What causes Anxiety
Anxiety may be caused by a mental condition, a physical condition, the effects of drugs, or from a combination of these. The doctor’s initial task is to see if your anxiety is caused by a medical condition.
Common causes of anxiety include these mental conditions:
Panic disorder: In addition to anxiety, common symptoms of panic disorders are palpitations (feeling your heart beat), dizziness, and shortness of breath. These same symptoms also can be caused by coffee (caffeine), amphetamines (“speed” is the street slang for amphetamines when they are not prescribed by a do Read this article »
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Narcolepsy symptoms
Feb, 2010 | No Comments
Narcolepsy is a neurological disorder that affects the control of sleep and wakefulness. People with narcolepsy experience excessive daytime sleepiness and intermittent, uncontrollable episodes of falling asleep during the daytime. These sudden sleep attacks may occur during any type of activity at any time of the day.
In a typical sleep cycle, we initially enter the [...]
What Is Menopause?
Aug, 2009 | No Comments
Menopause is a normal condition that all women experience as they age. The term “menopause” is commonly used to describe any of the changes a woman experiences either just before or after she stops menstruating, marking the end of her reproductive period.
What Causes Menopause?
A woman is born with a finite number of eggs, which are [...]
Genetic Finding May Lead to Male Contraceptive (HealthDay)
Apr, 2009 | No Comments
THURSDAY, April 2 (HealthDay News) — Gene mutations that cause
infertility in men could point the way to a male birth control pill,
American and Iranian researchers say.
“We have identified CATSPER1 as a gene that is involved in
non-syndromic male infertility in humans, a finding which could lead to
future infertility therapies that replace the gene or the protein. [...]
Hispanic Children More Likely to Have Hearing Loss (HealthDay)
Apr, 2009 | No Comments
FRIDAY, April 3 (HealthDay News) — Children from Hispanic or
low-income families are more likely to have hearing loss, and a serious
but rare eye disease is often missed or mistreated among urban
preschoolers.
The hearing finding was based on a review of five studies conducted
between 1966 and 2007, all of which explored hearing loss among children
of various ethnicities [...]
Poor Kids Exposed to More Secondhand Smoke (HealthDay)
Apr, 2009 | No Comments
FRIDAY, April 3 (HealthDay News) — Poor children are exposed to
more secondhand smoke than their wealthier counterparts, a new study has
found.
A big reason for this is that “poor kids are far more likely to live
with multiple adult smokers than are non-poor kids,” said study author Dr.
Michael Weitzman, a professor of pediatrics at New York University.
Children [...]
Deafness after mumps more common than thought (Reuters)
Apr, 2009 | No Comments
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) –
Japanese researchers say mumps-related hearing loss in children may be 20 times more common than previously suggested.
"Deafness is a rare but important complication of mumps virus infection," the researchers note in a report in The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal.
They determined the incidence of sudden hearing loss in children with mumps based [...]
Read this article »Mothers' bereavement does not raise autism risk (Reuters)
Apr, 2009 | No Comments
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) –
Severe stress during pregnancy has been proposed as a risk factor for autism, but a new study finds that at least one source of such stress appears unrelated to the disorder.
The study, which analyzed records on 1.5 million children born in Denmark, found no evidence of an increased autism risk among [...]
Read this article »Asperger Syndrome Tied to Low Cortisol Levels (HealthDay)
Apr, 2009 | No Comments
THURSDAY, April 2 (HealthDay News) — Low levels of a stress
hormone may be responsible for the obsession with routine and dislike for
new experiences common in children with a certain type of autism.
U.K. researchers found that children with Asperger syndrome (AS) do
not experience the normal twofold increase of cortisol upon waking up.
Levels of the hormone in [...]
For Some, More Costly Care Is Not by Choice (HealthDay)
Apr, 2009 | No Comments
THURSDAY, April 2 (HealthDay News) — Many low-income American
families with sick children are being enrolled in high-deductible
health-care plans, a new study has found.
In 2007, about 10 percent of employers offered high-deductible plans,
and about 14.8 million adults were enrolled in the plans. But as more
families with sick children are enrolled in these plans, there are
concerns that [...]
Health Tip: Depression Among Seniors (HealthDay)
Mar, 2009 | No Comments
(HealthDay News) — Depression affects more than 6 million people
aged 65 or older in the United States, but only about 10 percent of them
are treated, the Cleveland Clinic says.
The clinic offers this list of risk factors for depression in
seniors:
Living alone without much social interaction.
Having persistent pain or illness.
Being overly afraid of dying.
Having a family history [...]