Health Utilization And Cost Impact Of Childhood Constipation Childrens' bathroom habits Car and airplane trips, holiday goodies, new toys, and unfamiliar surroundings. The holidays are a crazy time for kids, often causing their bathroom habits to get out of whack. What might sound like a minor inconvenience is actually a common, sometimes serious problem for children, and not just around the holidays. Now a new study finds childhood constipation is costing us all.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comRewiring Of Brain Responsible For Baffling Chronic Pain Scientists peered at the brains of people with a baffling chronic pain condition and discovered something surprising. Their brains looked like an inept cable guy had changed the hookups, rewiring the areas related to emotion, pain perception and the temperature of their skin. The new finding by scientists at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of
Medicine, begins to explain a mysterious condition that the medical community had doubted was real.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comNew Zealand Study Examines Link Between Abortion And Mental Health Women who have an abortion face a small increase in the risk of developing common mental
health problems such as depression and anxiety, according to a new study from New Zealand. But the researchers, writing in the December issue of the British Journal of Psychiatry, say their findings point to a "middle-of-the-road" position on abortion - and do not support either the strong pro-life or pro-choice arguments.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comNewsweek Web Exclusive Examines Suicide, Mental Health Issues Among Young Black Men A Newsweek Web exclusive on Tuesday featured excerpts from an interview with Sean Joe, assistant professor of social work at the University of Michigan who specializes in suicide and other mental
health behaviors among young black men.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comScottish Psychiatrists 'Slightly More Positive' About The Mental Health Act Psychiatrists in Scotland are starting to view the new Mental
Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003 a little more positively, according to the results of a survey published in the December issue of the Psychiatric Bulletin. Overall, levels of satisfaction among psychiatrists rose between 2006 and 2007. But the survey also shows that many psychiatrists still harbour concerns - with 43% remaining unsatisfied or very unsatisfied with the Act.
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