an Intra Cardiac Echo (ICE) surgery at the hospital, and was just among a handful in the country qualified to undergo the complicated surgery to clear a blockage i...

Research into Suppressed Memories Could Help Treatment for Depression

...apies and possibly even drug treatments for people suffering from conditions such as PTSD, phobias, and obsessive-compulsive syndrome. The symptoms of these disorders include flashbacks to disturbing events, and intrusive or obsessive thoughts. "The first step is to understand how memory suppression works in...

Tomato Fever Replaces Chikungunya in Kerala

...ation. Hundreds and thousands of cases of people suffering from Chikungunya in various parts of the coastal state were reported last month. Medicinal tablets like Paracetamol and vitamin B-complex have been prescribed and patients have been advised to consume lot of fluids. Like dengue, another mosquito ...

First Drug for Post-traumatic Stress Disorder

...t emotional disorders and raises hope for patients suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder or phobia," Tsai said. Emotional disorders such as post-traumatic stress and panic attacks stem from the inability of the brain to stop experiencing the fear associated with a specific incident or series of incid...

Consuming Grape Fruit Increases Breast Cancer Risk: Study

... groups. The group included 1,657 women who were suffering from breast cancer. The researchers found that eating as little as a quarter of the fruit can increase the danger by 30 percent in women. "This is the first report of a commonly consumed food that may increase the risk of breast cancer among post-...

Manufacturer to Pay $20 Million for Improperly Promoting a Sleep Disorder Drug

...and Drug Administration (FDA) for treating people suffering from narcolepsy only. But the settlement agreement signed by Jazz and the U.S. Attorney's Office in New York said Orphan's sales representatives promoted Xyrem for so-called off-label purposes, meaning uses not approved by the FDA. Among other t...

Alien Hand Syndrome Causes Random Hand Movement

...f a 70-year-old right-handed man who had AHS after suffering a large stroke in the right parietal lobe. His left hand had normal motor function, with only slight weakness and clumsiness, but showed marked sensory loss. His alien movements consisted of involuntary gestures or grasping with his left hand, whic...

Punjab University Reserves Seats for AIDS and Cancer Students

... Punjab University has reserved seats for students suffering from AIDS and cancer in various courses in its col...rses that it offers for people affected by AIDS or suffering from cancer. However, the university feels that one seat reserved in every course will be sufficie...

India Grapples With First Bill to Stop Workplace Sex Harassment

...king women to fight back injustices they have been suffering for decades," said Jaya Arunachalam, a prominent Indian feminist. But she added that "89 percent of 270 million workers in the unorganised sector are women who have no protection at all from exploitation and sexual oppression." The draft only cov...

Texan Battles Flesh-eating Bacteria Contracted While Swimming

...e retired oil company marketing consultant also is suffering from multiple organ failure because the disease has caused a blood infection, his physician said Tuesday. Gilpatrick was listed in critical but stable condition. The bacterium thrives in warm salt water and is most prevalent during summer months....

AIIMS Fined Rs 5 Lakhs for Negligence

...y after the doctors wrongly concluded that she was suffering from breast cancer. Ayesha Begum (50), a residen...octor there after he suspected that she may be was suffering from carcinoma of breast. She was subjected to radio-therapy and thereafter, was rendered physically...

Doctors Puzzled Over Man's Normal Life With Unusually Tiny Brain

...y the father-of-two was admitted to hospital after suffering mild weakness in his left leg. Scans by computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) showed that the man's cerebral cavities, called ventricles, had massively expanded. "The brain itself, meaning the grey matter and white matter,...

EU Drug Regulator Highlights Depression Danger of Weight-loss Pill

...ion, but had ordered it to be withheld from people suffering from depression. A panel of experts from the US Food and Drug Administration concluded in June that the dieting treatment, which can also be used to treat diabetes, was unsafe because it caused suicidal thoughts as a side-effect. The maker of th...

Hip and Knee Replacements Becoming More Patient-friendly

...veral focused programs that would benefit patients suffering from joint problems, such as conscientiously working towards bringing infection rates down. We will also be starting 'specialty clinics' for each joint in about two months. This will allow patients to have single window access to multiple disciplines...

Himachal Pradesh Under the Grip of Suspected Typhus Fever Outbreak

...division in Himachal Pradesh's Kangra District are suffering from a mysterious fever. Epidemiologists are suspecting the symptoms to be that of scrub typhus, also known as 'chigger-borne typhus', caused by rickettsia, which is spread through bites of ticks and mites. "In view of this typhus blood sample rep...

US Patient Implanted With HeartMate II, Leaves ICU

...in Wilson Guthrie, a 61-year-old man from Kansas, suffering from end-stage heart failure. He has since left for home, with that experimental heart-assist device that keeps his heart pumping. Hospital officials said it's the longest stay the cardiothoracic ICU has had, and that a lot of technology was used...

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