What Doctors Don't Tell YouNon-lethal cancers, spontaneous remissions, people with genetic risk factors who don’t get cancer in their lifetime - these things are neither mystical nor miraculous; they are medical facts.
Investigators now distinguish between passive stress (watching a scary movie) and active stress (trying to meet a deadline).
Most of us believe there are only four seasons, but there is a fifth one that runs from November to February - the colds/flu season. Chances are, at some point in your life - and, for some people, once a year
At some point in life, virtually everyone will experience stressful events or situations that overwhelm his or her natural coping mechanisms.
Although a little stress is good for all of us, there's no doubt that chronic stress alters body chemistry and is the cause of many serious diseases. ... ...
Elective surgery is any procedure that is subject to choice, as opposed to urgent or emergency surgery that must be performed straightaway. You can derive benefit from an elective procedure, but it may be better to wait a while before having it done.
One of the most common responses on hearing that a child has depression is, 'But what does he/she have to be depressed about?' While it is possible that ‘depression’ is overdiagnosed in young children, some children do suffer from depression.
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Myalgic encephalomyelitis, or chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), although treated as a 21st-century mystery, or all in the sufferer’s head, is a disorder of the nervous, immune and endocrine systems.
The actual causes of seizures are still relatively unknown. The majority of patients with epilepsy can identify at least one precipitant that can trigger or exacerbate seizures
Loss of bladder control (urinary incontinence) can happen to anyone, but is more common in the elderly. An estimated three to six million Britons suffer some degree of incontinence. It is twice as common in women than in men - especially in those...
