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There are several forms of the disease. Some are more common in adults, while others impact children. Your prognosis will depend on what type of blood cells the cancer started in and whether your leukemia is considered acute or chronic. How Does Leukemia Happen? Leukemia happens when blood cells formed in the bone marrow change into a type of leukemia cell rather than a blood cell. Over time, leukemia cells crowd out healthy blood cells....

Learn More About Signs and Symptoms of Measles You can get measles if you breathe in contaminated air or touch your eyes, nose, or mouth after touching an infected surface. You can pass on the virus to someone else four days before and after a rash appears. The diagnosis may not always be as straightforward as it sounds, says Adalja. “In the United States, many doctors have never seen a case of measles and so sometimes they don’t even think to suspect it,” he says....

The physical symptoms of a panic attack are those of the fight-or-flight response to danger — except that no threat is present. “The fight-or-flight system is hardwired for us humans to manage dangerous situations, and those of us with anxiety have an activated fight-or-flight response when the trigger is not really dangerous,” says Beth Salcedo, MD, the medical director of the Ross Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders and former board president of the Anxiety and Depression Association of America....

The condition is also sometimes known as paralysis agitans or shaking palsy. The Parkinson’s Foundation estimates that 60,000 Americans are diagnosed with Parkinson’s every year. But the true number of people who develop the disease may be much higher. (1) History of Parkinson’s Disease Symptoms and possible treatments for Parkinson’s were discussed in texts related to Ayurveda, an ancient Indian medical practice that’s been around since as early as 5,000 B....

The field of psychology is categorized as a hub science as it is intertwined with medical science and social sciences. Some skeptics contend that psychology isn’t a “real" science because some theories and concepts can be harder to measure objectively than in other “harder” sciences, like biology and physics. Others counter that this doesn’t make psychology less valid. (1) “Psychology is a science in that there are some very measurable constructs, but there is fluidity in our understanding of the mind,” says Neda F....

The event does not need to be directly experienced. PTSD may develop after witnessing another person experience a traumatic event or after learning that a relative or close friend was exposed to a trauma — for example, witnessing death by a first responder or watching a family member go through a traumatic event. (1) Both the NIMH and the American Psychiatric Association (APA) outline four symptom clusters of PTSD from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th Edition (DSM-5), outlined below....

Suma Chand, PhD, director of the cognitive behavior therapy program in the department of psychiatry and behavioral neuroscience at St. Louis University School of Medicine in Missouri, says people who have social anxiety often feel they need to behave perfectly in social situations because they tend to imagine that others are superior to them and critical of them. They also have a longing for acceptance, but their fear of others’ judgment can keep them from finding it....

If you’re wondering why the moody ballads are striking a chord for you right now, mental health experts may have the answer. “Listening to music that evokes an emotional response is cathartic,” says Arianna Galligher, a licensed independent social worker with supervision designation and an associate director of the STAR Trauma Recovery Center at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center in Columbus. “It helps us access and move through emotions that can otherwise be difficult or painful, in a low-risk, intentional, and time-limited way....

A simple blood test at your regular preventive care visit will tell you what your levels of total cholesterol, LDL (bad) cholesterol, HDL (good) cholesterol, and triglycerides are. If results show that your numbers are too high, you’re not alone: About 74 million U.S. adults have high cholesterol, but less than half of them are getting treatment to lower their cholesterol and protect their heart health, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)....

“The keto diet can certainly be effective for quick weight loss,” says Kim Yawitz, RD, a dietitian in private practice in St. Louis. “Weight loss of up to 10 pounds in just a couple of weeks is common, although some of this is water weight.” The ketogenic diet typically reduces carbohydrate intake to less than 50 grams (g) per day — and calls for moderately increased protein and fat intake, according to a past review....

Crohn’s and ulcerative colitis are both inflammatory conditions involving the digestive system. While UC causes inflammation only in the lining of the colon (the large intestine), Crohn’s disease commonly affects the small intestine and the large intestine, and can occur anywhere from the mouth to the anal canal. Both diseases often present with diarrhea, abdominal pain, and rectal bleeding, and can cause severe weight loss in kids. Blood and stool laboratory testsColonoscopyCT scan or MRI of the abdomen...

