Functioning also often improves. It becomes easier to go to work or school and to concentrate. It’s not as hard to be around other people or leave the house. BDD sufferers may repair wounded relationships, start socializing more, or begin dating. “Our social life improved dramatically every time my wife took Prozac,” an engineer told [...]

Most children have “normal” intelligence; the “average” IQ is given the number 100, and 95 percent of children have IQs from 70 to 130. While there are many questions and much debate about the meaning of an IQ score and about the tests by which it is determined, in a rough way it is shorthand [...]

Breast milk, especially the very first secretion called colostrum, contains enzyme-like substances, nutritive salts and vitamins, some of which are known to us but others unknown; these cannot be found in any other food in the same quality and proportions. Moreover, breast milk is the source of immunising agents and alexins that protect the baby [...]

Mother’s milk is the only natural and perfect food for a young baby. Nothing is more important for the infant’s well-being and health in later life. This has been proved time and again by statistics on infant mortality which show that bottle-fed babies have a far greater death rate than those who have been breast-fed. [...]

When is a man old? Van Wyck Brooks, in his World of Washington Irving, says of William Bartram, the eighteenth-century botanist, “Too frail to travel any longer, for he was in his early sixties …” In the First World War I saw thousands of patients, all young men. One day in one of the hospital [...]

Relaxation, scientists are finding, does much more than reduce stress. It also can relieve pain and help control sickness. More and more is being learned about how tension – emotional stress – is bad for both your mind and body. Doctors are now prescribing relaxation training as part of the treatment not merely for minor [...]

Cause Hives are generally caused by an allergic reaction to various substances, which may include certain types of foods, food colourings, preservatives, plants, drugs (for example, penicillin), insect bites, and many others. Clinical features Hives are intensely itchy, raised, pinkish spots which together form a rash, usually on the trunk. Spots may become quite large [...]

Maternal and Child Health Nurse A trained nurse with specific postgraduate training in child and family health. Provides regular checks of growth and development, as well as advice on aspects of child development, the care of children and parenting. Some run various groups for infants, toddlers and parents, and they usually work in a community [...]

SEXUAL PROBLEMS – PROLONGED CONTEMPLATION PROLONGED CONTEMPLATION: I think I start to think things over before it’s over. That is, I start to feel empty even when he’s in me. I think, Oh well, at least I’m getting held. That’s more than I usually get.. I even start to cry, but 1 cover it up [...]

One of the most important questions that can be asked of a marriage is “Can you name the worst crisis your marriage has experienced and tell me how your marriage dealt with it?” Adaptive marriages clearly are stronger for their pain, and maladaptive marriages report a weakening and a worsening of long-standing problems with each [...]