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Human Health & Health News
| Anxiety is an abnormal and overwhelming
feeling of apprehension and
fear often associated with sweating, tension and tense
posture, increased pulse, restless behaviour and pale skin. It is an
unpleasant and distressing emotional state of nervousness. Some degree
of anxiety may help people improve their functioning but beyond a
certain level it causes dysfunction. Therefore, anxiety can be a
reaction to a stressful condition or a component of a primary medical
disease. It can also indicate a primary psychiatric condition like
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SWINE FLU
Swine influenza is a highly contagious respiratory disease in pigs
caused by one of several swine influenza A viruses. Transmission of
swine influenza viruses to humans is uncommon. However, the swine
influenza virus can be transmitted to humans via contact with infected
pigs or environments contaminated with swine influenza viruses...Read More.
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Inflammation of
the axial skeleton and....Read
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A disease of an unknown etiology characterised by
multiple plaques
of demyelination within the brain and spinal cord, causing disability
in varying degrees...Read
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It is an autoimmune disorder characterised by episodic muscle weakness
and easy fatigability due to destruction of the acetylcholine
receptors. ...Read
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Heart attack occurs when part of the heart is deprived of blood supply
due to blockage of the artery feeding that part...
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Symptom that may indicate a problem is affecting either the
cardiovascular system or a disease in the oesophagus...Read
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A psychological therapy that helps in the treatment of emotional,
behavioural and cognitive problems, depending on the theoretical basis
in behaviouristic learning theory and cognitive
psychology... Read
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| Persistent,
unreasonable, intense fear of situations, circumstances, or subjects
provoking anxiety and avoidance. It is a type of anxiety
disorders. Phobias are of an unknown cause and can be classified into
general and specific phobias... Read
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CHILDHOOD
OBESITY
| Obesity in children has increased in the
last 2-3 decades. From 1988-1991, about 22% of American children were
considered
overweight...Read
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