People with psoriatic arthritis deal with chronic joint pain, particularly in the larger joints of the lower body and in the fingers and toes. If inflammation in the joints goes untreated or unmanaged, the joint damage can become permanent. A review published in May 2013 in the journal Nature Reviews Neuroscience found that chronic pain not only changes how certain parts of the brain function, but it also erodes those parts of the brain....

Taylor Duck, a former soccer player who was diagnosed with lung cancer 14 years ago when she was just 21, says she has heard them all. “There is immediate blame and shame instead of the care and compassion that every other cancer survivor receives when they share about their diagnosis,” Duck says. Here’s what Duck says you shouldn’t say to someone with lung cancer. 1. ‘Do You Smoke?’ This question can be hurtful, because it implies the person deserved to get the disease....

The pancreas is an oddly shaped organ that has been described as resembling everything from a pear to a tadpole. It’s buried deep inside the abdomen — behind the stomach and nestled among the liver, spleen, and gallbladder — so you may not have seen a picture of it or even be sure what it does. “The pancreas is a lot like a salivary gland in the sense that it makes fluid that it secretes into the gastrointestinal tract that helps break down the nutrients in the food that you’re eating,” says Debashish Bose, MD, PhD, medical director of the Center for Hepatobiliary Disease at Mercy in Baltimore....

To deal with these stresses, many people began drinking more alcohol, more frequently. For adults older than 30, overall frequency of alcohol consumption rose by 14 percent from one week in late March 2019 to the same week in March 2020, when coronavirus cases began increasing in the United States, according to a research letter published in JAMA Network Open in September 2020. And a cross-sectional survey published December 2020 in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health found that, by May 2020, participants who reported feeling stress over COVID-19 were more likely to drink more often and in larger amounts; 60 percent of people surveyed reported they were drinking more, and one-third reported binge-drinking....

Desiree Nielsen, RD, a chef in Vancouver, British Columbia, and the author of Un-Junk Your Diet: How to Shop, Cook, and Eat to Fight Inflammation and Feel Better Forever, and the upcoming book Eat More Plants, suspects a couple of reasons for the disconnect. Overcooking is one of them. “I think for a lot of people, they grew up eating sort of mushy, flavorless veggies, maybe with a little salt on them....

“Chronic idiopathic hives are itchy red welts that persist for at least six weeks and have no known cause,” says Miriam Anand, MD, an allergist with Allergy Associates and Asthma in Tempe, Arizona. The condition is marked by periods of exacerbation and remission, and for many who have it, the hives may persist for more than five years. If you have chronic hives, it’s important to try to identify your triggers, if possible, and take steps to avoid them so you can lower the risk of an exacerbation....

Yet for people with the chronic, inflammatory skin condition known as eczema — frequent hand cleaning can dry out and irritate skin. That can lead to flare-ups of itchy, rashy, scaly skin, as the National Eczema Association (NEA) explains. About 10 percent of the U.S. population has hand dermatitis, or hand eczema. Symptoms include dry, flaking, peeling, cracked, blistered, and itchy hands. It can be triggered by allergens and irritating chemicals....

While those are indeed common symptoms of ADHD, people with the condition — which affects an estimated 8.4 percent of children and 2.5 percent of adults, according to the American Psychiatric Association (APA) — can also have difficulty focusing, controlling impulses, staying organized, and completing tasks. Sadly, however, the internet is rife with harmful myths and stereotypes making it seem as if people with ADHD are lazy, aren’t smart, simply need to try harder in school, or are the product of bad parenting....

You are hungover, but not to worry — you are not alone. These are some of the most commonly reported symptoms of a hangover, according to a study published in September 2017 in the journal Human Psychopharmacology. The body absorbs a fixed amount of alcohol per hour. “That amount varies widely depending on numerous factors, including sex, body mass, and how heavily the individual drinks,” says Edouard Coupet II, MD, a Yale Medicine emergency doctor in New Haven, Connecticut, and a Yale-sponsored National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) scholar....